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Otherwise Unbearable with Heather Smith. Culture, identity & defense through a psychoanalytic lens. New essays weekly on Substack.
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Trump’s new official portrait breaks with decades of tradition by omitting the American flag. It’s not just a stylistic choice. It’s a symbolic one. This isn’t a portrait of a president. It’s a portrait of power untethered from the republic.

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They say it’s about human rights, but whose grief gets counted? Whose pain is permitted? New essay: A Monopoly on Grief: When Human Rights Become a One-Way Mirror On trauma, moral asymmetry, and the choreography of selective mourning. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/otherwis...

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Even when Israeli leaders insist that any criticism of Israel is antisemitic, conflating Zionism with Judaism endangers Jewish people and erases the global Jewish tradition of dissent, diaspora, and resistance to state violence. 🧵

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