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its good that this will probably crater trump's approval rating but economic crises don't exactly have a great track record of *stopping* fascism

can’t emphasize enough UNSEX ME HERE is out today!!! nightboat.org/book/unsex-m...

this feels exactly like how I imagine it felt to live during the war on terror, right down to everyone having the same defiant, aggrieved pride in the stupidest ideas imaginable. I'd settle for a thousand pronoun circles rather than this bullshit

being a good little tran and making a big display of hating the left isn't going to save you. just means you won't have any friends when they come for you and all your lib pals make the politically expedient call

There’s sexualized sadism in every reactionary political movement. It’s inextricable

Monday mail—can’t wait to start the new books from @littlepuss.net.

Transgender Day Of Getting The Day Off

wrote about how phoneworld is killing our political imaginary and making us profoundly miserable in this, a moment when we need to be stronger than ever www.late-review.com/p/the-eterna...

Been waiting for this since the original block on absolutely all federal spending that started everything - They are about to sneak attack all US HIV funding. aidsunited.org/action/polic...

This is the beginning of a chain of events that ends with me getting disappeared for owning Hogg

I appreciate immigration law folks pointing out that this is procedurally unlawful but the process is the punishment here and I need folks to start thinking about remedies outside of the courtroom

the problem with handing them the sports issue is, of course, that they have no intention of stopping there, and the win emboldens them to hit our real everyday rights ten times harder. obviously, demonstrably.

The Iowa legislature just became the first in modern history to repeal a statutory civil rights law by removing protections for gender identity first passed in 2007. They have legalized discrimination against trans people in housing, healthcare, and employment. This is a campaign of eradication.

In “Abject Permanence,” Misha Crafts reviews When Monsters Speak, a reader collecting Susan Stryker’s hugely influential writing, ranging from the 90s to the present. In Stryker’s work, Crafts recognizes a rallying cry for trans rights that is now more essential than ever before.

RIP Pierre Joris 🖤🤍

Whispering “My desires are not an imposition on the people who love me” until I believe it

Sophie is of course quite right and rather too kind - the transphobic strain in American and British feminism was always intrinsically on the Right with its fondness for conspiracy theory, pseudoscience and victimblaming I've said so for four decades. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...?

Horkheimer and Adorno, THE DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT (note/sketch #1)

thanks @publicbooks.bsky.social for publishing this short piece I wrote about autofiction, class, real estate, creative careers, social media, and "immediacy" 💘

Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby

John Ashbery, Three Poems

Joan Copjec, Read My Desire

this is complete ethnic cleansing and genocide. untold horrors are about to begin, across the entire world. america is driving ybe earth into a complete death drive

Wrote about some of the bad stuff for the @thestar.com this weekend. Thanks so much for asking me to do this @debdundas.bsky.social. Look out for each other, friends, it's raining out there.

This case is led by five transgender youth (including two who are 18) as well as PFLAG and thousands of member families. Read more about PFLAG v. Trump here www.aclu.org/press-releas...

This looks great, very excited to pick up a copy

Whispering “My desires are not an imposition on the people who love me” until I believe it