Category: Politics
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Tired of Substackers’ exhausting trans takes
Hello friends! Twitter has become even more of a cesspool, so I’ve spent less time there. Threads is obviously going to replace it, but I’m not signing up, because I’m just done with the socials. I am done. No more socials. I signed up for Facebook my freshman year, in 2004-2005. I am coming up…
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I suppose that I’ll actually have some books come out next year
If there’s one thing I’d like to be known for, it’s my extreme pessimism about publishing. I never believe a book will actually be published until it’s actually printed and shipped. Until then I always think something could go wrong. But now that the text is locked, and I’ve seen galleys, and we’re sending the…
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A little panicked about the situation for the trans folks in Florida
Hello friends. Personally I’m okay, but I’ve been bummed out by anti-trans stuff. Florida passed a law recently whose effect will be to forcibly detransition most of their 100,000 person trans population (that amounts to one in every fourteen trans adults). I’ve attached a graphic that explains the details: Losing access to HRT is guaranteed…
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The charismatic and visionary far right leader who we’ve yet to see…
Someone shared this FB post on my feed, so I spent the morning reading pro-trump Facebook groups, and it was definitely a little frightening. Trump still has a huge amount of support, because for these people it’s not about taxes or healthcare, it’s about taking America back. From the liberals, from the muslims, from the…
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I understand why most white men believe, on some level, that they’re disadvantaged (but I don’t agree)
Was reading the Harper’s article on the women of the alt-right, and I was like, wow, you know, I wouldn’t be surprised if this fascism stuff catches on in a bigger way. I don’t mean the outright Nazi stuff. I think most people will ignore that bitter core to the belief, but I do think…
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“I don’t know the answer to that, and I’m glad it’s not my job to figure it out.”
Over pride weekend, I was at a brunch where we began discussing, as happened at pride brunches around the country, the numerous reasons why Hillary lost. To be honest, this is not something I have a huge opinion about. It does seem like Hillary could’ve done better, but it also seems like something of a…
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I’ve just been so goddamn depressed about President Trump
Sorry my posting has been sporadic. I’ve just been so depressed about Trump. It’s really odd, I started off feeling relatively okay, and then I got more and more unhappy. My fiancé is out of town this weekend, and I was like I can’t be alone, so I made a spur of the moment trip…
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My San Francisco voter guide to all local elections and propositions
Okay, so this is my first election voting in San Francisco, and something I’d known, but hadn’t quite appreciated, was that this state’s tradition of having a shit-ton of referenda on the ballot, both at the state and local measure, makes voting here unbelievably complicated. This is because almost every ballot measure is backed by…
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Is anyone offended by the phrase ‘witch hunt’?
The other day I used the term ‘witch hunt,’ and afterwards I was like, huh, I wonder if anyone is offended by this phrase? I know that there are other such phrases that offend people. I’ve heard pushback with regards to “trail of tears” and “death march.” And, of course, if you use “lynch” or…
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The biggest difference between radicals and progressives is that radicals distrust the power of the state
I’ll never be a radical. My upbringing was too affluent, and my social circles are too steeped in power. You can’t be a radical when you have more to lose from the overturning of the system than you have to gain from it. But in Oakland and Berkeley it’s impossible to avoid spending time with…