so a month or so ago, i wrote an article about how to cover trans kids. chief among my points was talking to actual trans kids for your story and centering it on them. the FP piece that went viral yesterday and the actual trans kids' response is a case study proving my point.

BREAKING: Kansas Republicans have successfully overridden the Governor veto to now authorize genital inspections of children in order for kids to play sports. A very dark & disturbing day. #ksleg

Years ago, I attended a meeting about the future of democracy at Harlan Crow’s “house” (which was staged as a museum). I left deeply shaken by the Nazi memorabilia on display. Apparently I wasn’t alone. washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/cla… 1/5

the TERF movement is bring big right wing money to bear to crush a kid who told her own story against their propaganda; we have to punch that bully back right in the nose (aka help out here) just donated myself

Did Dick Durbin congratulate Brandon Johnson yet? Love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

WHEN ARE THE COPS QUITTING, I WAS PROMISED THAT THE COPS WOULD QUIT

when i say “bring back traditional masculinity” i’m specifically referring to this 1760 portrait of a boy wearing traditional 1700s boy’s clothes while holding his pet squirrel on a chain leash

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed 53 public schools in Chicago, billionaire Ken Griffin wanted 125 CPS schools closed. When will the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times blame them for youth violence?

It seems worth noting the veneration of the Iliad and the Odyssey was about the brilliance of the poetry; the poems were understood to be morally complex and Achilles and Odysseus to be complicated, difficult, flawed characters from the beginning and in all periods subsequent.

Anyone who uses the phrase "social contagion" is attempting genocide. You can think young people are socially pressured to be queer (you'd be wrong, but it's a free country). But to compare LGBTQ identity to a plague or a disease is flat genocidal.

So I've seen a few defenses of tenure recently and as a non-tenure track academic they often seemed to me not as convincing and so I fear they won't convince the public. So let me try my hand: tenure is necessary for the function of the university. 1/

For days the blue check Nazi brigade replying to her tweets have insisted how very much they just love decorum and civil discourse

#BlockTheBlue? I'd rather #DoxxTheBlue

Trump hosted Kyle Rittenhouse after he killed Black Lives Matter protesters. Greg Abbott wants to pardon Daniel Perry, who murdered a Black Lives Matter protester. Ron DeSantis is fundraising for Daniel Penny, who killed a Black man on a subway. This is the Republican Party.

A lesbian cisgender women is escorted out of the women’s bathroom by police because a Karen called the cops on her think she was a man. Bathroom transvestigations are only about enforcing gender conformity. Nothing else.

A 10-year-girl in Delaware picked up “It’s Perfectly Normal” while at the library with her mother. When they came home, she showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said, “This is me.” She was being abused by her father, and it was the first time she’d spoken about it.

As long as there have been rich people, there have been rich people trying to position themselves as populist crusaders against "experts," where "experts" are people with way less money and power who say things that rich people don't like to hear.

Rings of Power should have made Annatar a woman. But you can't have a trans Sauron anymore. because of woke.

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