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Progressives’ Next Steps
The next steps for progressives are obvious: First, give up the ghost of equality. EQUALITY WILL NOT FREE US. And policy, judicial, and cultural trends have proven how equality has served as an adept cudgel of conservatives, from overturning affirmative action based on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to asserting that “equality begins in…
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No Woman President
No woman will be elected to the US presidency as long as the electoral college exists. And you can quote me on that.
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Your Blue Bracelets Aren’t Enough
The stranglehold of consumer capitalism on American minds is no more apparent than the current move to buy blue bracelets as a sign of solidarity with Kamala Harris and her campaign. This performative activism reflects our inability to grapple with and reconcile profound complexities in our society — the (largely, white liberal) feeling of “how could…
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2024 Election Thoughts
I am not disillusioned. If you’re familiar with my work, and especially “Breaking Free,” you’ll have known that Kamala Harris was never going to win this election — the “democratic” institutions in this country, and specifically the electoral college, are not broken. They are working according to their design. (More from “Breaking Free,” below.) “Voting equality”…
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“Childless” is an Idiotic Word
Even for those of us who choose to be childFREE are not without children — we live in a world with children. We are their aunts, uncles, cousins, teachers, etc. What an absolutely idiotic word.
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Organizations Hate Transparency
Transparency is a threat to organizations. People who claim otherwise are liars. Organizations will do anything to preserve unjust mechanisms and practices predicated on secrecy. This is why labor unions also post a threat.
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Genocide is Wrong
Why is it controversial to say so?
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My 3 Favorite Articles of 2020
My favorite articles of 2020 all coalesce thematically around “freedom,” which I am currently writing about in book form. Threading through these articles, too, is my critique of “equality.” Two articles specifically address “freedom” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: In March 2020, I wrote about how the rhetoric of “freedom” is weaponized by…
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“Oh. THAT Lesbian.” — Notes on “Ammonite”
“Borrid.” That is, “boring meets torrid.” Credit for this magnificent term goes to USC’s Karen Tongson, who coined the word to describe the particular genre of lesbianish cinema, made for mainstream/straight consumption, which play out “long-simmering romances that are in many respects about repression and sidelong glances, the indirectness of desire.” Tongson’s commentary was directed…
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A Note About Those Tweets
Hi Readers, I just wanted to send a quick note about some cherrypicked tweets that have been circulating across social media. After being attacked on Twitter by a certain businessman’s “gang,” I have experienced some trolling and blowback after members/bots affiliated with the gang cherrypicked tweets from early in the aughts. When cherrypicked and situated…