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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…
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Happiest Season
Lesbians have been given a gift — a film by us, starring us, and for us. Clea DuVall’s Happiest Season feels so necessary at a time of intersecting crises. And, I cannot express the absolute joy I felt upon seeing Kristen Stewart play a lesbian in a lesbian movie — a lesbian Christmas movie! Seeing…
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How Oppression Works
If the goal is liberation, “Who is Oppressed?” is not a particularly productive question, as even the most powerful of people can display that they, too, harbor some form of oppression, usually legible in acts of petulance. Righteous indignation, despite their power. Blistering red in the face, they yell “Victim!” repeatedly, any time accountability is…
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Citation is a Feminist Act
A few years ago, I read a popular academic feminist book in which the popular feminist author said she was going to do something radical and not quote any white men. Which meant she plagiarized them, instead. She not only plagiarized white men, but she also plagiarized a certain lesbian feminist who was a mentor…