I wrote 2500 words about the New Right and silicon valley techno accelerationists, reactionaries, and their shared goals, dreams, and hate.
It's one of the few times my editor has muttered curse words and threats while editing a piece so...
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I know pregnant people get hate for talking about pregnancy a lot, but I promise you we stay pretty damn quiet for how absolutely unhinged and alien the experience is—despite being a fairly universal one
today sucked. Trying to help a family member. Went to the dmv and asked, how does a homeless person get an id? Was told, verbatim, “I don’t know, but I know that they gotta bring what everyone else gotta bring.”
How do you not know?
I feel like the “please don’t come to Hawaii” message from Native Hawaiians is loud and clear enough that I can now be openly scornful of people that go anyway.
I saw this mom do a coming of age ceremony for her daughter where she threw an intimate dinner party for her. She had other women in her life come and they brought gifts, gave advice about womanhood, and talked about mental health for women. GENUIS
I want non-disabled folks to consider the insidious ableism this trolling conceals. Ableism is all around you. These people are in your networks, on your teams. They say far worse when they get comfortable. They get comfortable because they are allowed to behave like this.
LIVING WITH COVID, a 🧵
Since covid isn’t going away (thanks to a series of poor choices over the last 2 years), it’s time to brainstorm what a real exit strategy might look like because “living with covid means accepting more deaths” doesn’t work for me. We can do better.