Benjamin Zender (they)

public humanities fellow, Sarah Lawrence | performance studies, archival theory, affect theory, queer theory, Black feminist theory, hoarding and minimalism

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

i love being smart and funny and hot and goofy and never making enough money and sad and tired and overworked and even when i try not to work as much and so sad and so sad and angry about this world and

[Benjamin Zender (they) @trafficjamas]

@chenchenwrites Is that regular homo but with more flavor dust?

[Benjamin Zender (they) @trafficjamas]

@rachelcorbman Saw this and thought I would share with you only to find out you’re the one who wrote it.

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

The Birmingham News, Alabama, June 24, 1922

[Benjamin Zender (they) @trafficjamas]

@rachelcorbman @nshibley @NicJohnRamos I am not on the list, a clear attempt to silence the swine. #oinkoink #historypig

[Benjamin Zender (they) @trafficjamas]

@rachelcorbman Omg. Make me corbwomyn famous, people!!!!

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

And here you can see officers entering an academic building with their weapons drawn, in response to college students protesting their tax & tuition dollars contributing to a plausible genocide

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

If you support how these folks voted, I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to let them know.

They will be under relentless pressure and attack. It is important to show support - on the inside, it can often feel like there isn’t.

Call, write, post. It makes a difference.

[Lee Mordechai @LeeMordechai]

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 20, 1908

[Kairos Journal @KairosRTP]

As professional organizations in rhetoric remain silent or proclaim neutrality, Kairos speaks up against ethnic cleansing and stands against the Palestinian genocide. We can’t claim investment in antiracism, decolonial praxis, land rematriation, or social justice 1/2

[Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) @HelenWebberley]

The regret rate of gender-affirming surgery is 0.3%.

The regret rate for knee replacement surgery is 6-30%.

"Transition regret" is a false narrative being pushed by the media to prevent people from getting access to life-saving, gender-affirming healthcare.

However...

Let's address that 0.3%.

Many outside factors contribute to a trans person's regret:

👉Unsupportive families.
👉Transphobic environments.
👉Normal post-op distress.

Just because that 0.3% of people regret their surgery doesn't mean they're not transgender.

The fear of regret shouldn't stop thousands of trans people from getting access to the healthcare they deserve.

Regret rates exist - but not for the reasons the media are trying to push.

[Benjamin Zender (they) @trafficjamas]

@StayFrontdesk waiting with a row of other people trying to check in to our apartments in downtown Pittsburgh. Your phone is busy and they haven’t returned calls or texts for the past 45 minutes. We were told that someone was “on the way downstairs.”

[Lillie E. Franks, on her bad content arc @onyxaminedlife]

@RottenInDenmark There's a certain category of person whose most central moral tenet is you should never fully commit to believing anything so long as anyone disagrees. Conflict scares them more than injustice, and when injustice gets worse, all they can do is keep writing this article.

[Benjamin Zender (they) @trafficjamas]

@u_uples @RottenInDenmark Hmm. Saying that all people should have the bodily autonomy to starve to death because they aren’t born with a social security net?

[Benjamin Zender (they) @trafficjamas]

@Icarus_Rising23 @RottenInDenmark Oh dear. I don’t think you quite get it. What kind of a critique of corporations isn’t a critique of capitalism?

[phd thesis deadline in 55 days @uncanny_eli]

wrote a list of the trans men you can currently find in fiction

[Julia @JuliaGrace1353]

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