The laugh react is one of the most toxic things for our social psychology that has ever been invented.

I’ve now digitally met the British TERFs, and they seem to be largely heterosexual men and women who are traumatized (mostly by heterosexual men) and confused and taking it out on those who would otherwise be in solidarity with them-reproductive rights, impacted by misogyny, worried about the planet

This is genocide. What beauty and possibility, squandered. The name of the trans girl murdered in her college laundry room in Seattle is Juniper. I’ve kissed a friend called Juniper in a bookstore, and it was a beautiful kiss. This Juniper was 19. A child. www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

The masculinity I want to see is my friend whose daughters puts flowers in his hair. “You’re pretty!” they said. “I feel pretty,” he said.

A mentor told me of a bright spirit who survived genocide in Rwanda only to die in the 30 day waiting period for healthcare after achieving a doctorate and finding a position. This country is cruel. I grieve with the indigenous and colonized peoples. Nobody is illegal on stolen land.

I’m beside myself with fear and grief. My heart is split open. I want to live. I want our youth and communities to live. I am of sound mind and have no desire to do harm or be harmed. How can love for trans people be terrorism? How can anyone stab a child to death? open.substack.com/pub/hbtwfund...

We are dependent on oil to produce fertilizer and we have either not noticed or not found an alternative yet. The US regime is courting global famine with its violence. Ecosystems and people can’t take it, not with data centers and covid and fascism as capitalism fails. Transitions are fragile.

Humans are at our best when we’re exploring, creating, and nurturing instead of colonizing and extracting. We live longer and fuller and happier that way too.

When capitalism falters, fascism rises. We are past our environmental limits and we will not see the end of fascism until we see the end of capitalism, or the end of civilization. We need to talk about what kind of world we want to live in, and we need to fight together to build it.

How does one find their way about here? I’m looking for other social reproduction queer and trans people and companionable internationalists generally. Also good lit/music/art, public health, political analysis, climate science, scifi, and whatever the hell we’re going to do about fascism.