The world is on fire, and I am a coauthor of a new book on #aromanticism. I am very proud to be a part of this, but also 90% of my brain space is about the ongoing ICE occupation. If you'd like to be in solidarity with Minnesota, please pre-order from one of the local indiebookstores in the🧵 below.

when you notice that a sizable proportion of the transmisogyny that cis women do towards trans women strongly carries the tenor of the paternalistic misogyny of a mother to a daughter then you can't unsee it ever

I realize that thermoststic backlash and the 6th party system is a hell of a drug but I've been seeing people on here take it to the level of "we can predict now who is going to control congress in the 2046 midterm because nothing can ever change" and I think maybe it's getting a bit silly

alyson greaves is the true 19th century novelist of the 21st century

listen I read ASOIAF like a year before GoT started and was at the perfect age for it to become Formative for me and do you have any idea how difficult this has made my life. how much I Suffer as an understander of the Themes in a world where the popular perception of it is shaped by That Show.

not a lot is going well in my personal life but starting next week I *am* going to hit a crazy combo streak of "series I'm into puts out a thing catered to my exact interests in it"

me, on the day of the year where people in my country historically do the least and feel the worst: i feel like shit

daylight savings kicking my unsaved ass

Holden Bloodfeast really should have been R-South Carolina instead of R-Iowa in the original meme because it was always a caricature of Lindsey Graham, specifically

The belief in trans rights entering the median voters body as Trump makes gas cost $8/gallon

they stole an hour from women

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

my hot take regarding art about bad people is that you cannot make art that is morally upright enough that fascists will not co-opt it, and if you let that stop you from making art about villains, antiheroes, & fascists then you then remove art's ability to be a place where we can think about evil

if you take into account the fascist ability to misinterpret art in your creation of it, i think you ultimately are forced to the conclusion that art about ugliness is simply too dangerous to be made. when you should instead be worried about the people making that danger.

[finishes first episode] oh why have I not watched The Expanse before I always knew it'd be up my alley but it's RIGHT up my alley

Oh my god this is very good

"we're not mad at her at all and she definitely didn't fuck things up that's why we're giving her a fake job I just made up and replacing her with the second-biggest idiot in the senate"

honestly nothing hits in video games like the dawning realization that this climactic boss fight is happening WAY too early

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

the navy and the marines. damn I sound like I AM running for congress and trying to seem rugged

just read this whole thing in full and this might actually be the most brutal Chotiner piece to date

for real like oh you're telling me that you think that in order to be a woman you have to be attracted to and sexually available to men and anyone who isn't is some kind of broken pervert? wow that's so unique and definitely not how every single cis lesbian has also been treated by society

No one before Ben has ever considered that trans women might actually be effeminate gay boys. No one has ever suggested such a thing to us, repeatedly, in a bid to prevent us from transitioning, or developed entire typologies around the idea, or reinforced it in multiple academic fields!

as someone who hasn't really kept up with the pokemons since I was a kid I remain deeply fascinated that the most notable thing from the latest one seems to be "they put a character who is a transbian sexual fantasy in this for like no reason"

damn I sure hope my contempt isn’t hidden

US media discourse treating US military casualties like the only deaths that matter in this IS making me lose my mind and I know it's nothing new at all but holy shit I would have lost my mind if I'd been old enough to understand what was going on in Dubya

Final day of the month and I'm $800 short thanks to the month being short—I can go a few days over into March if necessary but please help!

most people who are not trans women don’t seem to know how terrifyingly isolating it can be to be a trans woman. it’s v possible to have nobody in your corner. at all. no family. no friends. no community. nobody to offer you a kind word or share a meal with you.

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

From The Archives:

By the way when you see reports about how Israelis are going to bomb shelters, you should keep in mind that the vast majority of Palestinian *citizens* of Israel (in the 1948 territories, not the oPT) do not have a single bomb shelter nearby due to the apartheid system Israel has implemented.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Final day of the month and I'm $800 short thanks to the month being short—I can go a few days over into March if necessary but please help!

Trump II is everything people warned could happen if the Dubya administration got away with its civil liberties violations, advocacy of torture, and general authoritarianism - which, by the way, it did.

this motherfucker right here

Trump wouldn't be doing this if he didn't think he'd get an approvals bump ahead of a midterm he's worried about. The fact that he's wrong about that will eclipse the baser, sordid reality that our nation kills schoolgirls because it will make a handful of old men happy, nothing more

democrats who start their statements with an hour of throat clearing about how the IRI is the great satan are getting thrown overboard at the first available oppportunity

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

it's not a distraction for the fucking Iranians!

prison for everyone involved in this illegal war of aggression

ah.

It hasn’t even been 24 hours since UK Labour came in distant third place in its own heartland, against two separate third parties, after doing *the exact thing he advocates for* and he’s doubling down that anyone who sticks up for trans children being driven to suicide is a “pathetic wimp.”

Three days left in the month and I'm still about a $1000 short of my goal—please help if you can!

Oh wow that's. That's not a small number.