I forgot how casually racist and sexist Oliveira, the protagonist of Rayuela is. For example, he & one of his girlfriends see a young Asian street artist, and he refers to her as "Tsong Tsong". The girlfriend asks if that's really her name, and he says, "What do I know? She has nice ankles."

Walter Benjamin if he were capable of concision:

All we ask is that you listen to us about the people we are and the bodies we have. For example, I am a woman with a prostate. When I turn 50, book me for a PSA and a mammogram, or be prepared to be accused of malpractice.

Public naked trans orgy. Obviously. Which we would end by lighting the White House on fire at dusk and dancing around singing

Es verdad. Buscan "Ayuso 7291" para averiguar.

If there's one famous artist I deeply detest, it's Salvador Dalí. A narcissistic diva who was expelled from the Surrealist group for being a staunch capitalist. While his friends went into exile or were murdered by the Franco regime, he became one of the dictatorship's biggest supporters

Accomplishments of the day: - food shopping - read several chapters of Rayuela - wrote a letter to Side NB and read the poems they sent me - translated a page by Der Nister, had my mind blown - siesta - attended a disappointing feminist meeting - chatted up someone I have a crush on

I have never given a fuck about professional men's basketball, but the footage of the Knicks celebrations is making me miss NYC.

Being a trans woman is great because people get to choose between hating you because they think you’re a woman or hating you because they think you aren’t.

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I have written or edited every day since my most recent return to Spain. If we include reading or research that is related to one of my active projects, it has been every day.

How I'm entering the group chat

as they always say, dress for the age of your boobs

Today I finished drafting a 5,000 word literary essay that I started yesterday. If I could find a way to regularly get paid 10 cents/word for 10,000 words a week, I could live a very comfortable life. But we no longer live in a world where slick magazines regularly publish literary essays.

Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, London... It's getting really dark in the UK and Ireland, full-on pogroms and race riots while the media, police, govts keep minimising the threat of fascism (or directly protecting the fascists as in N. Ireland) and normalising xenophobia/racism

No, I won't be "patient." The whole point of electing someone like Mamdani is to push them to actually deliver on what they promised. If the city clinic follows Trump's edict on denying care to trans youth, what exactly do you think is going to happen when he bans adult care next?

The thing about making middle school kids go to school for many days after grades are in is that they’re liable to come up w/ boneheaded ideas like “middle school milk stompers” and upload videos of stomping on milk cartons at school to TikTok where the principal will find them. Ask me how I know?

I love when people ask me to trust them... ...then act untrustworthy... ...then ask, why are these trans women all so sensitive and suspicious?

Poor reading comprehension is a problem even when the person with a reading problem seems to agree with you.

I should have downloaded Grindr before the Pope came to Madrid, just to see if it's like when Republicans have major events in the US. Are there hordes of Vatican officials on the prowl for twinks and trannies?

Goal: get enough bilingual trans kinksters to move from New York to Madrid that we figure out how to replicate Transgression here

there is no pen name quite like a yiddish pen name

"If the tranny doesn't feel loved, she will leave." Voy a traducir este dicho sabio a castellano: "Si la trava no se siente querida, ella va a salir."

I'm re-reading «Rayuela» by Julio Cortázar. It drives me nuts that it has chapters comprised only of blues lyrics, knowing with certainty that neither he nor his publishers ever sought rights from the original performers. For so long, the creativity of Black people was de facto public domain.

Si hubiese un religión como dios manda la comunión debería hacerse con quesos asturianos

The best way to avoid your future political aspirations being derailed by a Republican ex whom you sexually assaulted, is never to sexually assault anyone and never to date Republicans. The second best way is never to sexually assault anyone despite your bad taste in dates.

"They want women like me to die" is both an intrusive thought and a statement of fact.

I have since located the earliest works of this columnist that appear in Trove, which are dated 1972. For reference, to all appearances he is a cisgender man. And yet his early letters seem to be primarily concerned with the defence of feminism and are signed "Grandmother of Veritas"

This is also common in reaction to child abuse and domestic violence stories. You'll see people saying stuff like humans should go extinct. You think you're expressing your horror at the perpetrator, but you are actually saying you want the victim dead.

El cambio climático pone al mar frío español a 'hervir' El calor “extraordinario” registrado en mayo pone el agua del Cantábrico 6ºC por encima de lo normal mientras en Galicia experimentan una ola de calor marina

Today was a >50 emails sent kind of day

"El reino será de material plástico, es un hecho." - Julio Cortázar, «Rayuela»

historically people have done things about it when state authorities decide to strip away representation from the people and its not chanting in a designated free speech zone

Lo que la ley establece no basta, y el hecho de que el Ministerio no está aplicando la ley 3 años después de su promulgación es una vergüenza. España debe ser un refugio para migrantes trans, en vez de duplicar la opresión de sus países de origen.

This is what I love about being a research administrator: 8 years ago I sent Michelle a link to a long-shot grant opportunity. Then I moved, they got the grant, they saw the project through despite challenges and a move of their own, then continued doing similar work, and now we have this!

To the people in Spain happy that Netanyahu was called "fucking crazy": You do not, in fact, have to hand it to Donald Trump.

The oldest lesbian bar in Madrid is charging 95€ for people to ride on their float in the big mainstream Pride parade. For this, Marsha threw a brick?

I would argue that the concept of the "Brandmauer" was fatally undermined by the unofficial collaboration by the FDP, CDU and AfD in the Thuringian Minister President vote in 2020. Non-collaboration with the AfD went from a constitutional imperative to a rule that to be evaded through obfuscation.

So far so good. I am making good progress on writing and editing, girlbossed pretty hard at work today, and have been satisfied with being mean to boys from Feeld. No app of doom yet.

Haven't seen anything about this in English yet, so I'll start: The Venezuelan state oil company is telling airlines that land in Caracas and buy jet fuel there for their outbound flights to make payments to the US!

Really amazing that the george w bush concept of free speech zones that was an arrested development joke 25 years ago is now embraced by…ras baraka??

I have come up with a periodization of world history for the last 80 years, and it makes everyone look bad.

einer so angezogenen frau würde ich nicht mal meine jacke in der garderobe anvertrauen lass uns bitte nicht von mondreisen sprechen

I'm lonely, horny, and I have apparently decided that torturing men is a good use of my limited time and mental energy. If this week's writing doesn't go well, I am in danger of reinstalling Grindr.

¿Tienes abono digital a El País? ¿Puedes llevarme el texto de este artículo? elpais.com/argentina/20... Si no, republica porfa.

Why did you transition, right answers only I thought I had nothing left to lose. I was wrong, but in return, I gained everything.

I'd been avoiding reading up on this out of dread, but I finally caved. If this goes through unchanged, I can't imagine my day job continuing to exist in a form where I would be willing to carry it out. I would basically become an enforcer of scientific censorship. www.science.org/content/arti...

Also: Don't target the senior, big names who already have 100 publications under their belt, but at most 10 more years of good work left. Target promising early-career folks with 30+ years of contributions yet to come.