Life keeps committing to the bit: rupture, repair, repeat. A few days ago, someone with a platform told me I didn’t belong in the conversation. Today, my first paper was accepted — anonymously peer-reviewed — for an academic conference on feminism and myth.

The Atlantic calls it commerce. I see recursion. Taylor is performing the cycle of attention and appetite that defines modern art itself. She’s not the product; she’s the proof. My essay → bit.ly/48XsG6O cc @theatlantic.com @skornhaber.bsky.social

Defector calls Showgirl bad because it’s “about greed.” Of course it is. It’s about us. My essay → bit.ly/48XsG6O cc @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social @defector.com

Everyone’s dissecting The Life of a Showgirl like it’s confession. It’s not. It’s confrontation. → bit.ly/48XsG6O

If Glass House I was about being seen, Glass House II is about what sees us back. A reflection on light, distance, and the transparency of the universe; how the cosmos itself is a kind of relation. 🔗 bit.ly/4nCrCtx

We think of being seen as vulnerability, and seeing as power. But what if they’re the same thing? Glass House I explores the quiet reciprocity between sight and exposure — the way illumination reveals us all. 🔗 bit.ly/4mNGO5S

News about the Flotilla today is not just geopolitical — it’s temporal. This is about who claims time. I wrote The Tempo of Relation to name precisely that: how dominance accelerates fracture, how relation returns time to us. 🔗 bit.ly/3IRQy10

Duct tape on glasses. A broken laptop screen. A frayed charger. Sometimes survival and creation share the same tools.

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

Today’s writing partner, Archer. 🐈‍⬛ 📝

More modern art. 🖼️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM2vjo5D/

I’m writing this in the dark. Our power was shut off today with a $602.19 price tag to turn it back on. This is what collapse feels like in real time. 🔗 bit.ly/4mQTlG0

This is modern art.

Hey, it’s Sunday morning. Here’s a thought: avoiding labels isn’t neutral — it’s ableist. → bit.ly/46HLqVo #Neurodiversity #Ableism #DisabilityRights

“Avoiding labels” protects power, not people. In workplaces, in schools, in families — silence is rewarded because care is costly. I wrote about why neutrality isn’t neutral in my new piece: cosgrove.substack.com/p/why-avoidi... #Ableism #Neurodiversity #DisabilityRights #AutismAcceptance

The Constitution held no care. Not for food, not for shelter, not for health, not for survival. It was only built to exclude. The Democratic Party cannot save us because it is tethered to that foundation. #AmericanPolitics #DemocraticParty #Constitution New essay →

They’re all pedophiles. Not just the ones exposed, but the ones who knew, who stayed quiet, who chose power over children.

It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.

Black lives still don’t matter. And that’s the ugliest truth of this.

Today, as an autistic person, I will not be engaging with discourse on the “cause” of autism. Thank you. #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #Neurodiversity #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #DisabilityJustice #Neurodivergent

Kamala Harris’s 107 Days drops today. I wrote about her Atlantic excerpt — why Biden’s choice wasn’t just reckless, but a failure of care. Loyalty demanded is rupture. Care is the measure of leadership. Linked below ↓ cc: @kamalaharris.com #Care #Politics #Leadership #107Days #KamalaHarris

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

Loyalty demanded is not care. When it’s expected — especially in the face of harm — it becomes rupture itself. New essay on Harris, Biden, and what leadership grounded in care must look like → bit.ly/41XMTVZ cc @kamalaharris.com

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Harris called Biden’s choice “reckless.” I argue it was something deeper: abandonment. Read my response to her Atlantic excerpt. #leadership #democracy #politics #care cc: @kamalaharris.com @theatlantic.com

I’m tired of academics, columnists, and America’s elite treating polemic as anti-ethical. Polemic isn’t unethical. It’s a deliberate choice to center urgency, lived truth, and structural critique over institutional etiquette. Calling it unethical is just another form of gatekeeping.

And just like that: No more rage about the Epstein files No more rage about the Venezuelan boat No more rage about the Koreans in Georgia No more rage about mass deportations No more rage about the militarization and occupations in Black leadership cities

This is why I keep buying banned and threatened books. Because facts aren’t the only thing they’re coming for; our stories and histories are already being erased.

I feel like I am shouting in a storm. The force of it steals my voice before it can land. What I send out scatters in every direction, and all that comes back is silence, as if the world has already decided not to listen.

Another rejection this morning. Another data point. Disappointing, not surprising. Old powerful white men protecting the status quo still decide who gets heard. That is why voices like mine, and like @karenattiah.bsky.social, are pushed aside or caste out while their safe voices fill the pages.

Skynet was a fantasy about machines becoming too much like us — sovereign, vengeful, conscious. The real risk is AI being too little like us: pattern without obligation, optimization without repair. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Futurism #LLMs #Ethics #Care

The news is a woman. She has always been a woman. From myth to gossip, from pyres to pressrooms, her voice has carried survival. My latest essay traces her lineage—and why we must return to her now. Check it out 👇🔗

Two men were found hanging from trees in Mississippi this week. Different places, different lives — but the same haunting form. This thread is about what that means, why it cannot be ignored, and why we must bear witness to what it reveals about us. 🧵 #Mississippi #TreeHanging #BearingWitness #Care

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

the people comparing matthew dowd and brian kilmeade are missing the asymmetry. dowd worked for a network that tries to placate the other side. kilmeade works for one that wants everyone on the other side to drop dead.

Trump would be the RICO case to end all RICO cases.

Labeling something ‘cancel culture’ is frequently just a refusal to acknowledge accountability. Can we stop that? 🛑

And this is the man you want me to mourn? Absolutely NOT.

Hey @katmabu.bsky.social I think you’d like this short piece I wrote.

Look I think valuing human life is a phenomenal, wonderful, fantastic idea and also that’s why everyone opposes the genocide in Palestine and the colonial violence in Haiti and Sudan and Congo right? Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see

When any one person, or institution, is too afraid to use the exact words to describe harm or violence -- then they don't trust that humanity can hold it. But if we can’t name it? Then we can never begin repair.

Accessibility redistributes power equitably. It's a requirement in any functioning society.

The people with the least to lose usually have the sharpest takes. Because they’re the ones who see clearly what threatens the structures holding everyone else in place. Institutions reward safety. A thread... 🧵

The @theguardian.com is reporting people are being fired for saying they don’t care about Charlie Kirk’s death. Good thing I don't have a job, I guess. 🤠

Social media is full of people frustrated at being told to care. Meanwhile the media insists we must, and politicians chant ‘violence is never okay.’ Here’s my response.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Gotta catch ’em all: another “political violence” headline drops. At this point, the headlines are more ritual than reflection. 😬 cc @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com