The evolution of documentary in the US is a good example. // 1/4

60 Minutes aired a propaganda piece celebrating the pager the attacks which blinded thousands of children. They lost credibility ages ago.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

feeling this hard today 🌈

In the era of rollbacks on science, rampant transphobia, sex negativity, tradwife horseshit, and a rapid social regression to old forms of white patriarchy, talking frankly about sexuality, “alternative” sexual practices & queerness with physicians feels like a radical act.

The theme of the year.

I have been thinking a lot about how violence is reported in this country - what is deserving of horror and what is deserving of a shrug. The entire media system in the US is going a massive restructuring because Americans started expressing horror at the deaths of people 1/3

There are so many songs I would have wanted him to sing with his voice.

Sobre los carteles y el libro Fort Bragg Cartel por Seth Harp. #mexico ##fortbragg

Kamisaka Sekka From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910

The Power of the Line

Quote from Is The Future Female? by Lynne Segal (1987). Photo from Deadlier Than the Male magazine from the LA&M collections.

Tried reading Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City last night. It was published in 1984. The novel is written in second person and the protagonist is a 24 yr-old straight guy with a coke problem — self-pitying, condescending towards everyone around him, esp women, and normie. 1/7

When I was 15 I renewed this from the library at my high school repeatedly for about a year. At the end of the year, the librarian told me to just keep it.

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Maybe the hardest thing about writing is to get back to that place where you were feeling what you wanted to say, except you’re not feeling it anymore, and you might never feel it again. So maybe the hardest part about writing is to feel it anyway.

Cover of On Our Backs (Summer 1987). The LA&M is missing several issues of OOB including Summer 1984, Winter 1984, Spring 1985 and Winter 1985. Do you have them? 🎁

What do you miss most about life before the internet?

But the writer would never fully return her love because he was too lost in his own passivity to make the connection she needed from him, and so she had turned to me, but by then it was too late, and because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome 1/4

Self-hate is an important part of any creative process, but it doesn't work if there's no self to hate!

The soundtrack was the only good thing about Girls. #FooltoCry www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SvU...

the greatest

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grassroots organizing from Qatar and Canada.

In the diaries of Midwestern farmwomen from the 1880s through the 1930s, their loneliness is a topic they revert to constantly: their loneliness, and the fact their life on the farm was one of unremitting drudgery. 1/3

I started with The Big Sleep, the first Chandler novel, and read through The Long Goodbye, taking in his short stories along the way. 1/11

You have to learn from experience what a character in a story by Edne O’Brien states: that the reason love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give. From The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez 1/2

Ooh cannot wait to read these

The Palestinian-led ones are the only ones that lasted and Sameer Project operates with a high level of transparency and integrity.

In this edition of LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT, DJ Ushka tells us where to find cutting-edge spaces and leftist magazine parties.

The problem with any first sentence, said Joan Didion, is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone. Before beginning, too many options. Then, in the next breath, none. 1/3

Based on Board of Elections data and their own models, they estimated that from 2021 to 2025 South Asian turnout exploded from 15.3 percent to nearly 43 percent, while Muslim turnout went from barely 15 percent to over 34 percent. 1/8

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Keep thinking about something a friend said recently: My wounds bear evidence for a trial that will never come.

Rest in Power to Refaat al Areer who was murdered in the zionist genocide on this day in 2023. --- #writing #booksky #writer #poet #poem #poetrysky #palestinian #refaatalareer #genocide #palestine inthesetimes.com/article/refa...

Stretched out, I turned to face her bed. I realized that she’d had her eyes on me fo rthis entire time. The dimmed lights case an amber gloa over her body. Through a cascade of dust. The particles almost looked like sentient beings. The countless dead, gathering around us for a lusty tale.” 1/10

Profile change overdue. Here is I am a Rainbow Too by Jeffrey Gibson. This whole series is incredible. Highly recommend checking out his work; it is fun to decipher the lyrics in his work.

stem needs humanities

Jennifer Bartlett, "Ten P.M.", 1991-92, Oil on canvas, 84" x 84"

Great new paper from Ēko on new reasons OpenAI sucks: OpenAI moved quickly to try and rectify this by introducing stronger moderation. Yet this research shows that OpenAI’s content moderation, especially for younger users, is severely lacking, as teenage users are 1/8

Whoa, Nelly Bookmarking. The Modern Media Playbook: Elite Strategies for Digital Influence by Manu Singh Burson —— In the following paper, I examine how fake social media accounts boost politicians' online popularity and this phenomenon's subsequent spillover on traditional news coverage. 1/6

Today marks the 6th anniversary of the first documented covid infection in Wuhan, China — the last day of life as we know it. It is also #WorldAidsDay and the current admin won’t be honoring it.

Excerpt from Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang. 1/6

#SouthSide is an incredible show. So many good one liners, it is hard to pick. I love it.

One of the most pernicious things about liberalism, esp when it intersects with supremacy ideologies: it omits critical details to reduce opposition to oppressive systems as individual choice or opinion. The article fails to mention he was arrested at the border with Gaza while zionist settlers

This episode from The #Kink Compass made me cry and helped me sort out aspects of an experience I had with a bad-to-a-lifechanging degree, narcissistic “dom” who conceived kink as something he does “to” women (he always said “girls”) rather than with them. #bdsm www.podbean.com/media/share/...

ECUADOR REJECTS NOBOA’S RIGHTWARD TURN from NACLA: On Sunday, November 16, Ecuadorian voters decisively rejected President Daniel Noboa’s attempt to push the country further down a right-wing, authoritarian path. 1/6

Highly recommend the documentary, The Silence of Others, by Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar on the “memory law” or “pact of forgetting” in Spain — which halted the reckoning of Franco’s crimes (400K+ people gone), as if a shared vision of the future were possible w/o reckoning with the past.

#Booksky: What books left an impression on you this year — a memorable passage, good story, terrible character? I am curious. #writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet