Hildegard E. Heinrich

Okay sure somebody else has already applied Deleuze and Guattari to this but what if I apply someone applying Deleuze and Guattari to something else to this

Queer theory is when you use a lot of jargon to examine one of the same six pieces of evidence in the archive and the more jargon you use the more queer theory it is

The man has clearly had at least one TIA in the last few months. Second elder abuse Administration down here in a row

Power, Pedagogy, and Personhood in "Whose Children Are They?" (2022) Answering a Rhetorical Question Wrong on Purpose

It's happened: I've made a Substack. My first-ever post is a close reading of a truly awful documentary, an examination of the rhetoric of right-wing conspiracy, a philosophical meditation on youth liberation, and so, so much more. And it's free!

hildegardeheinrich.substack.com/p/power-peda...

Too many new good books and new editions of old good books seem to want me to confuse them with self-help books, and I don't know why!

Book covers used to be better because they used to be worse. Trends change and everybody's trying to make a living, but if I could choose between the same book having a clean, graphic-design-101 cover or a terrible oil painting of a shirtless hunk fighting a dragon, I would always choose the latter

All they care about is punishment for resisting PPB's long (and ongoing!) history of racist violence. That's it. Some windows got broken at the mall five years ago and now Kristi Noem is treating our ICE agents to Burgerville. It's because they hate minorities, and wish they were subordinate

Think it's worth noting that the last time I remember any perceived threat of violence, boarding up windows and such, was last November... when we all thought Trump's people were going to riot when he lost. That plywood stayed immaculate, and got sheepishly removed in January, having seen zero riots

The glass-closet Nazis, of whom Posobiec is only one, have been openly comparing the US to Weimar and casting around for a Hitler for years. We ought to have done something about it before the President was saying that Sturmtruppen should be sent to this city to defend the honor of our retail stores

photo by one of DHS/Noem's handpicked right-wing media influencers (who have been getting access press have not)

Google define "overhead" my business is dying and I need it to be the fault of the people who produce almost one-hundred percent of the value for it

So much about the business of social media is obfuscated by the ability to just get on it and post whatever but it's unbelievably expensive to do moderation even when you're just paying Filipinos cents on the dollar to traumatize themselves. Who can move fast and break things in such an environment?

When you get too libertarian, you forget how capitalism actually works. Case in point: there will never be a plucky, underdog, startup moderation service, because that's not where the money comes from. What revenue would such a thing possibly gain? Are people going to pay for a blocklist sub? Why?

banned books week…..a great time to buy a bunch of insanely famous books

Makes my blood boil a little to see Kotek, who is more than happy to attack our homeless population, make statements about how terrible Trump is for wanting to send in troops, when her real objection is that good, Oregonian troops should be doing the brutality

Frankly I'm surprised it's taken Trump this long to suggest sending freikorps to Portland. Everyone who has suggested that this is a lawless hellscape, who has made propaganda about our homeless and drug-using populations, has basically wanted this, but been too cowardly to say it out loud

About 3/4 of the way in, I feel like I've understood what's basically been going on this year the least out of any year of my entire life. Which is really saying something.

Some days simply demand one of those pigeons that's white and brown instead of gray and green, and they aren't going to get better until you see one

Sometimes your day is immeasurably improved by seeing a really cool pigeon

Always has been, always will be. People forget that "free speech," even "campus free speech" was a left-wing idea to begin with. Even the whole "I'm coming to your campus to say reprehensible things" shtick was always a way to smear campus activism, even before the crackdown on Palestine solidarity

It's difficult to acknowledge and address the ways that the long history of stochastic violence that helped build this country impacts our astronomically high gun violence rates today, but it's easy to scapegoat a minority you already hate anyway. What a country

We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.

Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.

We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.

My latest piece.

The most vulgar feminist condemnation of patriarchy treating women as fungible commodities can't compare to a picture of a giant novelty check exchanged for a "fully deprecated" woman, with the fucking President's name on it. Every time you think you're too jaded to be shocked anymore...

Will this actually happen? Not a chance. Not, at least, unless structural forces massively change. I don't call it a "revolution" to sound cool. But how many people will be stripped of care, denied care for being too Black, fat, addicted, etc, extractively abandoned, while we ponder and debate?

If you ask me, if I am the representative of patient interests in this hypothetical conference, I think we need a patient revolution of the same magnitude as the revolution in the early 20th Century that swept the physician into the position he (and I use this pronoun intentionally) occupies today

Healthcare in this country is a system that is manifestly unfit for purpose (at least, for the purpose it should serve), and I have to admit, I don't know how to fix it. I am broadly supportive of M4A as a stopgap, but both this new House bill and the example of the UK have proven that's not enough

True example of mindless wannabe trad tough guy-ism. That this comes shortly after the Rubio snuff film of some random guys in a boat ought to serve as an example of exactly who they feel confident waging "war" against

If you hang around gun guys long enough and skeptically enough they will eventually say, "Well Switzerland has loads of guns, and they're fine." To which the only answer I can offer is that yes, but what do you think accounts for that discrepancy? Might there be some cultural factors involved?

It's difficult to acknowledge and address the ways that the long history of stochastic violence that helped build this country impacts our astronomically high gun violence rates today, but it's easy to scapegoat a minority you already hate anyway. What a country