UNTIL ITβS DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trumpβs politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
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Black Women, White Apathy and Why a Leopard Ate Jimmy Kimmel's Face
Jimmy Kimmel is not a victim of "cancel culture." But he is the perfect example of what happens when white people are silent in the face of racism.
If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid
and Tiffany Cross
or Amber Ruffin
or Karen Attiah
or Jemele Hill
Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were
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Feeling grateful for my awesome trans family and friends and furious at the absurd, insistent effort to scapegoat & demonize trans folks.
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βWe are born to dream and make the things we dream about.β - Nicola Yoon
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βBeing brave doesnβt mean youβre not scared.β
β Alynda Segarra, inspiring us and making us braver at tonightβs Hurray for the Riff Raff concert.
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Iβm embarrassed by how sad I feel about the Columbia capitulation because it illuminates how desperately I want to believe in institutions and their expressed values.
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Opinion | Why Does Anyone Think Trump Will Uphold His End of a Bargain With Columbia?
When the government is often behaving unchecked by the law, the idea of a binding contract is a fantasy.
βAnyone who thinks the administration will mutely walk away after the ink is dry needs to look at both the past behavior of autocratic regimes in general and this administrationβs in particular,β writes Suresh Naidu, a professor at Columbia University.
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In short, the agreement gives legal form to an extortion scheme _the first of its kind!-that defies the relevant statutes as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the First
Amendment.
Fantastic and timely intervention by the indispensable Dave Pozen on the true meaning of the Columbia shakedown for higher ed: replacing the rule of law with regulation by deal, which ultimately undermines both regulation and education.
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Andrea Gibson, Presente! Your legacy will stretch across time and space. Thank you.
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a disaster for many reasons, but Iβm especially livid thinking about countless disabled students whose families who will have even less in the way of recourse when their kidsβ educational rights are violated
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bsky.app/profile/andr...
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"When a human dies the soul moves through the universe trying to describe how a body trembles when itβs lost, softens when itβs safe, how a wound would heal given nothing but time.
I canβt imagine it, the stars say. Tell us again about goosebumps.
Tell us again about pain."
--Andrea Gibson, Tincture
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Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
Thereβs no framework for any kind of discussion about the fears or the safety of Muslim New Yorkers. Itβs as if thereβs an entire part of the population that remains invisible until feared.β β Hanif Abdurraqib
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
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Hanif Abdurraqib is one of my favorite essayists, and essays like this are why. Itβs beautiful.
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the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
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(Just excitedly ordered Niko Stratis's book "The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman")
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The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.
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If Mamdani had checked just Asian or say, Asian and white (bear with me) NYT would never have run that story.
The only reason they ran that story is because of the cultural belief that being Black gives you leg up in society despite research that says that isn't true.
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people seem really confused about racial categories maybe we should have some educational programs to teach how these historically constructed categories structure our entire society in insidious ways we could even do programming in workplaces to improve how people communicate with each other
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Natasha Cloud knows what it means to be a New Yorker.
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These people think theyβre at the end of a story β that they ARE the end of a story β and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.
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Shame on UPenn. Trans people are not a bargaining chip for negotiation with a fascist government. If theyβll trade trans peopleβs humanity, what else are they willing to give up?
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If you think trans people are a danger to anyone and not fascists and patriarchs and billionaires and bullies and zealots, or think universities donβt have power to resist, you are being manipulated by the bad guys or you are choosing the wrong side of history, thatβs it.
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