Caro De Robertis

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

The War on Truth Heats Up (just in time for Constitution Day) Hannah Arendt famously wrote, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the real...

Kirk's murder is being weaponized to corral us into a smaller and smaller arena of speech, and it is our job to refuse to be confined, to keep speaking out, to keep making irreverent jokes, supporting progressive voices, chastising the high-profile cowards, and talking among ourselves.

I want those of us who are getting into our middle-aged years and beyond to understand that as cynical and sad as we might feel, we have a responsibility to ensure that those who come after us have the energy to go on, to be creative in their problem-solving, to believe change is possible.

Thank you!! Truly cannot wait to read alongside all these wondrous writers

The amazing @caroderobertis.bsky.social has written some brilliant fiction lately (including the transcendant Palace of Eros) but their latest is an utterly essential nonfiction book called So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color. <3

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.

I surround myself with peers, mentors and students who in all kinds of ways call out the best in me. I sit down with my students and want to be a bodhisattva FOR them. I learn from history and my elders what integrity feels like from the inside.

This work can’t happen in isolation.

This. Times a thousand. Again and again.

Personally, I will not be continuing Charlie Kirk's work.

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Incredible praise, thank you so much!

Happy pub week to @charliejane.bsky.social ‘s absolutely delightful new novel 🎉

There is a sandwich on a cloud
I like to fling it in my sleep
Aren’t any ICE agents to creep
Not with my sandwich on a cloud

There are pink and blue bands in the morning sky. And clouds!

Good morning, folks. The sky says trans rights are human rights.

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So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

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📖 So Many Stars

An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

by @caroderobertis.bsky.social

intimate accounts of creating space for themselves & their communities in the world

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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.

We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?

Comedians are a comfort and he can’t silence all of us. The ridicule must go deeper. Bruise and swell him from the inside. Thicken those ankles until they burst.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — 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.

No one voted to kick 17 MILLION people off their health care.

No one voted to RAISE the cost of groceries.

No one voted to give handouts to BILLIONAIRES.

Donald Trump and Republicans just sold out working people.

This is a gut punch — but we will NOT stop fighting back.

Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.

Thanks for reading!

Green by Caro De Robertis - Aster(ix) Journal Can it be feminist, she wondered as she spread her thighs, to want this? Can I still be on the side of liberation?

"To be bent over like this.
Naked.
Pinned down.
Spread wide. Taken.
Slapped, whipped, called a whore—where did it all come from?
Can it be feminist, she wondered as she spread her thighs, to want this?"

Today's queer story is "Green" by @caroderobertis.bsky.social!

The media coverage around the Florida concentration camp seems familiar.

From the NYT covering the opening of Dachau in the summer of 1933.

www.nytimes.com/1933/07/26/a...

Well done!

We live in a rogue and dangerous country.

Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.

My heart is with my Iranian friends and their families. May everyone live.