Lynn BA

No that’s all irrelevant

We love our cruel optimism don’t we folks?

If it’s all my fault, that means I can fix it

no war

Temporarily successful liberation movements (e.g. abortion in US) weren't successful because radicals "made compromises" but rather because the uncompromising efforts and abundance of radicals dragged supreme court justices, official medical bodies, and broad public sentiment to the left

solidarity with the protesters, solidarity with the flotilla

The cover of Gendertrash From Hell, which features Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay kissing

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There is material from an unpublished 5th issue!!

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Trans people have existed in worse conditions than this for most of our history. it will keep getting worse. we will win. fuck the USA and may we dance on its burning corpse

what is to be done?

Lydia Kiesling on Refusing to Speak at an Anti-Trans University Last April, I got an email from a faculty member at Sweet Briar College, a small women’s college in rural Virginia. The college was preparing to choose its Common Read for the following academic ye…

I wrote about the Sweet Briar College Vixens, and how they are better than the adults in charge lithub.com/lydia-kiesli...

Legal permanent resident expelled from the country for his beliefs

Note on Passing The taproot of the juvenile            birch sockets                 itself down

btw was on poetry daily last week talking about stealth and hidden messages poems.com/poem/noteonp...

its good that this will probably crater trump's approval rating but economic crises don't exactly have a great track record of *stopping* fascism

Unsex Me Here – Nightboat Books If Aurora Mattia is a switchboard operator, then Unsex Me Here is her call log. Please hold. There’s someone on the other line. A spider, a sibyl, an angel, a mermaid, a goddess, or an ex-girlfriend.

can’t emphasize enough UNSEX ME HERE is out today!!! nightboat.org/book/unsex-m...

being a good little tran and making a big display of hating the left isn't going to save you. just means you won't have any friends when they come for you and all your lib pals make the politically expedient call

Transgender Day Of Getting The Day Off

the eternal present or: we need to destroy phone

wrote about how phoneworld is killing our political imaginary and making us profoundly miserable in this, a moment when we need to be stronger than ever www.late-review.com/p/the-eterna...

ACTION ALERT: CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back - AIDS United CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention Is Under Attack! We Must Fight Back We have heard very unfortunate news that there is an effort un...

Been waiting for this since the original block on absolutely all federal spending that started everything -

They are about to sneak attack all US HIV funding.

aidsunited.org/action/polic...

I appreciate immigration law folks pointing out that this is procedurally unlawful but the process is the punishment here and I need folks to start thinking about remedies outside of the courtroom

the problem with handing them the sports issue is, of course, that they have no intention of stopping there, and the win emboldens them to hit our real everyday rights ten times harder. obviously, demonstrably.

The Iowa legislature just became the first in modern history to repeal a statutory civil rights law by removing protections for gender identity first passed in 2007. They have legalized discrimination against trans people in housing, healthcare, and employment.

This is a campaign of eradication.

Fanned cards outlined in green over a pink background. Text reads: Stryker insists on transness as a manifestation of desire and her approach is to demand rather than to ask. She seeks comrades instead of allies. She doesn’t quibble with fearful reactionaries, but rather fights for what gender and sex can, and has for some, become: a place of freedom and self-determination. Misha Crafts, “Abject Permanence”

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In “Abject Permanence,” Misha Crafts reviews When Monsters Speak, a reader collecting Susan Stryker’s hugely influential writing, ranging from the 90s to the present. In Stryker’s work, Crafts recognizes a rallying cry for trans rights that is now more essential than ever before.

‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today

Sophie is of course quite right and rather too kind - the transphobic strain in American and British feminism was always intrinsically on the Right with its fondness for conspiracy theory, pseudoscience and victimblaming

I've said so for four decades.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...?

AGAINST KNOWINGNESS One of the lessons of the Hitler period is the stupidity of cleverness. How many were the expert arguments with which Jews dismissed the likelihood of Hitler's rise, when it was already as clear as daylight. I recall a conversation with an economist who demonstrated the impossibility of Germany's militarization from the interests of Bavarian brewers. And in any case, according to the clever people, fascism was impossible in the West. Clever people have always made things easy for barbarians, because they are so stupid. It is the well-informed, farsighted judgments, the prognoses based on statistics and experience, the observations which begin: "I happen to be an expert in this field," it is the well-founded, conclusive statements which are untrue. Hitler was against intellect and humanity. But there is also an intellect which is against humanity: it is distinguished by well-informed supe-riority.

Horkheimer and Adorno, THE DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT (note/sketch #1)

Autofiction Writers of the World, Unite! - Public Books Immediacy, here, is an aesthetics of ambivalent aspiration, within a hierarchically ordered and immobilizing class- and race-based cultural system.

thanks @publicbooks.bsky.social for publishing this short piece I wrote about autofiction, class, real estate, creative careers, social media, and "immediacy" 💘

Philosophy Meets the Gendertrash from Hell “You don't look like a poet. You look more like one of those people they're always writing about in the Times.” - Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren. The discipline of philosophy is both professional and play...

“Trans Scholarship, Freak Professionalism, and Philosophy as a Workplace” is a more sustained argument for the points I made in this earlier essay (which I wrote after it!): blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...