@carlamlee.bsky.social
author. artist. attorney*. *Not yours.
Speculative Whiteness by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social is quotable, thoroughly researched, and damning towards the type of science fiction that has empowered alt-right thinkers.
The must-read book about SFF of the year
Available in full as an open-access text! manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...
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One FULLY INTENDED effect of transphobia is to remove Black and other racialized women from the category of "women" and restrict womanhood to cis white conventionally attractive women who can bear children. It's all part of a white supremacist project.
08.03.2025 15:43 β π 3539 π 1207 π¬ 45 π 40The "trans debate" has always been about defining "womanhood" as specifically being abled, thin, pretty cishet white women.
Any woman who does not have a lock on abled cishet white patriarchs calling her "pretty" is not a woman.
Men who can't hit women have no rules about hitting Not Women.
I post one gym pic with an arm flex. Post about menβs confused and harmful reactions to visibility muscular / athletic women.
Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports.
Deflecting from the actual issue - menβs insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.
Screenshot of thestorygraph.com cover collage for February 2025 books read: Beast of the North Woods by Annelise Ryan, Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth, A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh, Let Him In by William Friend, The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe, Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan, The Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin, Stay in the Light by A.M. Shine, I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell, illustrated On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, and The Creeper by A.M. Shine.
Screenshot of a thestorygraph.com February 2025 reading summary: 11 books, 3,704 pages; covers of first, middle, and last books (Beast of the North Woods by Annelise Ryan, Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan, and The Creeper by A.M. Shine); average book length of 336 pages; pie chart showing 91% fiction, 9% nonfiction; horizontal bar graph showing 6 thriller books, 4 horror, 4 mystery, 2 contemporary, 2 young adult; chart of daily pages read; and pie chart showing 100% print books.
February was excellent for reading. Plain Bad Heroines, the wilderness of girls, and Stay In The Light were A+++, the rest of the fiction mostly fantastic fun, and the illustrated On Tyranny beautiful if also terrible (terribly true). #storygraph
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Sign outside the Stonewall National Monument park with the word Transgender written in pink chalk between the words National and Monument.
We wonβt disappear just because you change a website.
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I lost my job. USDA Forest Service. My probation was up next week. I did everything right. I took a GS-7 role with a masterβs degree just to get my foot in the door. I spent years doing seasonal fieldwork for low pay, working in remote places, gaining experience, and building skills, just for a chance at a permanent position. I was about to be a GS-9. I wrote NEPA reports. I conducted field surveys. I worked fire support. I dedicated myself to this work because I believed in it. Public lands donβt manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect donβt just stay protected without people on the ground making it happen. My coworkers and I took on that responsibility, often in places most people never think about but that matter more than they know. And now? Just like that, Iβm out. Edit: Iβve consistently supported progressive policies and have voted Democrat in every national and local election since I was 18. I do appreciate folks asking, I have some coworker having a serious 'leopards ate my face' moment right now.
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
14.02.2025 13:52 β π 14051 π 4845 π¬ 224 π 204This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isnβt billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
14.02.2025 23:04 β π 13705 π 2920 π¬ 178 π 97I'm not making light of the horrific things these men did to vulnerable women, but my god, that was an unexpected bit of whiplash in the middle of the book.
04.02.2025 02:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Me: ... what.
Evidence led to the apartment of Carl Wayne...
Me: ... WHAT. (Yup. There it is.) Is this how I learn my dead father was a truck-driving serial killer? I finally found the Big Family Secret?
...apartment of Carl Wayne Lawson.
Me: That would have been one hell of a story.
Long Haul is about truckers who are serial killers. (I mean, duh.)
Dad was over the road back when logs were done on paper.
Now the story:
Evidence collected was "a bloodstained bag from a hamburger joint ... stuffed with trucking logs from ... a driver whose signature appeared to be Carl W. L."
Let me tell you about that Time I Learned My Father Was a Serial Killer. (Spoiler: He wasn't.) Things to know first (and safe because I never use father's middle name as a security question): My dad's name was Carl W. Lee.
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It was a good reading month. Only one disappointment and several ones I loved. (I track using @thestorygraph.com.)
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βIβve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.β Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why sheβs my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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