I don’t know what I was thinking. No, that’s not true. I do know what I was thinking. I was thinking I could be a gentler person, free of all that macho shit. I thought I could indulge my feminine side without shame (and yes, perhaps with praise). I thought I could finally be the …
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May 28 2026
McSweeney’s List about the Birth Rate – brilliantly hilarious
Check it out! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/americas-op-ed-columnists-brainstorm-future-headlines-about-the-birth-rate
May 18 2026
experiences reported in Complaint, Sara Ahmed
“I took an off-the-record grievance pay-out (not massive) and a much-reduced pension to get out of academia two years ago after an unremitting fifteen years of sexist (and disablist) bullying. … I had to sign a gagging clause when I got my grievance pay-out which—as I’m sure you are aware—is how universities typically try to …
May 15 2026
Home for Old Hags
Struck by arthritis and its attendant mobility issues, the most worrisome being an increased risk of falling while walking in the forest or on her way down to the water, it hit her: her life would be shorter than most because she’d rather kill herself than live in a so-called retirement village. It was bad …
May 09 2026
from No Logo, Naomi Klein
“… many of today’s best-known manufacturers no longer produce products and advertise them, but rather buy products and ‘brand’ them …” p5 “[T]his corporate obsession with brand identity is waging a war on public and individual space; on public institutions such as schools, on youthful identities, on the concept of nationality, and on the possibilities …
May 08 2026
Janelle Shane’s You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
a few bits from Janelle Shane’s You Look Like a Thing and I Love You “Researchers have discovered that something as seemingly insignificant a a small sticker can make an image recognition AI think a gun is a toaster …” p4 And vice versa, I presume. Well, that’s not alarming at all. “A team at …
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