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it’s hard not to feel like it is relatively more privileged queers taking advantage of the cultural currency that transness has now without participating in or giving back to the actual trans community more broadly

the logical argument is sound: if you are queer, then you disrupt the gender binary; if you disrupt the gender binary, then you are trans

but the effect has been to both deflate and distract from the political project of the queer movement and to politicize, intellectualize, and ideologize the visceral and embodied trans experience

not sure i’m entirely a fan of the trans umbrella just replacing the queer umbrella as it did

i can’t tell if this is offensive or hilarious

Milky Chance made another Trip Tape and nobody told me 😒

it’s pretty rare for me to read a story and say “‘Ocarina of Time’ did it better” but there you go

if more authors asked this very simple question the world of english literature would be in a very different place

the problem is they’re asking the wrong question. the issue is not one of finding the correct vocabulary or phrasing. the question is how to capture what vocabulary and phasing are, by their very nature, unable to touch

i don’t think they’re unaware. i think they’re fully cognizant and it shows in their reliance on trope and pathos. they try to get around the issue by powering quickly through it with a vague directness that hopefully leaves the reader to fill in the gaps. but it is illusory and thin, and once the screen is punctured, one finds an empty room behind

“i don’t understand why it isn’t working!”

writers be like, hey you know this thing which is notoriously inept at capturing depth of feeling, i think i am going to pin everything on that

stop trying to convey emotion with language

remember when Obama was like “privatized healthcare is fine”

nice graphic, NYT

it’s at the end because like, it was already on an EP, everyone has heard it, we all know it by now

but it still vibes so hard

“Sister” is still her best track lmao

my feelings about TSHA music have been somewhat mixed in the past but this one bops

new TSHA album
https://tshamusic.bandcamp.com/album/capricorn-sun

the exception is whenever judith butler deigns to write a column

the secret of opinion writing is that the best stuff lives in news orgs who don’t have the money for actual investigative journalism (so good analysis is the only selling point they might have) and it’s written primarily by underpaid people in their late 20’s with a high rate of burnout