The tyranny of experience in abortion rights discourse has potentially disastrous consequences.
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Hammers and Nails and Cats, Oh My!
When we become obsessed with how much the Right hates us, as opposed to continuing to create work and politics that is actually enormously creative, and radical, and truly dangerous, we have already lost, badly.
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Cat Ladies Rejoice!
Unless you’re an actual — and Western-based — doctor, please don’t write to me to ask what I have and to diagnose my conditions without seeing me, or to tell me which magical Eastern plant or some hour-long cooking regimen and meditation really worked for you; I’m really not interested (using a Neti pot is what gave me an ear infection that lasted for nearly two years, so you’ll understand my irritation with “natural” remedies).
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The GRANDMOTHER of All Updates
Remember the rule: Dance like you’re alone in your living room. Email like every word you spit out could one day become part of something like a Jenny Holzer series set in Times Square. With your name and address attached.
I was invited by the Chicago Socialist Party to speak about and on International Working Women’s Day, March 8. My thanks to all the organisers, and to the many amazing people who showed up — and stayed — through all my words and those of my co-presenters, Tobita Chow, Erica Nanton, Red Schulte, Zerlina Smith, and Rehmah Sufi.* You can watch a video here; below is the text of the speech.
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Current Mood: An Update
On the one hand, hurrah, lots to write about. On the other hand, it feels like a real struggle to produce work that takes on nuanced, critical positions that don’t simply pretend that everything that’s happening is part of a new horror.
What brought Milo down was not his queerness, which had always been flamboyantly on display and fetishised by the Right and the Left, but that he became, with the few short seconds of a video clip, irrevocably gay.
If we frame political questions in terms of whether or not we can like each other or the ones we claim to fight for, and whether or not we’re being really, really nice to each other, our struggles are doomed and, frankly, we deserve to lose.
