Christine Varnado
@eyweltschmerz.bsky.social
Spread the Weltschmerz! Buffalo / The Shapes of Fancy (https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy)
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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
June 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
Reposted by Christine Varnado
Even a corpse in the morgue has rights - you can't harvest its organs or donate it to science without consent of the family or prior consent from the deceased. To say her choice is irrelevant because she is no longer making choices is appalling. Pregnant women now have less rights than the dead.
June 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Even a corpse in the morgue has rights - you can't harvest its organs or donate it to science without consent of the family or prior consent from the deceased. To say her choice is irrelevant because she is no longer making choices is appalling. Pregnant women now have less rights than the dead.
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Anti-abortion measures deny pregnant women the bodily autonomy we grant the dead. No one, even a corpse, can be forced to be an organ donor, no matter the lives that could be saved. But a pregnant woman is expected to donate her blood supply, at not inconsiderable risk, to a potential person.
June 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Anti-abortion measures deny pregnant women the bodily autonomy we grant the dead. No one, even a corpse, can be forced to be an organ donor, no matter the lives that could be saved. But a pregnant woman is expected to donate her blood supply, at not inconsiderable risk, to a potential person.
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STOP: Don’t panic–organize!
@thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people.
We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽
www.madycast.com/p/dont-panic...
@thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people.
We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽
www.madycast.com/p/dont-panic...
Don’t Panic–the Battle Over the Trans Medicaid Ban Is Far From Over. Here’s How To Fight Back.
While confusion and misinformation spreads on social media, advocates offer concrete strategies to stop the GOP’s genocidal attack on trans people’s lives through community solidarity and defiance.
www.madycast.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
STOP: Don’t panic–organize!
@thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people.
We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽
www.madycast.com/p/dont-panic...
@thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people.
We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽
www.madycast.com/p/dont-panic...
Reposted by Christine Varnado
Before you ask what I think we should do, please take a look at my work & words over the past years: container gardening, Infosec, organizing, building offline/online communities, re-educating ourselves/other, boycotting & divesting, our own businesses - it's all to build literal People power.
March 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Before you ask what I think we should do, please take a look at my work & words over the past years: container gardening, Infosec, organizing, building offline/online communities, re-educating ourselves/other, boycotting & divesting, our own businesses - it's all to build literal People power.
Who needs (or wants!) a roommate for MLA in Philly?? I would be happy to split the cost of a hotel room! Also pls put *Return of the Repressed: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Early Modern Literature* Fri 1/5 5:15pm, and *Re-Reading Marlowe!* Sun 1/7 10:15am, on your MLA dance card!
December 8, 2023 at 4:54 PM
Who needs (or wants!) a roommate for MLA in Philly?? I would be happy to split the cost of a hotel room! Also pls put *Return of the Repressed: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Early Modern Literature* Fri 1/5 5:15pm, and *Re-Reading Marlowe!* Sun 1/7 10:15am, on your MLA dance card!