cristian josé lopez (he/him/his)
@ihatepatriarchy.bsky.social
Los Angeles, CA 📍
prison abolitionist & intersectional feminist
“Being an Other in America teaches you to imagine what cannot imagine you.” -Margo Jefferson, “Negroland”
https://gofund.me/0283557f
prison abolitionist & intersectional feminist
“Being an Other in America teaches you to imagine what cannot imagine you.” -Margo Jefferson, “Negroland”
https://gofund.me/0283557f
How much must I labor to signify what’s real.
-Layli Long Soldier, “WHEREAS”
-Layli Long Soldier, “WHEREAS”
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
How much must I labor to signify what’s real.
-Layli Long Soldier, “WHEREAS”
-Layli Long Soldier, “WHEREAS”
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
Tucker Carlson saying the homophobic f-bomb continuously is super weird yet kinda funny, and he says it with somewhat a joyful insistence. That is the gayest shit I’ve seen a politically conservative man do.
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Tucker Carlson saying the homophobic f-bomb continuously is super weird yet kinda funny, and he says it with somewhat a joyful insistence. That is the gayest shit I’ve seen a politically conservative man do.
It’s been 3 years since the teaser trailer for the live action Little Mermaid dropped, and it never fails to make me tear up. Halle Bailey is a marvel.
a poster for the little mermaid shows a rock in the water
ALT: a poster for the little mermaid shows a rock in the water
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It’s been 3 years since the teaser trailer for the live action Little Mermaid dropped, and it never fails to make me tear up. Halle Bailey is a marvel.
In whatever war came tomorrow, America would win with a shrug.
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In whatever war came tomorrow, America would win with a shrug.
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
To have a person, any person, in this life, who offers you that kind of love is a goddamn miracle. It’s more than most of us get.
-CJ Hauser, “The Crane Wife”
-CJ Hauser, “The Crane Wife”
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
To have a person, any person, in this life, who offers you that kind of love is a goddamn miracle. It’s more than most of us get.
-CJ Hauser, “The Crane Wife”
-CJ Hauser, “The Crane Wife”
It’s super weird for there to be a holiday that began as a racist, colonial, genocidal act aimed at a demographic of people, including women, men, and children, and their families, and that that holiday & racist mythology is expected to be celebrated. The original American horror story.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s super weird for there to be a holiday that began as a racist, colonial, genocidal act aimed at a demographic of people, including women, men, and children, and their families, and that that holiday & racist mythology is expected to be celebrated. The original American horror story.
“How much must I labor to signify what’s real.”
-Layli Long Soldier, “WHEREAS”
If there’s a book I can recommend by a Native writer, I’d say “WHEREAS” by Layli Long Soldier.
-Layli Long Soldier, “WHEREAS”
If there’s a book I can recommend by a Native writer, I’d say “WHEREAS” by Layli Long Soldier.
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“How much must I labor to signify what’s real.”
-Layli Long Soldier, “WHEREAS”
If there’s a book I can recommend by a Native writer, I’d say “WHEREAS” by Layli Long Soldier.
-Layli Long Soldier, “WHEREAS”
If there’s a book I can recommend by a Native writer, I’d say “WHEREAS” by Layli Long Soldier.
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He is keeping poorer families out of these professions. It’s modern day red-lining.
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
He is keeping poorer families out of these professions. It’s modern day red-lining.
Destruction is crucial in man's ethical development. It is reflective—as much a mirror as creation. To watch the objects, the accomplishments of man, shatter into their elements, is to watch the created world de-create.
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Destruction is crucial in man's ethical development. It is reflective—as much a mirror as creation. To watch the objects, the accomplishments of man, shatter into their elements, is to watch the created world de-create.
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
Howard, I know you and many others are rolling in your graves. And rightfully so. It is insidious & shame & sheer slap in the face that your death and the death of many gay men and queer folks are no longer acknowledged.
Howard Ashman, lyricist and playwright
(May 17, 1950-March 14, 1991) 🕯️🕊️🌈
Howard Ashman, lyricist and playwright
(May 17, 1950-March 14, 1991) 🕯️🕊️🌈
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Howard, I know you and many others are rolling in your graves. And rightfully so. It is insidious & shame & sheer slap in the face that your death and the death of many gay men and queer folks are no longer acknowledged.
Howard Ashman, lyricist and playwright
(May 17, 1950-March 14, 1991) 🕯️🕊️🌈
Howard Ashman, lyricist and playwright
(May 17, 1950-March 14, 1991) 🕯️🕊️🌈
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Thankful this week for those many queer people who came before me, people whose voices — quiet, loud, loving, angry — have taught me so much about how to live my values in this era.
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Thankful this week for those many queer people who came before me, people whose voices — quiet, loud, loving, angry — have taught me so much about how to live my values in this era.
they recently did a poorly-written piece on how and why men have become more fat, positioning fatness as the thing that is killing them, when in actuality it is fatphobia that is killing men and folks writ large. I called them out on it and received death threats.
It's absolutely disgusting what the New York Times, and particularly Azeen Ghorayshi, is doing with its coverage of autism. It's so deeply irresponsible.
It's the same playbook they ran on trans kids.
It's the same playbook they ran on trans kids.
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
they recently did a poorly-written piece on how and why men have become more fat, positioning fatness as the thing that is killing them, when in actuality it is fatphobia that is killing men and folks writ large. I called them out on it and received death threats.
It was harder to guard a secret when you felt most like yourself, when you relaxed into yourself.
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It was harder to guard a secret when you felt most like yourself, when you relaxed into yourself.
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
-Patrick Nathan, “The Future Was Color”
But grief never proceeds how anyone expects. Grief stutters and ruptures and upturns and stomps.
-Isle McElroy, “People Collide”
-Isle McElroy, “People Collide”
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
But grief never proceeds how anyone expects. Grief stutters and ruptures and upturns and stomps.
-Isle McElroy, “People Collide”
-Isle McElroy, “People Collide”
Knowing that Toni Morrison hated “Hamilton”, and went out of her way to fund a play created by Ishmael Reed that is a direct diss towards Lin-Manuel Miranda, is very funny.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Knowing that Toni Morrison hated “Hamilton”, and went out of her way to fund a play created by Ishmael Reed that is a direct diss towards Lin-Manuel Miranda, is very funny.
“People Collide” is so weird and so wonderful. I couldn’t put it down. Imagine Maggie Nelson meets “Freaky Friday”. An insightful, tender, funny, and utterly compelling novel.
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“People Collide” is so weird and so wonderful. I couldn’t put it down. Imagine Maggie Nelson meets “Freaky Friday”. An insightful, tender, funny, and utterly compelling novel.
There are Palestinians, queer and straight, who are living with HIV, and need the medication and care they need and deserve, Sir Elton John. This isn’t us being selective, it’s about acknowledging that Palestine is a queer & trans issue.
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There are Palestinians, queer and straight, who are living with HIV, and need the medication and care they need and deserve, Sir Elton John. This isn’t us being selective, it’s about acknowledging that Palestine is a queer & trans issue.
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Under Roberts, American democracy felt humiliating, looked like a joke, and became increasingly tenuous.
How John Roberts brought back Donald Trump
The Supreme Court empowered billionaires, blocked voters, and ran interference.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Under Roberts, American democracy felt humiliating, looked like a joke, and became increasingly tenuous.
I mean… money will make you do some crazy shit, even the most unnecessary shit.
The FBI Director has been treating specialized FBI agents like his and his girlfriend’s private security detail, as well as jet-setting across the globe on government planes. trib.al/5O0bCWk
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I mean… money will make you do some crazy shit, even the most unnecessary shit.
“People Collide”, Isle McElroy (HarperVia, September 2023
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“People Collide”, Isle McElroy (HarperVia, September 2023
I saw two things this morning: a dog running away from its owner on the streets while people are driving their cars, and a helicopter & 4 cop cars scattering throughout Hollywood/Highland. This is Los Angeles baby, anything can happen.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I saw two things this morning: a dog running away from its owner on the streets while people are driving their cars, and a helicopter & 4 cop cars scattering throughout Hollywood/Highland. This is Los Angeles baby, anything can happen.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but there’s something so simplistically sexy about the way Zack Fox is dancing. He exudes sex appeal in himself and in his dancing in a way that is simple and tender and very “less is more”. That shit is immaculately attractive.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I don’t know if it’s just me, but there’s something so simplistically sexy about the way Zack Fox is dancing. He exudes sex appeal in himself and in his dancing in a way that is simple and tender and very “less is more”. That shit is immaculately attractive.
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A new documentary, "Thoughts and Prayers," looks at how gun violence has led to school lockdown drills becoming a universal part of childhood in America.
That sparked the growth of an entire industry of active shooter preparedness products.
Watch part of Amna Nawaz's interview with the filmmakers
That sparked the growth of an entire industry of active shooter preparedness products.
Watch part of Amna Nawaz's interview with the filmmakers
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
A new documentary, "Thoughts and Prayers," looks at how gun violence has led to school lockdown drills becoming a universal part of childhood in America.
That sparked the growth of an entire industry of active shooter preparedness products.
Watch part of Amna Nawaz's interview with the filmmakers
That sparked the growth of an entire industry of active shooter preparedness products.
Watch part of Amna Nawaz's interview with the filmmakers