I am being annoying rn but: it is not over for you after being publicly harassed. Your workplace can have policies (formal and informal) that protect trans employees from harassment. Many trans people continue to have public facing careers after being targeted by right wingers.
The right has an explicit goal of driving all transness from public life. Yes individual trans people can attempt to fly under the radar, but this is desperate survival. At some point we blip onto their screen and it is over. We need to take out their radar and surface to air missiles and funding.
the actual merits of the grade are mostly beside the point, but i do think it’s worth thinking about how to insulate yourself a bit from bad faith actors if you’re a professor or TA. this M.O. (on a smaller scale) is common on the right.
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I am being annoying rn but: it is not over for you after being publicly harassed. Your workplace can have policies (formal and informal) that protect trans employees from harassment. Many trans people continue to have public facing careers after being targeted by right wingers.
people get so stuck on "you can't change people's minds with facts and logic," but the real theory of mind victory is "i'm often mistaken about the facts and misunderstand the terms other people use."
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
people get so stuck on "you can't change people's minds with facts and logic," but the real theory of mind victory is "i'm often mistaken about the facts and misunderstand the terms other people use."
Page’s page, from My Comrade sometime around 92 (“every fucking time” is sending me)
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Page’s page, from My Comrade sometime around 92 (“every fucking time” is sending me)
i really cannot stress enough how much you need to read this book. like a gregg araki teen apocalypse movie, save for the early 80s punk neo-romantic vibes. a masterclass in fun novel writing. best dollar i ever spent.
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
i really cannot stress enough how much you need to read this book. like a gregg araki teen apocalypse movie, save for the early 80s punk neo-romantic vibes. a masterclass in fun novel writing. best dollar i ever spent.
incredibly seated for this tanith lee sci fi romance about a robot bard that i got for a dollar
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
incredibly seated for this tanith lee sci fi romance about a robot bard that i got for a dollar
hi everyone! my special interest is still flamenco and my job makes me want to cry all the time (because it's confusing and disabled children are put through so, so much). i think the govt shutdown is progressing into a coup but don't know how to react. that's the c.e. digest for this week <3
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
hi everyone! my special interest is still flamenco and my job makes me want to cry all the time (because it's confusing and disabled children are put through so, so much). i think the govt shutdown is progressing into a coup but don't know how to react. that's the c.e. digest for this week <3
iiii waant sooomethin eeeeelse, to get me through this
semi-stealth kind of life
semi-stealth kind of life
October 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
iiii waant sooomethin eeeeelse, to get me through this
semi-stealth kind of life
semi-stealth kind of life
fell asleep reading thunder perfect mind and dreamt i was explaining it to children. “it’s trying to teach you how to love a god who’s like all that“ i said. the kids were curious but it went over their heads
October 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
fell asleep reading thunder perfect mind and dreamt i was explaining it to children. “it’s trying to teach you how to love a god who’s like all that“ i said. the kids were curious but it went over their heads
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What's it like for a trans woman in a men's prison? B Speaks brings us this haunting, hopeful look at a woman remaining true to herself through unimaginable hardship.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Freedom is Something You Carry Inside — Assigned
A trans woman’s account of life in a men’s prison in Georgia.
www.assignedmedia.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
What's it like for a trans woman in a men's prison? B Speaks brings us this haunting, hopeful look at a woman remaining true to herself through unimaginable hardship.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
i wish the cultural conversation was about life without buildings' 2001 masterpiece "any other city." i want to vaguepost "if i lose u in the streets...." and have everyone know the feeling
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i wish the cultural conversation was about life without buildings' 2001 masterpiece "any other city." i want to vaguepost "if i lose u in the streets...." and have everyone know the feeling
ya novels should have a little sticker that says if they're good literature for children or bad literature for adults.
October 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
ya novels should have a little sticker that says if they're good literature for children or bad literature for adults.
i spent so long rolling my eyes at the idea of imposter syndrome. and now here i am, struck down by hubris, waiting for everyone to find out i’m a t slur line cook fuckup who doesn’t know what i’m doing
October 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
i spent so long rolling my eyes at the idea of imposter syndrome. and now here i am, struck down by hubris, waiting for everyone to find out i’m a t slur line cook fuckup who doesn’t know what i’m doing
it’s really lucky that i can say “i felt a little sick so i hid under a blanket and watched brideshead revisited (1981) all day”
September 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
it’s really lucky that i can say “i felt a little sick so i hid under a blanket and watched brideshead revisited (1981) all day”
i admire the venue in town that is committed to really bad sounding parties. puppygirl rave, vaporwave party, bottomless wine silent reading. ideas that seem inevitable and disastrous, but are rarely attempted in earnest.
September 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
i admire the venue in town that is committed to really bad sounding parties. puppygirl rave, vaporwave party, bottomless wine silent reading. ideas that seem inevitable and disastrous, but are rarely attempted in earnest.
i keep having dreams that feature these huge slugs, about 18 inches long and ovoid like a nudibranch, living on the trunks of stately old hardwoods. they’re black and have tentacles sticking straight up, like soft urchins. strongly neurotoxic, but so slow nobody thinks about them much.
September 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
i keep having dreams that feature these huge slugs, about 18 inches long and ovoid like a nudibranch, living on the trunks of stately old hardwoods. they’re black and have tentacles sticking straight up, like soft urchins. strongly neurotoxic, but so slow nobody thinks about them much.
eeee so excited to see this one out! now everyone can read about facebook trying to kill me in 2016 and the weird speculation on the weltgeist that it prompted. ty imposter crew!
Strange, dense, wordy prose out of the Pacific Northwest today.
C.E. has machines in her head that I don't quite understand, but am nonetheless thrilled by.
C.E. has machines in her head that I don't quite understand, but am nonetheless thrilled by.
Suicide Algorithms and the Progress of Reason by C.E. — Imposter
I have had a lot of time to find things, to chart how it began to shift. The earliest inflection I can find is when I liked a friend’s picture, a bumper sticker that read “i <3 death and dying”. F...
www.imposter-review.org
September 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
eeee so excited to see this one out! now everyone can read about facebook trying to kill me in 2016 and the weird speculation on the weltgeist that it prompted. ty imposter crew!
it's crazy how certain propositions, like "labor-saving devices don't always save labor, even really handy ones like washing machines" or "a more egalitarian economy would likely reduce the supply of tropical goods to the global north", inspire people to be like "i'm gonna kill you"
September 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
it's crazy how certain propositions, like "labor-saving devices don't always save labor, even really handy ones like washing machines" or "a more egalitarian economy would likely reduce the supply of tropical goods to the global north", inspire people to be like "i'm gonna kill you"
nerve wracking things:
1. working a public job where you know at least some people want to shoot you for being employed
2. being clocky in a "40% pretty lady, 50% theyfab, 10% weird gay guy" way, and everyone being too polite to tell me what they're seeing
3. having nowhere to vent freely
1. working a public job where you know at least some people want to shoot you for being employed
2. being clocky in a "40% pretty lady, 50% theyfab, 10% weird gay guy" way, and everyone being too polite to tell me what they're seeing
3. having nowhere to vent freely
September 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
nerve wracking things:
1. working a public job where you know at least some people want to shoot you for being employed
2. being clocky in a "40% pretty lady, 50% theyfab, 10% weird gay guy" way, and everyone being too polite to tell me what they're seeing
3. having nowhere to vent freely
1. working a public job where you know at least some people want to shoot you for being employed
2. being clocky in a "40% pretty lady, 50% theyfab, 10% weird gay guy" way, and everyone being too polite to tell me what they're seeing
3. having nowhere to vent freely
fun juxtapositions, courtesy of temporary book storage
August 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
fun juxtapositions, courtesy of temporary book storage
pssst @vaporlight.bsky.social would you have any interest in reading at TRANSplants in Seattle on September 6th? you come highly recommended by the illustrious @never.horse
August 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
pssst @vaporlight.bsky.social would you have any interest in reading at TRANSplants in Seattle on September 6th? you come highly recommended by the illustrious @never.horse
starting a move and at day two i’m at “nuclear war dreams during my involuntary panic nap.”
August 3, 2025 at 4:35 AM
starting a move and at day two i’m at “nuclear war dreams during my involuntary panic nap.”