Imagining a world in which Democrats had instead responded to anti-trans stuff with “Republicans are sick perverts obsessed with other people’s genitals” and stayed on message with that ad nauseam

I sometimes worry that talking about politics online fulfils the "doing something" instinct without actually doing something. Not for everyone of course, but for a lot of people I feel like they think this makes way more of a difference than it does.

I confess I don’t understand the “dearth of sources is why it was the Dark Ages” argument. Where was the lack? Certainly not in Byzantium, or anywhere with Orthodox Christians for that matter. Certainly not in Romance. Arabic. Slavonic. Norse. Archaeology exists. What am I missing here? Saxon shit?

Fun fact: writers don't 'finish' books, we just eventually stop editing before we spiral into madness.

#booksky

Incredible to just characterise non white groups as bad for reasons and claim this makes you enlightened.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

I wish the red caps liked to read.

Advice from a Literature teacher and resister: read your history, but don’t forget your literature.

Resistance is woven through the words of abolitionism and feminism and anti-fascism. Read the history and the literature.