(I got an honors math degree from UChicago in 2006). But more seriously, it is genuinely destabilizing to realize how deep & broad & normalized rank misogyny of every stripe is across both political parties and among those in power.

I distinctly remember getting a nontrivial percentage of my sex education from a NYTimes magazine cover article about the AIDS epidemic in the mid-nineties which my parents (bless them) made no effort to censor or hide from me.

...couching it in the norms of child protection that are nominally shared across the political spectrum (though actually not, as Tal Levin has shown) would come too close to Doing a Feminism.

I think a big part of why the "pedophilia" framing hasn't moved the needle is because people on the right don't think of 16yo girls as "children" either and so there persists this disconnect. But viewing what Trump did to those girls as continuous with what he did to E. Jean Carroll rather than...

I know nothing about NXIVM but this uh, seems like it has some lessons for Being A Woman in general.

...Israel has done since, farsighted about the ultimate political goals of settler expansion in the West Bank and the isolation of Gaza. In short, in addition to being historically wrong, the article is wrong on the merits: allyship makes stronger coalitions for accomplishing political goals

...their language. Along those same lines, while I would not have defended the move to discontinue outings to Israel in the same way, I think it's fair to demand that any org, for any issue, refuse to collaborate in apartheid. That's not dilution, that's solidarity. And quite frankly, given what...

...groups to pass that state's landmark climate legislation, CEJA. If climate change is Club members' biggest priority, as the article says, there's a lot more power to be gained from working in coalition than from the single-issue local conservationists who objected to being asked to change...

...most coal plants in 2024. Huge team efforts, obviously, but totally at odds with the article's authors' claims that the climate movement shot itself in the foot by getting distracted in 2020-21. In Illinois, where I worked, the state Club was part of a huge coalition of racial justice & labor...

Oh and having done the hard-nosed econ arguments in political and regulatory spaces I am increasingly convinced gender is a surprisingly significant part of this whole story.

I think it's more complicated than this (Averch-Johnson is a big problem) but have a long law review piece I'll be submitting next cycle about how decarbonization and public trust utility principles are interrelated.

Goddamnit I hate that this is probably it, actually

But totally unrelated to 2020 BLM! NYTimes article attributes the effects of the later, unrelated conflict to BLM as a hit piece on DEI. (Also worth noting in 2023 they basically reinstated the old org structure)

People were doing things, absolutely! And this was about the national energy reform and org infrastructure rather than local chapter stuff. Imagine a poorly thought out reorg where you lose talent and everyone gets new jobs they don't understand and must reinvent the wheel. Org performance drops.

On the external-facing stuff I actually lean carbon fundamentalist, but there are strong arguments for throwing in just to build coalitions *and* the whole piece just ignores the existence of environmental justice as a framework

I think there's a move made by places like the NYTimes to conflate managerial responses attempting to deflect (the sillier language stuff) with the worker demands, which were "salary equity study" and "older white volunteers should respect my expertise"

@billcorcoran.bsky.social has a nuanced thread about this. I think Sierra Club's problematic racial history is pretty hard to deny and that there are really two concerns: is the org internally equitable and to what extent must the org embrace causes beyond conservation to effectively do that work

often the same people as those opposing better integrating racial justice commitments into all of our work. But extrapolating from local NIMBY battles to the full scope and resource commitments of the org is blinkered.

We were in Grainbelt Express, PJM capacity market, more LNG export cases than I can count. And we're in every PUC proceeding involving a coal plant, more or less nationwide. And we had ton of membership support on all of this - the issue is a subset of that membership which, not coincidentally, were