Celebrity-worship and wealth-worship are global problems. Full stop. And so is antiblackness. And if those who are antiblack are given the power to pluck people from obscurity and make celebrities--not for black people, but for those who are NOT us--what kind of black celebrities will be chosen?

Ah see that ‘be on social media’ memo got through. Not sure ‘snappy online putdowns’ is quite the vibe but keep at it I guess

Traditionally NZ just gets bored and votes in the other direction after a bit, and there’s not that much gap between the two sides. Covid maybe but weirdly I don’t know how many people are admitting to themselves there that that was a weird time for them let alone voting on it

Interesting to think about as a phase the power class goes through, and how terfery came almost at the same time as me too and lean in feminism

Why do they want this to be what ‘being a woman’ means

Stephanotis! Depending how cold it gets in there. If cold, star jasmine. If COLD cold, I have nothing

It’s crazy obvious in offices. A pile of young dudes who are painfully and it appears intentionally incompetent, like they think they shouldn’t actually have to learn or do anything, and a pile of young women doing their jobs and getting on fine, albeit enraged by their male colleagues ineptitude

Yeah I think this is sort of behind Terfery as well. Power is not infinite and the gains women have made in access to it feel, by some, threatened by trans women

They ask you when you apply for an ESTA now

"Got criticised for yelling 'penis' at a Judith Butler lecture, lads."
"Tell us what happened lad."
"I was yelling 'penis'."
"At a Judith Butler lecture?"
"Yeah it was at a Judith Butler lecture."

it is insanely naive to think asylum would apply at this point. And I say this not to say it shouldn’t, but to say are you not aware of what it takes. Do you genuinely not know.