#Identity

OK, I want to talk about this. This is a typical response to "why transphobes want to discriminate against trans women".Let's get into it. Tina says "It's genuinely not trans
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1. “A recent concept...” You could say that for any political theory. People strategize based on current conditions. “No historical basis,” Historically there was no sense of continental identity, nobody
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Started journaling about my gender dysphoria & other trans issues I am facing. Stuff that I have been reading by a doc I follow has stirred things up. Worse is
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So to save everyone some time, here are @Glinner's ten questions for @NicolaSturgeon , with the proper answers. 1. Can you define transphobia?Yes. It is the irrational behaviour exhibited towards
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There is something about this account of trans* identity that I find deeply unsettling. I feel like so much work is done to decouple gender from genitals, only to reterritorialize
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If you could teach humanity one thing, what would it be?I was thinking this morning about education systems built on top of token faucets through gamification. Example: memorize and demonstrate
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Leftists that are aware of Irish history have a bad habit of reducing the Irish struggle against whiteness and empire to Ireland when in fact Irish immigrants in many cases
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I've been thinking about the overall concept of #OwnVoices a lot lately, particularly how it relates to my responsibility as an editor of books for young readers. 1/14 The necessity--both
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(1/3)Modernity banked on nationalism while selling individualism, post-modernity banks on internationalism while atomizing the individuality itself : the more a unbelieving/heterodox ideology wants to be universal in theory, the less
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Tbh, I wouldn’t say that the problem w Barron isn’t that he doesn’t understand “postmodernism” (whatever that means), but rather that he himself is unknowingly postmodern (in the Jamesonian sense)
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A common but not very well known myth: a woman has a liaison with a man who is travelling far from home, or leaves her for some other reason. There
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The American Cultural Revolution is going to put to the test an interesting hypothesis advanced by @epkaufm in his excellent 2019 book "Whiteshift" (for my review, see below). 1/xhttps://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/11/the-fut
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Wiley’s tweet is not a singularity. Anti-Semitism is deeply routed in society. I got called ‘Jew’ more times than ‘Jake’ throughout school. I never understood why people were obsessed. I
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I fr think public education needs to be updated for social media. The whole Dream thing has made it clear to me that children don't understand the concept of a
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Talked about this on the pod with @ezraklein but one thing I haven’t seen much analysis of is how and why Biden’s been able to manage his relationship with the
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The pandemic and the BLM movement have shown how many white Americans still center their identity on consumer culture + racism.And it’s easy to make fun of them.But the real
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