The Scapegoating of Trans People in Trump’s America How social media promotes a cycle of admiration and resentment in an influencer-driven world – and why the transgender community is at the centre of its violence

I wrote about how and why we became the scapegoat:
www.frieze.com/article/scap...

The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship Donald Trump’s dismantling of the deep state presages the formation of something far worse.

The US deep state has been detrimental to democracy (think mega donors), press freedom (think Julian Assange), Peace (think countless wars). BUT Trump is not dismantling it for these reasons. He is simply removing all obstacles to his own dictatorship chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-purge-...

it’s even funnier once you consider that taking this thing to a car wash voids the warranty

Breaking Glass | Alex Cocotas The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.

Berlin looms large in the fecund imaginations of the international Anglophone creative class, so in Baffler no. 77, Alex Cocotas examines the microgenre of expat Berliterature.
thebaffler.com/salvos/break...

it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

::A Journey It’s a journey . . . that I propose . . . I am not the guide . . . nor technical assistant . . . I will be your fellow passenger . . . Though the rail has been ridden . . . winter clouds cover . . . autumn’s exuberant quilt . . . we must provide our own guideposts . . . I have heard . . . from previous visitors . . . the road washes out sometimes . . . and passengers are compelled . . . to continue groping . . . or turn back . . . I am not afraid . . . I am not afraid . . . of rough spots . . . or lonely times... I don’t fear . . . the success of this endeavor . . . I am Ra . . . in a space . . . not to be discovered . . . but invented . . . I promise you nothing . . . I accept your promise . . . of the same we are simply riding . . . a wave . . . that may carry . . . or crash . . . It’s a journey . . . and I want . . . to go . . .

RIP Nikki Giovanni 💜 my favorite poem of hers, one I shared with my students every year

a bit of coquitlam

recently (serendipitously??) discovered this song about where I grew up, on a day when it feels particularly tough to be living abroad (as part of the normal ebb and flow of things), and, how fitting.

open.spotify.com/track/7pnOJO...

Anyways... Coquitlam!