Tag: Dissent
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Men are suffering their gender as much as women in different, often hidden ways
Gender is a performance, and the performance given to men is toxic, and so men are feeling personally attacked. We can do much better. We must.
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MIXTAPE II: BEHOLD, THE BLACKOUT (3/10/25)
I made you another playlist. I hope you like it! May it stoke the fire inside of you 💿🪩🖤
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What’s the difference anyway?
Tell me how my vote matters when I’m voting for a kit over the other kat.
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Ocean won’t save Palestine
To witness the destruction of Palestine from afar is an unholy luxury, and it is traumatic, even at this distance, while no one does anything, and those who could help have been forced away. Gods help us all.
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Pssst! Did any of y’all see The Magnificent Seven? Fighting off a colonialist army sounds awful familiar…
I saw this trailer for The Magnificent Seven the other night, and it was like watching the news out of the Levant. Liberation is always just.
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Palestine: Resources Now
Ever heard of the Dahiya Doctrine? You outta know about it. Why was Biden’s announcement absurd? (Hint: Egypt had already been trying to send aid.) Get yourself an authentic Kufiya! Pledge BDS! Get a flag! And a bunch of organizations you should know about.
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Painting over the Landlord Special: Fireplace Edition
On undoing the aesthetic damage wrought by landlords’ overzealous painters.
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Sports and Religion, in Iran and in General: comments on comments made in a recent BBC show on the Protests in Iran
Two thought-provoking comments from an episode of BBC’s “Heart and Soul” on the protests in Iran: girls’ sports and religion from a historian’s perspective.
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Anyone for Lysistrata? Or, Towards a sex-strike for abortion rights, via Aristophanes’ Comedy
Proposing a sex strike for women’s rights, esp. reproductive care, following Aristophanes’ model, Lysistrata
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On My Palestinian Flag
Reflections on advocating for disadvantaged peoples who’ve faced oppression far worse than what’s being inflicted in Ukraine, but whose oppression comes with US-tax-dollar funding.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 