Marc Elias (elections lawyer): "The one that is the biggest puzzle to me is the dropboxes. Because honestly, I'm not aware of any partisan valence to the dropboxes. I don't know that it helps the Democrats or hurts the Democrats or helps the Republicans — "
Marc Elias: "It's a weird obsession, though, Chris. It's just weird that they keep trying to ban secure metal containers."
Chris Hayes: "Yes, right, as if, I want to be like — It can't hurt you. It's just a box. It's a box of metal, and people are going to put their votes in there. ...obviously, there's a long history in this country of voter suppression, right? Particularly along racial lines, right? There's that. But I also think it's [the attempt to ban dropboxes is] playing a weird kind of ideological role right now, which is a means of avoiding the hard truths about the more basic stuff that happens in elections — which is, like, did you run good candidates and did you have a good message? If it's the metal boxes' fault, then you don't have to talk about that."
Marc Elias: "That's exactly right. I mean, one of the things that has happened is that, rather than confront bad candidates, bad issue set, bad campaigns, they have demonized voting. Which is an odd thing to do, if you're trying to win elections. But they've demonized it and then they bring these ridiculous post-election challenges like we're seeing in Arizona, sort of as part of the further 'theater of losing,' so that they can further their grievance as to what happened."
Just sneaking in to poke you about my book. It's queer. It's dark. It's paranormal fantasy. It's based on a true story of a trans trauma survivor. Demons are the good guys and angels are dicks. Sprinkle in a bit of horror. More here 👇 pic.twitter.com/w0VpPIO4Eu
Looking for beta readers! It's the sequel to my 1st book, but it's much darker & more mature in content. There should be enough information in the book to where if you'd like to beta this dramatic, at times philosophical, monsterfucker mess, you can w/o reading the 1st book. pic.twitter.com/TBHPJfG9n4
— Shane🖤Blackheart (they/them) (@ShaneBlkheart) December 7, 2022
*Slides in real quick*
Hey! Just a quick nudge. If you've read my book, it would mean a lot if you'd consider leaving a short and honest review 🖤 Amazon, Goodreads, your blog, whichever floats your boat. It would help to give my book a little boost!
— Shane🖤Blackheart (they/them) (@ShaneBlkheart) December 9, 2022
THE SURVIVING SKY is my Hindu philosophy inspired epic science fantasy with a 30s something husband -wife duo who are trying to save their floating plant city from crashing into jungle storms while they save their marriage https://t.co/M5MArmJC0Ypic.twitter.com/DiinPYYdzm
— Kritika H. Rao 🌿 preorder THE SURVIVING SKY (@KritikaHRao) November 26, 2022
I'm still talking about women writers here, and I hope those of you who stay will still read about them. I interviewed @Ursulaofthebook about her short story collection MATH FOR THE SELF-CRIPPLING, a generational storytelling of Chicano families in Texas.
— Maggie May-I-Get-Gun-Control-NOW (@fluxcapacitor74) November 7, 2022
i’m one of essayists in Latinx Poetics, edited by @RubenQuesadahttps://t.co/2OOMJpr0Qy if you are in Chicago in Feb 2 or anywhere in the world you can see some of us gathered to talk about poetics. my essay comes from a paper that incorporates scifi, fiends, & zombies.
Wow. I'm grateful and honored to share some major news. How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind received the MLA PRIZE FOR A FIRST BOOK from the Modern Language Association. The MLA is the largest scholarly humanities association on earth. 1/ pic.twitter.com/TrgcYzDllP
Bleeding into New Worlds by me @3BPublishing Pre order available. Out Jan 4th 😊 A cult utilises astral projection to explore new and forbidden realms. Not all members return...https://t.co/ZIMt27MuMF
Holy hells... picked this up on a whim shoved in the back of a greeting card rack in a store here in Montreal. Half-way thru and it's such a forceful, surreal, and poetically muscular read about a resiliently catastrophic future. So so good. The Half-Drowned by Trynne Delaney. pic.twitter.com/uBYSHQfbqA
In the House of Transcendence is also nominated for Best SFF Novel, Best Title, and Best Protagonist! Here's where you can vote. https://t.co/aM5aiplNsf
In the House of Transcendence is also nominated for Best SFF Novel, Best Title, and Best Protagonist! Here's where you can vote. https://t.co/aM5aiplNsf
Recently had the privilege of reading an advance copy of Chain-Gang All-Stars by @NK_Adjei. The book is radical, intimate, wrenching. I hope it sets the world on fire when it releases next year. pic.twitter.com/C7ufKDzG1I
Happy publication day to Charles Holdefer's DON'T LOOK AT ME, in which basketball, Emily Dickinson, steamy historical love letters and academic intrigue collide in a perfectly balanced MidWest college bildungsroman. https://t.co/xIQnnncIy7
Time to leave Twitter. Cleaning out the Twitter bookmarks.
A wonderful interview/discussion about horror, history, mothers and daughters, and the Asian diaspora. These women have launched a discussion and movement with the books featured here, and I'm so proud to be a part of this Unquiet sisterhood.https://t.co/wKt6rVbweF
For your consideration this awards season, I have 2 short stories that I’m very proud of. “A Hole in the Light,” a tale of grief, science, and amoebas in the early universe, came out in The Sunday Morning Transport. https://t.co/rBDq1YBHNc
I've read today's Essay Daily by @c_biondolillo three times already today. Now I'm going to listen to it WHILE listening to Joni Mitchell while I read her essay again. https://t.co/euYqkHdXHf
In "Cause of Death," Beth Anne Macdonald examines the connections between evangelical Christianity, misogyny, and her mother's death in a moving and formally inventive essay.https://t.co/SQyhGY90jw
Funny how you go years and then a new poem takes over, becomes a pivot point for you. This is that kind of poem for me, by Jeffrey McDaniel. I can't tell you how many times I've read and reread this poem, studying the metaphorical moves it makes.https://t.co/aTuOtcT9RX
Thank you, James Diaz & everyone else who had a hand in this latest issue of @Heroin_Chic_Mag. So grateful to have two poems there in brilliant company. pic.twitter.com/oHwisKk3dF
This @jbouie column gets at a point that is perhaps the central thesis of my book-in-progress on backlash movements since Reconstruction. They are often treated "if [they] were a force of nature or the automatic result of some mechanical process."/1 https://t.co/4JEAl1TvwK
We sent @angermonsoon to one of the most unbelievable places in America. What he found there will surprise you, challenge you, and move you. https://t.co/nutZ8cyRSA
I'm about an hour behind the live-stream, but this is my live thread of the House Oversight Committee's hearing on "The Rise of Anti-LGBTQI+ Extremism and Violence in the United States."
Among topics I'll miss when Twitter finally goes lights-out (or I turn them out for my account) are these conversations about books and art.
I'm wondering if there would be a desire (on both creator and consumer side) for youtube videos that are just a good reading of an indie book's first chapter?
We talked about emoji in philosophy of language & two questions came up: why is emoji considered inappropriate for serious settings? And how can we characterize the generational divide in how emoji is used?
Really pleased to see this article about @SkeuomorphPress from the @UofIllinois News Bureau—"For me, the point of a printing press like we have at Skeuomorph is to help students understand where the design and assumptions of contemporary media come from" https://t.co/nkQyCClugR
— Ryan Cordell @ryancordell@hcommons.social (@ryancordell) December 8, 2022
I wrote this Solstice piece aimed at a new generation of creatives hungry for meaning. Thrilled by the collaboration. Fab Mpls musician/artists cello, violin, voice. Here's to the beauty of restorative darkness & emergent wonder.
One of my advance readers for The Communion of Shadows said he intended to read for an hour and stayed up till 4AM, and that it's one of the best books he's ever read. I started crying.
Oh my God. OH MY GOD. I have found The Book. You know, the one that you read when you were 13 and barely remember anything about but then spent, like, 20 years on a holy quest to find said Book, just to prove that it actually exists?
3 bills with major climate implications (IIJA, CHIPS, IRA) have passed the 117th congress. There are more opportunities for smart, effective climate philanthropy than ever. Here are 4 strategies we think have particular promise:
When Aníbal Quijano elaborated his critique of coloniality in collaboration with
Immanuel Wallerstein, the two argued that the continent's history of violence against and resistance by indigenous peoples made it possible to 'speak of Americanity as a concept' that structured global modernity. Here this study has been influenced by methods and insights of long-standing research in decolonial thought led by distinct groups of theorists in the Americas, including, but not limited to, Ramón Grosfoguel (Puerto Rico/continental United States), María Lugones (Argentina/United States), Walter Mignolo (Argentina/United States), Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Bolivia), and Catherine Walsh (United States/Ecuador). All these thinkers recognize the influence of decolonization struggles in the 1960s and 1970s in Africa, Asia,Latin America, and the Caribbean on their current research that seeks to decolonize thought and life practices. Even so, they differentiate epistemological decolonization from that political process.
Research into Amerindian thought permeated theories of American negation in the generation of the 1960s and 1970s, in and beyond Acha's and Gullar's prefixes. The Argentine Rodolfo Kusch founded an interdiscipline he called
antropología filosófica americana (American philosophical anthropology) in his landmark book La negación en el pensamiento popular
(Negation in Popular Thought, 1975). Amerindian epistemological,
spiritual, and affective imaginaries helped Kusch to comprehend
the importance and shape of American negation and led him to break with
Claude Lévi-Strauss's influential structuralist anthropology for its failure to comprehend the universality of indigenous thought...
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Kusch thus identifies the limits of the European tradition he calls conocimiento (knowledge), which myopically focuses on
objectivity and so produces knowledge that is ultimately univocal.
Instead, he embraces the popular thought that he terms
comprensión (comprehension), which values subjective emotions
and opinion, and so creates forms of understanding that provide
multiple answers to the same question.
My colleague Joey Miller (Mvskoke) & I are putting together a very cool Indigenous Philosoph(ies) event. If you are a Native scholar studying philosophy, a non-Native scholar studying Native philosophy, a Native scholar studying Native philosophy, please reach out! Please share!
Stop using the term “rewilding”. You are perpetuating the erasure of Indigenous peoples & our relationships to our lands since time immemorial. It’s a recipe for continued failure in ecological restoration. Land healing isn’t “reset it and forget it”. #nativesinstem#ecology
Hmmm being seeing tweets saying a lot of allies want to help #ProtectICWA but don't know how to start having the conversation because they lack historical and contemporary context, so let me help you. You don't HAVE to say anything other than #ProtectICWA.
— Johnnie Jae aka The Burnt Ball of Fury (@johnniejae) November 12, 2022
Non-Natives, please PLEASE pay attention to the ICWA case currently before the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court overturns ICWA, the result will be - and I cannot stress this enough - genocide. pic.twitter.com/7j0v755ONg
I am heavily RTing #ICWA-related info right now because I need all my non-Native followers to understand that the Supreme Court is considering whether to overturn what is literally a genocide-prevention law.
— Daniel Delgado's backup is @DDelgadoVive@zeroes.ca (@DDelgadoVive) November 9, 2022
Why ICWA is important to me:
I was a baby when a judge gave custody to my white dad. Despite it being a time when courts overwhelmingly favored mothers in custody battles, my Native mom didn't stand a chance in rural Alabama. The judge decided I needed a "Christian household."
Book description: The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a human life, each composed of four eras - or "turnings" - that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unravelling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis - the Fourth Turning - when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. By applying the lessons of history, The Fourth Turning makes some bold and hopeful predictions about America's next rendezvous with destiny. It also shows us how we can prepare for what's ahead, both individually and as a nation.
Update: Please note harmful uses of the idea. For example, transphobes may identify a "fourth industrial revolution" as the ground for transgender self-determination; they believe transgender people are "new" and that such an era must be rejected because it contains or affirms trans people.
https://www.the11thhourblog.com/post/noho-t%C5%ABturu-noho-tangata-stay-real-stay-human
Also
"[Steve] Bannon’s Manichaean worldview started young. At a Catholic military school in Richmond, Virginia, he learned about the 1492 reconquest of Spain as the turning point in an ongoing clash of civilizations between the Christian West and the Muslim world. As an adult, he devoured books on Attila the Hun and great military campaigns. He was obsessed with history, specifically the concept of historical cycles — the idea that time was not, as Americans usually learned, a linear march of progress, but rather, more like the view of ancient traditions, a recurring pattern of distinct phases. Bannon especially liked the version of this theory in “The Fourth Turning,” a 1997 book by historians Neil Howe and William Strauss, which ordered American history into generation‐long periods of highs, awakenings, unravelings and crises. The book predicted a coming rise of nationalism and authoritarianism, across the world and in America.
Bannon was not merely a student or passive observer of this prophecy; he wanted to be an agent of it, and an architect of the era that came next. So when he watched Trump glide down a golden escalator to announce his campaign for president, in 2015, his first thought was, “That’s Hitler!” By that he meant someone who intuitively understood the aesthetics of power, as in Nazi propaganda films. He saw in Trump someone who could viscerally connect with the general angst that Bannon was roiling and make himself a vessel for Americans’ grievances and desires."
— Isaac Arnsdorf, Finish What We Started, released April 9, 2024. Excerpt published in the Washington Post.
Here's another example from a June 2, 2023 blog post citing the idea:
[A video clip of Tim Pool and Joe Rogan talking about civil war is
"from four years ago, but I think we’ve escalated even more recently.
Just yesterday, Twitter blocked sharing and boosting a film titled “What is a Woman?” and the dispute was so serious that it caused their head of trust and safety to resign.
The film critiques gender ideology and the transgender activism movement. It was labeled as sensitive material and commenting and sharing were blocked.
I stumble upon pornographic content on Twitter all the time, and it’s never marked as sensitive. How is it controversial to have a discussion about what it means to be a woman?
It doesn’t make much sense, right? Well, unless you consider that we're in the fourth turning and in the middle of a full blown crisis that is about to blow like a volcano."
The author of this post tweeted "Don't call me cis" on June 20, when Elon Musk declared it was a slur.
Also pay attention to
"TESCREAL stands for "transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism (in a very specific context), Effective Altruism, and longtermism." It was identified by Timnit Gebru, former technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google and founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), and Émile Torres, a philosopher specialising in existential threats to humanity. These are separate but overlapping beliefs that are particularly common in the social and academic circles associated with big tech in California.
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Longtermism is the belief that we should discount short-term harms to real existing human beings — such as human-induced climate change — if it brings us closer to the goal of colonizing the universe, because the needs of trillions of future people who don't actually exist yet obviously outweigh the needs of today's global poor."
— "We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus," November 10, 2023, Charlie Stross, antipope.org
Read: "Climate: Now a national security issue." By Russel Honoré. Salon.com. December 4, 2022. As a U.S. Army general, I prepared to do battle with enemies and face disaster. All of humanity must do that now
This man owns Twitter; it's not an ideal platform for journalists.
Using #FreeSpeech as an excuse for communicating or legitimizing harmful and even homicidal ideas is intellectual and moral cowardice. True freedom requires using freedom responsibly.
Alexey Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, created an X account on February 19, 2024. In doing so, "she announced she would continue the work of her husband...More than 90,000 people followed Navalnaya’s account within 24 hours after it was created." The next day, X suspended her account for about 30–45 minutes. X claimed it was an error, but who believes X?
Saying that trans people, and those who enjoy going to bars with them, can expect to be murdered is the same thing as saying that LGBTQ people deserve to be murdered.
So it's just "nice human life you got, shame if anything happened to it" now https://t.co/f3r8GdkfhL
— Jude Doyle, Still On This Website (@byJudeDoyle) November 23, 2022
Christian hate-preacher Aaron Thompson celebrated the mass shooting at Club Q, saying it's a "good thing" the victims were murdered because it means "they're not here anymore to molest kids."
We need to be clear; the rights response to the Club Q shooting was not “thoughts and prayers” but instead “the groomers deserved it”. This is the rhetoric continuing to escalate. This is inciting violence. It will continue to get worse, as will the violence against trans folks.
Spotted today on the internet. Never heard of this person before.
Decides to Be: A TERF
According to her, she used to be a TERF. I believe her. They exist. She had decided to be this way. Then:
Announced: Not a TERF
Re-Announced: Actually, Yes, a TERF
In All Those Months of Research, Why Not Read What *Trans* People Have Said?
Here's my issue. If you want to understand why someone is transphobic, you have to listen to what trans people have said to explain that. You can't just listen to the person themselves and then say, Oh, OK, it all sounds great to me — You can't say that. Not if you yourself are not trans.
Trans people have explained a billion times why that person is a transphobic ringleader of transphobes.
Yet, in 2023, BBC Scotland won't let interviewees say that J.K. Rowling is transphobic without demanding that they use their on-air time rehashing why she's transphobic (as if that were not an obvious fact everyone already knows), thus devoting their on-air time to dissecting and thereby amplifying transphobic discourse and making J.K. Rowling more famous rather than having 15 minutes of fame to talk about their own beliefs and ideas.
Maybe the BBC apologised when they published a story about trans women potentially sexually assaulting cis women that heavily relied on a cis woman that was known to have serially sexually assaulted other women, then posted a terrorist manifesto, but I haven’t seen that apology pic.twitter.com/V6sfBjhgAR
Under her pseudonym, The Cuckoo's Calling sold fewer than 500 hardback copies in its first three months. It sold 43 copies in the week before JK Rowling was revealed to be the author, and then it sold 17662 copies the week after.
On a day when the Gender Critical press are openly campaigning to enable child abuse, JK Rowling is trying to mitigate the stench of her neo-Nazi supporters by associating herself with a small group of Stalinists condemned by the left for their extreme hostility to LGBTQ+ people. pic.twitter.com/DJoodI3dkO
— Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️🌈 (@BadWritingTakes) March 30, 2023
JK Rowling: "I have never said anything transphobic"
Also JK Rowling: "Trans women are men" Also JK Rowling: "Trans women are rapists" Also JK Rowling: 1024 page "I'm getting cancelled" book Also JK Rowling: Meets with group that says "all transsexuals rape women's bodies" https://t.co/9PedDEGPFipic.twitter.com/2e8wpZQOTQ
"One step to keeping history’s darkest events from recurring is to learn as much as possible about how and why they happened.
BU’s new interdisciplinary major in Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies (HGHRS) will ask students to dig deep into the roots of those cataclysmic events and look for ways to head them off in the future."
Breaking: Scientists have found trees growing in the Arctic tundra for the first time. The "shocked" scientists who made the discovery said that such a dramatic ecological shift "wasn’t supposed to happen for a hundred years or more, going by the models."
BREAKING: scientists reveal they now have ample evidence that climate change could lead to worldwide societal collapse or even human extinction even with modest levels of warming 🧵
An amazing news story virtually ignored by state/corporate media: scientists are pointing to immediate system change actions because emissions must peak this year to avoid catastrophic 1.5°C/2°C of global warming but economic growth means emissions are surging apocalyptically. 🧵
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is now explicitly pointing to actions such as moving away from the idea of economic progress based solely on GDP growth as we risk extinction calamity - pehaps even rapid, fully completed mass extinction by between 2075 and 2150. 🧵
"No rainwater in the world is safe to drink" really feels like one of those headlines they show in a film's introduction to let you know things went wrong somewhere along the way.
BREAKING: UN confirms industrial agriculture is unsustainable in the face of abrupt climate change heatwaves that threaten present and future farming 🧵
I'd really like it if you'd read "Our Bones Help Us Live," a 7-minute read in "The Identity Current" on Medium.
I was talking about this:
So:
I often see transphobes say "anthropologists will say your skeleton is the other sex even if you're trans, owned"
they just assumed a viking skeleton was male from 1878 until they DNA tested it in 2017 because it was buried with a sword, an axe, and a spear
— i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla) April 23, 2022
😊Trans person : ...and that's why I support reforming this legislation that directly affects my life!
🤔 Random creeps on the internet : But what about the BONES?!? If someone dug up your BONES in ONE THOUSAND YEARS, would they say they were -boy- bones or ~girl~ bones?!?!?!?
"your skeleton will always be male" okay so what. Then I'm a lady with a skeleton dude inside of me. I'm 100% comfortable with that idea
— Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter 🐀 (@EveHarmsWrites) October 12, 2022
Clive Barker: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the mummy Barker: but i a got twist for ya Barker: what if this time Barker: the mummy Barker: was Barker: tra Dan Simmons: THATS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD Barker: ns
Simmons: how you gonna know if a mummy is trans?!?! archeologists would just LOOK at the mummy's pelvis and KNOW the mummy's BIOLOGICAL SEX Barker: uh no Barker: it would be obvious Barker: this mummy wears a choker Barker: probably with a big ol' scarab on it or something
Barker: of course ancient egypt considered cats sacred, so naturally my trans mummy wears cat ears King: right, right Barker: and post orchiectomy she carries around her balls in a canopic jar King: sure sounds legit Simmons: I AM Simmons: SO MAD ABOUT THIS
"'Buhhhh a thousand years from now archaeologists will know your skeleton is MALE'
WRONG, they will be fighting for their lives against my tomb's elaborate traps in the heart of my cursed necropolis"
— Gretchen Felker-Martin on Bluesky
Yup, because there's nothing more to human society, culture, and identity than sexual reproduction. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/YrLxNKmmD9
I'm still stuck on the kidnapper dumping a couple hundred people on two separate islands with no birth control or cell phones and sailing off with an empty boat...to run a hundred-year experiment, with a control, to find out who has a uterus?
"Nuestros cuerpos son llaves que abren sólo ciertas puertas. De hecho nuestros cuerpos hablan y nuestros huesos son nuestro último testimonio. ¿Nos traicionarán nuestros huesos?"
Cristina Rivera Garza, “Nota de la autora” (2017) to La Cresta de Ilión (The Iliac Crest), originally published 2002
Let’s talk about sexual dimorphism in humans.
This is something that comes up a lot in Jordan Peterson & incel circles. And it sets you up for terrible answers, because it fundamentally misunderstands the question.
not gonna get in a quote tweet fight with transphobes but archaeologists are constantly finding skeletons of whatever alleged sex with the opposite gender role’s expected burial items and going “huh. neat”
Trans rights are not an "is" claim but an "ought."
Not "I can make my birth sex unrecognizable" but "I should not be forced to act in any particular way because of my birth sex."
which kinda just sounds like Feminism 101 For Small Babies and: that's because it is
and explicitly including pronouns and medical interventions and such among the freedoms not to be constrained by sex shouldn't actually be all that revolutionary
"trans rights are human rights" not as empty slogan but as "trans rights are the natural consequence of every human's right to self-determination"
I do not deny the angle of my pelvic bones; I deny that I'm required to base any major life decisions on it.
If you'd like information on the pelvic bones of castrated men, see:
Kathryn Reusch, “Raised Voices: The Archaeology of Castration.” Castration and Culture In the Middle Ages, ed. Larissa Tracy. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013.
"analysis of the investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires.
It found that, contrary to average people, the wealthiest individuals’ investments account for up to 70% of their emissions.
According to the report, these billionaires’ investments produce an annual average of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per person, which is a million times higher than the average 2.76 tons of CO2 for those living in the bottom 90%.
Nafkote Dabi, climate change lead at Oxfam, said that emissions from billionaires’ lifestyles, their private jets and yachts are already thousands of times higher than those of the average person. But looking at emissions from their investments, their carbon emissions are more than a million times higher.
“These few billionaires together have ‘investment emissions’ that equal the carbon footprints of entire countries like France, Egypt or Argentina.
“his creator” strongly implies that this journalist does not understand the difference between Daniel Radcliffe, a real human person, and Harry Potter, a fictional character he depicted in a film series that concluded more than a decade ago pic.twitter.com/y8Ik9U6nvk
Daniel Radcliffe seems like a sweet, thoughtful, quite softly spoken person and the idea that he is CANCELLING someone by expressing an opposing opinion is a very weird free speech gyration
Humble beginnings: Did you know that prior to his career-defining role as “Weird Al” Yankovic, actor Daniel Radcliffe appeared in a number of movies about a boy wizard, in which he played the title character? #MovieTrivia
That is why those people in the media never shut up about her and why she trends on here every goddam day.
She fuels ”engagement”
Transphobia is ALWAYS about profit. Always. The profit isn’t always financial, but it is ALWAYS about gain.
— What The Trans!? (WhatTheTrans.com) (@WhatTheTrans) October 16, 2022
Rowling just taking the fucking mask right off and saying with her full chest, in a national newspaper, “It is dangerous to assert that any category of people deserves a presumption of innocence.”
WTF? Presumption of innocence is one of the cornerstones of any democracy.
— Fancy Brenda 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (they/them) (@SpillerOfTea) October 16, 2022
Rowling is actually out here arguing that trans people don’t deserve the presumption of innocence. Save me your childhood wizard nostalgia, this woman is endangering people the world over.
JK Rowling going full "trans people are rapists." She continues her downward spiral into a petty hate filled existence obsessed with trans people to the exclusion of all else. pic.twitter.com/4bNq2Db8vy
My new favorite genre is TERF's like JK Rowling praising christofascists for their transphobia.
People need to wake up at how transphobia is being used as a gateway to radicalize wealthy white women into reactionary fascist views. pic.twitter.com/OgXWsskp17
I feel like almost everyone has forgotten exactly what prompted JKR to go embark on her transphobic era to begin with: HP used to be extremely popular among trans people, for obvious reasons. This angered JKR and she started denouncing her trans fans on twitter.
I remember someone being like, "as a trans person I identify with Harry," and her essentially going, "absolutely the fuck not," and then it just escalated from there
— Jackie, the Stupidest Angel 💀 ✡️ (@EntryLvlNut) February 8, 2023
If you are a writer and millions of people have misunderstood you “profoundly,” it might just be possible that you are really shitty at your trade. Using words is literally your gig. https://t.co/ELSM5Z1JrQ
If you have power and wealth you can suppress free speech. I was commissioned to write an article about JK Rowling’s new podcast last wk - in which SHE is portrayed as the victim. Editor loved it. However, it’s been blocked. Nobody will publish anything negative about her. Slapp.
