jo livingstone
2,622 posts
All of society reorganizing around heteronormative family unit suddenly one day when you’re 35 is the worst and you should be ready- Columbia bans Jewish organizations on campus based on their beliefsNEWS: Columbia University is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term. news.columbia.edu/news/statement…
- Have you noticed that the Times has stated it will mete out punishment before they have even acknowledged our letters’s existence? That falsehoods have been published by NYMag and Times publicists within 24 hours? We were so careful. So polite.
- a lot of American companies are going to have to justify retaliating against employees for taking the same stance as the United NationsBREAKING: The UN security council passed a resolution calling for pauses in the fighting in Gaza. The U.S. didn't veto it. It is the 1st time the UN security council adopts a resolution on the war
- I am waiting for any journalist publicly to take up the question of what made the Harper's letter a call for civility and the Times letter a dangerous c*ncel mob.
- Trans staff inside the New York Times tried and tried and tried to discuss this issue internally. Our letter was a last resort, and those who were skeptical about our project owe those staffers an apology.Confider has learned of a series of prior incidents in which New York Times staffers within the paper’s LGBTQ-focused employee resource group, TimesOut, repeatedly tried to highlight to management the implications of its coverage of trans people. trib.al/iBZkfGG
- We will always owe a debt to the January 6 maniacs who demonstrated to the entire nation that mass police response only applies to people with certain political convictions, not everybody
- Very interesting! Personally I feel that the heterosexual nuclear family as the compulsory unit of social organization has morally expired and we are all very uncomfortable with it and there’s no way to have a normal conversation so the new public dread is interesting and organicI wrote a essay about the grim way being a mom in America is depicted today, and how women weighing parenthood struggle to absorb all these chilling warnings, statistics, and cautionary tales. It’s an essay about dread, but also hope and maybe change. vox.com/features/23979…
- They are going to teach the Missouri trans ban in history classes to explain how, exactly, in specific detail, the collapse in American editorial standards assisted in hardening an imported hard-right talking point into state law.
- Replying to @tuckwoodstockHe looks like he’s about to refuse you access to an expensive machine in the art school metalwork shop
- Imagine if he called you childish
- There’s no 100% safe way to prepare you for this. So: @daniel_m_lavery and I are launching a new website next week and it’s called @The_Stopgap
