Spotify Playlist
Therapy Girl
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Podcast
Pods For Haydyn
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Stuff I think you would
Afterglow: Climate Fiction For Future Ancestors I know fiction isn’t really your thing, but this is hopeful. This feels hopeful, and I think you would like this quite a bit. I found it here, and I’ll update this little note once I actually read it.
On being a sexual subject
by Tara McGowen-Ross
This is good on it’s own, and I do not have much to elaborate on. There are a lot of my experience’s (and I assume most other women’s) that are mirrored here. That said, the footnotes also provide the kind of nuance and clarification that I think is often lacking in a lot of marxist feminist perspectives, and it is one that is often needed. Without it, we can easily spin off into reactionary ideas.
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Less Tiktok More Screaming
I found this article because it’s referenced in the essay No Good Alone by internet princess. While that essay focuses more on interpersonal relationships, and expresses how this general culture shift towards isolation as a form of emotional martyrdom, this one spends more time articulating the emotional experience of the individual. That is: isolated, numbed, bored, and easily influenced. It is not about how all of our relationships should be easy, but rather how we as people are encouraged to be unproblematic. No more big emotions, no more crying in public, no more feeling, and definitely no more sharing them.
I have more thoughts that can be found here
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Shame, Safety, and moving beyond Cancel Culture
Natalie Wynn, Will Wilkerson, Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show | Spotify
Terfs, Trans women, and feminism
Clemintine Morrigan, clementinemorrigan.com | Substack
Why Trans Kids Have The Right To Change Their Biological Sex
by Andrea Long Chu
God I love this woman.
In this article, Andrea Long Chu articulates the elephant in every legislative building where the rights of trans people are being argued. Mainly, that biological sex is real, and that by justifying the right to transition through anything other that bodily autonomy and the desire to do so has been detrimental for transgender rights. For so long we have placed everything on a nebulous metaphysical idea of Gender, and argued that we have some innate unfalsifiable thing that will cause us to kill ourselves if our dicks don’t get awesome blossomed. It sounds like bullshit, to terfs, liberals, and conservatives, because it is. We want a thing for some reason, we have a desire, we should be allowed to act on it. No matter what.
If you would like to know more how I feel about Andrea Long Chu, I wrote a short primer of her here
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Charlie Squire, Evil Female | Substack
Lauren Oyler, https://laurenoyler.org
Charlie Squire, Evil Female | Substack
Detransition Baby
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Detransition Baby Author Torrey Perters Started 2022-12-26 Read 2023-01-09 Vibes 👀🥹😍
A Deadly Education
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A Deadly Education Author Naomi Novik Started 2022-11-29 Read 2022-12-03 Vibes 🪓😁🏫
standing on the shoulders of complex female characters
internet princess
link I think my therapist would say this is about “meaning making”. That’s what she’s called it whenever I mention banal details about my life because apparently I do a lot of it. This essay mostly ties it to capitalism, and the ways that society demands that women (specifically, although everyone generally), find ways to package our experience into something consumable.
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Eleanor Stern, Wicked Tongue | Substack
The Humiliation of Desire
by Clementine Morrigan
All the thoughts this creates for me are also heavily tied to No Good Alone by internet princess.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Archive
by Charlie Squire
I have a rule to not delete any photos. Since purchasing a google pixel in 2016, I have amass 325 GB of photos and videos. I am terrified of forgetting myself, my life, the people I have loved. For a long time, I had a similar approach to social media, refusing to remove photos of exes, myself, or anything else. This changed after a particularly bad relationship with someone who’s number I will never unblock.
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On Hating Men (And Becoming One Anyway
by Noah Zazanis
Link There is a lot to unpack here, and I do not want to get into it. In the place of my own personal experiences, I will give you a quote from the article
Link to original”For me, claiming that my childhood experiences of misogyny do not influence my current relationship to gendered power relations is as invalidating as saying that me having had a girlhood means I’ll never be a man. To believe that would render my past inexplicable, and leave me with no context for understanding the man I am now, and the ways in which I differ from the cis men I organize with, fuck, and love—as well as the ones who have harmed me.”
On Liking Women
By Andrea Long Chu
link I have too many thoughts on this woman to put here. So you can find them here
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