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a lot of electeds are cowards who won’t do anything they’re afraid will cost *them* no matter who it helps.

if you’re calling to demand the anti trans propositions in the budget get challenged, can’t hurt to remind them mamdani beat money & endorsements running an explicitly pro-trans campaign!
from zohran mamdani’s platform: Expand and Protect Gender Affirming Care Citywide A private institution operating with a quarter-billion dollar public subsidy should not have the ability to sell out young trans New Yorkers to the Trump administration. Yet, that's exactly what happened when NYU Langone decided to stop providing gender-affirming care for trans youth. Soon after, other private NYC hospitals also stopped providing necessary lifesaving healthcare for trans youth. These decisions are in direct contradiction with New York state law. The Mamdani administration will protect gender-affirming care immediately by investing $65 million in public providers to provide gender-affirming care to New Yorkers who seek it and will hold private entities abetting Trump's attacks to account. The Mamdani Administration will budget $65 million in funding to explicitly support and expand access to Gender Affirming Care (GAC) in NYC. It will direct $57 million of to public hospitals, community clinics, federally qualified health centers, and nonprofits providing GAC. In the face of the Trump administration's proposed elimination of federal support for GAC and his threats to care for adults, this infusion will protect GAC access for both transgender youth and adults. $8 million will be directed to: • Develop and support virtual and telehealth GAC and delivery of GAC treatment by community health providers • Add GAC to New York Health + Hospitals VirtualCare. • Establish a City-based GAC Access Hub to direct those seeking GAC to providers based on their individual situations. • Provide aftercare, home health support, and respite housing. • Support health programs like Callen-Lorde Community Health Centers COIN Clinic (Cecilia's Occupational Inclusion Network). The Mamdani administration will also hold private hospital systems denying GAC accountable — hospitals that continue to deny trans youth access to gender affirming care are in violation of NYS Constitution.
June 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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umberto eco on studying as “the critical elaboration of an experience”
December 30, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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lacan on sleep, enjoyment, and the signifier
What, in fact, does it mean to be asleep? It means to suspend what is there in my tetragon, the semblance, the truth, the enjoyment and the surplus. enjoyment. This is what sleep is made for, anyone who has ever seen an animal sleeping can see that- what is at stake is to suspend the ambiguity at work in the relationship of the body to itself, namely the enjoyment (le jouir)... When we are asleep, the body wraps itself up, rolls up into a bail. To sleep is not to be disturbed. And enjoyment is disturbing. One is usually disturbed, but when one is asleep, one can hope not to be disturbed. This is why, starting from here, everything else disappears. There is no longer question of the semblance, nor of truth, nor of surplus-enjoyment-since all this is related, it's the same thing. Yet, as Freud tells us, the signifier keeps working during our sleep as well. (Lacan 2011, 217)
November 19, 2024 at 8:30 PM