Ben Falk
benjfalk.bsky.social
Ben Falk
@benjfalk.bsky.social
(Was) Disability+API+QT equity, foundation relations and DEI @UrbanInstitute. @UrbanInst_Union shill. BFA dramaturgy/directing @TheatreSchool. Views mine. FL+DC+CHI. they/them
Really great stuff! Assume this is obvious, but just confirming that your casual search is including slight variations from the exact list? ("othered" "microaggressive" "appropriating" "cis" "deadname" "patriarchal" etc)
August 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
You're really doing the work. 🙏🏼
May 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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A trans person who attempts suicide but lives to transition can report suicidality. A trans person who completes suicide before transitioning will appear in statistics as cisgender. It's not that hard to understand.
December 7, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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Basically it seems the conservative justices will freely cherrypick both history and European laws to support a preferred outcome, but ignore them in all other cases. Which is not a legitimate way to do originalism or comparative legal analysis!
December 4, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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I also can't get over the conservative justices favorably citing European laws about transgender health care when they vociferously refuse to consider other nation's laws and traditions when dealing with issues on which the U.S. is an outlier, like gun violence and the death penalty.
December 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Is there any world where we just end up with the NFP-RE government that would have avoided all this from the beginning, or is Macron really that stubborn?
December 4, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Would obvi be a nice boon to his start as DNC chair if he’s elected and then his state party wins two months later.
December 2, 2024 at 5:52 PM
But like, if it's right, it's right.
December 2, 2024 at 5:34 PM
My main nerves on this are if knowing his state REALLY well transfers to a national role, and if the unfortunate calendar timing slips focus on the elections in April (primaries in February right after the DNC election) to hold the state supreme court majority and superintendent (and downballot).
December 2, 2024 at 5:34 PM