Glad we get a new flag, certainly some interesting colonial mindsets still lurking even under the “yes” votes tho changethemassflag.com/2024/05/24/m...

Will have to check it out regardless! Thanks for sharing

Out here (W Mass) I’m continually flabbergasted by how little I’m able to learn about the candidates. One person had the ability to register name changes which, like, seems like it should matter in a town with a lot of trans people?

The Warsaw mermaid also fits the Melusine model (at least as far as she’s a freshwater mermaid) - I’m sure someone has written about it but I’ve been meaning to look it up for years! Do you know if Lainez mentions it?

As someone who converted to Judaism because of anti-Zionism you can imagine how often I have had to try and explain this to people the last few months

(relevant and fascinating context on this statue: uncpress.org/book/9781469...)

Same! Been thinking about this particularly since the National Day of Mourning at Plymouth last year, when I took this photo

Have been wanting to read something about this, tysm for sharing!

Have been struggling to write about my own experience of madness in the academy for years & know how hard that is to write about. Really looking forward to reading this.

your username just made me imagine a musty 19th c text shooting down the finagle a bagel conveyor belt. Instant follow

and if any of this sounds familiar and you know me by another name, hi! it’s me! I’m trans! would love to reconnect with my old Twitter mutuals 🖤

I’m currently working on two book-length projects:

a nonfiction semi-memoir about my hometown, new england’s settler colonial history, and my relationship to indigeneity

and a dystopian novel about eugenics that I fondly call my neovictorian Gattaca

So far this place feels like Twitter did in 2008. It makes me feel hopeful we can have that again

and even when we can pay for it, most of us have been promised so many “miracles” that weren’t