Hildegard E. Heinrich
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she/her | author, intellectual, visionary, lesbian, pervert | selling the end of the world to any interested parties
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she/her | author, intellectual, visionary, lesbian, pervert | selling the end of the world to any interested parties
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My name is Hildegard E. Heinrich. I write books, and even try to sell them! If you'd like you can also follow me on tumblr at www.tumblr.com/hildegardehe..., because God knows they're never going to get me out of the walls of that fucking website
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
Queer theory is when you use a lot of jargon to examine one of the same six pieces of evidence in the archive and the more jargon you use the more queer theory it is
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Queer theory is when you use a lot of jargon to examine one of the same six pieces of evidence in the archive and the more jargon you use the more queer theory it is
It's happened: I've made a Substack. My first-ever post is a close reading of a truly awful documentary, an examination of the rhetoric of right-wing conspiracy, a philosophical meditation on youth liberation, and so, so much more. And it's free!
hildegardeheinrich.substack.com/p/power-peda...
hildegardeheinrich.substack.com/p/power-peda...
Power, Pedagogy, and Personhood in "Whose Children Are They?" (2022)
Answering a Rhetorical Question Wrong on Purpose
hildegardeheinrich.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It's happened: I've made a Substack. My first-ever post is a close reading of a truly awful documentary, an examination of the rhetoric of right-wing conspiracy, a philosophical meditation on youth liberation, and so, so much more. And it's free!
hildegardeheinrich.substack.com/p/power-peda...
hildegardeheinrich.substack.com/p/power-peda...
Book covers used to be better because they used to be worse. Trends change and everybody's trying to make a living, but if I could choose between the same book having a clean, graphic-design-101 cover or a terrible oil painting of a shirtless hunk fighting a dragon, I would always choose the latter
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Book covers used to be better because they used to be worse. Trends change and everybody's trying to make a living, but if I could choose between the same book having a clean, graphic-design-101 cover or a terrible oil painting of a shirtless hunk fighting a dragon, I would always choose the latter
The glass-closet Nazis, of whom Posobiec is only one, have been openly comparing the US to Weimar and casting around for a Hitler for years. We ought to have done something about it before the President was saying that Sturmtruppen should be sent to this city to defend the honor of our retail stores
October 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The glass-closet Nazis, of whom Posobiec is only one, have been openly comparing the US to Weimar and casting around for a Hitler for years. We ought to have done something about it before the President was saying that Sturmtruppen should be sent to this city to defend the honor of our retail stores
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photo by one of DHS/Noem's handpicked right-wing media influencers (who have been getting access press have not)
Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
photo by one of DHS/Noem's handpicked right-wing media influencers (who have been getting access press have not)
When you get too libertarian, you forget how capitalism actually works. Case in point: there will never be a plucky, underdog, startup moderation service, because that's not where the money comes from. What revenue would such a thing possibly gain? Are people going to pay for a blocklist sub? Why?
October 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
When you get too libertarian, you forget how capitalism actually works. Case in point: there will never be a plucky, underdog, startup moderation service, because that's not where the money comes from. What revenue would such a thing possibly gain? Are people going to pay for a blocklist sub? Why?
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banned books week…..a great time to buy a bunch of insanely famous books
October 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
banned books week…..a great time to buy a bunch of insanely famous books
Frankly I'm surprised it's taken Trump this long to suggest sending freikorps to Portland. Everyone who has suggested that this is a lawless hellscape, who has made propaganda about our homeless and drug-using populations, has basically wanted this, but been too cowardly to say it out loud
September 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Frankly I'm surprised it's taken Trump this long to suggest sending freikorps to Portland. Everyone who has suggested that this is a lawless hellscape, who has made propaganda about our homeless and drug-using populations, has basically wanted this, but been too cowardly to say it out loud
About 3/4 of the way in, I feel like I've understood what's basically been going on this year the least out of any year of my entire life. Which is really saying something.
September 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
About 3/4 of the way in, I feel like I've understood what's basically been going on this year the least out of any year of my entire life. Which is really saying something.
Sometimes your day is immeasurably improved by seeing a really cool pigeon
September 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Sometimes your day is immeasurably improved by seeing a really cool pigeon
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It's difficult to acknowledge and address the ways that the long history of stochastic violence that helped build this country impacts our astronomically high gun violence rates today, but it's easy to scapegoat a minority you already hate anyway. What a country
September 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It's difficult to acknowledge and address the ways that the long history of stochastic violence that helped build this country impacts our astronomically high gun violence rates today, but it's easy to scapegoat a minority you already hate anyway. What a country
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There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life
Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
Healthcare in this country is a system that is manifestly unfit for purpose (at least, for the purpose it should serve), and I have to admit, I don't know how to fix it. I am broadly supportive of M4A as a stopgap, but both this new House bill and the example of the UK have proven that's not enough
September 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Healthcare in this country is a system that is manifestly unfit for purpose (at least, for the purpose it should serve), and I have to admit, I don't know how to fix it. I am broadly supportive of M4A as a stopgap, but both this new House bill and the example of the UK have proven that's not enough
It's difficult to acknowledge and address the ways that the long history of stochastic violence that helped build this country impacts our astronomically high gun violence rates today, but it's easy to scapegoat a minority you already hate anyway. What a country
September 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It's difficult to acknowledge and address the ways that the long history of stochastic violence that helped build this country impacts our astronomically high gun violence rates today, but it's easy to scapegoat a minority you already hate anyway. What a country
I don't know why a certain subset of people seem so excited about Donald Trump maybe dying. Are we all so thrilled about the prospect of 48th President of the United States J.D. Vance?
September 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I don't know why a certain subset of people seem so excited about Donald Trump maybe dying. Are we all so thrilled about the prospect of 48th President of the United States J.D. Vance?
Need to grab Jonathan Ned Katz's The Invention of Heterosexuality at some point. Many great and insightful examinations of how masculinist politics have led to this radical right present, and I'm wondering how to conceptualize the new version of heterosexuality forwarded by that movement
September 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Need to grab Jonathan Ned Katz's The Invention of Heterosexuality at some point. Many great and insightful examinations of how masculinist politics have led to this radical right present, and I'm wondering how to conceptualize the new version of heterosexuality forwarded by that movement
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In times like these I find myself returning to Emma Goldman's The Psychology of Political Violence, penned (with some historical inaccuracies for safety) following the McKinley assassination. We do not want random acts of violence, but in a society which is against life, we will always have them
May 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
In times like these I find myself returning to Emma Goldman's The Psychology of Political Violence, penned (with some historical inaccuracies for safety) following the McKinley assassination. We do not want random acts of violence, but in a society which is against life, we will always have them
Feel like many people who have never lived in California and are used to thinking of it as a monolithic "blue state" are getting a rude awakening from Harris and Newsom as to what CA Dem politics are actually like lately. This is not an accident, or Newsom taking a turn, I promise
August 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Feel like many people who have never lived in California and are used to thinking of it as a monolithic "blue state" are getting a rude awakening from Harris and Newsom as to what CA Dem politics are actually like lately. This is not an accident, or Newsom taking a turn, I promise
It's nowhere near enough to make up for the damage he did, and really is still doing, to generations of children, but I am glad James Dobson is dead. No hell would be hot enough
August 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It's nowhere near enough to make up for the damage he did, and really is still doing, to generations of children, but I am glad James Dobson is dead. No hell would be hot enough
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how we were dealing with pronatalism…. in 1979 (Rosalind Petchesky, in her introduction to Feminist Studies vol. 5, no. 2)
August 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
how we were dealing with pronatalism…. in 1979 (Rosalind Petchesky, in her introduction to Feminist Studies vol. 5, no. 2)
There are people who haven't yet internalized, or even conceptualized, the idea that, in my lifetime, either society is going to have fully collapsed or we simply will not have disposable plastics and year-round produce. And I have to pretend take their advice about what to do with my life seriously
August 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
There are people who haven't yet internalized, or even conceptualized, the idea that, in my lifetime, either society is going to have fully collapsed or we simply will not have disposable plastics and year-round produce. And I have to pretend take their advice about what to do with my life seriously
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Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
August 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
Trying to come up with a non-rude way to say that you should actually read old books
August 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Trying to come up with a non-rude way to say that you should actually read old books