Tessy Schlosser
@tessyschlo.bsky.social
political theorist and director general of CDIJUM. tending to archives while weaving memory with doubt and politics.
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Calendars of Truth - The Ideas Letter
Schlosser reflects on how contemporary rituals of remembrance—from Mexico’s annual Ayotzinapa marches to the liturgical cycle of Yom Kippur—expose the limits of truth as redemption or revelation. Thro...
www.theideasletter.org
I wrote about "truth-telling" for The Ideas Letter from @open-society.bsky.social. It was as personal quest where I found company by the hand of Antigone, Cassandra, and Jonah.
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I wrote about "truth-telling" for The Ideas Letter from @open-society.bsky.social. It was as personal quest where I found company by the hand of Antigone, Cassandra, and Jonah.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/calend...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/calend...
Calendars of Truth - The Ideas Letter
Schlosser reflects on how contemporary rituals of remembrance—from Mexico’s annual Ayotzinapa marches to the liturgical cycle of Yom Kippur—expose the limits of truth as redemption or revelation. Thro...
www.theideasletter.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I wrote about "truth-telling" for The Ideas Letter from @open-society.bsky.social. It was as personal quest where I found company by the hand of Antigone, Cassandra, and Jonah.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/calend...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/calend...
I really thought I would use this more.
October 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I really thought I would use this more.
Reposted by Tessy Schlosser
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
US government orders states to destroy trans education materials
The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
It is always an incredible experience reading @alexshams.bsky.social 🫶🏼
While Netanyahu and Trump bombed Iran, dozens of prominent diaspora Iranians welcomed the strikes. Among them was Reza Pahlavi, song of the Shah overthrown in 1979.
@alexshams.bsky.social on the U.S.- and Israel-backed campaign that has spent millions propping up Pahlavi for regime change:
@alexshams.bsky.social on the U.S.- and Israel-backed campaign that has spent millions propping up Pahlavi for regime change:
Our Man for Tehran - Boston Review
The U.S.- and Israel-backed campaign positioning Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah, for regime change in Iran.
www.bostonreview.net
August 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It is always an incredible experience reading @alexshams.bsky.social 🫶🏼
Reposted by Tessy Schlosser
“Struggling through the work is extremely important -- more important than publishing it.”
-- Toni Morrison
-- Toni Morrison
July 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“Struggling through the work is extremely important -- more important than publishing it.”
-- Toni Morrison
-- Toni Morrison
This is a techno-dystopian nightmare. www.themexicobrief.org/latest/mexic...
Reporting: Mexico’s government is using the disappeared to build a surveillance state, families say — The Mexico Brief.
by Madeleine Wattenbarger. A polemical point of the reform to the General Disappearance Law passed by Mexican legislators this week is the use of a biometric CURP to search for missing people. The ...
www.themexicobrief.org
July 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is a techno-dystopian nightmare. www.themexicobrief.org/latest/mexic...
Reposted by Tessy Schlosser
Rather than abandon identity politics, this piece argues that we must embrace its friction— an unfinished solidarity that resists purity. Identity is not possession but passage; liberation lies not in coherence but in living with unresolved tensions.
By @tessyschlo.bsky.social
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By @tessyschlo.bsky.social
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Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned - The Ideas Letter
It would be convenient to start this essay with a clear definition of identity politics—a dictionary-worthy entry, presented like a compact and neat truth. But identity politics resists tidy…
www.theideasletter.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Rather than abandon identity politics, this piece argues that we must embrace its friction— an unfinished solidarity that resists purity. Identity is not possession but passage; liberation lies not in coherence but in living with unresolved tensions.
By @tessyschlo.bsky.social
buff.ly/hUcJIqW
By @tessyschlo.bsky.social
buff.ly/hUcJIqW
Desempolvando la lengua de redes sociales con un buenos días.
July 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Desempolvando la lengua de redes sociales con un buenos días.
Reposted by Tessy Schlosser
What would it mean to approach identity not as a problem that needs solving, but as something to consider with care and to critique in the knowledge that it is too much and not enough?
www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...
Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned - The Ideas Letter
It would be convenient to start this essay with a clear definition of identity politics—a dictionary-worthy entry, presented like a compact and neat truth. But identity politics resists tidy definitio...
www.theideasletter.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
What would it mean to approach identity not as a problem that needs solving, but as something to consider with care and to critique in the knowledge that it is too much and not enough?
www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...
I like that my first post for this platform will be me sharing an essay I wrote for The Ideas Letter on identity politics. It’s a subject I return to again and again—how identity both opens and limits political possibility.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...
Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned - The Ideas Letter
It would be convenient to start this essay with a clear definition of identity politics—a dictionary-worthy entry, presented like a compact and neat truth. But identity politics resists tidy definitio...
www.theideasletter.org
June 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I like that my first post for this platform will be me sharing an essay I wrote for The Ideas Letter on identity politics. It’s a subject I return to again and again—how identity both opens and limits political possibility.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...