"a set of solidarities"
Friday Seven // 0005
// 1. To be honest mostly what is on my mind as this week winds down is the extraordinary trust federal workers are putting in their Signal chats with reporters unknown to them. I've got new and returning subscriptions going now for the following (non-exhaustive list) and recommend them all: 404 Media, Hammer and Hope, The Border Chronicle, The Handbasket, The Texas Observer, Wired
// 2. Honestly also I have forgotten until now if I wrote a piece this week? I did, about Idaho: "What was done to Borrenpohl in Coeur d’Alene for speaking out at a town hall is a terrifying escalation. In Idaho, the lines between Republican politics and political violence are thinner than they are in some places, but there’s no reason to believe this escalation won’t be repeated."
// 3. "all I care about is honing an analytic and a set of solidarities that produce gender freedom" Emma Heaney, in conversation with Sophie Lewis, at Pinko. (I'm also looking forward to Sophie's newest book, Enemy Feminisms!)
// 4. "I get that not everybody has the choice to move away ... But for me, it is a choice, and I choose to stay ... The ecology here is so gay—I can’t really explain it..." Shoog McDaniel in conversation with Sasha Wortzel, at Jewish Currents
// 5. Farewell I think to Scottsboro as I go through my last open tabs and wait for edits back on the first section of AGAINST. Somehow I have been getting closer to the parts of my new book that I was alive for. I will be sad to leave the pre-1980s behind, but also, I had read enough newspapers from the 1870s for one project and perhaps a lifetime.
// 6. Some honestly (what is going on with that word) very nice things from this week: this dibbler; this notebook; this sky calendar; these grease pencils
// 7. Most of my seedlings are up, for those looking for the end-of-post garden update. One little nemophilia ("penny black") out of four was the latest to emerge, just behind the coleus. Six more weeks to go...
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