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Feb
01
white ink on a black Post-it I can barely decipher right now, the gist being: what's the point of "protecting women"

"free and open and lazy"

Friday Seven // 002
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Jan
24
"a kind of apocalyptic cloud"

"a kind of apocalyptic cloud"

Friday Seven // 001
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Dec
01
Screenshot of my desktop: a Scrivener window (photo of Pauli Murray), a web browser (photo of Caresse Crosby)

People who I cannot prove ever met but could have

Here is my desktop today: an imaginary encounter between Pauli Murray (vagabonding in boy scout attire in Bridgeport in 1931)
Nov
28
Still frame from a talk by Susan Stryker, framed with portraits of Frances Thompson

What is a woman under the influence

I have such a hard time believing women who, claiming to be under the influence of feminism, decry that there&
1 min read
Nov
27
a hand in the foreground holds a photo of Death Valley, against the background of Death Valley

"The selves they last were"

I highlighted this and have no memory of highlighting it. "... but I ceased being sad about it when I
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Nov
26
Pauli Murray's 1941 library card, New York Public Library, 125th St Branch

Steps

I can feel the days before having to step out of the past again ticking down. I'll be
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Nov
22
photo of part of my desk: notes on book progress, poems, stickers, old photos, an old phone

American zone (leaving the)

When I'm done working for the day, I stop reading, unless it's fiction. And for as
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Nov
14
Red scare

Red scare

It is difficult to convey how many of the arguments within feminism in the 1970s through the early 1990s are
Nov
13
The lynch mob is in Congress

The lynch mob is in Congress

“Of course no one who is opposed to this bill is opposed to lynching,” a senator from Georgia said from
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Nov
12
A trump suit

A trump suit

From The New York Times, March 31, 1933 Writing on King Kong (1933).