Steps
I can feel the days before having to step out of the past again ticking down. I'll be back at TNR soon. Everything here is the past, I know—these photos were made in November 2019.
I'm posting still on Bluesky but I'm trying not to. The news is relentless and bad. (Even when it is coming from those who have long been like this.)
the Jeremy Peters/trans activists were mean to us online story is bad enough, but it comes within a day of this op-ed in which Michelle Goldberg pitches her anti-trans resume and views as the correct amount of anti-trans views in her opinion, vs. Nancy Mace, who is making her look bad 🎁
— Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) 2024-11-26T15:51:50.374Z
The idea that what has "radicalized" people into anti-trans repression, harassment, and worse is hearing someone say...... "trans women are women"..... and not, say, the explicit anti-trans agenda in mainstream UK media, or, perhaps, the reach of Libs of TikTok.... this is unserious and dangerous.
I'm back in 1933, but from another angle. I found a new tool (thx M. R. Sauter) for keeping better track of documents photographed at archives. Sometimes I would like to be back in the archives but I'm nearly out of time. I've accumulated so much, I can forget: I have the papers already here. I already thought of this.
I have been working on the book for so long, I no longer remember what I have done and the steps I have taken for the writer who has to finish this.
Returning to Pauli Murray. (My photograph of Pauli Murray's library card for the New York Public Library's 125th Street branch, found in The Papers of Pauli Murray (Box 1), Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.)