Things Read In October

Things Read in October

Articles/Essays:

Has Self Awareness Gone Too Far in Fiction?

Heroines of Self Hate

This Guy Has Invented A Scarf That Can Make You Invisible in Photos

Dune: an accomplished escape into the realm of cinematic Arab appropriation

The White Savior Industrial Complex

Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

This Buddhist Monk is A Makeup Artist and An LGBTQ Activist

The Gods Show Up

The Troubling Rhetoric of Space Exploration

The Art of Nonfiction

The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia

The Beauty-Happiness Connection

Physics's Pangolin

How Americans Became Convinced Their Halloween Candy Was Poisoned

It's time to drop the curtain on Japan's colonial legacy

Retro photos reveal what it was like to be a flight attendant throughout the years

Why the books we read as children are the ones that shape our psyche

Still Not A British Subject: Race and UK Poetry

I am Hazara and I fear for my persecuted people

Jamie Lee Curtis says plastic surgery is 'wiping out generations of beauty'

Identity Fraud

First Malaria Vaccine Approved by W.H.O.

Black Children Were Jailed For A Crime That Doesn't Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.

Lush Rot

Pandora Papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful

How mental health became a social media minefield

Don't Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope is A Right We Must Protect

Before 'Get Out,' There Was 'Candyman'

Bring Back the Sabbath

The Psychology of Giant Princess Eyes

Black, gay, and graying gracefully in love

Bashō on Haiku: 17 Statements

Poetry:

October by Louise Glück

Cutting Odette's Fingernails by Bianca Stone

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

Poems From An Email Exchange by Hanif Abdurraqib

The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention That Comes First by Mary Oliver

I Loved You Before I Was Born by Li-Young Lee

I Like My Body When It Is With Your Body by E. E. Cummings

Digging by Seamus Heaney

October by Robert Frost

Books:

A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Mr. Suicide by Nicole Cushing

Eat Your Heart Out by Kelly Devos

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

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Ok Hello im michael and im a 15 y/o queer autistic chicano artist. I am starting commissions to help me and my mom escape from my dads abuse.

Both me and her have been severely emotionally/mentally/verbally abused by my dad for years, and me being a target for physical abuse which has caused a decline in both of our mental health and suicidal ideation for both of us. On top of this we face consistent threats of homelessness from my dad. If we are forced out of our current home, we do not have the funds to support ourselves.

all of the money i recieve be it from donations or commissions will be going directly into getting me and my mom into a safe environment. My mom is currently working every single day but a large portion of her money is taken by my dad and so it’s difficult to save for a new home while providing us food.

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the reason 99% of this website has “no terfs” in their descriptions and yet transmisogynist ideas run so rampant is that almost no cis lgb people on this website know actually what transmisogyny is and what terfs actually want.

like you see thousands of those annoying “respect trans women juice” and no actual thinking about what it actually means. and i think that’s partly because of the name we use - trans exclusionary radical feminists. what does being “trans exclusionary” means ? the problem of terfs isn’t that they “exclude” trans women, it’s what they think of trans women.

because… a lot of transmisogynists are trans ! usually some version of afab-non-binary-transmasc-adjacent-lesbian-or-bi. so when you call them terfs, they say they can’t be trans exclusionary, since they are trans. and they also reblog trans women’s donation posts or news about harassment, they usually don’t deny that trans women are women, they also protest the bathroom bill, they also criticize the gender binary system. so everyone cheers, and since terfs don’t do those things, it means they are ok.

but they still adhere to a worldview of “women and trans women”, so to speak. that trans women’s gender are “trans women”. that being a trans woman is in itself a particular position of gender. which means that they don’t include trans women butches when they talk about butches, for example. they don’t include trans women when they talk about women’s problems. trans women have their own problems, their own experience, that is distinct from women.

so, big news ! if you ever, in any case, use the words lesbian, butches, women, etc. and you don’t include trans lesbians, trans butches and trans women in this discussion, then you’re a transmisogynist. that’s it ! saying “no terfs” isn’t enough. you need to include trans women in your worldview, in your feminism, in how you talk about women, all the time, and not only when talking about trans issues. anything else will get you a bunch of crypto-terfs followers.

Euphoria - “Trouble Don’t Last Always - Part 1: Rue” (2020) (x)

I just had this feeling, and I thought, fuck you, Nike. You don’t give a fuck about anything or anyone. Chinese Muslims are sewing these Kaepernick sneakers for seven cents an hour, and you’re tellin’ me my Black ass matters. Give me a fucking break.

by Holly Warburton

With the drop of the new Fantastic Beasts trailer, let's take a moment to remember that JKR:

1. is unequivocally a TERF + openly supports and allies herself with other TERFs

2. uses her massive wealth and platform to fight against trans rights, such that an anti-trans republican senator has cited her controversial essay to block voting on the Equality Act , and

3. has retained so much control over the HP franchise that giving her money (through movie tickets, book sales, official merch, etc) actively enables and contributes to the platform she uses to target vulnerable people