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Apr 9, 2022

Okay, We Need to Talk About Christian Nationalists

They’re fascist, effective, and they’re winning. — Have you noticed the wave of book bans sweeping across the country? Or the draconian laws targeting trans youth, same-sex relationships, and reproductive healthcare? Have you noticed the steady eradication of sex education from school curricula? The erosion of science? The erasure of history? …

Politics

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Okay, We Need to Talk About Christian Nationalists
Okay, We Need to Talk About Christian Nationalists
Politics

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Apr 7, 2022

A Selection of 19th-Century Slang

Because words are interesting. — Slang-whanger. Great word. Back in 1807, it was coined by the American writer Washington Irving in his satirical periodical Salmagundi to describe someone who wields words like a weapon. Not an elegant weapon, mind you — a slang-whanger does not possess a rapier wit. …

History

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A Selection of 19th-Century Slang
A Selection of 19th-Century Slang
History

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Published in Age of Empathy

·Mar 15, 2022

How I Learned to Love Apricots

A tortured history of learning languages and the quiet pleasure of letting it go. — When we met, it was an unbearably hot day. I was living in Italy on a research grant, where I immediately settled into a routine. I got up, had breakfast, and set off for the town archive, navigating the narrow streets at a brisk pace. Once I arrived, I presented…

Nonfiction

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How I Learned to Love Apricots
How I Learned to Love Apricots
Nonfiction

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Mar 8, 2022

This Is What Courage Actually Looks Like

While Christian nationalists feign oppression here in the States, Russian women are beaten by police for protesting the war. — While anti-war protestors took to the streets in Russia, Ricky Schroder joined the People’s Convoy to protest mildly inconvenient mask policies. “We’re not livestock,” he said, using his Instagram account to confront some imaginary entity. …

Russia

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This Is What Courage Actually Looks Like
This Is What Courage Actually Looks Like
Russia

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Published in OneZero

·Feb 7, 2022

My 24-Hour Experiment With Dystopian Food Units

A new startup wants to make meals as efficient and joyless as possible — A friend of mine recently came into an abundance of prepared meals. He likes to try out different meal-delivery services, but accidentally set one of his accounts to renew when he already had another shipment coming. He wanted to know if I’d take this surplus off his hands. I live…

Food

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My 24-Hour Experiment With Dystopian Food Units
My 24-Hour Experiment With Dystopian Food Units
Food

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Published in OneZero

·Dec 17, 2021

NFTs Are Critical for the Future of Art

I know what you’re thinking, but hear me out, if only so I can tell you about Yatreda, Noah Kalina, and Julie Blackmon — Multiple things can be true at once, even when they appear to be contradictory. Granite, for example, can be both solid and ethereal. Hold a chunk of it in the palm of your hand and it’s clearly a rock. View it at the atomic level and it’s a galaxy of…

Art

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NFTs Are Critical for the Future of Art
NFTs Are Critical for the Future of Art
Art

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Published in An Injustice!

·Sep 14, 2021

The Pernicious Bigotry of SWERFs

Catharine MacKinnon continues to work tirelessly to ensure you don’t mistake sex workers for actual human beings. — When I was fifteen years old, I got really into guerilla art. I designed posters and flyers, ran a bunch of copies at Kinko’s, and pasted them up on walls when nobody was looking. This was back in the nineties, so the aesthetic was somewhere between punk zines and some…

Feminism

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The Pernicious Bigotry of SWERFs
The Pernicious Bigotry of SWERFs
Feminism

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Published in Human Parts

·Aug 24, 2021

How Sex Work Saved Me From Academia

The rhetoric is that sex workers need to be saved from exploitation. But sex work is precisely what protected me from it. — Editor’s Note: This Medium Writers Challenge entry was added to Human Parts on October 20th, 2021. The job was a one-year teaching position at a private university. Not tenure-track or anything, but good. Jobs were increasingly rare in my field so competition was going to be stiff, and since I…

Mwc Work

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How Sex Work Saved Me From Academia
How Sex Work Saved Me From Academia
Mwc Work

13 min read

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Ellis Brooks

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Writer. Historian. Supremely sex-positive and pseudonymous. she/her

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