A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.
Like most rational and scientific minded people, I take my cues on the healthcare needs of minority groups from the Catholic Church, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and sundry rightwing influencers with a weird fixation on birth rates. I am the New York Times, a serious newspaper.
Precisely!
i read an essay today that, in a single paragraph, lumped together afropessimism, queer antisociality, trans negativity, and indigenous writing on legacies of dispossession, then leveraged Wendy Brown’s States of Injury to diagnose (describe? dismiss?) them all as forms of wounded attachment
“every day well every day we do not listen much to the accounts of the bombardments, naturally enough when you are among the objects to be bombarded it is not as interesting as when you are not”
- Gertrude Stein, Wars I Have Seen
Omg even I haven’t held it yet
sat all the way through the credits of Hamnet waiting for a blooper reel that never came
lots of things I don’t like about today, but reading Stephanie Burt on Richard Siken was not one of them.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Light purple book cover with black handwritten text that reads Climbing - Hil Malatino
predictably odd + bad times for a book announcement, but nevertheless this little book about climbing (and grief and time and mortality and obsession and work and trust and fun) will be in the world in a few months, thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social
available for pre-order now!
my spouse woke up this morning and said “I had a dream that I was writing a book called ‘Who Owns Your Mother? Freud and Copyright in the Age of AI’”
one thousand percent would read
i am v clumsy
the kind of clumsy where
i made a pb + j
got jam on my ass
and sat in my upholstered office chair
that kind of clumsy
The New York City Trans Oral History Project has this wonderful two hour oral history with Miss Major. Take some time to listen to it; it's quite extraordinary. We have learned so much from Miss Major. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...
I am SO stoked for this.
they’ve just reminded me that they were also wearing their other Bills hat while doing this
my spouse is walking around the house searching for their Bills hat chanting “Bills hat! Bills hat! Bills hat!”
(don’t worry, still gay)
absolutely, forever
normal week, explained to the students in my grad seminar that the two wolves inside me are Didion and Babitz and that Babitz always wins
(yes, I am currently reading the Anolik)
Re-reading “on narcissism” for the first time in a very long time and my god is this funny
(also prescient, infuriating, illuminating…but mostly funny)
The Supreme Court is considering three cases this term that could impact the national landscape of trans rights: one relating to conversion therapy and two related to trans student athletes. We’re offering guidance and key context for reporters and newsrooms preparing to cover these developments.
I know it never feels like the right time given *gestures wildly* but please keep posting about what you’re writing, the books and articles coming out, all the cool shit that keeps on happening amidst *gestures wildly once more*
The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!
We won!!
“Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”
listen - Carrie is, as reported here, “the original working from home queen”
Show hearings and trials are a key marker of a concentration-camp regime. Even in countries with existing detention crises, the conscious step to degrade due process for targeted groups further diminishes the larger legal system while shifting power to emerging quasi-legal and extralegal approaches.
I’ve been writing about Reed Erickson’s relationship with Harry Benjamin lately, and have found Alison Li’s recent biography of Benjamin indispensable. Highly recommend to any and all trans history nerds.
my president
Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!
