progress of pauline @pauline@myna.social

@litstudies, I was identified as someone who might make #Middlemarch jokes on this site, but can #HenryJames get ❤️ here too? (and w/o a bk about a 🐳 ?) Here's my girl Isabel Archer,

"What she felt was that a territorial, a political, a social magnate had conceived the design of drawing her into a system in which he rather invidiously lived & moved. A certain instinct, not imperious, but persuasive, told her to resist--murmured to her that virtually she had a system and an orbit of her own."

Dionne Brand, from The Blue Clerk

#poetry

TDOR 2022 in Hamburg

Mahnwache mit Die-In, Videoinstallation, Reden und Open Mic. Wir protestieren zum Trans Day of Remembrance mit dem Die-In gegen die gewaltsamen Versuche, unsere Existenz auszulöschen.

Legt gerne Blumen nieder, bringt eure Fahnen mit, haltet eine Rede und macht mit.

@queeramnesty_hamburg und
@enby_galactic_transtastic machen zusammen am Sonntag, den 20. November, von 16 bis 18 Uhr eine Protestaktion am Heidi Kabel Platz beim Hauptbahnhof Hamburg.

#tdor2022 #tdor

Only we can keep us safe. Sending so much love to my #queer and #trans community today ❤️‍🩹

How it started / How it's going

okay here's a first non-logistical toot: independent bookstores make a third of their sales between Thanksgiving & the end of the year 💛

pls consider getting holiday gifts from local bookstores, most of which ship nationwide

A magic moment of socialist pedagogy

Just out: my photo essay, in collab with photographer Jesse Freidin, who documents the lives of young #trans kids. He shared 7 powerful portraits of young #transgender Texans.

Jesse told me: “I want to tell those stories before they disappear, before these families leave the country or state, before these families have to go underground.”

This story is incredibly important to me, and all of us at Texas Observer too. This was published in the November/December issue of our magazine, and now available online in time for Trans Awareness Week: https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-kids-youth-are-you-ok-photos/

#LGBTQIA #Texas #children

(I'm concealing the photos because they contain eye contact, but I really hope you will look if you can, these are powerful photos of young people being themselves, and part of me wishes I didn't have to CW them)

I am dead, I can’t believe this AI intro text I just got. If you thumb through it, there are all the usual suspects like breadth-first search and probability.

Then you open the first chapter and it goes HARD on the current state of things.

Then it’s back to mathematical notation like nothing happened.

Ohio is attempting to ban gender-affirming care for minors, just 3 days after the midterm elections, in the session's lame duck status. If you are able to speak out against HB454, or some to the hearing (I hope to do so), please do what you can.
https://mailchi.mp/honestyforohioeducation/stateboardstatehouse2for1?e=e732f1bf73