180 (and counting) past and present New York Times contributors have signed an open letter to the paper’s standards editor condemning the ongoing unethical anti-trans bias in its coverage of trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming people. Read it here https://nytletter.com
investigative journalism is when you accept a brand trip from a company that sponsors you and then when you ask a handpicked comms person “are labor conditions ok” and they say “yes” you’re like “k :)” and make a video about it https://twitter.com/joker_misato/status/1672250209332494337…
“If my joy and my success can chip away at that, even in the smallest sense, it’s all worth it, I think.”
I interviewed Dylan Mulvaney in March just before the smear campaign started, when her biggest concern was getting back into acting. Read it here
saw that! candice lin and patrick staff did something similar (and imo more interesting) with “hormonal fog,” which diffused testosterone suppressants. saw it at “curriculum,” curated by stamatina gregory and jeanne vaccaro, in 2019
speaking of which we don’t talk enough about how instead of doing and just like that, kim chose the queer as folk reboot where she got fingered over a sink by a hot they them, much like miranda did on and just like that
‘Sex and the City’ Shocker: Kim Cattrall to Return as Samantha Jones With ‘And Just Like That…’ Cameo (EXCLUSIVE) https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/kim-cattrall-samantha-jones-and-just-like-that-season-2-1235629763/…
“I’m a little shocked that [the New York Times] came out so hard against their own writers… Their dismissive reaction certainly seems to confirm the letter signatories’ point.”
had no idea until today that trinidad, colorado (pop: 8,329) was once known as the world's "sex-change capital." between 1969 and 2010, stanley biber and his protégé, marci bowers (of being marci bowers fame), performed ~6,000 gender-affirming surgeries.
Quentin Crisp talking to a trans sex worker in New York, 1990
“At the age of ninety, it has finally been explained to me that I am not really homosexual, I’m transgender. I now accept that.” ~ Crisp, “The Last Word”
Clip from “Resident Alien” (1990, dir. Jonathan Nossiter)
it'll probably feel more like electroclash but anyway just wanted to say that the little breakdown in the middle of this song is one of the most transcendent moments in all of music
so sick to see the new york post and others turn jordan neely’s murder into the exact kind of racist “crime wave” fodder that stokes vigilante violence
a couple months ago, a fellow millennial colleague and I tried to explain the 'whimsy' fad of the early 2000s to our gen Z colleague. we were like, you don't understand how bad it was. we participated in public pillow fights — we did graffiti that said 'you are beautiful' —
just saw a dress rehearsal of Prima Facie, unfortunately very clarifying, resonant, and hard to watch at times but jodie comer and literally everything else about the production were incredible
Unsure about blockers? Hate using they/them? I don't care.
I know that reasonable people can see that when children are going to be taken from their families and more children are going to end their own lives, we are in an emergency. https://zeit.de/kultur/2023-03/coverage-trans-people-new-york-times-english…
filed under thank god for the oral histories of my elders and also all the competent trans historians out there because trans history is otherwise written on a fucking etch-a-sketch and that's by design my god