Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, Distinguished Visiting Prof at Barnard College. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed & The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
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I can’t believe I get to live in Mamdani’s NYC! In the middle of a rising fascist tide, I live in a city governed by a competent, humane, and yes, adorable mayor.
I am seeing this too.
Nearly all my friends have been called “crazy” when they were too direct, too angry or non compliant. Kate Manne elaborates. So do I, writing about the term “diffucult”—see the link in comments.
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This is an amazing lineup at the New School! Despite the horrendous firing of tenured faculty and the general malfeasance of the admin, the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry is doing great programming. Link to register in comments.
Alina Troyana, aka Carmelita Tropicana, was awarded the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award this year! Yesterday we had a little party to honor her legendary fabulosity.🤩🥳🌈🍾🎉
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I have a guilty pleasure, more embarrassing than the usual bad TV and doom scrolling. I’m reading fan fiction. I love the amateur energy, the effort and love that goes into writing for free, and the warm validation that suffuses the comments. And the main site, Archives of Our Own, is very queer.
Reflecting on one of the most powerful weapons of misogyny
