Laura; she/her; Localization Director at a game company in Osaka; I like games, animals, fiber arts, and stationery. Also on Mastodon.
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My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people” hit in the 80s and still hits today tbh
I truly believe that New Yorkers are capable of booing someone to death. I know you can do it. I have never been so certain about anything.
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare
Full offense, but we shouldn't have to stop, hold your hand, and say, "That was a sad choice, wasn't it? Can you help think of a better one?" when writing for adults
I specifically requested no more metaphors
i don’t know how you can insist on your progressive or leftist bona fides and say something like the quoted post. to see that misogyny is one of the animating forces behind MAGA and think that should not be rejected but embraced reveals it was always about domination for you
i'm sorry men being forced to answer for themselves is so painful. you know what's more painful? the level of intimate partner violence in this country. the baseline disrespect and humiliation that women are forced to take in order to survive.
