"the way we have of thinking of pornography as a distinct category is quite modern, despite the fact that we often think of pornography as ancient - imagine a time when there was no category, and the explicit was simply a part of communication"
Happy International Whores' Day open.substack.com/pub/llee13/p...
BAWS is the last SWer led org in the Bay Area. I wish so badly that I could go to this fundraiser on Sunday, but in absence of a flight to San Francisco, I have donated here: bayareaworkerssupport.org/support
Please join me in keeping this crucial org alive!
Many trans Kansans whose licenses were cancelled by a recent state law now face a kind of poll tax: To vote, they’ll have to pay $16 for a replacement license with a gender marker that doesn’t match their identity.
In October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the manufacturers of Tylenol.
But the case wouldn't be heard in Austin or any of the state’s large cities.
It would take place in Panola County, a community of 23,000 residents.
With @texastribune.org
Segregating bathrooms into 'two sexes’ results in psychological and *physical* harm for those of us whose bodies don’t conform to this mythical binary … I wrote about this for Cosmo last year:
www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...
Kansas Republicans barred trans residents from getting licenses that reflect their gender identity and canceled existing IDs. The move also risks blocking their access to the polls.
boltsmag.org
Lorelei Lee (they/them)
www.propublica.org
The Texas attorney general has filed at least 30 cases over the past nine years that have a tenuous connection to the counties in which they were filed, a practice that legal experts say pushes the boundaries of the law.
Late last night the Supreme GOP Court made it virtually impossible to prove racial discrimination in redistricting in a shadow docket case from Alabama. Just beyond awful. Read this by
@rickhasen.bsky.social
electionlawblog.org?p=156541
ProPublica
Sandy Ernest Allen
More morning thoughts - I’d give this blog a name if I was any good at naming - are they even called blogs now? Or are we going with “newsletters?” Whatever it is, it is here:
open.substack.com/pub/llee13/p...
On May 31st, The Bay’s baddest performers, peddlers, & purveyors of pleasure will descend on The Stud in SF for flirting, fun, & fundraising for BAWS 💖
We're thinking about the long term, and that means money, honey. Tickets & donations live on our GiveButter campaign. This is Pleasure4Ever
You can find the 21 pages of order and dissents at this link. In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to change its congressional district lines at the last minute to impose a ma...
electionlawblog.org
Inside the emotional and physical toll of holding it in.
