“Yo yo, everybody! Put your hands in the air! Who’s ready to get FUCKED UP TONIGHT!?”
“Wooo!”
*gentle woodwind music*
The so extremely specific relief of uploading a video to YouTube that you’re certain will get a copyright strike for some music cue and the days pass without a peep from the copyright algorithm.
We act like mass migrations are this mystical force in animals and yeah it’s incredible that some species just inherit the memory of one river to head to but what THEY experience is always either “this place sucks now, I’m leaving” or “oh God I’m so horny and I’m even hornier in this direction”
“Those guys seem to know what’s good, I’ll follow them.”
This is huge on multiple levels!! If you read the article, it says not only do the bills provide legal access to gender affirming health care and abortions, they also allow people to cross state lines against the draconian laws of their own states trying to prohibit them, because Colorado will protect people who cross state lines to access these things from being investigated.
That’s an incredible level of dedication and defiance of the fucked up states around them!!
This is some really good news. I hope it brings some light to people’s day. Like, great that a bigot is throwing a fit, but I’m way more excited about the actual legislation. 😀
That’s pretty common with sanctuary laws! Several states have sanctuary laws already, and MN just passed one today. WA, OR, and VT have bills in play, and OR’s Democrats have floated the idea of amending the state constitution to protect people’s right to self-directed health care for themselves and their children, including trans healthcare.
It means very little for your state to be a sanctuary without those clauses in there – if people can just be dragged back out again, why would they run there in the first place?
never not thinking about giant cisterns. THATS immanentizing the eschaton. when we get to heaven and its a bunch of giant wet concrete tunnels with vast columns holding up the ceiling, then you will see…
you know about the tokyo storm drains, yeah?
yeah that’s what inspired this post 🙂
im very exited to go here when i die 🙂
basilica cistern in istanbul
the famous “lake” that Gaston Leroux wrote about beneath the Palais Garnier is not a lake at all, but actually a cistern.
Just heard about the mess that YA author Maggie Tokuda-Hall has been dealing with. tl;dr, Her publisher offered her the chance to be part of an initiative that would’ve put her work in a lot more stores and libraries. It’s an initiative specifically aimed at amplifying Asian voices… but only if she removed the word “racism” from her author’s note. On a book about the Japanese internment.
I am very glad she rejected this offer, and I 100% agree with her that this is pure cowardice. I’m appalled at Scholastic – or any other publisher who’s doing this but whose authors can’t take the risk of speaking out. This is the kind of crap that marginalized writers have to deal with all the time – and it is also how fascism takes root: “just business” decisions that perpetuate injustice, systematic erasure of targeted groups from their own damn stories, institutions choosing to do what’s easy over what’s right.
(I have been very fortunate to never have a publisher do this to me. Plenty of disrespectful bs from institutions and individuals within the industry, but never from the people who signed my checks. I’m also somewhat insulated from the book ban bullshit because my work is genre and isn’t aimed at kids – though that’s coming, of course. Fascists don’t stop until they are stopped.)
Anyway. Pop over to Maggie’s blog to read the full story – or better yet hop on a retail site and buy her books. It’s up to readers now to support marginalized authors, since it’s clear nobody else will.
Just so everyone is clear, this is the point of the censorship. This is the endgame, to make it so risky(in terms of guaranteed market) to publish such works that publishers will do the dirty work and sanitize works themselves or, better yet, choose to publish other things instead. Attacking libraries, schools, and bookstores are the means, but this is the desired effect.
