Postmodernism has become a big right-wing talking point in the last few years. In an interview with Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson explains postmodernism as a framework in which the world is primarily understood as categories of people or identity groups struggling with one another for power, sometimes through oppressor-oppressed dynamics…

This list and the included links include discussions of a number of topics that some people might find dysphoric or otherwise triggering, including discussion about surgical transition care, body image, disordered eating, genitals, sexual activity, violence and discrimination, rape, immigration injustice, incarceration, self-harm, and suicide. This year, I was lucky…

CW: racism, transphobia, medical bias, murder, fragility A lot of my job is helping people understand and overcome institutional bias, which means a lot of my job is trying to understand accountability. …

CW: transphobia, sexual violence, CSA, murder, family rejection, police brutality, misgendering, sex This week The Village Voice ran an article by Donna Minkowitz about her “huge error” in reporting the story of Brandon Teena’s rape and murder in the Voice in 1993. The huge error was in presenting Brandon as…

This article contains explicit references to specific violent incidents, types of violence, and themes in violence rooted in racist, transphobic, misogynist, and other political motives. There is a predictable and largely bad-faith debate underway about whether Mark Anthony Conditt can be properly called a terrorist after creating seven bombs, killing…

A few days ago I had the privilege of attending a talk by Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza, and speaking with her at a reception afterward. The talk was phenomenal in general (I shared some of my notes) but one of the things that has stayed with me is…

The Trump White House is in hot water after apparently denying the Holocaust. Again. Earlier today, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer made a comment comparing Assad (unfavorably) to Hitler: “you had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” When this claim was challenged, Spicer…

Social constructs appear commonly in social justice conversations, especially around race, gender, and (increasingly) biological sex. Generally the people I see talking about this online seem to think that “socially constructed” means “fake” and moreover, “insubstantial.” A fake, insubstantial thing can be dismissed or ignored, but social constructs make up…