lipputankodonMar 17, 2025

Avaava kirjoitus jälleen, intellektuelli ja maahanmuuttaja, Masha #Gessen’iltä. Ei setämiehille, eikä tätinaisille.

Trumpin hyökkäyksen piiloitettu motiivi transihmisiä vastaan

”Syy, miksi sinun pitäisi välittää tästä, ei ole se, että se voi tapahtua sinulle, vaan se, että se tapahtuu jo muille. Sitä tapahtuu ihmisille, joilla väitämme olevan oikeuksia vain siksi, että olemme ihmisiä”

#Trump #Psykoosi #Populismi #SukupuoliIdentiteetti #Angst #UusiNormaali
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-trans-denationalizing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing

The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

The New York Times
macfrancJul 16, 2024

La condanna in contumacia emessa lunedì da un tribunale di Mosca nei confronti della giornalista russo-americana Masha #Gessen è l'ultimo tentativo della Russia di reprimere il giornalismo indipendente.

Le azioni penali, le molestie e le intimidazioni nei confronti dei giornalisti da parte della Russia rappresentano un palese tentativo di controllare il flusso di informazioni sulla sua campagna bellica in Ucraina e sui possibili crimini di guerra

@giornalismo

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/world/europe/russia-masha-gessen-prison.html

Masha Gessen Sentenced in Absentia by Russian Court to 8 Years in Prison

Masha Gessen was found guilty of spreading “false information” and sentenced to eight years in prison over remarks made in 2022 about the Russian military.

The New York Times
Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱Mar 30, 2024

The German state and institutions crack down on expressions of support to Palestinians

Michael Sappir: https://www.972mag.com/germany-israel-palestine-solidarity-repression/ @israel @germany

#support #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Gessen #EuropePalestine #governance #Germany #freeSpeech #democracy #publicOpinion #dissent

The spiraling absurdity of Germany's pro-Israel fanaticism

As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state's liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves.

+972 Magazine
Show threadMichael MartenDec 16, 2023

Here is Gessen’s original essay in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust

And here is a summary of the controversy (also in English): https://lithub.com/masha-gessens-hannah-arendt-prize-has-been-cancelled-because-of-their-essay-on-gaza/

#Holocaust #Shoah #Gessen #ghetto #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Michael MartenDec 16, 2023

This is presumably exactly what Arendt would have wanted. I suspect most of those involved in trying to stymie this prize-giving haven’t actually understood (or even read!) Arendt. It seems to me Gessen is doing exactly what Arendt wanted people to do.

“Gessen sehe eine moralische Verpflichtung, den Holocaust mit aktuellen Ereignissen zu vergleichen. Das müsse getan werden, um zu verhindern, dass sich derartige Verbrechen wiederholen.”

#Holocaust #Shoah #Gessen #ghetto #Israel #Palestine #Gaza https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/bremen/rb-hannah-arendt-preis-so-verteidigt-gessen-die-umstrittenen-aussagen-100.html

Hannah-Arendt-Preis: So verteidigt Gessen die umstrittenen Aussagen

Gessen verglich in einem Essay Gaza mit einem jüdischen Ghetto in Europa. Der Bremer Senat hatte sich deswegen aus der Preisverleihung zurückgezogen.

tagesschau.de
Marcel NowickiDec 16, 2023
Und wenn die Brise etwas steifer weht, ziehen sich die zeitgenössischen Intellektuellen instinktiv auf „Das wird man wohl noch sagen dürfen“ zurück. So wie Masha #Gessen, deren Preis und Preisgeld nicht aberkannt wurden, die aber Pauschal behaupten „In Deutschland herrscht eine Kultur des Mundtot machens“ während zeitgleich 3 Interviews in 3 unterschiedlichen Zeitungen mit ihnen erscheinen. Toll, diese Intellektuellen. Was Hannah Arendt zu dieser billigen Larmoyanz gesagt hätte?
Hendrik BunkeDec 15, 2023
Masha #Gessen erwähnt in diesem Interview nicht ein einziges Mal die Hamas, und es ist dann auch ok, dass das Rathaus die Preisverleihung abgesagt hat. Ich kann das Denken dieser Leute nicht mehr nachvollziehen… #Bremen https://www.fr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/journalistin-masha-gessen-deutschland-hannah-arendt-preis-eklat-92731175.html
Masha Gessen: „In Deutschland würde Hannah Arendt den Preis heute nicht erhalten“

Eklat um die Verleihung des Hannah-Arendt-Preises an Masha Gessen: Die Journalistin sieht darin ein unterschiedliches Verständnis von „Nie wieder“.

Tobias BevcDec 15, 2023
Im New Yorker vom 9. Dezember ist ein sehr interessanter Artikel von Masha Gessen mit dem Titel "In the Shadow of the Holocaust
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today"
Sehr lesenswert in Bezug auf den aktuellen Umgang mit #Antisemitismus in #Deutschland.
Bezeichnend: Aufgrund dieses Artikels trat die Heinrich Böll Stiftung von der diesjährigen Verleihung des Hannah Arendt Preis' an Masha #Gessen zurück.
Verrückt, was man alles nicht sagen darf...
KirtOct 15, 2023

@RonaldTooTall

Do you know why #ShinigamiEyes marks #MashaGessen as red on Twitter? red means #transphobe but I've never found anything #transphobic that #Gessen has said?

I'm listening now, and it's possibly the least transphobic thing I've ever heard, but I can definitely see how it might have been seen out of context on #Twitter

might interest to @TashTaylor and @quinsibell https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DPQNiIMB9ZbguVWhwyiFn?si=KAX9z2TaSQmMm4UU3WyZJg the article has a paywall popup but the #podcast is on #Spotify

cc other mes @kirt @kirt

We Need Better Narratives About Gender

Listen to this episode from The Ezra Klein Show on Spotify. It’s a time of contrast and contradiction for gender queerness in America: At the same time that about 5 percent of Americans under 30 identify as transgender or nonbinary, over 20 states have passed some sort of restriction on gender-affirming care for children. In 2023 alone, over 550 anti-trans bills have been introduced across the country.The political push and pull can overshadow a broad spectrum of rich questions and possibilities that queer culture opens up — about how we think about identity and social categories, how we structure our communities and support networks, our anxieties about having children who are different from ourselves, how gender norms shape all bodies and how difficult it can be to make big life decisions.Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker who has thought deeply about many of these questions. “Gender is something that happens between me and other people,” they say. In this conversation, the guest host Lydia Polgreen asks Gessen, who identifies as trans and nonbinary, what the social and political shift around gender has looked like to them in the past few decades.They discuss why gender has captured the conservative imagination, how L.G.B.T.Q. activists have fallen into the “regret trap,” what it means to understand gender expression as a choice rather than something biologically determined, why Gessen prefers a liberatory framework focused on protecting freedoms-to rather than freedoms-from when thinking about L.G.B.T.Q. issues, how gender-affirming care is not just for trans people, how the making of the 1999 movie “The Matrix” reflects the rapid social change around trans visibility in the United States, the anti-L.G.B.T.Q. sentiments that made Gessen decide to leave their home in Russia,how gender conformity is social contagion and more.This episode was hosted by Lydia Polgreen, a New York Times Opinion columnist and a co-host on the weekly Opinion podcast “Matter of Opinion.” She previously served as the managing director of Gimlet, a podcast studio at Spotify, and as the editor in chief of HuffPost.Mentioned:The Argonauts by Maggie NelsonBook Recommendations:The Myth of the Wrong Body by Miquel MisseConundrum by Jan MorrisWho’s Afraid of Gender by Judith ButlerThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected] can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Kristin Lin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Mixing by Efim Shapiro. Our senior editor is Annie-Rose Strasser. The show’s production team also includes Emefa Agawu, Jeff Geld and Rollin Hu. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Isaac Jones.

Spotify
Rob ShumMay 16, 2023

In case you were wondering, #CancelCulture is real, and a thing.

“Masha #Gessen Resigns in Protest From #PEN America Board” - #TheAtlantic

https://apple.news/AbhlXFcLFQm6kY2EaoROhrg

Masha Gessen Resigns in Protest From PEN America Board — The Atlantic

What happens when free-speech absolutists flinch