| Pronouns | She / Her |
| Privileged identities disclosure | Cis, hetero, white (well, pinkish), northern hemisphere resident |
I wish people would knock it off with the "history will remember you poorly" offensive.
No sociopath who's filthy rich and powerful cares if some scholar 100 years from now says something unflattering about them. Go after these people in the here and now.
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We live in a world being run by people who don't seem to think human lives or hearts matter in any meaningful way, and they're cultivating despair because it feeds into the system of community-breaking cruelty that upholds their power.
That one student verbalized it as a concern about art but when you get down to it the question is really, how do we stop these technofascist planetwreckers from ruining everything good.
Love and solidarity is the answer.
My Feb 2026 Katz Lecture for UW's Simpson Center for the Humanities is now available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc6QNxolQ
Unfortunately, the recording doesn't include the Q&A. Two things I remember from that:
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If I get up at an open mic and play guitar and just really suck ass--play all of the wrong notes, strings buzzing, timing off...do you think I'm gonna stroll over to the best guitar player in the place and try to teach him how to play? Tell him what he needs to do to improve? And when he gets defensive say, "Hey, man, I'm just trying to help you develop?"
Then WHY THE FUCK does this happen to me as a singer every fucking time I do an open mic or a jam or fucking karaoke?
I KNOW WHY.
Just to button this up: One of the MAJOR FACTORS in people not being able to ascend from their poverty no matter how good or moral or skilled, is the unshakeable assumption that having spent time in poverty means you ARE: Immoral, crazy, untrustworthy.
Your pity has consequences. You want to be good for the poor? LOOK AT THEIR REAL VALUE. THEIR REAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS. And then hire them, promote them, recommend them, back them, defend them.
But what you say is, "I don't know about them..."
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