Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Professor, Faculty of Global Culture, Kyoto Seika University; settler raised on land stolen from the Lenape people #translator; mother; #transgender #lesbian レイチェル・ソーン, 京都精華大学国際文化学部, 教授, マンガ研究, #翻訳者 , 子育て奮闘中のくたびれた母, #トランスジェンダー 女性, #レズビアン #日本語 OKです。#fedi22 #shojo #manga #shoujo #shōjo #comics #gender #sexuality #feminism #progressive #liberal #SocialJustice #CulturalAnthropology #anthropology #LGBT #queer #少女マンガ #マンガ #漫画 #アメコミ #ジェンダー #性自認 #クィア #セクシュアリティ #進歩派 #左派 #リベラル #フェミニズム #男女平等 #社会正義 #文化人類学
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Bloghttps://rachelthorn.net
BannerIllustration by Moto Hagio featuring characters from her comic, "The Poe Clan"
Icon/AvatarRecent selfie of me in all dressed up for a fancy party in Tokyo, looking at the viewer. I have gray hair in a bob style. Not smiling because I don’t know how to smile naturally when taking a selfie.
The rain is coming down hard, and for the last few minutes, this manhole has been rattling violently. Praying it doesn’t blow!
Brackett was not one for leisurely denouement. She ends her stories with great efficiency and economy, right after the Great Feat (whatever it may be) has been accomplished, allowing the reader to imagine the denouement on their own. In the case of Outpost on Io, she actually ends it mere moments before the Great Feat is achieved (but I won’t spoil the story by explaining why).
It just occurred to me that the Democratic Party establishment may be borrowing a page from U.K.’s Labour Party and is pulling every dirty trick they can behind the scenes to stop the progressive wing.

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Why is every single invention by these ghouls designed to make us lonelier?

Because alone, we are easy to control.

Reject the technology of isolation.

My brain is not functioning very well. I was reading Leigh Brackett’s first space opera story, “Martian Quest,” straight from a scan of the February 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. I read this, thinking it couldn’t be the end, but couldn’t find the rest of the story. I was sure it was an editorial error, and that the final page had been dropped. It took me 20 minutes to realize that this is in fact the end, and I realized it when it finally dawned on what the “it” in the last sentence referred to.

I hate X and won’t link to it, but this reaction to Mamdani ratio-ing Cuomo and making money off it made me laugh:

The Giannisance Man
@ GiannisanceMan
Replying to @ ZohranKMamdani and @ andrewcuomo
Cuomo claims to hate socialism but keeps getting publicly owned. Sad
5:16 AM · Jul 15, 2025

Mamdani Fundraises Off Cuomo Video: PHOTO

Oof, that's gotta sting 😂

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This administration is saying that "people should have to prove that they deserve health care" as justification for kicking millions off Medicaid. That's eugenics.

Health care is a human right, and everyone deserves access to health care no matter who they are, what they do, or how they live.