Pain Is Not a Penance: On our unexamined assumptions about pain, character, cause and effect, etymologies, and what we do to each other when we cannot stop hurting
Now up on Substack, public post. Please share, sometimes we all need to hear it.
Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain. In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food. Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..
I'm putting this here, for all of us who've had a tough week and need to hear that it can, sometimes almost instantly, get better ☀️
(from, "The Unconsoled" by Kazuo Ishiguro)
Not long ago people attacked gay and lesbian people for being sexual predators. These days the same arguments are used against trans people.
https://trans-express.lgbt/post/728009783443177472/not-long-ago-people-attacked-gay-and-lesbian
Right wing extremists and left wing “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” (TERFs) are arguing that trans women are a threat to cis women and children. The tactic is to sexualize transgender people,...