anthropologist turned dv worker in the midwest, studied trauma, psych diagnosis, memory and the epistemological politics of "false memory syndrome" || transfeminine || feminist killjoy
i post about politics, trauma, disability, psychiatry and science & technology studies || content warnings for discussions of child sexual abuse, sexual violence, abuse apologia and occasionally p*dophilia apologia
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yeah man for sure. anyways do we think that maybe this obsession with defending The Objective Truth of Reality might have something to do with sokal and his little fan club having all gone mask off transphobic in the name of defending Objective Biological Reality?
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Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
From "The Optimism of Uncertainty" (2004)
Cory Doctorow
Spencer Beswick