Traditionally, if the butch died in combat, her femme would be burned alive in a pyre #QueerHistory #ListenToQueerElders

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“Every possible -ism and -phobia and moral impropriety has been ascribed to me since I began my largely pro-bono career as an internet girl,” writes Ivy Wolk. In a new essay,​ the 22-year-old comedian and actor reflects on the way her dark thoughts about her own self-image are interpreted as “soulless edgelord fare” — and all the times she’s been canceled since she started posting her comedy online as a teen, including when children once decided en masse that she was a “whorish foil” to a famous friend of hers. “As much as I wish for anonymity or a slate wipe sometimes, I am grateful for the perspective I’ve aggregated and the ways in which I have been challenged never to abandon my beliefs and my unbounding love for other people,” Wolk writes. “It cannot harden me, it cannot isolate me from community, and it cannot remove me from public life.” Read the full essay: nymag.visitlink.me/yANP5M

Today's #WordOfTheDay is stroopwafel. Learn more about this word: bit.ly/4xNTVK1

🧵Update on SC hearing against Trans Act 2026: The India branch of a UK-based TERF org, Women's Declaration International, filed a petition in SC to argue that trans women are not women. The petition misreads NALSA & suggests: trans rights come at the cost of (cis)women’s rights.

Guy Debord argued that modern life was increasingly being replaced by representations of itself. In 1994, he died by suicide. David Foster Wallace proposed sincerity as an escape from recursive irony. In 2008, he died by suicide. Mark Fisher wrote about the ghosts of futures that never arrived. In 2017, he died by suicide. Now it is our turn to solve postmodernism.