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13 Nov, 4 tweets, 4 min read
1/x Wildly excited that @PatrickStrud's series on queer men of color and crystal meth for @BuzzFeedNews has been shortlisted for a Foreign Affairs award at the British Journalism Awards. The winner will be announced 9 December.

I'll link to the works with a few words
2. Near its completion, I was honou(r)ed to help @stuartmillar159 & @benyt edit this remarkable series. In part one, @PatrickStrud dives into how the death of two Black men at Ed Buck's house revealed a widespread problem buzzfeednews.com/article/patric…
3. In Part 2, "The Hurt Locker," Patrick delves into why meth addiction affects Black and Latin queer people buzzfeednews.com/article/patric…
4. And in Part 3, @PatrickStrud looks at why help for crystal meth is NOT getting to queer people of color.

Congratulations Patrick--and please check out if you haven't @Kassandra_Fred @melissagira @ZachWritesStuff & #ViralUnderclass students

buzzfeednews.com/article/patric…

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Public Service Reminder: The Met Opera is streaming Philip Glass's AKHNATEN for the next 23 hours. Free, no login required. Sally and I paid a small fortune to see this performance live, and honestly it's much better online than live. Karen Kamensek conducts in her Met debut. Image
That moment when Akhenaten has been built up for an hour and has been parading around the stage without sound and finally sings and—SURPRISE—our Pharaoh is a countertenor!!!
As I wrote last year, I am my dad’s (gay) son in that my dad would get excited about who was pitching when we saw a Dodgers game & I, I get excited when I see who’s conducting a Glass opera or symphony.

I’d pay for a cam just on Kamensek in the pit here for 3 hours.
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13 Nov
I've started saying no to every invitation, including events by Zoom. It's impossible to know what the future will hold with this virus, and I don't want to be in debt with my future time in ways that leave me unable to cope, respond or rest as the pandemic will necessitate.
I also want the space to want to read something or have a friend or colleague say on any given date “Do you want to talk?” without having to say, “Sorry I agreed to something three months ago, and now I don’t have time.”
This is something I have struggled with for years: Saying yes to things that sound interesting in the future, and then not having time to or space to respond to life when that time rolls around bc I am in debt to obligations. The pandemic has made the impetus to fill time
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13 Nov
Hearing about Pfizer getting billions reminds me of a point I made w a student today: The division between public & private vaccine R&D is just about capital capture.

The US funds R&D costs for phrama cos (often w unis) & will then promises to buy billions of doses from them.
The state pays for all of it -- the education of the workers, the graduate training of workers, the R&D done via NIH/CDC/DoD labs, development costs for pharma, and then the state guarantees being the biggest seller.
What pharma cos do is provide a place for capital capture, largely through an ability to patent intellectual property. But even "private" pharma cos are awash in resources in/directly capitalized by the state &, especially w COVID, govts will capitalize them as customers
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13 Nov
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12 Nov
1/x Something I find fascinating in the slow-moving transition of POTUS power & COVID lockdown is a reaffirmation of how existence is RELATIONAL. No one, office, no nation, no honorific exist independently; we depend on one another for our very existence.
2/x Trump can't stay in power w/o relationships. The presidency depends on recognition of others—not just internally by voters recognizing Biden as next POTUS and opposition party (recognizing Trump) but externally by other states (already recognizing Biden as next POTUS)
3/x "The world is moving on." When the United States was formally conjured into being, it wasn't only England recognizing it which will it into existence, but it was Spain, France and the Dutch Republic willing it into existence.
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12 Nov
Immabe petty for a minute:

How low has the GOP sunk that a recount in *Georgia* is cause for celebration?!
But, as @edroso might say, this is a fundraising email, and there ain't no position too low for this dude to grift
No shade to ppl who are countering authoritarianism, but my read isn't that he won't leave. Yes, he'll drag his feet & GSA may balk, and this will mean work that could start January 20 could start in Feb or March (& with COVID, that will mean more death, yes. Outrageous.)
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