The last thing I want to say for now: that post-Christchurch thread on Shamima Begum resulted in neo-Nazis targeting me for death, and a host of other cataclysmic events like job loss.
I don’t regret writing it. I would not change a thing.
It helps me keep hope alive.
Don’t forget: from COVID to the Capitol, from ISIS to neo-Nazis, and the military industrial complex to the BJP:
“One insight that injury affords is that there are others...on whom my life depends, people I do not and may never know" - Judith Butler
Forgot to add this one - a quick explainer on mass culpability and how optimism should be cautious in light of how political divides work (in response to Jeff Sessions’ firing):
Quick thread on the Capitol siege and media culpability (it's not what you might expect) incoming.
Recently, we've heard A LOT about media culpability for platforming and laundering the ideologies of white supremacists like Richard Spencer. All fair.
I won't rehash the other list of grievances.
But there's another issue that's older: the death of print media and paywalls.
Contemporary media rests on two foundations:
1) access 2) profit
Obviously, the need for each corrupts the entire enterprise. But their convergence raises an urgent problem we need to address ASAP.