A 🧵on public health, HIV/AIDS activism, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and Twitter: There is a Discourse (sorry) right now where some authors/participants claiming some connections and traditions with ACT UP are objecting to the still-guerilla and usually disorganized COVID safety activism on the basis that the latter is using "shame."

I think the entire Chait/Singal debacle makes sense once you understand that cissexism is often driven by a sense of "gender as biological exposure," a sort of anti-privacy that has to specially victimize trans people to restore itself. Basically since trans people upset the cisnormative notion that your appearance makes implications of your body, structures have to be created to re-expose that information. Which is why it's seen as justified to obliterate the privacy of teens seeking care.

I recently caught COVID and had to cancel all holiday plans. I'm turning the corner on the worst of the acute phase but I want to say two things: Fuck whoever came up with the phrase "mild COVID," and politicize the shit out of my death or incapacitation if either occur. Full on "drag my body in front of the CMOH" levels of politicizing the shit out of my death or incapacitation please, in this scenario

Though meant to be a funny skit it is also an accurate demonstration of fascist power. Sartre's warning - "never doubt they know the absurdity of their own words" - was that fascists can pursue their agendas unshackled by the need to be logically consistent

https://twitter.com/BesDMarx/status/1574793944474570755

They don't need to make sense, they just need to be in power. This is (repeatedly, still) what liberals have no fully understood about its rise. It does not fear embarrassment or being outargued. It fears precisely one thing: Retaliation, before they're ready to respond in kind