I don't mean to suggest these texts are basic or simple in any way, they are all quite nuanced and profound, but together I find them to introduce a lot of concepts and practices in accessible, grounded, complementary ways that make them a good starter kit.
Mar 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I love these sobering observations about relationships from David Richo's book How to Be An Adult: 1. Intimate relationships survive best with constant permission for ever-changing ratios of closeness and distance. 2. No one can control/change someone else, nor is it necessary.
3. There is no one person who will make you happy, keep you fascinated, love you as your favorite parent did, or give you the love you missed from your parents. 4. Most people avoid or fear intimacy, consistent honesty, intense feelings and uninhibited joy.
Jan 26, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
It is always the right time to circulate this gorgeous pro-trans anti-military image that @micahbazant made as part of the QueerTransWarBan.com toolkit.
And what about this rad poster made by @jbbrager!
Jul 23, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I love the underlying abolitionist message of #ACAB, but "bastard" as an insult is part of a long racist, sexist, anti-poor history of stigmatizing people with unmarried parents.
In the US, this stigma against unmarried parenting has been explicitly anti-Black, with illegitimacy laws used after Jim Crow to exclude Black children and families from programs and services.
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