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#ValveTurner. Born 321 ppm.
Jun 22, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
There’s been a lot of response to @ryangrim’s piece on progressive nonprofits and their current challenges, at least some of which ring painfully true to many of us. Some thought it was all about staff/mgmt. issues, some thought it was all about race. I have a few other ideas.
1. 4 years of Trump fucked people up 2. 2.5 yrs (so far) of pandemic REALLY fucked people up, & made much of our usual work impossible. We’re still coming out of that. 3. The racial justice uprisings gave a good shove to work that was already necessarily underway in many orgs…
Jun 30, 2019 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
In an op-ed I'm sympathetic to, this sentence implies an odd spectrum: "Empathetic viewers might want to see a character embrace her singleness, even if an actual lesbian pairing is too much to hope for." Historically, it seems...
washingtonpost.com/outlook/tomboy…
...clear that singleness was often chosen by those who could repress their desires, or who had no other choice. But it's by no means a spectrum, and independence/singleness can compel/befall those of any orientation.
