Scholar of kids' culture, music, and musicals. Author of Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale, https://xitter.cf/t.co/fWUhUNn1Lu. PhD, childhood studies. He/him.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined August 2008
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A lot of trans people are going to have to leave Florida and Texas in the coming years. Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Baltimore are all places with good legal protections, strong trans communities, and affordable housing.
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It's not just that Trump won. It's that Joe Rogan, Dana White and Brett Favre won. Jailed insurrectionists won. The Alitos and the Thomases won. Vladimir Putin won. Racism won. Misogyny won. Sexism won. Global warming won. Xenophobia won. Most of all: Fear Won. That's what hurts.
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In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.
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I was hoping this election would show people that hating on trans people wasn’t a winning message.
It didn’t do that.
All kinds of discrimination against us is about to get worse. Employment, healthcare, housing…people know they can get away with it now.
This is a nightmare.
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Here’s something that might be hard to hear
They were already like that
Your relatives didn’t magically transform into new people. They just got permission to let their inside thoughts become outside thoughts
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Incredible news. Zooey Zephyr, my fiancée, was re-elected to the Montana House of Representatives, getting 83% of the vote.
Many of you will remember her for standing up for trans people in Montana, and then getting censured and kicked off the House floor.
I'm so proud of her.
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I for one, will never forget or forgive the amount of hatred leveled at trans people this election.
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These pundits need to stop saying that Democrats need to sell their policies better to working class voters.
Democrats have done that.
People voting for Trump want to indulge their bigotry and hatred, and Trump allows them to do it.
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Even if Harris wins, a reminder that it should never have been this close. And we will need to reckon with the fact that half the country voted for fascism for a long time.
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No matter what happens tonight, the fascist movement in the United States is powerful and growing, and we all have to gird ourselves to fight it.
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One reason pollsters might be failing to pick up what and Seltzer picked up in Iowa, is a lot of women are afraid to say they are voting for Harris.
Sharing stories yesterday after knocking doors in Pennsylvania, can't tell you the number of canvassers who had wives standing in the background while speaking to the husband and having them mouth something to the effect that they were voting for Harris. Or if they answered the door, they pretended to not say who they were voting for out loud and then whispered they were voting for Harris. It's kind of heartbreaking actually.
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Not here so much but boost for @KristineAlexand et al and their recent excellent work Small Stories of War which I’ve reviewed here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Apparently @realMikeLindell’s strategy is to go full Scooby-Doo villain: the pillow guy shaved his ‘stache to go “undercover” to shout conspiracy theories at the #DNC.
He’d have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for this meddling kid.
#DNC2024 #DNC2024CHICAGO #DNCConvention @DemConvention @KnowaWasTaken