Reading old-time racism can be refreshing sometimes. Modern racism is so full of shit. It’s tedious having to always keep up a mind shield against gaslighting. It’s validating to see white people plainly stating things that black people are raked across the coals for saying. Alicia Gaines’ Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race…
On the one hand, I’m usually annoyed when non-autistic people control the conversation about autism. Nothing about us without us. I understand the concept of mansplaining, and a lot of this blog has been taking apart white people’s opinions on race. And yet, on the other hand, I’m a man with a special interest in…
I don’t approve of this article about skateboarding, even though I don’t really disagree with the content. It’s the spirit of the thing that I find troubling. In it, Andrei Buckareff tries to give a philosophical defense of skateboarding, with reference to Camus and virtue ethics. I think he should’ve just gone skateboarding, or maybe…
My identity does have a lot to do with my politics, because I have a simple rule: things that made bad things happen to my family are bad. On my mom’s side, the German side, there was a Jehovah’s Witness sent to concentration camps and two women with epilepsy were sterilized and later killed themselves.…