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Jane Fonda is great, and has been great for a long time. My favorite quote from this interview:
“I always feel that I’ve got to pay attention so I can learn. And I try to have friends who can teach me. I’m a student. I’m a generic kind of person. I’m very observant. I receive it. And then I become the megaphone.”
ACT UP's Needle Exchange Legacy — I’m continually fascinated by this time period and how the government failed so many people and how a whole generation of queer folks were just…wiped out. The documentary “How to Survive a Plague” delves into all of this in detail. You can watch on Amazon Prime.
U.S. History of Violence Against Asian-American Women — tldr: what’s happening now isn’t new.
Y'all saw this mess? The fallout from Teen Vogue’s hiring of Alexi McCammond, and her subsequent (forced) resign, reigned over the Internet ~discourse~ for a couple weeks. As is often true on the Internet, a lot of the commentary was reactionary and—word of the week—silly. I think this article hit the nail on the head, though. Favorite quote:
“…this is a labor dispute that has almost no labor analysis in the surrounding conversation. Closed systems like this conceal things. Workers—in this case, the staff of Teen Vogue and McCammond—are often conscripted into these secrets. The story we then get usually fails to contend with power.”
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