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Happy Monday, all.
Today’s newsletter is a quickie because I didn’t do anything intellectual this weekend. I’m practicing ““““rest”””””. I don’t really know how to do that, so it’s going about as well as can be expected.
Here’s what I have for you today:
Housekeeping
In review
What I’m reading
Tweets
Housekeeping:
I have a lot of zines available. You can buy them here.
I have an essay coming out in Copper Nickel later this year where I dialogue with my seven-year-old-self. Here are some of the excerpts I use in the essay, featuring baby Despy’s horrendous spelling:
In review:
In case you need reminding that I do, like, sometimes talk about things beyond what I’m reading & writing & making, here are a few recent & more substantive posts:
What I read last weekend:
To read:
Tweets:
To claim one group of downtrodden people is oppressing another by their self-identification is to swing your guns away from those who really do oppress us, and to aim them at those who are already under siege.
Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
obsessed with this picture of carrie fisher holding mark hamill because i always think it's from a vintage lesbian archive
Wrote a family poem that unfolds all triggering content with warnings. Grateful to @TriQuarterlyMag for the sunlight.
triquarterly.org/issues/issue-1…
-Despy Boutris