Diary of a Misfit
When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks’ grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was « a woman who lived as a man. » « Find out what happened to Roy, » Casey’s grandma implored. Part memoir, part investigative reporting, Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks’ life-changing journey to unravel the mysteries of Roy’s life, all the while confronting ghosts of her own.
In a memoir & investigation very similar in structure and messaging to Alex Marzano-Lesvenich’s The fact of a body, Casey Parks tells us her own story as she tries to uncover the life of a (seemingly) transgender man in rural Louisiana in the 70s. The memoir begins as her mother makes it very clear that…
Transidentités : de l’invisibilisation à l’obsession médiatique
Notre étude révèle que la moitié des articles n’ont pas un traitement respectueux des personnes trans, un sur quatre sont même anti-trans.
Le nouveau rapport de l’Association des Journalistes LGBT (AJL) est excellent. Le rapport est en trois parties : 1. Un sujet enfin légitime 2. Des progrès fragiles 3. Un nouveau marqueur des lignes éditoriales à droite À lire absolument !
ambassador of the federation
crosspost to Mastodon woes
Solarpunk Now! is my latest #podcast find. It’s in English and talks about the future of our world, with #solarpunk ethics, of course. The intro episode touches on the difference between cottagecore and solarpunk and on why cottagecore too often leads to ecofascism, and I thought it was super interesting; the other episodes, if I…
des colonisations
Le discours public actuel sur la colonisation, c’est souvent le même que pendant l’ère coloniale. Et tout en haut de l’État, on préfère essayer d’interdire l’étude de la colonisation sous prétexte d’islamo-gauchisme plutôt que de prendre nos responsabilités et d’essayer d’améliorer les choses.
The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that our coverage will influence not only how people think, but also how they act. This responsibility is at the core of an…
Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)The really remarkable thing isn’t just that Microsoft has decided that the future of search isn’t links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar – even more remarkable is that Google agrees.