Gather round, women and minorities, and warm your hearts with the tale of all the lives we’ve ruined. — If you read this column on a regular basis, then I assume that you, like myself, are a woke censor — one of the countless identity-politics-maddened Maenads who cavort across the media landscape, ripping powerful celebrities to shreds for the slightest offense. If someone says something racist in your presence…

Twitter removed every boundary that makes human community and conversation tolerable. Please don’t make me go through it twice. — It’s been a month since Elon Musk took over and broke Twitter, and in those four weeks, I’ve signed up for at least that many “Twitter alternatives.” As soon as any one alternative gained traction, Twitter users found a problem with it: Everyone was moving to Mastodon, but its content…

Trans people were killed in a shooting the night before the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Everyone saw it coming. — I do not want to begin the week of Thanksgiving by talking about the mass murder of queer people. The timing wasn’t up to me. This Saturday, at a drag event at Club Q in Colorado Springs, an armed man walked in and began shooting. …

Cis people are fixating on trans people even as it destroys their lives, careers, and chances of re-election. Learn to spot the signs. — Hello, and welcome to Trans Awareness Week. It is customary, at this time, to remind you that some people trans their gender. People have been doing this throughout recorded history, in pretty much every culture you can imagine, and, although we don’t yet know precisely how or why — as…

This website tried to kill me on more than one occasion. I’ll be sad when it’s gone. — In my twenties, I liked to get involved with big, demanding, controlling personalities. I loved people with theatrical sensibilities and dramatic, all-consuming problems; people with a 24-point plan for cleaning the kitchen counter and no idea how to get through the day without screaming; people who needed you to do…

The most important thing I can tell you about Barbarian is that it anticipated my objections. Barbarian is one of the most-hyped horror movies of the year. It’s currently streaming on HBO Max after a theatrical release in September. I assume it’s both old enough and widely available enough that…

Part three of a three-part talk with UK feminist Mallory Moore on trans feminism, trans conflict, and trans care. — Note: This is Part Three of a three-part story. You can read Part One here and Part Two here. Well, here we are: After detouring through US politics, then through UK politics, then through fifty years of feminist organizing, this is the installment where Mallory Moore and I discuss trans…

Part two of a three-part talk with UK feminist Mallory Moore on trans feminism, trans conflict, and trans care. — Note: This is Part Two of a three-part story. You can read Part One here and Part Three here. When I came out in 2020, I’d already had a relatively long career as a public feminist. I had been part of the first wave of underpaid or unpaid 2000s-era “feminist…

Part one of a three-part talk with UK feminist Mallory Moore on trans feminism, trans conflict, and trans care. — Note: This is Part One of a three-part story. You can read Part Two here and Part Three here. Mallory Moore is one of the smartest feminists I know. She’s a UK-based researcher with the Trans Safety Project. Her work focuses on tracking the spread of far-right talking points and…