Eve Tushnet
video, with me & Ron Belgau: Read more
video, with me & Ron Belgau: Read more
(that one.) Last section was the most powerful for me, but here’s an earlier bit: My main goal is to reach out and encourage people who feel trapped because they believe what the church teaches about sex but feel that this leaves them no way to have a meaningful life. That’s who I’m talking to most of the time and trying to find ways to help people who agree with church teachings to live out their convictions and be welcomed... Read more
w/Jorge Ramos: “Can you be a gay man, a lesbian, or a transgender person, and still be a Catholic?” That was just one of the questions Fusion’s Jorge Ramos asked a group of young Roman Catholics during a recent discussion about the changing nature of Catholicism in the U.S. Half of the panelists were members of the LGBT community, while the other half was comprised of conservative Catholics, including one young priest. “We’re doing it, right?” Eve Tushnet, a lesbian... Read more
writes: It doesn’t just seem like our lives will be over because we have “an intensely narrow vision” of our own identity. Our lives actually do end, in many ways, when we become mothers. It’s the end of one life, the only life we’d ever known, and the beginning of another, and it’s at least as terrifying as being born must be. Maybe more so, because we’re cognizant of what’s happening, and we know that what is now required is... Read more
short essay: …But research has shown that most gender dysphoric children outgrow their dysphoria, and do so by adolescence: Most will grow up to be happy, gay adults, and some, like myself, to be happy, straight adults. There is a small proportion of trans kids whose dysphoria will persist and who would benefit from medical intervention, but the tricky part remains predicting whom these ideal candidates will be. For a young child whose gender dysphoria would have desisted without intervention,... Read more
So this country is kind of losing what remains of its mind over the Pope, yes? You guys know that the pope makes me feel minty, and this mintiness is not decreased by proximity. I will be sheltering in place for the duration of his visit. That said, I was in Philadelphia recently and they have done one fantastic thing. The city is pope-mad, the train station is just covered in giant scary Francis faces that turn out to be... Read more
I would frame this in terms of supporting caregiving–framing things in terms of “equality” just encourages people to judge the depth of others’ relationships in the abstract (are boyfriends and husbands really equal?), instead of asking whether caregiving and sacrificial love are really taking place. Still, this makes an important point: Both government and the private sector can do more. Only three states have paid family leave laws, and only California’s law covers care for siblings, grandparents, grandchildren and parents-in-law. I consider my gay... Read more
for the University Bookman: Death and defeat haunt the college novel. College novels—whether they focus on students or professors—typically tell a story in which the shining promises of academia prove not only false but absurd. College promises insight; college novels display the blankness of human depravity. College proclaims the power of reason and dialogue; college novels expose irrational passions and farcical miscommunication. College exalts the life of the mind, while the college novel is the province of sex and death,... Read more
let’s start our Monday on a high note Read more
a window into my id? via Simone R, back in 1993. Oh those bygone days! Read more
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