Nora 🐝
@elanorjb
PDX, some kind of forest gremlin. also a trans femme mom lawyer writer. 2023 Literary Arts Fellow, words at Slate, Rumpus, Catapult (RIP), etc. More charming irl
all other lgbtqs: meet cutes, bashful romance, genre-bound sentimental tragedy, forbidden love against the backdrop of history trans women: what if physical and psychological disintegration. what if the dark comes to claim you. what if oblivion
No matter how weird you think millennial nostalgia content is, its so much weirder from the target demographic. Like there’s a whole genre of content that’s just sad music over sad lonely characters with sad lonely captions about how you can never go back to launch-era WoW
8 Dems in favor you say. Would not have passed without them you say. Gluesenkamp Perez you say. Ahh yes I see I see
If you’re a trans attorney knower, it’s actually kind of breathtaking how much this reads as less a profile and more an indirect but very intentional takedown of a Certain Individual
literally how I sit while teaching my grad school class. you all are just homophobic
Early 90s Trek: Gay lizard men and pansexual gender shapeshifters Later 90s Trek:
Portland Update: Palestine peace protestors have blocked Burnside downtown right in front of Powell’s.
“War ravaged Portland” where EVEN ICE FUCKING HEADQUARTERS IS CALM AND QUIET BASICALLY ALL THE TIME
One of the immediate implications of this is that these “biological reality” definitions of sex are essentially incompatible with any meaningful civil rights law addressing societal hostility and harm *because of* sex. For one, bc most of that stuff is better framed as gender
Got back from a week out of town and the raspberry hedge was out of control. Gave away like a half gallon yesterday and still picked another quart before bed. We’re at that part of berry season