For Majuscule, I have a longread on trans people outsmarting the medical apparatus, how trans terminology has shifted over time, and the 100th anniversary of the word transsexual. Really stoked I got to go long on these themes, take a look! majusculelit.com/the-true-trans…

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If you're looking for original and provocative ideas and reason to hope for the future, read Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 's Reconsidering Reparations. Makes a coherent whole of many strands of history, political economy, philosophy, and social justice that are too often discussed separately.

Read Neville Park’s second First 100 Days column tracking the Olivia Chow mayoralty. On what a city mayor can do about climate change, and a literal train wreck in Scarborough. thelocal.to/what-can-olivi…

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many people/pundits/scholars that use the word democracy with ease show the greatest unease, ignorance, or contempt when the practice of democracy - the mess, the oppressive history, the tensions inherent - are brought into the arena. not the ones to look to in this moment.