The “optimizing” trend is all about shifting responsibility for health onto the individual and profiting from it.
You can do everything “right” and still get cancer. Ask me how I know.
When @rtraister.bsky.social and @chrislhayes.bsky.social got going I had to check my settings up see if I had the speed turned up. I needed this
This interview with @rtraister.bsky.social is a serious must listen. Imagine what we're continuing to lose because women aren't taken seriously and because many men get away with so much podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
This is v worth your time:
Really terrific conversation between @rtraister.bsky.social and @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Epstein and the legacy of Me Too - give a listen.
Today is pub day for Angry Girls Will Get Us Through, a young readers edition of Good & Mad, drawing on material from all three of my previous books (plus new material). It was brilliantly adapted by Ruby Shamir. Here is a (starred!) review from Kirkus: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Thread. I sent the link to IRL artist friend & they wound up subscribing to the magazine & wowed by this week's fashion photos of @mayor.nyc.gov's wife. Penn-worthy.
I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.
This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...
But for the cost of childcare, Mamdani would have been born in the US and could have run for president. Read @rtraister.bsky.social’s excellent piece on filmmaker Mira Nair. www.vulture.com/article/what...
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
“There was no woman auteur from India having films distributed in the U.S. to a general audience. There was no Mira before Mira, no precedent for her; she blazed her path with talent, charm, and will in superabundance. Sound familiar?”
www.vulture.com/article/what...
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Thank you!
“I’ve thought a lot of them not just as parents individually or as aspirations professionally,” Mamdani told me, “but in terms of what a marriage can look like, pursuing your professional dreams and being able to raise a family all at once.”"
xo
Thank you!!
Thank you!
So many quotes in here to pull out and share, but this is a such a incisive, startling profile of Mira Nair, one of my favourite ever filmmakers who also just happens to be Zohran Mamdani's mum.
She has stayed in my head as a young filmmaker from the '90s, so when I first heard that her son was running for Mayor, my initial reaction was "Mira Nair isn't old enough to have a son who is a mayoral candidate!" And then I remembered that I'm 50 and it isn't 1992 anymore.
Thank you, Jami!
Yes I was able to order a DVD too
I mean you guys
Stay for the stories about Baby Zohran
Come for the reminder that you should watch Mississippi Masala again IMMEDIATELY, as well as Salaam Bombay! The Namesake, her early documentaries and more (Monsoon Wedding is bizarrely not easily available right now in the US)
Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
so freaking proud of my
girl @ejdickson.bsky.social on her new book ONE BAD MOTHER (out tomorrow!!!!) and a sold out event tonight with @rtraister.bsky.social
I've thought about this piece, and that line from @rtraister.bsky.social so much while watching the lightbulbs turn on for folks, except it's the Epstein files this time.
I hope enough people understand these are systems problems and that for the abuse to stop you have to eradicate rotten systems
Traister, 2017: "We’re not only learning about individual trespasses but for the first time getting a view of the matrix in which we’ve all been living: We see that the men who have had the power to abuse women’s bodies and psyches throughout their careers are in many cases also the ones in charge."
Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
