Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa

A screenshot of a mobile Google search results page in dark mode for the query "Kansas trans". Under the heading "News about Kansas," there is a list of four news articles: ​An article from the Kansas City Star, published 13 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday". The thumbnail shows a sample Kansas driver's license. ​An article from The Independent, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas sends letters to trans drivers demanding the immediate surrender of their licenses over birthright law". The thumbnail shows small pride flags on desks inside a legislative chamber. ​An article from The Topeka Capital-Journal, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas invalidates IDs and birth certificates of transgender people". The thumbnail features a close-up of colorful pride flag stickers. ​An article from Erin In The Morning, published 16 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses". The thumbnail is a nighttime photo of a state capitol building illuminated in pink and red lights.

A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas.

This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people.

This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.

A Heron’s Antidote to Fear of Death They didn’t imagine it, the dying dinosaurs, that they would grow wings and become birds, become the laboratory in which evolution invented dreams and the cathedral in which it invented faith…

A heron's antidote to fear of death www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/06/h...

“The most anti capitalist protest is to care for one another and to care for oneself…To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice a community of support.—Johanna Hedva, Sick Woman Theory

“I Go Down to the Shore”: Natascha McElhone Reads Mary Oliver’s Spare, Splendid Antidote to Melancholy and Personal Misery Consolation for the waves of sorry from the waves of the sea.

Mary Oliver's antidote to melancholy www.themarginalian.org/2020/09/18/i...

How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples” “Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in one of the most sobering opening pages in literature.…

How should you live your life – I'll take Marie Howe's spare, stunning poem "The Maples" over all the world's philosophy for an answer

We can all learn from this high school kid.

How to Kidnap an Audience: On breaking the spell of our training as consumers People get broken all the time, there’s no art in that, but there is an art in making spaces where we can be broken open with a chance of healing.

“how do we make work that breaks through these habits, this way of consuming culture that leaves us untouched, where we don’t become vulnerable, don’t risk being changed by the experience?”

Nobel Laureate Louise Glück’s Love Poem to Life at the Horizon of Death A subtle, stunning serenade to the lifelong hunger for self-love and self-forgiveness.

A stunning love poem to life at the horizon of death from Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who would have been 82 today www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/11/l...

The disabled aren't in the poem either, and that's equally telling.

““If you intensify & complete your subjective emotions, visions, you see their relation to others’ emotions. It is not a question of choosing between them, one at the cost of another, but a matter of completion, of inclusion, an encompassing, unifying, & integrating which makes maturity.”—Anais Nin

Rebel News owner Ezra Levant was 'mentor' to Poilievre, says author | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the right-wing media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates C...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has documented historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates Commission. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more.” —Albert Camus

Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise “Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil.”

"Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil."

Such a moving read: www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/23/g...

“Disguise it to yourself as you will, the majority does want a dictator… A big mass likes to be shoved as a whole because it feels it moves and they cannot possibly feel that they move themselves as little masses can, there you are, like it or not there we are.”
(Gertrude Stein 1937)

This one’s for the penguins.

Well deserved!

I’ll text you peace plans

speak beauty! notice what lives alongside the misery.

Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music Humans have profoundly changed the global soundscape. Studying how nonhuman animals respond to music can contribute to a better understanding of the e…

Our #zoomusicology #animalwelfare paper "Playing music to animals," co-authored by Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, Martin Ullrich, @ruedinager.bsky.social and me is now open access. This has been such a great team to work with & fun paper to write!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SorryNotSorry. I’m so looking forward to your turtles piece!

I don’t know why but this makes me think of The Dictionary of Lost Words, another book you introduced me to

SD Holman: Trailblazer YouTube video by ReelYouth

"Everything we have fought for can be taken away at any moment" —SD Holman.
Watching this again - and it's more poignant than ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuUq...

Yes. The surge of nationalism everywhere is as predictable as it is unsettling. Everywhere around me I’m seeing wartime vocabulary and wartime mentality. Who does nationalism ultimately profit?

Canada commits to sharing Vancouver (YVR) airport ground lease revenue with Musqueam to boost community development and economic growth Today, Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow, alongside the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Econom...

Canada commits to sharing a percentage of Vancouver YVR Airport ground lease revenue with Musqueam #news 📰 #UNDRIP

I’ve noticed a direct correlation between how much I scroll on the socials and how long it takes me to learn notes. Infinite scroll has us practice forgetting. Over and over and over.

Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Issues in Care of Transgender Adolescents Complete care for transgender adolescents must be considered in the context of a holistic approach that includes comprehensive primary care as well as cultural, economic, psychosocial, sexual, an...

Putting this here, in case anyone needs to brush up. Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Issues in the Care of Transgender Adolescents, by Catherine White Holman and Joshua M Goldberg.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I like that as a take on the rule of thumb… one handful at a time. Neuroscience says we can hold up to 4 things in mind at once; after that we break it up into chunks, 3+2, 3+3, 3+4, 4+4, 3+3+3, etcetera. (So relatable as a musician). I’m gonna try your handful approach on my task management too!

I hope there’s a happy resolution for you soon jessa! Housing insecurity is so wearing.

Claude Cahun with hearts on their face and I AM IN TRAINING DON'T KISS ME shirt

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism.

A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.

Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.

They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

Watching Canadians back into a trauma fight response en masse is so alarming. But it’s predictable- classic predator modus operandus: induce a trauma response because people are easier to manipulate if their thinking are brains offline. Everywhere I look I see the mindset and language of wartime.