Tessy Schlosser

Calendars of Truth - The Ideas Letter Schlosser reflects on how contemporary rituals of remembrance—from Mexico’s annual Ayotzinapa marches to the liturgical cycle of Yom Kippur—expose the limits of truth as redemption or revelation. Thro...

I wrote about "truth-telling" for The Ideas Letter from @open-society.bsky.social. It was as personal quest where I found company by the hand of Antigone, Cassandra, and Jonah.

www.theideasletter.org/essay/calend...

yeah... I kind of don't know how to even exist in social media anymore. I feel like I enjoyed the interactive social aspect of them and it has all become "content" to consume and not even that great.

I really thought I would use this more.

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

It is always an incredible experience reading @alexshams.bsky.social 🫶🏼

¡Qué gran foto!

“Struggling through the work is extremely important -- more important than publishing it.”

-- Toni Morrison

Thank you for reading, Cath!

Reporting: Mexico’s government is using the disappeared to build a surveillance state, families say — The Mexico Brief. by Madeleine Wattenbarger. A polemical point of the reform to the General Disappearance Law passed by Mexican legislators this week is the use of a biometric CURP to search for missing people. The ...

This is a techno-dystopian nightmare. www.themexicobrief.org/latest/mexic...

Thank you for reading and sharing! An honor.

Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned - The Ideas Letter It would be convenient to start this essay with a clear definition of identity politics—a dictionary-worthy entry, presented like a compact and neat truth. But identity politics resists tidy…

Rather than abandon identity politics, this piece argues that we must embrace its friction— an unfinished solidarity that resists purity. Identity is not possession but passage; liberation lies not in coherence but in living with unresolved tensions.

By @tessyschlo.bsky.social

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Desempolvando la lengua de redes sociales con un buenos días.

I [Berlant] You. Hablaba con un amigo cómo elle insistía en sus pronombres they-them profesionalmente y ya después con querides era ella. 100% a una solo pocos la conocen en su forma de ser mujer.

Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned - The Ideas Letter It would be convenient to start this essay with a clear definition of identity politics—a dictionary-worthy entry, presented like a compact and neat truth. But identity politics resists tidy definitio...

What would it mean to approach identity not as a problem that needs solving, but as something to consider with care and to critique in the knowledge that it is too much and not enough?
www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...

Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned - The Ideas Letter It would be convenient to start this essay with a clear definition of identity politics—a dictionary-worthy entry, presented like a compact and neat truth. But identity politics resists tidy definitio...

I like that my first post for this platform will be me sharing an essay I wrote for The Ideas Letter on identity politics. It’s a subject I return to again and again—how identity both opens and limits political possibility.

www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...