In an age when reactionaries need increasingly sinister conspiracy theories to thrive on, their obsession with trans people will only get more dangerous Earlier this wee a controversy erupted on right wing social media about The Trevor Project, a long-standing LGBTQ suicide hotline that has helped countless young queer teens…

I’ve been trying to move for several years and housing is so darn expensive When I first looked at moving back to Western Massachusetts a few years ago, the rents were largely affordable. …

I was worried about the game’s new 5v5 format. I was wrong Last year, the Overwatch development team announced that the hero shooter was moving to a 5v5 format, essentially dropping a tank in an effort to improve the game. When they made this announcement, I wrote tat the game…

Thursday is Trans Day of Visibility but it feels like we’ve been uncomfortably hyper visible for too long now — I’m extremely tired of being visible. I would appreciate not being perceived for awhile. Trans people are seemingly the topic of the day nearly every day in modern day America. A Supreme Court nominee was grilled the other day over how she would define “woman.” Tucker Carlson hosts nearly nightly…

Now six years after my gender transition, I’m starting to go back to some of my old interests and habits — Before my gender transition, my interests in life revolved mainly around two things: video games and UMass basketball. In fact, I cut my teeth with internet writing on a little known message board devoted to UMass sports where we would argue over the every day happenings of a middling mid…

Sometimes the world doesn’t really need your thoughts on some topics — Unless you live under a rock, I’m sure by now that you’ve heard of and probably seen Will Smith’s slap of comedian Chris Rock at this past weekend’s Oscars. The takes quickly came flooding in. Director Judd Apatow tweeted that Rock “could have been killed.” A white woman on Twitter…

Twitter is apoplectic that author Lauren Hough had a queer award nomination revoked. But no one knew about the nomination in the first place. — If there’s one issue that has almost single handedly dominated news paper and publication editorial pages in the early part of this decade, it has to be so-called “cancel culture.” Stories abound all over places like The Atlantic, which seemingly runs multiple cancel culture pieces every week, or The New…

Punditry’s most embarrassing obsession comes to war time and it’s just as dumb as you’d expect it to be — A war started this week in Ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin finally began the campaign he’s been signaling towards for quite some time. The images coming from Ukraine have been horrifying as observers the world over admire the fighting strength of the nation’s people. However, one initial reaction to the…

There’s a deep right wing media ecosystem expressly dedicated to convincing conservatives that the sky isn’t blue and that Democrats are pure evil — President Joe Biden is risking his political future, and that of the Democratic party’s control of Congress on the fact that the economy now is stronger than it has been in a long time, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020. His administration’s policies have near universally been…