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I think the first time I really reflected on my gender identity was when Chelsea came out. I was working in a very conservative environment and I stood out: I dressed femme most of the time, but didn’t yet publicly identify as a woman. One of my coworkers said something about her coming out being a publicity stunt. I just kind of nodded along, but in the back of my mind I knew the truth, because I knew it would have to be my truth soon, too.

I had the eBook of this but grabbing the physical at the library lets me tag more liberally in my digital copy and still read on the go (the power of double-note taking via sticky notes, ha)

Feels timely since platform capitalism really is just choking the collective imagination.

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Told myself I wasn't going to start this any later than a particular birthday. Glad I stuck to that.

This is something I'll start right after Are Prisons Obselete? given its recent (and neverending) relevancy.

There's nothing "easy" about this book. The size of it is a lie because it packs reference after reference, account after damning account, of how prisons not only reinforce society's eagerness to have patriarchial violence run amuck, not only how neoliberalism profits from that, racism and empire, not only how technology and the weapons industry both profit and expand their reach through prison enforcement but how all of this, all of this, is an artifact of a people who had to project their means of life onto the WHOLE WORLD. Without aboltion, we are damning ourselves as a species.

I think in order to actually get back to a place where I can communicate my disdain with neoliberalism, I need to go back a bit. So I'm going to hurt myself and read a Bible-sized book on it.