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The TERFening: attempting to document a convoluted online silencing campaign
Background A few years ago, when I shared this article about Caitlyn Jenner and another one about Rachel Dolezal, many angry liberal friends called me “transphobic,” and told me to “educate myself.”...
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Is There A Doctor In The House?
Note: updated below I NEED HELP. I have an orange-sized fibroid in my cervix, among other problems. The local hospital system is dysfunctional and corrupt – doctors don’t communicate with each other,...
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Intolerance
I was “no-platformed” in my hometown this week, because months ago and in a completely unrelated context I said “if a person has a penis he’s a man.” I stand by that statement; my views on the subject...
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Male Power, or just Power?
This is in response to my article below, Witch Hunt. You must read it first. I INSIST. Have you read it (and the “think piece” it links to)? OK, continue: The following was sent to me by a reader: I...
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Another way the Internet is like the Printing Press
10 years ago, the Free Web was revolutionary, democratizing, and empowering. Many of us correctly compared it to the advent of the printing press, another revolutionary technology that was inextricably...
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Open Letter to the University of Illinois
February 28, 2019 In July of 2018, Arcadia, a cafe in Urbana, announced on Facebook an “Art Salon” at which my new film would be screened. The next day, Professor Mimi Thi Nguyen commented on Arcadia’s...
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Strava vs. Women
I have been using an app called Strava to record my bike rides for the last four years. Recently, Strava started promoting men in women’s sports. Specifically, a male cyclist named Rachel (nee Rhys)...
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A year or two ago my friend Brewster Kahle told me he had been asking people, “when is the last time you read a book? Cover to cover?” Predictably, the answers were discouraging. In the age of the...
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Cowardice Calls to Cowardice Everywhere
Back when I was originally TERFened, I shared “If A Person Has A Penis He’s A Man” by Connie Bryson. I did not write those lyrics, and never claimed I did, but outrage compromises reading...
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IndieGoGo cancels Agents of H.A.G.
IndieGoGo just canceled Agents of H.A.G, my first comic book in 30 years, AFTER the campaign successfully ended with 150% of goal. I already ordered books from the printer. Now all the money, all the...
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My 2023 Year in Review
In addition to the highlights below, I continued to co-host the Heterodorx podcast with Corinna Cohn, and make $150 Drawings. January My 2023 started with crowdfunding platform IndyGoGo retroactively...
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Dave King Memorial Blogpost
Dave was hella funny and brilliantly creative and kinda nuts, with a good heart that just stopped January 11, 2024. We both had comic strips in the Daily Illini in the late 1980’s; his, “Bob ‘n’...
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Covid Reactive Autoimmune Pathology
In general: Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Connective Tissue Disorders Following COVID-19 High risk of autoimmune diseases after COVID-19 Patients with COVID-19 have 43% increased risk for new-onset...
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Back on ‘Zac
Why I am returning to my regular dose of Prozac after 2 years of tapering off. Self Portrait, February 2025 A few days ago, at a candy store in another town, I asked if I could buy some empty chocolate...
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