I am fundamentally done with defending my right to exist and thrive to people who speak and argue in bad faith. No, what I want to ask is the following: Dear fascists, how exactly do you think you're going to win this fight?
To that end, I've written this article, which contains things you can do to protect trans people in a hostile environment. I've not written a great deal about basic allyship stuff about pronouns and stuff: this has been talked to death and honestly, it's of questionable value. What I've discussed here is largely practical interventions that you can make to keep trans people surviving and thriving as much as possible when the regime is dead-set on preventing this from happening...
As much as this regime is a fascist one, it's *also* an extension of modern corporate management to the state: all fascist regimes are. 1930s Germany was, in many ways, a reflection of 1930s corporate culture, and an awful lot has been written about how corporatist ideologies are one of the major drivers of fascism...
An article discussing how the US election has impacted trans people internationally
My first set of post-election reflections
My notes from reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A meditation of the extent of carelessness in our world and our lives
About the tendency to hubris in every start-up founder
On the inevitability of humans screwing up, and what we can do about that
About women-in-tech, and how that category differs from women who do technical things
Iris intervenes in the Matt Mullenweg WordPress discussion using very polite language
A somewhat long and rambling post about our consistent compulsion to say and believe bullshit
A brief dive into the vulnerabilities of thought that bullshit exploits
Wherein I delve a bit more into the details of epistemic injustice
Wherein Iris elucidates the similarities between fascist regimes and the modern workplace
Wherein Iris does some Fermi calculations about just how much carbon Snowflake is pumping into the atmosphere
Wherein Iris writes about how isolated competent professionals end up in their roles
Wherein Iris has a breakdown and republishes a blog post she wrote last year
Wherein Iris documents an interview process that actually does things pretty well
Wherein we discuss the remarkable similarities between modern DEI practice and the doctrine of original sin
On why workplace cultures that exclude trans people are shitty ones