Deep in the Deadlines, Up and Running Again after 4/12

Please, talk amongst yourselves!

Friends, frenemies, haters, agnostics, fans, detractors:

I am racing to the draft finish line, and after that I am going to be physically and emotionally present with my family for a full ten days! What the heck is that gonna be like?!

While I’m away, please use this as an open thread to talk about…anything! Subscriber hang coming in late April, but you might not hear from me much before the 13th, even though there is so much to discuss.

Speaking of…in light of the SCOTUS conversion therapy decision, here’s a primer from a while back on how gender identity got looped in with, you know, electroshocking gay people—which may help some people understand the decision better. It’s not as bad as it sounds! Stop the panic!

I loved the group chat about the trans kid documentaries of what seems like ages ago, Growing Up Trans from 2015 and Gender Revolution from 2017. They were well worth re-watching. If there are other shows or films—fiction or non—you want to suggest for BROADview Movie Club, please put them in the comments.

Guess what? My book is starting to really seem like a book! I have some questions to pose to my still-liberal, still-love-nuance readers when I’m back, related to this project. Speaking of still-liberal…The Liberal Patriot is dead, long live The Liberal Patriot! Or not. I guess Dems won’t moderate. Read these words from Ruy Teixeira and weep.

Or, if you don’t want to cry, do what I’m doing: accept that we’re not going to see daylight about this issue for sometime, keep your head down, do good work, get thee to some nature, forgive people, snuggle animals, do something in person with other humans, sing songs, make good food, summon some gratitude, watch tear-inducing auditions for talent shows on YouTube.