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Sasha Danielle

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Writer. Editor. PhD student: Literature, queerness, nation-states & empire. Theory junkie. Musician. Sci-fi. Cat mom. Lots of snark. She/her. Trans. Disabled. Treaty 1 Territory. Land Back. Palestine will be free.

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I was reminded of this poem I published a decade ago. I wrote it after a 7-day walk through the desert from Mexico to Tucson in solidarity with migrants. It was inspired by saguaro cacti on a ridge that I thought looked like watching sentinels & a saguaro in Tucson riddled with bullet holes. #poetry

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2/2 But I'm increasingly suspicious of "national" Englishes anyway. There are so many Englishes within Canada. Determining only one as Canadian English is just nationalism. I think we need to move beyond this idea.

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1/2 I would posit that there isn't any such thing as Canadian English. While CanOx, as a national dictionary, has imposed a Canadian English, there's too much regional variation.

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I think the insinuation is that Leftists who despise Biden or who refuse to vote for Biden therefore want Trump to win.

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Helo is 100% made of equal parts floof and snuggles.

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The scene is London 100 years from now—the world is no longer recognizable. Larry the Cat looks at the human squatter dragging a mattress into 10 Downing. She curses her luck, only to hear Larry the Cat speak, "Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written."

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Every cat is such a cat in their own uniquely catty way.

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I am so abundantly curious about the internal lives of my cats.

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I have like no photos of my life from these years, and I kind of feel like this is true in general, to an extent. Like we'd been using digital cameras for a while, at this point, but they weren't very good, and many of use lost pics to damaged hard drives, missing memory cards, etc.

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Floof between the toe beans! Mungo looks so sweet. These pics have a serious 2000/2001 vibe, don't they? Something about the exposure of the images, and all the paper, which we wouldn't see so much of now maybe.

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That little nose. Just *boop, boop, boop, boop, boop* all day long.

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If proximity were not a barrier, I'd offer you Helo snuggles. (Helo is emphatically pro-snuggles all the time.)

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The slip from utopia to fascism is quick. I would even posit that fascism is always utopian because it is grounded on an ideal (for some) society. But whenever such an ideal is projected onto all people, it is always violent. ITW, utopia and dystopia are not binary to each other. 2/2

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You can't argue 1) that Biden is consistently enabling the genocide of Palestinians or oppressing marginalized USians and 2) that he's unable to make decisions on his own. These are contradictory arguments. He knows what he's doing, and he has agency. The problem is what he's doing with his agency.

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I think most academics (who aren't dicks) are happy, even eager, to talk about things. I also feel like a lot of us sit on our thoughts bc we don't want to be explain-y on the Internet. I know I tend to jump in w a skeet essay when someone says something interesting, but then I regret doing so.

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I mean it's pretty hard to take any account seriously when their handle is just the left side of the keyboard mashed out.

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💯 I think a lot of us ideate that if we're not really *this* (points at body), then we really must be *this* (idealized notion of what a differently gendered body looks like). But these two ideas, the horror and the body idealization, are really two expressions of the same abjection, or dysphoria.

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eg, Nationalism is utopian thinking. When Ben Anderson, in Imagined Communities, talks about the masses singing a national anthem, he's so fucking high on the supposed unisonance, of everybody singing as one, that he cannot even comprehend the violence underscoring that "unity."

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All these donors could've backed out when Biden started his genocide. Really goes to show how your democracy is anything but. All bought and paid for.

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💯 I think a lot of us ideate that if we're not really *this* (points at body), then we really must be *this* (idealized notion of what a differently gendered body looks like). But these two ideas, the horror and the body idealization, are really two expressions of the same abjection, or dysphoria.

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if the main thing stopping you from transitioning is a fear you won’t be hot: i’m sorry, but that is literally just gender dysphoria. it gets much better once you start treating it, i promise. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️🏳️‍⚧️

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Like he even tries to argue that nationalism can't really be racist.

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eg, Nationalism is utopian thinking. When Ben Anderson, in Imagined Communities, talks about the masses singing a national anthem, he's so fucking high on the supposed unisonance, of everybody singing as one, that he cannot even comprehend the violence underscoring that "unity."

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This is similar to why I push so hard up against a lot of utopian thinking. As soon as we fix something with the language of utopia, ie, *this* is a utopia, we stop thinking about how it isn't a utopia for some people, those whose difference is illegible to this utopian thinking. 1/2

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Literally cannot do a thing when this floof is around except shower them with boops and belly rubs.

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Patented formula for the Most Intense Drug Ever.

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Y'all, I just can't even with this ridiculous floof. Apply to face forever and ever.

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Helo is 100% made of equal parts floof and snuggles.

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Capitalism be like "How can we make money on the megachurch industry's proclivity to groom and rape?"

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I've always enjoyed the dialectic of people condescending to MENA and South Asian diaspora voters in the West that if they want to see change they need to engage in the process and then as we do so they throw a fit and say that we're undermining the West

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The slip from utopia to fascism is quick. I would even posit that fascism is always utopian because it is grounded on an ideal (for some) society. But whenever such an ideal is projected onto all people, it is always violent. ITW, utopia and dystopia are not binary to each other. 2/2

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This is similar to why I push so hard up against a lot of utopian thinking. As soon as we fix something with the language of utopia, ie, *this* is a utopia, we stop thinking about how it isn't a utopia for some people, those whose difference is illegible to this utopian thinking. 1/2

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like i can track *how* it happened. utopianism untempered by any class consciousness is going to eventually result in reactionary brainworms. i just… it’s a testament to the power of class systems as ideological reinforcement mechanisms. extremely harrowing.

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But to counter to what we've been saying, I also *love* social media because there are so many great thinkers on here who aren't necessarily trained academics. I'm constantly inspired by the perspectives on social media that would be lost to anyone Ivory Tower-ing it up.

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Yeah, and me, who's largely grounded in deconstructionism: I'm like, OK, but let's first think about these words carefully and watch the ground give way because it turns out things are far less stable than we thought. I don't think many are ready to face "what are words even" on their SM! lol

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tbf calling macron a centrist is pretty much a success of his PR team, he's right wing af & ppl like him are often but not exclusively, people who want to use long burn means to achieve what fascists try to do in extremely crunched time frames. methodology is what they differ on more than objectives

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