Lisa Selin Davis
@LisaSelinDavis
Gender culture war reporter Society of Heretical Needle Felters
Jealous.
Writing with 2 napping kittens on your lap is the way to go. I highly recommend it!
Haven't finished the gold trim yet, but having fun needle felting Christmas ornaments. Or Chanukah bush decor.
Will defunding NPR make it move to the center? Or will it be even more reliant on a singular political base to fund it, and cater to them more than they already do (if that's possible)? I really miss the old NPR, when they didn't present things they disagreed with as bigotry.
Overcorrecting the overcorrection of the overcorrection of the original mistake makes a...quadruple negative? Or is that the name of a very stiff drink? If so, what's in it?
lol wtf
Losing it over this therapy horse that vigorously plays the piano to wake kids up from anesthesia
Carnegie Mellon just shut down a century-old free speech platform. After students shared anti-Trump messages on “The Fence,” @CarnegieMellon painted over it and banned all new messages for lacking “respect.” But it's CMU that’s lacking respect for the free speech promises it…
The real problem is the weaponization of the word weaponization.
Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls: “I never imagined the day would come where the mandate would deem it necessary to prepare a report affirming that the words ‘women’ and ‘girls’ refer to distinct biological and legal categories."
A draft of a UN document identifies a "central tension" between combatting sex stereotypes and "aspects of gender identity theory that are heavily based on stereotypes." The theory frames "sexist norms about how women should dress and behave as a form of “gender expression."
Two weeks ago I. Watched my son open a pack of cigarettes and eat them. Then I visited him for two weeks in the psychiatric ward where he told me he could walk through walls. This Friday he has a consult for facial feminization surgery at a private practice in NY.