This is the Celeste Ng Twitter thread here. I’d really highlight that Ng agrees that no one looks good coming out of this. But it’s one thing to not look good, and an entirely different thing to email and call every organization you can find that someone has been affiliated with to try and get them fired, especially…

Larson made $400 off that audiobook, and the story even mentions she had the audio publisher make the changes to that story too. Dorland was still suing for $15,000 over $400 and a story that had already been edited.

Also uh I am definitely not the only person talking about the racial dynamics involved. If that is your impression then you need to follow the work of more writers of color.

Larson wrote that she was using Dorland’s words in 2015/2016, and that text changed in later drafts. The draft that Dorland was threatening to sue the Boston One City One Story program over years later had been edited to not include anything written by Dorland. She’s continuing to sue over a story that does not…

It fell loudly because it was the story of a white woman deciding she would absolutely RUIN the career of a woman of color for failing to pay proper respect to her Great White Sacrifice. For crying out loud, it started with her being hurt because not enough people liked her Facebook post and it is ending with her…

I read the “I value our friendship” in that email as a polite, firm, and EXTREMELY clear way of saying “we are not the kind of friends you think we are. Go away.” It was an attempt at gentle firmness that fell flat because the woman she was using it with was the kind to spend six years stalking and harassing another…

Can’t get the image to post! Whatever, it’s a tweet from Anthony Burch:
“they said “don’t punch nazis” but I haven’t heard word one from Richard Spencer since he got coldcocked
they said “be civil” but Scott Pruitt resigned because people were mean to him
be mean to mean people. do them dirty in front of they dad”
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I totally agree that you’re basically asking for this shit when you ask a famous person about a sex pest. But if this is in Couric’s forthcoming book, it doesn’t seem like she was asked so much as she’s just volunteering this information herself? I can’t say for anyone else, but that changes the calculus for me. I…

This is where I’m at, too. I don’t think either is trying to throw the other under the bus so much as they’re both just constantly tossing themselves in the general direction of any bus that happens to roll by. Neither is good at this.

Voting is necessary, but not sufficient. This will also require direct action. Fucked if I know what that’s gonna look like, though.

Emily Carroll is buried at the bottom there, but definitely the name I’m most excited about among many exciting names! Gosh, I love her work.

You are wildly overestimating how relevant your specific knowledge of these figures is. Like, calling Lorde “girl who had a hit song or two nearly a decade ago.” Her most recent top-5 album was like, two weeks ago. Her most recent charting single was this year. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Lorde song, but I know…

I didn’t say nothing—I said as little as possible. And I stand by that. He didn’t decide on his own to exit Afghanistan, he was forced to do it by Trump signing an agreement with the Taliban in 2020 that we would exit as part of peace negotiations. He will do what he is forced to do, which is why we should be forcing…

Somehow, Democrats bringing up any actual principles is being “divisive” and purity testing. And then we get yelled at, often enough because “Sanders wouldn’t have done it either” for some reason, and it becomes our fault that the Democrats remain entirely ineffective.

Biden is overwhelmingly, aggressively committed to doing as little as possible as president. I wonder if he’s just worried about his legacy and doesn’t want to be seen as The President Who Overreached?

Fuckin’ A. I now have a gray reply saying that we shouldn’t call him Ye—fuck that. I respect people’s names. I call people what the fuck they want to be called. If that’s Ye, it’s Ye. I don’t compromise on the shit that is turned against trans people every goddamn day. Ye isn’t trans, but I do not make exceptions about…

Because in mental healthcare, respect for autonomy is still a basic guiding ethical principle. Ye maintaining autonomy through what he’s described as episodes of a disorder isn’t an ethical failure even if it leads him down an odd, scary, or isolating path, unless it causes direct physical harm to himself or someone…

Man, tricks like this are just the coolest. I love this shit.

I am saying what I said: I have no reason to believe that sex workers should be treated any differently by the law than psychotherapists or massage therapists.