#You are anti scientific and don’t understand the precariousness of the human body

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Any ideology that says you need to take hormones and get surgeries to “be your true self” and not getting access to those things is akin to genocide is an ideology that needs to be scrutinized.

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Warren x Will

.01

They hadn’t really done anything since… That Night. There had been an awkward conversation in the morning, after Layla had called. Warren had been terse and uncertain, Will kind and reluctantly understanding. They’d sort of just been stepping around it since. It didn’t feel like a secret so much as something he and Will just didn’t bring up. Maybe it was because Layla knew. An extra person knowing didn’t feel that secretive anymore. 

Warren mulled it over as he shifted in his seat at the local movie theatre. On his right, Ethan was staring raptly at the screen as if he cared about the action. No doubt they would all hear his notes on the scientific inconsistencies after the show. In the next row down sat Maj, Layla, and Zack, in that order. Maj and Layla were spending the movie sighing over some beefcake actor which meant Warren had to every so often kick Zack’s seat as a reminder not to start glowing with jealousy and give away his cover in the dark theatre.

A giggle from the girls jerked Warren from his thoughts, reminding him to give the back of Glowstick’s chair a jostle. Keep it together, Braun.

Speaking of keeping it together… Warren looked to his left. Will was slouched back in his seat, gazing at the screen with glassy eyed disinterest. His cheek precariously propped in one hand, which would probably leave a red mark.

Warren bit his lip. It was tempting to jostle Will and watch him flail, but it was also kind of nice to have the chance to just stare at Will where nobody else could see him doing it. Just because he hadn’t talked about that night didn’t mean he hadn’t thought about it. Cool skin, warm friction, slick- Warren bit his lip harder to keep in a groan. This was not the time or place for a hard on. Still, if he was thinking about it, he might as well share the pain. 

Reaching over, he tapped Will on the shoulder, smirking as the younger hero started clumsily. Will turned, clearly intent on asking Warren what was wrong until he saw that Warren had a finger to his lips to indicate silence. Yeah okay, maybe it was kind of a secret. Sliding a hand around the back of Will’s neck, Warren leaned in with clearly telegraphed movements, giving Will the option of pulling away. He could feel Will’s breath hitch against his lips right before he pressed in, sealing their mouths together. The kiss was gentle. Warm, and sweet, and enticing. A reminder. Maybe even an offer.

Maj and Layla were giggling again, when Warren pulled away. He winked, before settling back and giving Zack’s seat another kick.

A few minute’s later he felt a tap on his left shoulder, and Will returned his ‘offer’.

.02

“We should tell them.”

“Uh huh.”

“They- re our friends.”

“Uh huh.”

“Wa-rren…”

Warren gave a little tug at Will’s hair, looking up from where he had been kissing down the younger man’s neck, “You want to tell them right now?”

Will seemed to actually almost consider saying ‘yes’ but clearly decided better of it. “They’re going to want to know why we’re taking so long in the bathroom. Together.”

“None of their business?”

“They’re going to figure it out.”

“Will.” Warren straightened, regretfully releasing the fisted strands of hair so that he could cup Will’s face in his hands and plant a kiss on the shorter man’s lips. “I don’t care. If you want to tell them, we’ll tell them.” He started to pull away.

“Wait. Now?”

Warren shrugged, “You said-”

“Nu uh!” Will grabbed handfuls of Warren’s shirt, keeping him close. “Finish what you were doing first.”

Grinning, Warren kissed him again, this time filthy and wanton. As soon as he’d managed to pull a grateful moan from his accomplice in bathroom debasement, Warren sank to his knees, hands already tugging open the fly of Will’s jeans

.03

It had been a long day. An excruciatingly long, fucked up day. For someone who loved his powers, loved fire and his control over it. Sometimes he just hated fire. Hated what it did to a regular human body. When the call came too late. When he just wasn’t fast enough. 

Warren was face down on his bed, in the dark, when he heard the knock on his door. Whatever it was, he really didn’t want to deal with it, or them. He didn’t want to deal with anything.His cell phone started to ring. He ignored it until the call dropped.

Silence.

The phone started ringing again and the knocking persisted. Warren picked up the phone with a snarl of “What?!” already hearing the whine of heated plastic as the phone started to protest his hold.

“Ethan told me what happened. Let me in?” Will’s voice crackled over the dying earpiece.

Ethan had followed him after they’d given their report. Free to go, he had still stood silently by while Warren had shouted himself horse as he flamed and extinguished target after target on the practice grounds. Not his finest moment.

“Hang on.”

Pushing out of bed, he went to open the front door.

“Hey, uh… You look- I mean…”

“Thanks.” Warren knew he probably looked a mess. His hair was tousled and probably still steaming from the shower he’d taken, the smell of smoke and ash lingering long after the water had run clear. He’d used a full fist of shampoo, and blew his nose vigorously, but swore he could still smell it mingling with the sharp artificial smells of his soap. Belatedly he realized, that his cheeks were steaming too, and quickly swiped a hand across his face. Get it together, Peace.

“I’m sorry. About what happened today.”

He nodded, rasping out a mumbled “Thanks.” before shutting the door, forcing Will to scuttle to the side to keep from being pushed out of the apartment. 

They moved back to the bedroom. Or rather, Warren moved, and Will followed behind, clearly uncertain what to or how to help. “Do you- should I leave?”

“No.”

Warren, guiltily, selfishly, did not want to be alone. There were families who would not get to hold their loved ones tonight and that was at least partially his fault, but he couldn’t bring himself to push away Will’s offer of comfort. “Stay. Please?” Reaching out for Will, he was gratified when the other man reached back, taking his hand and approaching to press a chaste kiss to Warren’s lips.

“Yeah okay. I’m here.”

Warren was pretty sure his cheeks were steaming again and he hastily wiped them clean, trying to cool his body temperatures to not risk Will getting burned. He didn’t need that on his conscience right now. “Thanks.”

They spent the night curled up together, sometimes talking softly, sometimes not at all. And if Will’s shirt got a little wet from Warren’s tears? Well, he was good enough not to mention it.

.04

He didn’t know when he’d gotten protective all of a sudden. Okay it wasn’t sudden, but he definitely hadn’t been this aggressive about it before. Will was a perfectly capable hero and there were enough Council representatives hovering around him that he should be okay. Warren didn’t need hang around ruining Will’s image in an attempt to to keep him out of trouble. He didn’t.

Or maybe he did.

“Move.” He pushed passed a couple coming out of the doorway as he entered Medical, marching straight up to the counter, “The Guardian.” 

The receptionist didn’t look impressed with his behaviour. She poked at her keyboard while Warren strenuously resisted the urge to light her desk on fire. “Room 18, but you can’t go see him until the doct-or hasn’t cleared him for visitors yet!” 

He heard her call after him, but he was already moving. Running. 13. 14… 16… 18. He barged in on a stuffy looking man in a lab coat saying something about “-concussed-” And ending in, “Excuse me, you can’t be in here!” but Warren really wasn’t paying attention. There was Will, a little scuffed up and bruised, but otherwise fine. 

He was fine.

Warren let out a long breath, some of the tension leaving him now that he could actually see that Will was okay. “You fucking idiot.” He stalked towards the bed.

“Um?” Will looked confused, but not actually unhappy to see him.

“Trainee Blaze please wait in the hall or I’ll be forced to call security.”

“You’re getting Hero Support from now on.”

“I said I’d consider it.” 

Warren scowled, grabbing Will by the front of his shirt and hauling him forward. “You got hit out of the damn sky with nobody there to watch your back- Mentors who are actively in the fight don’t count.”

“W- Blaze-” Will was clearly startled, unsure how to react and unused to calling Warren by his call sign.

“He called ‘hero down’, Guardian, because he was too busy fighting to check on you. Hero. Down.” It was the call all Hero’s dreaded to hear. The moment everybody’s heart stopped as they feared the worst and prayed it wasn’t someone they knew. And when it had come over the frequency today… when Will’s call sign was shouted on the repeat…

Will’s eyes widened as understanding hit, “S-sorry, I didn’t know.”

“Trainee Blaze if I need to sedate-”

“Do what you need to do, Doc.” He dropped his hold on Will’s shirt. “but I’m not leaving.” 

The doctor looked at Will, asking silent permission to continue. At the hero’s nod, he rattled off the rest of his summary. Will would be fine, concussed and bruised, but fine. They would keep him overnight and add a prescription of pain medication and an anti-inflammatory  for him to take home. With a final pointed look at Warren, the doctor announced the patient cleared for visitation and a nurse would be in to see that orders were carried out smoothly.

Warren waited until the old man had left before grabbing Will by the shirt again and hauling him into a harsh, angry kiss. He needed proof. Will was okay. Alive. Breathing. A set of strong, cool hands wrapped around the back of his neck, pulling him in as Will responded to the kiss a little more gently. Hands ran over his hair, soothing, not tugging. Right. Injured. Warren loosened his grip, sighing into the kiss. His fear and adrenaline were ebbing away now as Will was hauling him in closer, deepening the kiss. Needing the contact as well.

“Ahem.”

The Commander and Jetstream stood in the doorway, arms crossed and eyebrows raised. Uh… shit.

.05

The evening had started with store bought pizza and bad TV. Not that it mattered what program was on because neither of them had really been paying attention. They talked about work, school, and the latest Council gossip that Zack raving about. When the pizza was gone and the sodas empty, they’d gone from friendly shoulder bumps to bitten lips and smoldering eyes. To kiss stung mouths and groping hands. To slick friction and needy moans.

Warren was pretty sure that he couldn’t feel his toes anymore. Everything was was pleasantly numb and tingly as they lay sprawled together on his sheets. The clock on the night stand was lit green with it’s bold typeface. “Hey, Will?”

“Mmyeah?” The sleepy, sated timbre of the other man’s voice sent a pleasant sort of thrill up Warren’s spine.

“It’s past midnight.”

“Mm?”

“It’s past midnight.” Warren repeated, leaning in to catch Will’s lips in a lazy kiss that had his dazed partner sighing happily. “Happy birthday, Stronghold.”

“Uh huh.” A sleepy smile spread over Will’s face as he curled tighter against the other, tangling their limbs and nuzzling into Warren’s neck. “Happy birthday to me..”

Warren chuckled, closing his eyes and letting the warmth of post-coital fatigue wash over him. Happy birthday, Will.

[ephillipsresearch]

BLOC PROJETCS HARSH LIGHT- NOTES The concluding webinar of our December installment will welcome artists Verity Birt and Una Hamilton, and researcher Dr Edwin Coomasaru in conversation. Variously working on gender, British identity, folklore and the occult, the speakers will be reflecting on the “E” of ACE—Arts Council England—and that which constitutes “Englishness”. The conversation will self-reflexively think through these English textures and their adoption in sub cultural contexts, including white supremacist narratives of “blood and soil” nativism, as well as feminist and black metal re-inscriptions of a more ecologically entangled landscape.

Question – how the occult has shaped their respective ideas of myth landscape and English identity

Verity Birt - reading ridley walker- inspiration, novel written by russel hoborn, imagining post apocalyptic future in the dark ages, written in phonetic language, returning to an oral history- did a residency in Newcastle with newbridge project, running experimental workshops at prehistoric sites with a community choir – thinking about how features of the landscape impact improvisation – what can happen when you allow for more imaginative and experimental exchange with these sites installation at black tower projects mapped through memory, dream space, tracing the contour lines of the space, exploring the notion of giving/receiving from the landscape - ceramic offerings – recreated the channel in ceramic, vaginal shape references strong feminine energy- workshop not directly documented. – choreographed performances in space in the summer equinox 2019 performance looking at deep time/ fragments of lineages, evolution, how they are continued and transmitted, questioning enlightenment, theory of time as progress – battersea pleasure gardens – live improvised performance to text piece a mash of feminist theory, myth, fiction, archeology uncommon ground – attempt to confront dark side of mythology within the English psyche – white horse stone kent- during research came across white supremacist group that used to guard the site- 2 chanel video – follows icon of the white horse and its relation to alt white narratives and history in mythology – also included fragments of conversions with ethan d white about alt right pagan rituals and beliefs at these sites – anglo saxon mythology Una Hamilton helle - 2009/10 – makes work in landscape, place, nature and how we encode them with our own theories and experiences – the lay archive, ‘after math’ or ‘trauma’ photography- events can linger on in places and can you capture this through camera, looking at political troubles in Ireland. Attempt to explore what could be captured on camera, lay lines connecting places of worship etc, energy lines, ufo sightings, can you capture any of this in images? Short film   the return from Annwn, 2015, inspired by sci-fi and the English landscape. Sacred sites, mound burials, paces of energy, becoming the forest- long term art project interrogating sense of belonging what is heritage, connecting with the landscape - looked to black metal genre that uses landscapes/ Nordic aesthetics – looking at how topography and environments influence people – short stories about black metalists worshipping spruce trees - zine , becoming the forest to explore those ideas more critically, - commissioned essays about the topic from different political, cultural and scientific perspectives commissioned by waltham and epping forest to do installation that looked at epping forest as the peoples forest, and how human narratives have shaped the forest – workshops, performance

Dr Edwin coomasaru Complicated relationship to concept of Englishness 2018 – research driven by questions of ‘why has occult imagery become so importanct for feminist art and activism? What might this renewed interest in the supernatural from across the political spectrum tell us about the current crisis of British identity, shaped by colonial narratives, enlightened Europeans spreading rational modernity while committing oppression murder and theft 18/19 – courtold project on politics of gender and race in brexit visual culture – interested in the way artists responded to issue of irish border in eu negotiations – rita duffy collabed with women of both sides of irish border to create installation that straddled the border – knitted votive figures on the black line bridge – image above from derry 10 exhibition Kerry powell Williams on tarot, held supernatural performance on walker plinth, looked at history of somerset house – building once hq for royal navy and hmrc, all implicated in histories of empire increased interest in supernaturalism a response to corporate wellness culture, welfare state cutbacks and precarious employment – as feminist and anti racist activism surged in 2010, so did far right extremist, brexit articulated and exacerbate crisis of British identity, colonial/rational/modern narratives against those considered supernatural, other or primitive, created conceptual binary between magic and science 1876,eng traveler William h Dixon –‘ if we wish to see order and freedom , science and civilization preserved, we should give first thought to what improves the white mans growth and increase the white man’s strength - gina rippons gendered brain – challenged idea that science was ever neutral or objective, it s all implicated with power and projection feminist and anti racist artists are turning to the occult to reclaim/ challenge the myths that underpin patriarchal white supremacy

How do materials beings and sites become co-opted into story and myth? what stories and myths can artists today extract from the land that will forge a path for post Brexit Britain that is inclusive healing and open and how does this approach include a celebration of Englishness.

VB -Turned to the supernatural and tarot as a way of generating hope in a very hopeless situation- the 2008 recession – allows for mystery, imagination and nuance – using tarot to guide the work, relinquish control – don’t see it as a supernatural things, it’s a way of connecting with natural forces, seeing it in a post modern, materialist light

UH – mysticism as opposition to the narratives the nation tells themselves – also retaining a sense of imagination, not buying into protestant work ethic – productivity is everything – found this is in occult theories – trying to understand what we are actually listening to in occult stories and myths- who’s histories are these? DC- family interested in se Asian forms of spirituality , became interested aspects of activist that used the occult as an insult and those that were interested din magic –  bbc article ‘brexit leads to resurgence in tarot’ intense uncertainty about the future and finding ways to narrate a story to the self – there is nobody NOT engaging in magical thinking – storytelling and the ability of narratives to conceptually present the world to us in different ways Vb storytelling – critical awareness of the falsehood of truths, hierarchy of belief and value we assign to certain myths over other revisiting feminist myth making trajectory – how it has shifted between waves, changing ideas of gender, how gender and myth are intertwined, etc  how myths have sedimented in the body – whiteness embodiment  - how can we excavate that? Romanticism of neo paganism – grey areas between liberal left and alt white spaces  

Englishness, an important part of brexit is the tensions between Englishness and brutishness – England drove the vote but Wales also voted leave

VB- looking for line of flight from Englishness- stuck with facing own white Englishness – (not proud of heritage?) coming from rural working class land based peasantry – most family were brexiteers, ideas of people living in different worlds – respective the world view but navigating conversations of black lives matter. Huge disconnect between rural and urban landscape – trying to reconfigure clashes in own identity rural/urban recent work ‘crossings’ about encountering rural landscape after being urbanized

UH– myth of the nation state – disconnect with place? Disenfranchisement – enclosures, uprooting, urbanization, industries disappears – possibilities for community eroded at every corner for a hundred years – what does place/ local place mean? Nobody has that deep rooted relationship with the land anymore?

DC – anxiety about living off the land – spells about butter,- sense of powerlessness and feeling out of control  -the occult has very specific histories and its consciously appropriated

mass displacement in the industrial revolution -

are myths just replaced with others? Everything is myth – there is no objective reality

VB – counter myth making, everything is myth, these are imaginative worlds, capitalism is a shared belief – counter myths – opens up new potentials

the enlightenment was created to enable imperialism and capitalism - how can we generate new worlds that cater to non-conforming folk –modern myths have been generate to support the cis white able man

[food-advisor]

What the Dietitians Who Invented Intuitive ingesting think about weight-reduction plan lifestyle today

Intuitive ingesting has become wildly popular inside the past couple of years, however, the one-of-a-type anti-dieting framework has been around for 25 years now. The first edition of Intuitive eating changed into posted in 1995 by using dietitians, 

ingesting sickness specialists, and nutrients therapists Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D.N., and Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D.N. The modern book laid out the 10 ideas in their mind-body method of finding peace and freedom with meals and body—a private procedure that empowers human beings to reconnect with their inner know-how approximately consuming.

Ultimate month, Tribole and Resch posted the fourth edition of their definitive textual content, at a time whilst the wide variety of humans questioning or in open rise up towards weight-reduction plan lifestyle has by no means been more—or the embrace of intuitive consuming wider.

Extra widely, of direction, this is a profound and precarious second complete of challenges (the pandemic) and opportunities for transformative exchange (the actions towards anti-Black racism). “It’s a form of interesting that our book got here out these days inside the midst of everything that’s occurring within the world, especially at some stage in this time of seeking out social justice in each feasible way,” Tribole tells SELF. “We’re in this time of high-quality uncertainty on such a lot of degrees, and with that uncertainty is all this capability for revolution—at an inner level, at a community stage, and on an international level,” Tribole explains. “We want to have strength so that you can be part of that. And in case you’re weight-reduction plan, you’re going to be preoccupied.”

SELF spoke with the authors about what’s new in this updated version, the evolution of intuitive ingesting, the methods that their work is attached to current occasions—and what they are nevertheless gaining knowledge of.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

SELF: Why did you need to post a new version now?

Tribole: there are numerous motives. While we first began Intuitive ingesting, 25 years ago, let's imagine it was studies-stimulated, stimulated with the aid of our scientific enjoy operating with clients. However rapid-ahead to these days, and we've greater than one hundred twenty-five research on our paintings displaying an effect.

Also, lots have changed. We desired to surely deal with the weight-reduction plan way of life. It’s so form-transferring and so pervasive—we had been seeing customers who don’t become aware of the term weight-reduction plan. They’ll say, “Oh, I don’t weight-reduction plan, I do the keto lifestyle.” We were like, Ooh, we need to deal with that. We want to address fitness at each size.

And we made great modifications to the concepts of intuitive eating. The core continues to be the same, however, we changed the [principle] on handling your feelings. We used to mention, “address your emotions without using food,” but [emotional eating] has ended up so pathologized in weight-reduction plan subculture. Elyse and I truly gave it a whole lot of ideas and changed it to “deal with your feelings with kindness.” And throughout this time of COVID, we’ve surely simply seen extra how essential this is. After which we also changed the period exercise to movement, once more as it’s been so militarized and pathologized in our subculture.

Resch: We wanted to spend numerous time looking at weight bias and weight stigma, due to the fact we haven’t within the past. Our third version got here out in 2012, and we concept we had been handling that. And but we were shocked at some of the language we had used. We have been certainly looking to give ourselves a whole lot of grace due to the fact—this applies to many regions—you handiest realize what whilst you are aware of it. And whilst we wrote the first edition of the e-book 25 years ago, we were now not developed in the way we are today. So we checked out the book with an essential eye to make certain we were doing away with any form of stigmatizing language and supporting people flow extra toward self-recognition and self-love in a deeper manner.

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Tribole: just to add to what Elyse is saying, that changed into truly honestly humbling to go returned and be wincing, saying, ‘Oh, my God, we wrote that? How did that get via?’ but you recognize, we’ve also truly determined to be transparent about this—that we all evolve and develop and exchange.

I assume in the long run, with wherein we’re at in today’s global, we need to have more humility. We need cultural humility, we need intellectual humility, we need lived experience humility. And now searching on the intersection of racism and diet tradition, that’s certainly profound. We touched on it, but we didn’t unpack it on this edition. So I nonetheless see a 5th one coming out!

[Both laugh]

Resch: Oh, Evelyn!

Tribole: nicely, I’m just announcing! Doing a deep dive, and then searching at our very own internalized racism. Doing unlearning, doing gaining knowledge of, and then looking at and analyzing our model in phrases of how we can do better. Because if we don’t address racism, I don’t think we’re ever surely going to efficaciously address fatphobia and weight stigma. So we've got several works to do.

Numerous us are doing plenty of studying and unlearning proper now, so I suppose it’s essential for people to have examples of humility and mastering.

Resch: We promote so much self-compassion at some point in the book and with everyone we speak to. And self-compassion consists of having this humility and now not being indignant at ourselves. As I stated before, we will most effectively realize what we understand when we comprehend it. After which it’s what we do with that after we're wakened to that new know-how…. We want to be gaining knowledge of each day, and we want to be talking up each day.

Tribole: while we begin looking at diet lifestyle being rooted in racism—I’m glad to say, we cite Sabrina Stringers’s e-book, Fearing the Black frame: The Racist Origins of Fatphobia. And one of the things we are saying in this edition is that today we've got now not best the health enterprise, the weight loss industry, however, we've got hospital treatment and fitness care is a part of weight loss program lifestyle. That's irritating. Because now we have sufferers coming in with this pressure to change their frame no longer simply from the way of life, however from health care.

And this is going on even though we have a profound body of research showing that the act of dieting—the act of reducing your food intake to shrink your frame—now not best does it not work, it honestly causes damage, biological damage, mental harm. It increases the threat of ingesting problems and weight stigma. While you examine the fact that eating issues charges have doubled, it’s a travesty. I assume it is in element because the weight loss program lifestyle has ended up so normalized. You realize, humans didn’t use to head bragging approximately keto or the contemporary rapid they were on. And it’s like, “Wow, we've got lots of work to do, Elyse!”

Resch: We should spend time also teaching the scientific community due to the fact there’s an entire notion device on weight and the risks of what they recall “extra weight,” so we have a variety of paintings to do.

Why do you believe you studied intuitive ingesting has truly stuck hearth these days?

Resch: So, I’m a feminist from the second wave of feminism, again inside the ’70s. And I suppose we've got gotten to a degree where we do now not need to be advised how we must look, how we must devour…a point where we want to take lower back the delight of eating, the pleasure in eating and make selections for ourselves in a self-sufficient manner.

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It’s been the type of viral, with such a lot of magazines and on-line articles about intuitive ingesting on this beyond yr. And I assume there’s something to do with the political environment…. We are becoming to a point in which we’re tired of being instructed what to do, and we’re uninterested in feeling unsuccessful and terrible approximately ourselves.

Tribole: humans are bored with being advised, “There’s something incorrect with you, there’s something wrong with your body,” when it turns out, no, it’s our lifestyle. And you could take your energy back. The concept is to reclaim the pleasure of ingesting. Eating is meant to be fun! It’s become this supply of disgrace and guilt when it’s sincerely meant to be a source of satisfaction and reference to different human beings. And while you get that lower back, it’s first-rate. You’re extra alive, you’re more present in your relationships without being preoccupied.

Resch: It’s liberating. The much less you’re worried about doing something incorrect in your eating and the greater tuned in you're on your very own body. It opens this space for bringing greater significant things into existence, whilst you are taking out that one big piece that’s on such a lot of people’s minds.

Tribole: And yet while people are in marginalized bodies, they need to feel secure within the international, so it’s additionally understandable that in this time of splendid problem human beings were feeling precipitated to get lower back into the weight-reduction plan. Due to the fact food plan lifestyle offers actuality at a time of uncertainty. It offers fable, and desire, and particular guidelines that preserve your mind off of the tension of what’s going to take place inside the globe. But the trouble is, it’s short-lived. I additionally paintings with loads of folks been prompted by way of this time, and that I say it’s understandable because weight loss plan culture’s everywhere.

Resch: I think you’re right, Evelyn. It’s simply this fake experience of management in an international wherein there is no manipulate. So we do need to have compassion for those who do take that path and assist them understand the psychology of why they're doing that. However, there’s plenty of alleviation that comes whilst you let cross of the notion that you may use something like dieting to present yourself an experience of manipulating the sector, actual control, while there isn’t any. You pass on an eating regimen to attempt to manage things, and it doesn’t exercise sessions, and it’s no longer going to repair the pandemic.

Tribole: I’m additionally considering the obsession with lavatory paper. I've never in my existence ever centered on rest room paper, after which all of a sudden, I’m like, “Do I have enough? Is it there?” And that’s what it’s like with dieting. All of a surprise you want what you can’t have, you need what is in quick supply, and also you come to be fixated on that. I assume it’s an apt metaphor for making peace with food, and what occurs while you don’t make peace with food.

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Philosopher Francisco Bosco points out transitions, in the Covid-19 era

How to see the world in these days pandemic? Which lens to use to study and understand human and social relationships at this time? THE post office listened to the poet (doctor of literary theory at UFRJ) and philosopher Francisco Bosco on contemporary themes, such as the egosm of the Brazilian elite and the need to care for the soul. Program member Monday chat, on the GNT channel, Francisco, son of musician Joo Bosco and visual artist Angela Bosco, has a “heavily light” speech when talking about the effects of the new coronavirus on society. “There is a transition slow and garbled for socialization, the terms of which are not yet clear. This cathartic moment, when we will throw the masks up, we will embrace, dance and drink, all together, it shouldn't happen so soon, ”he analyzes.

The distinctive world that was fashion in literature became reality, with the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus. What

must changes occur in the human soul after all this is over?

Well, first of all, it is precisely the human “soul” that is suffering the most. From the perspective of the number of deaths, this pandemic has not yet spread to other epidemics, which have wiped out significant parts of populations in several countries. But human beings are social, our soul flourishes, quickens in close contact with other humans – and the virus has achieved this as no historical event has been able to do. Not only fear, as in wars (fear of the enemy, fear of the gun), but also anguish. In a certain philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition, anxiety is a diffuse affection, without a clear and determined object. Anguish is an affection triggered by debt, by indeterminacy. So it is difficult to talk about change, because we know very little about what the future will be like, in the short and medium term.

Human relations (or non-relations) suffered a blow. The digital bubble no longer satisfies people who have been forced to change the pace of life. I caught myself, for example, photographing an ant carrying a piece of bread that I dropped. I thought: this ant has been there for years and I never noticed it. What delusion is that? (laughs)

Well, digital social networks mainly mobilize two compulsions: for occupation and for recognition. These compulsions still affect us – see the fever of lives, for example. But social distance has created, at the same time, a nostalgia for the physical world, and a certain nausea for digital. In this context, ants are more likely to be noticed. (laughs)

Social networks that were crammed with frivolities, of the “unreal” image of people, today they show spaces for reflection, for solidarity. Should this continue after social isolation is over? What should be (if anything) in the essence of people?

Digital networks have always been complex phenomena. There is a whole dimension of frivolity, narcissism taken to the extreme, addiction to increasingly fragmented sensory stimuli. But there is also the dimension of public space, which is constitutively more democratic than the traditional public sphere, by the way – although this more direct democracy ended up strengthening populisms, which have a whole anti-democratic dimension. In times of external threat, the sense of collectivity is expected to deepen. This is independent of the digital world. But the other dynamic is no less true. As Trump's conduct shows, for example, prohibiting the export of inputs and confiscating PPE (personal protection equipment) directed to other countries. In these times of scarcity, there is a kind of return to civilization. In a minute, international regulatory bodies are abandoned and selfish sovereignty is defended. In this sense, the virus can be taken advantage of by anti-globalism. early to say what prevails.

In the pre-pandemic world, there was a growth of “ideas” contrary to scientific knowledge, culture, art … Can things change? Why did we get to this point? Has knowledge lost value?

We reached this point because of the failures accumulated by liberal democracies in the past 30 years. More liberal than democratic, these social forms failed to combat inequality, concentrated extreme power in the hands of elites, produced in societies a feeling of remote and helpless citizenship. These values ​​- science, art, knowledge – were associated with liberal elites, in which huge social contingents were not recognized. It was a long process, going back to the 1970s, in some ways. The 2008 crisis, in global terms, and the June 2013 crisis in Brazil, were the last straw. It will not be easy to reverse this process, because it is not merely rational. It involves affection, identity, profound subjective and social dimensions, which do not change overnight.

We watch people on the street and calling on others to leave social isolation at the height of contamination. How tonthropology analyze such absurd reactions?

In part, this is a consequence of the cognitive-affective structure that was formed around the figure of Bolsonaro. The base is binary and thinks in terms of simple oppositions. The virus came from China, communist China, communists are always conspiring to seize power, so one must deny the virus, protect freedom, etc. Congress, the Supreme Court, the intellectuals, the scientists defend social isolation. Now, these are the enemies, so we have to do the opposite. as soon as the bolsonarista base thinks. On the other hand, there are legitimate moral, subjective and social dilemmas in this behavior. Unfortunately, Bolsonaro vocalizes them in the worst way, and this spreads throughout his base. But this clamor for a return to social activities, although certainly wrong and irresponsible at that moment, in a few weeks or months will have to be discussed in a rational, scientific way, and probably involve very difficult moral decisions.

In the early years of the last century, Oswaldo Cruz was attacked for trying toto control epidemics in Rio de Janeiro, such as bubnica plague, yellow fever and smallpox. Created the position of buyer of rats (employee who collected the rodents and paid 300 iris per captured animal). But the Brazilian, instead of sand ally s the sanitarist’s ideas, started breeding rats to sell them. Has Brazil not changed?

Brazil, like many countries in the world, has a very weak sense of collectivity. Our institutional origin prevented this from forming. This country was above all a capitalist, exploratory project. Tocqueville, in its classic Democracy in America, notes that the persecuted Englishmen, who faced the Atlantic towards America, did so out of an idea: the idea of ​​equality (of course: they exterminated indigenous people and enslaved blacks, even after the revolution). We don't have that trace on our birth certificate. On the contrary, the letter of finding, from (Pero Vaz de) Caminha, ends with a request for favor. Nothing less republican. Finally, social egosm prevails in Brazil. It is not by chance that we have the most unequal country title in the world, perhaps alongside South Africa.

(Re) We discovered a feeling that has not been around for a long time by social networks: longing. After that all depression, there will be a lot of parties (laughs). How to deal with homesickness?

Look, unfortunately, except for an unlikely super-effective medication, this party will not be as we wish. There will be a slow and truncated transition to socialization, the terms of which are not yet clear. This cathartic moment, when we will throw the masks up, we will embrace, dance and drink, all together, it shouldn't happen so soon. On the other hand, a vaccine is likely to emerge in record time. Six months are already being talked about, which is unprecedented in the history of medicine. But it can happen, because the situation is such that it authorizes unspecified protocols, although risky.

As you see the Brazilian political scene, does it seem that ideological fundamentalism is more exacerbated? To make matters worse, public policies do not accompany ss social demands. Can this cause further disruptions in society?

The only quick response we had was to enact social isolation. We did this before several economically more advanced countries. As it was only a political decision, not requiring great coordination and execution efforts, it could be done. And it was done by governors. Moreover, almost everything oscillates between insufficiency, backwardness and precariousness. Economic measures took longer than they should have. Paulo Guedes resisted as much as he could convert to Keynesianism. It is no exaggeration to say that it was the last of the liberals to do so. Field hospitals have been built, but PPE is missing and it has been difficult to obtain. The testing of Brazil is one of the smallest in the world. And, of course, Bolsonaro, more paranoid than ever, does everything in the worst way. The scenarios ahead are worrying, in all aspects: economic, social, political and institutional.

The unpunished proliferation of fake news, the excess of irrelevant information confuses people. How to make this filter? How to be educated and vaccinated against this modern evil?

I do not believe that this can be fought only with measures taken by large technology companies. These companies must take responsibility, the Brazilian Judiciary also needs to debate more deeply and create laws punishing certain practices. But, again, fake news flourishes within a cognitive, affective, identity and imaginary context. As long as this context is not transformed, combating them will largely be like wiping ice.

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ACLU: A Conversation with Chase Strangio, One of the TIME100 Most Influential People of 2020

A Conversation with Chase Strangio, One of the TIME100 Most Influential People of 2020

For millions of students, this school year will be like none other — not only because of the pandemic. States and the federal government are pushing a spate of anti-trans legislation and policies aimed to ban trans students from participating in sports like their peers and to undermine their abilities to fully participate in school and public life. The Department of Education is backing these efforts by threatening to withhold funding from any schools that refuse to enact anti-trans policies.  These attacks come after a Supreme Court victory in June, which upheld the rights of LGBTQ people in the workplace by ruling that you can’t be fired or otherwise discriminated against simply because you are LGBTQ. One of the lawyers behind those cases is Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice for the ACLU’s LGBT and HIV Project, recently named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year.

Why is the government going out of its way to attack trans rights?

To understand what’s going on, we have to go back a few years to the marriage equality victories at the Supreme Court in 2015 in Obergefell v. Hodges. There was an immediate backlash from anti-LGBTQ groups, who then zeroed in on expelling trans people from public spaces like restrooms and locker rooms. Now the conversation has shifted to trans participation in sports. Our opponents are pushing a narrative that trans girls in particular are a threat to the survival of women’s sports, which is predicated on the view that they and the government should and do have the authority to say who is a woman. They’re also implementing and pushing policies that would subject any participant in girls’ or women’s sports to sex verification procedures where they have to prove that they’re “really a girl.” These groups don’t care about sports or women’s rights. They’re opportunistically looking for ways to attack trans people, and in the process, hurting all women and girls.

How did the conversation shift from restrooms to sports?

Well importantly, through organizing and advocacy we were largely successful in defeating our opponents in their efforts to ban trans people from restrooms and locker rooms. But in the restroom conversation we spent a lot of time talking about how no one had to worry about seeing anyone naked, suggesting that trans people are so ashamed of our bodies that we would hide them. This strategy, though successful, pushed off the conversation to another day about contexts where we have to directly contend with our bodies. In sports, the body is more salient, so there’s more work to do to overcome deeply entrenched thinking about sex being binary and the view that you can easily divide people into categories based on physiological characteristics.

Our opponents are incredibly good at distorting the conversation and spreading misinformation despite not having scientific evidence to back up these claims. Trans athletes have been able to participate in the Olympics, the NCAA, and other elite sports for many years, yet we’ve literally never had a trans person qualify for the Olympics and there are no examples of trans dominance in any elite sport anywhere in the world. So we’re obviously not responding to a practical reality. We’re responding to fear and misinformation, which is often true when it comes to trans people and policy in the United States and around the world.

What is the Department of Education doing about the attacks against trans students?

The DOE is taking the position that you must discriminate against trans students in order to receive absolutely essential services. At the same time, they have done absolutely nothing to assist schools in opening safely, or supporting families and children. Schools are in crisis right now, completely underfunded while needing to staff up to deal with the demands of remote learning and everything else we’re expecting educators to come up with in the midst of the pandemic. It’s so egregious on so many levels, and it’s sending an absolutely horrible message to trans students that the federal government will not protect you. We need to build structures of safety and inclusion for our students, not structures of punishment and exclusion. 

How do you reconcile increasing trans representation in the media with what’s going on in the government?

It can be incredibly affirming to see people who look like you or look like a possibility of what you might want your life to be. I don’t want to take away the power of that, especially for trans kids, who  can feel alienated from the world and from their own bodies. But the media can distort the realities of trans people’s lives, particularly for people who’ve never knowingly met a trans person and whose only reference is what they see on TV — which portrays glamorized, highly curated narratives that can undermine the urgency of what’s going on in the government and in the material reality of trans lives. If we don’t also do the work to support trans lives on the ground, then it could end up placing precariously situated trans people in the path of more violence.

Many of the clients in the ACLU’s trans rights cases are high school students. How does it feel to see youth leading the fight for trans rights?

The most incredible part of our work is working with our clients, who are so fierce in their advocacy for themselves before they even reach us. Our clients are putting themselves out there in this deeply personal way while the government is attacking their existences. And yet they find the ability to sustain their sense of joy and push forward. If people find a place where they feel connected to their body, the idea that the federal government will come and try to squander that is just that is just beyond illegal. It’s unthinkable.

How does that affect you as a parent?

Young people have an incredible amount of insight and we take that away from them if we impose overly structured categories that don’t have to be there. The binaries that we utilize make no sense for the human experience in a lot of ways, and the more we give people the space to experience possibilities without preordained structures of how things have to be, the more we’re going to see people create new and more expansive structures to exist within and beyond. It’s just inevitable. And I know that really scares people, which is why we’re seeing this backlash. But ultimately, we have always been here creating what is possible, and our lives and our magic are unstoppable. 

The 2020 election is approaching, along with what could be a challenging legislative session. What can people do on the ground to support trans rights?

Look at the candidates and their records for presidential and senate candidates. In some places, our opponents are strategically using ads to try to get people to vote for anti-trans candidates. Michigan’s Senate race is a prime example. We need to create a counter narrative and support candidates that support trans people.    There are ways to help in our individual lives, too. Part of why some anti-trans policies succeed is because of misinformation and fear of trans people. We can try to reorient the people in our lives toward understanding trans existence in a way that neutralizes the weaponized narrative of trans people as a threat. We can also materially support and uplift individual trans people to ensure that our trans communities are surviving, thriving, and leading our movements with the tools we have developed over generations.

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A Conversation with Chase Strangio, One of the TIME100 Most Influential People of 2020

For millions of students, this school year will be like none other — not only because of the pandemic. States and the federal government are pushing a spate of anti-trans legislation and policies aimed to ban trans students from participating in sports like their peers and to undermine their abilities to fully participate in school and public life. The Department of Education is backing these efforts by threatening to withhold funding from any schools that refuse to enact anti-trans policies.  These attacks come after a Supreme Court victory in June, which upheld the rights of LGBTQ people in the workplace by ruling that you can’t be fired or otherwise discriminated against simply because you are LGBTQ. One of the lawyers behind those cases is Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice for the ACLU’s LGBT and HIV Project, recently named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year.

Why is the government going out of its way to attack trans rights?

To understand what’s going on, we have to go back a few years to the marriage equality victories at the Supreme Court in 2015 in Obergefell v. Hodges. There was an immediate backlash from anti-LGBTQ groups, who then zeroed in on expelling trans people from public spaces like restrooms and locker rooms. Now the conversation has shifted to trans participation in sports. Our opponents are pushing a narrative that trans girls in particular are a threat to the survival of women’s sports, which is predicated on the view that they and the government should and do have the authority to say who is a woman. They’re also implementing and pushing policies that would subject any participant in girls’ or women’s sports to sex verification procedures where they have to prove that they’re “really a girl.” These groups don’t care about sports or women’s rights. They’re opportunistically looking for ways to attack trans people, and in the process, hurting all women and girls.

How did the conversation shift from restrooms to sports?

Well importantly, through organizing and advocacy we were largely successful in defeating our opponents in their efforts to ban trans people from restrooms and locker rooms. But in the restroom conversation we spent a lot of time talking about how no one had to worry about seeing anyone naked, suggesting that trans people are so ashamed of our bodies that we would hide them. This strategy, though successful, pushed off the conversation to another day about contexts where we have to directly contend with our bodies. In sports, the body is more salient, so there’s more work to do to overcome deeply entrenched thinking about sex being binary and the view that you can easily divide people into categories based on physiological characteristics.

Our opponents are incredibly good at distorting the conversation and spreading misinformation despite not having scientific evidence to back up these claims. Trans athletes have been able to participate in the Olympics, the NCAA, and other elite sports for many years, yet we’ve literally never had a trans person qualify for the Olympics and there are no examples of trans dominance in any elite sport anywhere in the world. So we’re obviously not responding to a practical reality. We’re responding to fear and misinformation, which is often true when it comes to trans people and policy in the United States and around the world.

What is the Department of Education doing about the attacks against trans students?

The DOE is taking the position that you must discriminate against trans students in order to receive absolutely essential services. At the same time, they have done absolutely nothing to assist schools in opening safely, or supporting families and children. Schools are in crisis right now, completely underfunded while needing to staff up to deal with the demands of remote learning and everything else we’re expecting educators to come up with in the midst of the pandemic. It’s so egregious on so many levels, and it’s sending an absolutely horrible message to trans students that the federal government will not protect you. We need to build structures of safety and inclusion for our students, not structures of punishment and exclusion. 

How do you reconcile increasing trans representation in the media with what’s going on in the government?

It can be incredibly affirming to see people who look like you or look like a possibility of what you might want your life to be. I don’t want to take away the power of that, especially for trans kids, who  can feel alienated from the world and from their own bodies. But the media can distort the realities of trans people’s lives, particularly for people who’ve never knowingly met a trans person and whose only reference is what they see on TV — which portrays glamorized, highly curated narratives that can undermine the urgency of what’s going on in the government and in the material reality of trans lives. If we don’t also do the work to support trans lives on the ground, then it could end up placing precariously situated trans people in the path of more violence.

Many of the clients in the ACLU’s trans rights cases are high school students. How does it feel to see youth leading the fight for trans rights?

The most incredible part of our work is working with our clients, who are so fierce in their advocacy for themselves before they even reach us. Our clients are putting themselves out there in this deeply personal way while the government is attacking their existences. And yet they find the ability to sustain their sense of joy and push forward. If people find a place where they feel connected to their body, the idea that the federal government will come and try to squander that is just that is just beyond illegal. It’s unthinkable.

How does that affect you as a parent?

Young people have an incredible amount of insight and we take that away from them if we impose overly structured categories that don’t have to be there. The binaries that we utilize make no sense for the human experience in a lot of ways, and the more we give people the space to experience possibilities without preordained structures of how things have to be, the more we’re going to see people create new and more expansive structures to exist within and beyond. It’s just inevitable. And I know that really scares people, which is why we’re seeing this backlash. But ultimately, we have always been here creating what is possible, and our lives and our magic are unstoppable. 

The 2020 election is approaching, along with what could be a challenging legislative session. What can people do on the ground to support trans rights?

Look at the candidates and their records for presidential and senate candidates. In some places, our opponents are strategically using ads to try to get people to vote for anti-trans candidates. Michigan’s Senate race is a prime example. We need to create a counter narrative and support candidates that support trans people.    There are ways to help in our individual lives, too. Part of why some anti-trans policies succeed is because of misinformation and fear of trans people. We can try to reorient the people in our lives toward understanding trans existence in a way that neutralizes the weaponized narrative of trans people as a threat. We can also materially support and uplift individual trans people to ensure that our trans communities are surviving, thriving, and leading our movements with the tools we have developed over generations.

Published September 23, 2020 at 07:38PM via ACLU https://ift.tt/3025kZL

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A Conversation with Chase Strangio, One of the TIME100 Most Influential People of 2020

For millions of students, this school year will be like none other — not only because of the pandemic. States and the federal government are pushing a spate of anti-trans legislation and policies aimed to ban trans students from participating in sports like their peers and to undermine their abilities to fully participate in school and public life. The Department of Education is backing these efforts by threatening to withhold funding from any schools that refuse to enact anti-trans policies.  These attacks come after a Supreme Court victory in June, which upheld the rights of LGBTQ people in the workplace by ruling that you can’t be fired or otherwise discriminated against simply because you are LGBTQ. One of the lawyers behind those cases is Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice for the ACLU’s LGBT and HIV Project, recently named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year.

Why is the government going out of its way to attack trans rights?

To understand what’s going on, we have to go back a few years to the marriage equality victories at the Supreme Court in 2015 in Obergefell v. Hodges. There was an immediate backlash from anti-LGBTQ groups, who then zeroed in on expelling trans people from public spaces like restrooms and locker rooms. Now the conversation has shifted to trans participation in sports. Our opponents are pushing a narrative that trans girls in particular are a threat to the survival of women’s sports, which is predicated on the view that they and the government should and do have the authority to say who is a woman. They’re also implementing and pushing policies that would subject any participant in girls’ or women’s sports to sex verification procedures where they have to prove that they’re “really a girl.” These groups don’t care about sports or women’s rights. They’re opportunistically looking for ways to attack trans people, and in the process, hurting all women and girls.

How did the conversation shift from restrooms to sports?

Well importantly, through organizing and advocacy we were largely successful in defeating our opponents in their efforts to ban trans people from restrooms and locker rooms. But in the restroom conversation we spent a lot of time talking about how no one had to worry about seeing anyone naked, suggesting that trans people are so ashamed of our bodies that we would hide them. This strategy, though successful, pushed off the conversation to another day about contexts where we have to directly contend with our bodies. In sports, the body is more salient, so there’s more work to do to overcome deeply entrenched thinking about sex being binary and the view that you can easily divide people into categories based on physiological characteristics.

Our opponents are incredibly good at distorting the conversation and spreading misinformation despite not having scientific evidence to back up these claims. Trans athletes have been able to participate in the Olympics, the NCAA, and other elite sports for many years, yet we’ve literally never had a trans person qualify for the Olympics and there are no examples of trans dominance in any elite sport anywhere in the world. So we’re obviously not responding to a practical reality. We’re responding to fear and misinformation, which is often true when it comes to trans people and policy in the United States and around the world.

What is the Department of Education doing about the attacks against trans students?

The DOE is taking the position that you must discriminate against trans students in order to receive absolutely essential services. At the same time, they have done absolutely nothing to assist schools in opening safely, or supporting families and children. Schools are in crisis right now, completely underfunded while needing to staff up to deal with the demands of remote learning and everything else we’re expecting educators to come up with in the midst of the pandemic. It’s so egregious on so many levels, and it’s sending an absolutely horrible message to trans students that the federal government will not protect you. We need to build structures of safety and inclusion for our students, not structures of punishment and exclusion. 

How do you reconcile increasing trans representation in the media with what’s going on in the government?

It can be incredibly affirming to see people who look like you or look like a possibility of what you might want your life to be. I don’t want to take away the power of that, especially for trans kids, who  can feel alienated from the world and from their own bodies. But the media can distort the realities of trans people’s lives, particularly for people who’ve never knowingly met a trans person and whose only reference is what they see on TV — which portrays glamorized, highly curated narratives that can undermine the urgency of what’s going on in the government and in the material reality of trans lives. If we don’t also do the work to support trans lives on the ground, then it could end up placing precariously situated trans people in the path of more violence.

Many of the clients in the ACLU’s trans rights cases are high school students. How does it feel to see youth leading the fight for trans rights?

The most incredible part of our work is working with our clients, who are so fierce in their advocacy for themselves before they even reach us. Our clients are putting themselves out there in this deeply personal way while the government is attacking their existences. And yet they find the ability to sustain their sense of joy and push forward. If people find a place where they feel connected to their body, the idea that the federal government will come and try to squander that is just that is just beyond illegal. It’s unthinkable.

How does that affect you as a parent?

Young people have an incredible amount of insight and we take that away from them if we impose overly structured categories that don’t have to be there. The binaries that we utilize make no sense for the human experience in a lot of ways, and the more we give people the space to experience possibilities without preordained structures of how things have to be, the more we’re going to see people create new and more expansive structures to exist within and beyond. It’s just inevitable. And I know that really scares people, which is why we’re seeing this backlash. But ultimately, we have always been here creating what is possible, and our lives and our magic are unstoppable. 

The 2020 election is approaching, along with what could be a challenging legislative session. What can people do on the ground to support trans rights?

Look at the candidates and their records for presidential and senate candidates. In some places, our opponents are strategically using ads to try to get people to vote for anti-trans candidates. Michigan’s Senate race is a prime example. We need to create a counter narrative and support candidates that support trans people.    There are ways to help in our individual lives, too. Part of why some anti-trans policies succeed is because of misinformation and fear of trans people. We can try to reorient the people in our lives toward understanding trans existence in a way that neutralizes the weaponized narrative of trans people as a threat. We can also materially support and uplift individual trans people to ensure that our trans communities are surviving, thriving, and leading our movements with the tools we have developed over generations.

Published September 23, 2020 at 03:08PM via ACLU https://ift.tt/3025kZL