A couple of weeks ago, a bunch of “forced-masculinization” memes were going around: first on Tumblr, then on Twitter and who knows where else. Ostensibly based on sissy hypno, the forced-feminization porn genre, many of these memes were nowhere near pornographic— and barely coercive. I called this out on Twitter,

Subscribe and support Communotes! I've worked six jobs in my life, not counting internships and gig work. All but two of those jobs I lost for being autistic. That’s not what it said on paper, of course; the official reasons varied, but the effect was the same.

Subscribe and support Communotes! An anonymous asker writes: “I'm somewhat involved in my campus organizing but have a hard time finding and committing to orgs w the concern that I'm associating w smth bad (not OCD but anxiety along similar paths)- do you have advice

Subscribe and support Communotes! In less than two weeks, a case worker will be visiting my house to decide how disabled I am. This is a source of great anxiety: for a long time, I avoided ying for In-Home Health Services (IHHS) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) because I knew

In 2018, I wrote a strident Marxist takedown of Liz Breunig’s “pro-life leftism”— my first ever published essay. I argued that Bruenig’s Christian “socialism” prioritizes formal Vatican doctrine over the needs and beliefs of actually-existing Christian proletarians. The piece still holds up, but I never link to it

Subscribe and support Communotes! I only really came out as gay to one person. For about six months, Laney* and I passed notes about girls we thought were hot, gay sex acts we made our Sims do, and the latest episodes of A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. We

I told friends that my first post for this newsletter was going to be on the Barbie movie, but it's a struggle to sit up long enough make it through it. This Barbie has chronic fatigue and is typing from his phone in bed. About 6 months ago,