Really great essay. I've been thinking about it all day. The rise of trad wives, the discussion about women in the US starting their own 4B movement, the right's obsession with saving the children from drag queens, trans people and any type of queerness. I also rarely ever think about s work and your writing and tiktoks have pointed out this huge blind spot I have. I'll be talking about this with people I know all week. Thanks for this really great essay.
I completely resonate with that fear of being in public spaces. I look forward the exits and think about the size of crowds as us being sitting ducks too. I know working class folks have mistrustee the system because it's failed them time and time again. I come from that background so I know about the kinds of fears about doctors, police, social workers etc. But it feels now that almost everyone in some way is being exposed to that kind of fear that was previously relegated to the poor. Folks now worry about the water, infrastructure crumbling, their kids getting shot at school, or the more pervasive violence in their homes (family annihilators)
Awesome writing, elegantly thread through. RF Kuang is your peer! Since storytelling is revolutionary work, I hope you're submitting to writing fellowships/grants as well. In this essay you already have the rough draft of a politicising trojan for the YA section. Again well done!
Really great essay. I've been thinking about it all day. The rise of trad wives, the discussion about women in the US starting their own 4B movement, the right's obsession with saving the children from drag queens, trans people and any type of queerness. I also rarely ever think about s work and your writing and tiktoks have pointed out this huge blind spot I have. I'll be talking about this with people I know all week. Thanks for this really great essay.
I completely resonate with that fear of being in public spaces. I look forward the exits and think about the size of crowds as us being sitting ducks too. I know working class folks have mistrustee the system because it's failed them time and time again. I come from that background so I know about the kinds of fears about doctors, police, social workers etc. But it feels now that almost everyone in some way is being exposed to that kind of fear that was previously relegated to the poor. Folks now worry about the water, infrastructure crumbling, their kids getting shot at school, or the more pervasive violence in their homes (family annihilators)
I’m glad I took the time to read this.
Awesome writing, elegantly thread through. RF Kuang is your peer! Since storytelling is revolutionary work, I hope you're submitting to writing fellowships/grants as well. In this essay you already have the rough draft of a politicising trojan for the YA section. Again well done!