One From the Vaults where she explores important trans historical figures and events.
She was one of the first trans people I followed on Twitter as I was starting my own transition, and Iâm pretty sure it was through her that I discovered Topside Press (see âA conversation with Torrey Petersâ) and the trans lit scene of the early 2010s. One of the things that Iâve taken from her is a rule she has about not publicly criticizing other trans women.
It might seem like self-censorship, but Iâve found it to be a good rule for a number of reasons. The trans âcommunityâ â which is a misnomer, to be sure â isnât a monolith, and if you follow enough trans people on social media, especially Twitter, youâll bear witness to dozens of hot takes and flame wars among various trans cliques over all manner of seemingly mundane or minor issues. Let she who is not âproblematicâ cast the first stone, right?
Morgan M Page is a writer and expert on trans history. She has a podcast called
One From the Vaults where she explores important trans historical figures and events. She was one of the first trans people I followed on Twitter as I was starting my own transition, and Iâm pretty sure it was through her that I discovered Topside Press and the trans lit scene of the early 2010s. One of the things that Iâve taken from her is a rule she has about not publicly criticizing other trans women.
It might seem like self-censorship, but Iâve found it to be a good rule for a number of reasons. The trans âcommunityâ â which is a misnomer, to be sure â isnât a monolith, and if you follow enough trans people on social media, especially Twitter, youâll bear witness to dozens of hot takes and flame wars among various trans cliques over all manner of seemingly mundane or minor issues. Let she who is not âproblematicâ cast the first stone, right?
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On Wednesday, former Bachelor Colton Underwood sat down for an intimate, revealing interview with Good Morning America to get something big off his chest.
âIâm gay,â he told anchor Robin Roberts, shaken though visibly relieved. âI came to terms with that earlier this year and have been processing it ⦠I ran from myself for a long time,â he said. Now, he feels âthe happiest and healthiest Iâve ever been in my lifeâ.
Iâm hesitant to frame Underwoodâs coming out as some kind of significant âgay firstâ, given how such narratives often end up portraying LGBTQ+ people as new, as if we havenât been here the whole time. âThe media that make us visible simultaneously obscure our presence in history by continually framing trans people [and, in this instance with Underwood, gay people] as new, as a modern, medicalized phenomenon only now coming to light,â writer and arti
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Fans of Paul Cooperâs podcast Fall of Civilizations will know that it usually begins in a particular way. A traveller, often far from home, encounters a ruin that hints at a vast and forgotten story of the past.
Hiding from bandits in the desert, the Italian nobleman Pietro della Valle takes shelter in the shadow of the crumbling Ziggurat of Ur. Clambering through the rubble of a once magnificent site of Roman Britain, an unknown poet of the eighth or ninth century writes an elegy to the broken âwork of giantsâ.
With the scene set, the piano theme plays and the listener is on their way, transported â if only for a while â from the 21st century, with its crises of economics, climate and Covid, to the time of the Aztecs, the Sumerians or the Vikings.