Today we’re talking about some hot takes regarding gender that I think should become more talked about positions for the right reasons instead of the wrong ones. These opinions are frequently found in conservatives and people who generally don’t like us queers very much. Instead of rejecting some of these claims, I think we should build on them instead. We cannot prove the patriarchs wrong. We will always be an affront to them and appeasing them will never grant us true autonomy.
I write think a lot about speculative fiction and how we might be able to imagine a future together, especially in the difficult times we are in right now. I’ve been working on a larger essay that goes more into detail about the political (anarchist) response to societal collapse that incorporates a lot of different frameworks, but today I want to spend some time talking about some of my new favorite books.
A short essay and some late night thoughts on chapter 80 of the Dao De Jing. I will probably revisit this topic more in the future, and there is still plenty to say on this chapter, especially on the last line, which I am constantly puzzling over. But this is a 5 AM blog post, and while I am all for rigorous thinking there is a time and a place. This might be the place, but it certainly isn’t the time.
This essay was updated in May 2026 to incorporate new impulses that came from my talk on this essay at the TDF 2026. New sections are written in italics.Here are some notes toward an essay that I would like to structure more, but the more I type the more I find and I’m trying to bring it to a point where I can call it finished and expand on these ideas in other pieces.