Bad Facts
Glenna GoldisHow does a movement win in court when the facts are against it? This is a newsletter about "trans rights" in the US from the 1960s to today.
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–John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (2026)
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Queers Rush In (Part 3)
“Far from redefining gay identity, ‘queer’ radicalism may actually have to define itself in opposition to it.”
–Andrew Sullivan (1993)
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“I wanted to take a department that was set in its ways and insecure about itself and make it a national center of attention.”
–Stanley Fish (2024)
“Please don’t use that term ‘straight.’”
–Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1998)
In 201...
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“I am not a believer in ‘facts’ unmediated by cultural structures of understanding.”
– Gayle Rubin (1992)
“Who devises the protocols of ‘clarity’ and whose interests do they serve?”
– Judith Butler (1999)
In the 1980s, a risi...
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Lawyer writing about the movement for "transgender" rights from the 1960s to today.
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