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Jude Doyle on Trans Masc Misogyny and the Red Six of Spades: Being an attempt to grapple with trans community dynamics and trans guys who yell at women. A very long attempt. You were warned.

Long and meaty read. Pull quote: "Again, don’t get it twisted: Trans men are men, and transmasculine people, more generally, are not women. But trans men can’t look at women and say I am the opposite of you. We also don’t get to say that to cis men, my own insecurities notwithstanding. We are like cis women. We are like trans women. We are like cis men. We are a place where the interests of at least three different populations, all of whom are historically in conflict with each other, overlap. No wonder it gets confusing."

Yung In Chae, Women Who Weave:
Reading Emily Wilson’s Translation of the Odyssey With Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

Elizabeth Svoboda on moral injury in Scientific American: "A specific kind of trauma results when a person’s core principles are violated during wartime or a pandemic"

Robert Steuteville on Setting the standard for main street transformation: "Lancaster BLVD in Lancaster, California, changed the way we think about creating “sense of place” in a busy downtown thoroughfare. Moule & Polyzoides won a 2021 CNU Charter Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category"

Simona Zaunius on Frodo’s Despair: How Peter Jackson’s films neglect a key aspect of Tolkien’s story: "In the films, the constant heaviness in Frodo is replaced with corruption"