Quickies
Quickies: Trumpist dystopias, identity politics, and revenge porn
- 8 disabled women changing the world through politics – From Mary.
- Women and African-American SF writers created Trumpist dystopias because they were beta testing trumpism – “While some science fiction was giving us futures in which the tools of the elites pushed out into the wider world, writers like Butler were presenting futures in which the daily grind of racialized people, women and poor people became the daily lives of the white middle class.”
- Identity politics are what we used to call “civil rights” – ” Also, she made sure to add, white and male is an identity, as is being Christian — the two fronts Steve Doocy’s Fox News roundtable and other like-minded media outlets feel are most under attack.”
- Standing up for the victims of revenge porn – “One of the biggest and scariest things for clients, especially the young girls, is that their Google results are trashed. So imagine, you Google your name, and the first five pages are populated by links to porn sites that have naked pictures of you. And then imagine you’re trying to get a job, or a date, or an apartment.”
To be fair, it’s not like “identity politics” and workers’ rights (hey, just think of the working class as another identity) or fighting poverty are mutually exclusive except to centrist douchenozzles or anything. They’re not even orthogonal.
Meh, Al Carroll also did a Trumpian dystopia. Of course, it was intended as a counterfactual.
“Dystrumpian”?