Reposted by Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts.
And she *apologized* for making the request.
Are you kidding me?
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Sad Old Man Crying
ALT: Sad Old Man Crying
![My friend Heather Smith remarked to me recently that young
women are urged to “never stop picturing their murder.” From
childhood onward, we were instructed to not do things—not go
here, not work there, not go out at this hour or talk to those people
or wear this dress or drink this drink or partake of adventure,
independence, solitude; refraining was the only form of safety of-
fered from the slaughter. During those years at the end of my teens
and the beginning of my twenties, I was constantly sexually ha-
rassed on the street and sometimes elsewhere, though harassed
doesn’t convey the menace that was often present. [screenshot from galleys]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ya7gfadgypyypiva5pboi6mi/bafkreia6uwz7u3j2er4r2uhqag65aqobgw6smz4gmeiplktbd3mv2wujg4)
