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Tessy Schlosser

@tessyschlo.bsky.social
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political theorist and director general of CDIJUM. tending to archives while weaving memory with doubt and politics.

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Tessy Schlosser @tessyschlo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I wrote about "truth-telling" for The Ideas Letter from @open-society.bsky.social. It was as personal quest where I found company by the hand of Antigone, Cassandra, and Jonah. www.theideasletter.org/essay/calend...
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Calendars of Truth - The Ideas Letter
Schlosser reflects on how contemporary rituals of remembrance—from Mexico’s annual Ayotzinapa marches to the liturgical cycle of Yom Kippur—expose the limits of truth as redemption or revelation. Thro...
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Tessy Schlosser @tessyschlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I really thought I would use this more.
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Aaron Radney COMMISSIONS OPEN (3/7 slots left) @aaronradney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
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Tessy Schlosser @tessyschlo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It is always an incredible experience reading @alexshams.bsky.social 🫶🏼
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“Struggling through the work is extremely important -- more important than publishing it.” -- Toni Morrison
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Tessy Schlosser @tessyschlo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This is a techno-dystopian nightmare. www.themexicobrief.org/latest/mexic...
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Reporting: Mexico’s government is using the disappeared to build a surveillance state, families say — The Mexico Brief.
by Madeleine Wattenbarger. A polemical point of the reform to the General Disappearance Law passed by Mexican legislators this week is the use of a biometric CURP to search for missing people. The ...
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Rather than abandon identity politics, this piece argues that we must embrace its friction— an unfinished solidarity that resists purity. Identity is not possession but passage; liberation lies not in coherence but in living with unresolved tensions. By @tessyschlo.bsky.social buff.ly/hUcJIqW
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Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned - The Ideas Letter
It would be convenient to start this essay with a clear definition of identity politics—a dictionary-worthy entry, presented like a compact and neat truth. But identity politics resists tidy…
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Tessy Schlosser @tessyschlo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Desempolvando la lengua de redes sociales con un buenos días.
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Ere Derbez @erederbez.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
What would it mean to approach identity not as a problem that needs solving, but as something to consider with care and to critique in the knowledge that it is too much and not enough? www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...
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Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned - The Ideas Letter
It would be convenient to start this essay with a clear definition of identity politics—a dictionary-worthy entry, presented like a compact and neat truth. But identity politics resists tidy definitio...
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Tessy Schlosser @tessyschlo.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I like that my first post for this platform will be me sharing an essay I wrote for The Ideas Letter on identity politics. It’s a subject I return to again and again—how identity both opens and limits political possibility. www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...
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Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned - The Ideas Letter
It would be convenient to start this essay with a clear definition of identity politics—a dictionary-worthy entry, presented like a compact and neat truth. But identity politics resists tidy definitio...
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