In the days following the election, as I grappled with the enormity of what Trump 2.0 would mean, I had a personal struggle as well: what to do with Pink Hair & Pronouns, my publication for parents and caregivers of trans and nonbinary kids?
I researched the risks by reading Project 2025. I reached out to the CEO of Medium to ask him about guardrails and protections. And in the end, I realized—it was risky to leave my content up. And even riskier to keep writing.
But in the end, I knew: I couldn’t obey in advance.
I wrote this story about the reasoning, morality, and decision. Then I went and recorded it, because I wanted to say the words aloud. And today then I went and podcasted about it with
, to double-extra underline my intent.I will not obey in advance.
Protecting Our Trans and Nonbinary Kids Under Trump and Project 2025
It’s Friday, and three nights ago I came to the sobering realization of just how racist and misogynistic my country is, when we elected a rapist insurrectionist transphobic felon as our 47th president. I haven’t cried. I haven’t had a sip to drink. I’ve gone to work. On the outside, I appear fine.
After this heady discussion, we were delighted to welcome
to the Live. Stewart is an incredible music writer on Medium (and elsewhere), and just shared his very first story to Substack, about the Chicago Sun-Times disgraceful misuse of AI that just went down this weekend.He joins in about 45 minutes into the recording, and offers so many insights about both the power and limitations of AI.
You can read his story here.
The Chicago Sun-Times Book List Wasn't an AI Mistake. It Was a Human One.
I love a summer reading list. When I was a kid, the first two things I did on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend was get my season pass to the swimming pool at Clark Centennial Park (it was free if you had all As and Bs on your last report card) and check out a foot-high stack of books from the St. Vrain Valley Public Library. My day job is writing an…
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