this is an acquaintance’s picture from the Emergency Rally for Muslim and Immigrant Rights in Washington Square Park July 25
I thought “man, that right one woulda been awkward at the Women’s March”
That’s the danger of hyping up without a coordinating force; the more you raise a quiver of vectors’ magnitude, the more obvious they’re not pointing in the same direction
OHHHH, the “Chi” in “Chicano” was originally the same as the “xi” in “Mexico”, I just got that.
There’s an alternate universe out there where people are earnestly typing “Xcanx”
I mean I say that as something to laugh at the -x terminal
But like “American English replaced Latinate gender-marking terminals with -x under the influence of this development in American Spanish”, that is totally a thing that could happen
EXCEPT
1. how do you pronounce that?
2. who’s to say it sticks
remember “Latin@”?
that was the year, remember when tumblr was still bothering to cite “third sex” traditions for legitimacy, the discourse that requiring SRS (then “bottom surgery”, then nothing) was “mandatory sterilization”
(OUR third sex tradition was castrati, no one brought that up)
assumption was toooootaly about who would give authoritative-yet-corrective, charismatically-commanding-yet-vulnerable essays on medieval history and pop culture
in 2017
(wholly apart from my understanding of gender identity, which is “it is 1998 but I read SF/F on the internet”)
so not as an apology but an interpretive note (write for posterity) let it be noted
Clues: “Ooooh.” “I was watching an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with my
roommates, and it went into a backstory flashback set in high medieval
Germany. “Why are you sighing?” one asked, noticing that I’d laid back
and deflated rather gloomily.”
“this lovely pink gown”
I can trivially see my straight boy ass saying any or all of those things
I’m not remotely a Constitutional lawyer and nowhere near a final authority here, but when I took Jeremy Rabkin’s Constitutional Law class at Cornell I took the final essay prompt about due process as applied to immigration decisions. I remember looking through the precedents and finding that a sovereign government is definitionally considered to have the power to control immigration (similar to the police power as so foundational it goes without enumerating) and is granted a surprising amount of unchecked latitude with how to use it. Don’t count on a miracle.
I’m not remotely a Constitutional lawyer and nowhere near a final authority here, but when I took Jeremy Rabkin’s Constitutional Law class at Cornell I took the final essay prompt about due process as applied to immigration decisions. I remember looking through the precedents and finding that a sovereign government is definitionally considered to have the power to control immigration (similar to the police power as so foundational it goes without enumerating) and is granted a surprising amount of unchecked latitude with how to use it. Don’t count on a miracle.
Quoted this to one of my friends
His response:
not a miracle, but expecting a big resurgence of “state’s rights” on the subjects of immigration and more on the coastal left states, and this is a start in that direction
Can I just say that that scares me more than Trump? Because that’s how you get border controls on state lines.
There used to be stronger notions of state citizenship as vs. national citizenship in the USA but they were systematically undercut (in the name of freedom of movement among others) in what was taken as left-Progressive movement
Shapiro v. Thompson, 1969, that states can’t put up a 1-year residency requirement as a barrier on welfare and (LEFT: reserve rich white resources for rich white people//RIGHT: deter welfare migrants and preempt a race to the bottom), that was the last blow
but today is a year, someone has a name, these things can change
the new aesthetic is Streamline Postmoderne, rounded balconies and portholes, LED takes on Miami neon but that friendly pink and blue, not the 80s laser shit
underrated skills: the ability to distinguish the opening bars from Every Breath You Take by the Police from the opening bars of Puff Daddy’s cover version.
same year as Candle in the Wind ‘97 there was a real risk “novelty celebrity eulogy cover song” would become a thing
