Raquel Willis' resume is long: the first trans lead editor at Out magazine, a TIME 100 awardee, memoirist (The Risk It Takes To Bloom), and co-founder of the group Gender Liberation, whose direct actions at the US capitol calling for basic needs like trans healthcare reverberate far outside the DMV.

We discuss the limitations of mainstream visibility in saving trans lives, and her podcast series AFTERLIVES, whose first two seasons cover the lives and passings of Layleen Polanco and Marsha P. Johnson.

Raquel's site
https://www.raquelwillis.com/

AFTERLIVES podcast
https://www.afterlivespod.com/

Episode: Tourmaline on Marsha P. Johnson
https://www.patreon.com/posts/129316368

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The return of Susan Stryker! On this episode: The utopian potential of Trans SanFrisco of the 1990s, and why the new third edition of Transgender History may be her last time editing the classic tome.

Transgender History
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/susan-stryker/transgender-history-third-edition/9781541605886/

When Monsters Speak
https://www.dukeupress.edu/when-monsters-speak

Susan's upcoming book: Changing Gender
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250453921/changinggender/

Episode: Susan on the Compton's Cafeteria riot
https://www.patreon.com/posts/jail-at-comptons-79134233

Friends Stab and Trung both texted me when about a recent, very Sad Francisco-coded feature in Wired magazine. Here's a little response, inspired partially by an impromptu reading group a few friends did around the piece.

Mentioned:

Alexandr Wang

Barry's Bootcamp

Gawker.com

Melania's box office

Peter Thiel

Sam Altman

Tim Cook

TW for brief mention of Sam Altman sexually assaulting his sister, and the US war assault on Iran including the AI-assisted murder of kids there.

Zoë Bernard, Wired: Inside the Gay Tech Mafia

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-gay-tech-mafia/

Ryan Grim, The Intercept: The Death of Peter Thiel's "Kept" Romantic Partner is Being Investigated as a Suicide

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/

Owen Thomas, Valleywag: Peter Thiel is totally gay, people

Blog post that Peter Thiel didn't really love

https://www.gawkerarchives.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press: documentary on Netflix following Peter Thiel's successful quest to bankrupt Gawker.com by funding a lawsuit related to a Hulk Hogan sex tape

https://www.netflix.com/title/80168227

Episode: Aesthetics of the New Rightwing Tech Intelligentsia with Jimmy Wu

https://www.patreon.com/posts/aesthetics-of-wu-148707467