I dropped out of my Ph.D. philosophy program at Northwestern in the summer of 2015, in my mid-20s. I kind of had the idea of writing fiction, and so I was working on that for a year but without ever having very much success at it. ContraPoints Read Quote
Almost as soon as I came out as trans, there was a spike in online harassment more vicious than anything I’d experienced before. It turns out there are many people who spend a good portion of their spare time making life as miserable as possible for trans people. ContraPoints Read Quote
Politics is always antagonistic and tribalistic. But social media puts us in isolated information bubbles. We’re not just disagreeing on politics. We’re disagreeing on reality in very fundamental ways. ContraPoints Read Quote
It’s quite difficult to get through to the people who are really committed to these anti-progressive beliefs. ContraPoints Read Quote
It’s going to take me less time to wreck Ben Shapiro than it took me to curl my hair. ContraPoints Read Quote
I’m not really the type of person who is going to make heartfelt, 20-minute vlogs. That’s just not really who I am. ContraPoints Read Quote
I try to swim against the current as much as possible when it comes to the tribalism that defines the way people do politics on social media, and I try to present myself as an individual and humanistic voice. I’m interested in people, not just factions. ContraPoints Read Quote
I’ve been harassed. I’ve been stalked. I’ve had every public pre-transition photo of me compiled alongside my deadname with the purpose of never letting me be my true gender. ContraPoints Read Quote