Covid stuff

Because the best way out of despair is to do work against the thing that's getting you down, I have somehow become a pillar of French anti-covid activism. Please send help, it's not fun.

I maintain an easy-read French language resource page at adslille.fr. Yes, the ADSL pun is on purpose. Translations to other languages are upcoming, get in touch if you want to help especially with languages spoken in the Global South.

I am slowly starting to process the heaps of ongoing trauma via autobiography, which feels cringe as hell but here we are. So far, that's a mediocre Twine put together over a couple days.

The topic will of course show up often in my writing. Expect this list to be updated, unfortunately.

• Faggot Necropolitics, an angry screed at my own community's continued fuckups (also in French);
• Memory-holing the end of the world, exploring how what looks like typical writing shortcuts in the Baten Kaitos game series might be a deeper theme;
• ChatSCP, on the frustration of watching people denounce tech bros living in an alternate reality while they themselves refuse to account for how the world has changed;
• Consent is not enough, searching for a comeback to one of those most annoying fallacies I encounter in queer and feminist spaces (also in French);
• What should have been, reflecting on lost opportunities and grieving the better world that briefly seemed possible;
• Guest post: You are sexier in a mask, republishing a French article by a friend, initially written for a lesbian zine;
• Grant us eyes, on cursed knowledge you can't turn off;
• Walking the line, tipping the throne, working through why I've been obsessed with a Pendulum music video for 5+ years;
• I am not the goddamn pope, breaking down a specific type of tone policing by attempting to separate shame from guilt;
• The self-preservation paradox, answering well-intended calls to take better care of myself;
• Rocket science and marshmallows against toxic nihilism, spoiling the everliving shit out of Outer Wilds to make a point;
• The insufferable whiteness of French anti-covid activism - and more importantly its French version, La blanchité insupportable de l'autodéfense sanitaire - attempt to reckon with our / my failure at helping people of color;
• When do we stop? listing our shockingly achievable victory conditions (also in French).