My last post about genocide, I hope

I was going to track the horror post by post as it crept towards me, but I simply couldn’t do it. I was collecting links to share of other, braver women’s work to share on this subject, and I couldn’t do that either. The fear was suffocating. I guess I found the limits of my literary courage. The massive escalation of anti-trans venom out of Republican circles in late September broke something in me, and I haven’t until just now been able to return to writing about the subject.

Also, the ethnic cleansing and genocide of immigrant communities continues, but I’m not competent to track that horror, either. It felt more and more absurd to whine about the winching tighter of bureaucratic cruelties while masked thugs tore families apart in public. It’s not that the Administration’s actions targeting my community do not fit the criteria of an incipient genocide; it’s that there’s a separate, active genocide happening to my neighbors right now. Therefore, I am putting this series of posts on indefinite hiatus and returning my blogging efforts to something that doesn’t make me want to kill myself.

Buy a whistle, or print one up, and keep it with you. If you see ICE coming, blow your whistle to warn your neighbors. We must protect each other. It is the only way we get through this.

And when we do get through this, I want all of you reading this to pledge you will have no truck with anyone preaching reconciliation. We must remember what they have done. We must remember, and punish them.

The regime’s monsters must learn what fear tastes like.

Link roundup: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detention-louisiana-transgender-detainees-abuse-complaint-10483607

https://autonomy.substack.com/p/do-trans-people-have-a-right-to-exist

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/gop-rep-says-we-need-to-remove-all-trans-people-from-streets-the-internet/

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-push-fbi-to-designate

https://transitics.substack.com/p/this-week-theres-been-a-massive-escalation