Kate

@kcnoun.bsky.social

bright and early. chicago

coworker asked me what my favorite labor demonstrations were in honor of labor day and when i asked him the same question back he just went “probably the triangle shirtwaist factory fire”

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

trans woman: I am a woman and am taking fairly straightforward measures to establish that womanhood in my body and in the world queer theorist: I agree, in the sense that no one is and everybody always was. the native. the totally other. a kind of drumbeat beyond time. similar to LSD. we are raving

doing what i’m calling Reverse Office Hours today which is where i ride around chicago and visit my various friends’ beautiful homes for 15-30 minute intervals

late-period ridley scott defenders love to be like “sure, it’s way too long and it looks bad, and the performances and writing are bad, BUT-

“chicago cubs booktok-inspired vertical microdrama romance” feels like a sentence conjured from hell to annoy me and not a real thing that will exist and yet,