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title: Articles
date: 2024-07-03
updated: 2024-12-13T22:10:06+0800
toc: true
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### Culture

* [Laziness Does Not Exist](https://medium.com/7fe325749a24/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01) by Devon Price ([archive.today link](https://archive.is/20241203051434/https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01))
* [you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).](https://ismatu.substack.com/p/youve-been-traumatized-into-hating) by Ismatu Gwendolyn
* [The man who tricked Nazi Germany: lessons from the past on how to beat disinformation](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/02/the-man-who-tricked-nazi-germany-lessons-from-the-past-on-how-to-beat-disinformation) by Peter Pomerantsev

### LGBTQ+

* [I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.](https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42) by Jennifer Coates ([archive.today link](https://archive.is/20230930141839/https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42))
* [On “Male Socialization” and the “Trans Masc Versus Trans Fem” Discourse™](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-male-socialization-and-the-trans) by Julia Serano

 ### Media Criticism
* [On Letting People Enjoy Things](https://medium.com/@EstherRosenfield/let-people-enjoy-things-12021d00285a) by Esther Rosenfield ([archive.today link](https://archive.is/20230617085510/https://medium.com/@EstherRosenfield/let-people-enjoy-things-12021d00285a))
* [In Defence of Critique: Let People Enjoy Not Enjoying Things](https://www.evilfemale.blog/p/in-defence-of-critique-let-people) by charlie squire

### Mental Health

* [There Is No Moral Imperative to Be Miserable](https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/there-is-no-moral-imperative-to-be) by James Greig

### Race

* [“BIPOC”, the Shared Oppression Myth, and the Black Natives It Erases](https://medium.com/@kihnindewa/bipoc-the-shared-oppression-myth-and-the-black-natives-it-erases-dd0cdcd93230) by Kihnindewa
 ([archive.today link](https://archive.is/20230625143617/https://medium.com/@kihnindewa/bipoc-the-shared-oppression-myth-and-the-black-natives-it-erases-dd0cdcd93230))

### Relationships

* [How To Recognize A Moral Abuser](https://www.springhole.net/other/how-to-recognize-a-moral-abuser.htm) by springhole.net

### Web

* [What Is To Be Done?](https://www.cjthex.com/what-is-to-be-done/) by CJ The X

    Out of all the web manifestos I have read on the indie web, this might be the one that resonates with me the most.{.item-list__indent}

* [You should have a website](https://nora.zone/manifesto.html) by Nora Reed

    Nora Reed's website manifesto has been my go-to recommendated reading for why you should make your own website rather than relying on social media for your web presence.{.item-list__indent}

* [The one app to read them all already exists, and it’s called RSS](https://journal.jatan.space/why-use-rss/) by Jatan Mehta

    I have been subscribing to RSS feeds since the 2000s to follow website and blog updates, and I encourage more internet users to do the same.

* [Nostalgia is Bullshit](https://wings.nu/nostalgia/) by Rin

    I do not align with communities and movements that revolve around nostalgia, because I do not believe the past is inherently better, and Web 1.0 design nostalgia is no exception.{.item-list__indent}

* [Cohost So White: A Comprehensive Record of the Matter of Race on Cohost.org](https://alyaza.neocities.org/essays/Cohost/cohostsowhite) by Alyaza Birze

    I have never had a Cohost account, but as an internet user who have witnessed and experienced racism, including microaggressions, on various online spaces. Alyaza's article is a good breakdown and study on how online platforms run by white people, even progressive ones, can still fail to address racial issues on their platform.{.item-list__indent}