the certainty of the reality of the possibility
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/30-jul-23-masha-gessen-parallel-polis-and-political-hope/

#MashaGessen #ParallelPolis #dissidence #VáclavBenda #VáclavHavel #Solidarność #hope #ErichFromm #blog

@guardian your are asking homo sovieticus who’s been spoon fed conspiracy and agitprop from state media, what they feel? They literally don’t know anything. Watch the video #mashagessen https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/06/25/exp-putin-prigozhin-uprising-russia-masha-gessen-holmes-intv-062512aseg1-cnni-world.cnn

"Absolutely. I remember getting on my bike in Manhattan, maybe four or five years ago, and suddenly realizing that this sense that I am unrecognizable, unintelligible to the world in which I live, was gone." -- #MashaGessen in The New Yorker on being nonbinary

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-trans-rights

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/id1050430296?i=1000603654193 I found this interview helpful and informative. #MashaGessen

https://www.wnyc.org/story/masha-gessen-war-against-trans-rights-ps/

#ThePoliticalScene #TheNewYorker

#MashaGessen (who also self-identifies as #gnc) on the #waragainsttransrights #wnyc

#TransAndNonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans: :heart_nb:

#LGBTQIAplus :anqueer_flag: :newpride:

https://www.wnyc.org/story/masha-gessen-war-against-trans-rights-ps/

#MashaGessen (who also self-identifies as #gnc) on the #waragainsttransrights #wnyc

#TransAndNonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans: :heart_nb:

#LGBTQIAplus :anqueer_flag: :newpride:

"Being #transgender in a society that understands that some people are transgender is fundamentally different from being transgender in a society that doesn’t understand." You must read this interview with the brilliant #MashaGessen:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-trans-rights?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_031123&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=5bd67bf83f92a41245df2aef&cndid=48396092&hasha=63f08c781257a007eb3fc66972f0954f&hashb=195e1a8cf0a8ab8929083859b2dea151c5377ad9&hashc=ae5c846190b6aa6e2ee66341014b78540910d19ad5a822204a09d505607aa030&esrc=newsletters-form-sig

Fascinating, probing interview with #newyorker's brilliant #mashagessen on what's really at stake in debates about #trans rights. By David Remnick. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-trans-rights

New Yorker: What We Talk About When We Talk About Trans Rights https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-trans-rights #NewYorker #News/TheNewYorkerInterview #L.G.B.T.Q.Rights #MashaGessen #Transgender #CultureWars #Interviews #Journalism #Autocracy

New Yorker: Masha Gessen on the Battle Over Trans Rights https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/masha-gessen-on-the-battle-over-trans-rights #NewYorker #Podcast/TheNewYorkerRadioHour #News/NewYorkerFavorites #TransgenderRights #Legislation #MashaGessen #Filibuster #Podcasts #Nebraska #Russia

@Grutjes @petermwsn
yesterday #MashaGessen gave a great keynote speech about the paralel-polis, the 'city' we build of cooperative structures, as an alternative and to survive the ugly world outside.
..in which they also touched on the subject of hope..
https://shifttalks.nl/indrukwekkende-avond-met-masha-gessen-in-world-skate-center/

Superinterressante keynote van #MashaGessen tijdens #ShiftTalks.

Over hoe we de toekomst niet moeten vergeten terwijl we knokken tegen auotcratie en andere oppressieve systemen. Over de parralel-polis, de parralele wereld die we op moeten bouwen, vóórdat het oude weg kan. Over doen waar je invloed op hebt, als grote veranderingen buiten je macht liggen.

Ook over hoe productief het is om je alternatieve dingetje te doen terwijl de destructie in de rest van de wereld doorgaat. Help je de machthebbers niet met de facade ophouden dat het allemaal goed gaat?

Helaas geen antwoorden. Fijn hoor, filosofie ;)

#ShiftTalks #DenBosch #DoeVerdommeWat

Buitengewoon interessante vrouw #MashaGessen. #Buitenhof
Journalist Masha Gessen ontvluchtte het Rusland van #Poetin toen de liberale waarden steeds meer onder druk kwamen te staan en belandde in het Amerika van Trump. Gessen schreef veel over deze twee leiders, won meerdere prijzen en schreef de bestseller ‘Surviving autocracy’. Hoe reageer je op autocratische leiders? En hoe bescherm je een kwetsbare democratie?

@Helenahoayun I highly recommend THE FUTURE IS HISTORY by #MashaGessen.

The subject is the decline of post-Soviet #Russia into its current state of oligarchy and authoritarianism, and she examines it from different viewpoints by telling the stories of several very interesting people.

Very timely reading, too.

#MashaGessen

> We are used to thinking of propaganda (a word whose Latin roots mean “towards action”) as intended to move people to think or act in a particular way.. But there was a different quality to totalitarian propaganda. Its purpose was not just to create certainty (the enemy is evil incarnate), but a curious kind of doubt. “In fact,” as Russian émigrée and New Yorker writer #MashaGessen has put it, “the purpose of #totalitarian #propaganda is to take away your ability to perceive reality.”