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Groundhog Day in ‘Short Film’

An episode in ‘Most Famous Short Film of All Time’ — Groundhog Day 2015 is a turning point in my novel, Most Famous Short Film of All Time. Lev’s former coworker has threatened him, and he decides to confront the threat. An excerpt: Frame #275: Was it I who woke up one morning and realized that my former coworker was actually…

To Catch A Predator

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Groundhog Day in ‘Short Film’
Groundhog Day in ‘Short Film’
To Catch A Predator

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1 hour ago

How to Reduce Your Anxiety Over the Idea of Trans Kids

Look at that ‘idea’, and change your assumptions about it — While a kid is small, the parent ensures that the kid wears clothes and socializes with other kids. Gradually, the parent backs off and gives the child more autonomy as the child decides what to wear and whom to befriend. The parent may even stop making comments on these matters. …

Trans Kids

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How to Reduce Your Anxiety Over the Idea of Trans Kids
How to Reduce Your Anxiety Over the Idea of Trans Kids
Trans Kids

12 min read


1 day ago

‘At Any Age’: Trump Doesn’t Want Trans People

How Trump will oppress trans people if reelected in 2024 — On January 31, 2023, Donald Trump posted a video to Truth Social about how, if reelected president in 2024, he intends to make it broadly illegal or impossible for trans people to have our genders. I believe in refraining from casually sharing transphobic messages in the hopes that I can…

Trans Kids

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‘At Any Age’: Trump Doesn’t Want Trans People
‘At Any Age’: Trump Doesn’t Want Trans People
Trans Kids

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1 day ago

The Day Before Groundhog Day in ‘Short Film’

Thirteen frames in ‘Most Famous Short Film of All Time’ — Happy February 1 to all. This is an important day in my novel, Most Famous Short Film of All Time. The events occur eight years ago in the fiction. The first 261 frames of the Zapruder film bring the narrator, Lev Ockenshaw, to Saturday, January 31, 2015. The next passage…

Groundhog Day

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The Day Before Groundhog Day in ‘Short Film’
The Day Before Groundhog Day in ‘Short Film’
Groundhog Day

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3 days ago

Weighing René Descartes’ Influence in a World Without Him

Arturo Serrano discusses ethics, political theory, and why he kills off Descartes in his novel — Arturo Serrano’s first novel in English imagines that the Mayflower was lost at sea in 1620, the English Separatists were disheartened, and the United States were never born. In this alternate history, rival empires split up the world, and those caught in the middle fight to bring an end to…

American Exceptionalism

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Weighing René Descartes’ Influence in a World Without Him
Weighing René Descartes’ Influence in a World Without Him
American Exceptionalism

8 min read


4 days ago

Art of the Cape Cod Beach

Oil and cold wax by Linda Lieberman — Five scenes by Linda Lieberman, accompanied by five phrases from naturalist Robert Finch’s essay “Beginnings” in The Outer Beach. “When I first beheld that wild beach…”

Cold Wax

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Art of the Cape Cod Beach
Art of the Cape Cod Beach
Cold Wax

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Art of the Cape Cod Beach

Oil and cold wax by Linda Lieberman

Five scenes by Linda Lieberman, accompanied by five phrases from naturalist Robert Finch’s essay “Beginnings” in The Outer Beach.

abstract painting of a beach (1 of 5)

“When I first beheld that wild beach…”

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Published in The Identity Current

·5 days ago

Our Bones Help Us Live

And being trans is how some of us live — A note hovering on the iliac crest of this essay: If you don’t want to see an X-ray of a pelvis, you are gently counseled to read something else. About My Hips First, a passage from a novel I recently enjoyed: “Later I could not remember her face. I remembered, instead, the name…

Hip Dysplasia

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Our Bones Help Us Live
Our Bones Help Us Live
Hip Dysplasia

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6 days ago

Are People ‘Basically Good’?

Depends on what ‘basically’ means — The English qualifier “basically,” attached to “good,” used to refer to humanity, might mean any of a few things. Here are some possibilities. Goodness Is Intrinsic Whatever we are “intrinsically,” we are that way because: We were created so (per religious worldviews). We evolved so, biologically (per scientific theories). We arrange ourselves so…

Goodness

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Are People ‘Basically Good’?
Are People ‘Basically Good’?
Goodness

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Jan 25

Nervous About Sharing Your Uninformed Opinion? Then Don’t

Feel relieved? Good. But it was never about your feelings — On January 22, the New York Times published an article on trans kids that was heavy on the Just asking questions! …

Trans Kids

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Nervous About Sharing Your Uninformed Opinion? Then Don’t
Nervous About Sharing Your Uninformed Opinion? Then Don’t
Trans Kids

8 min read


Jan 24

On Trans Kids, Ask People Who Know

Try looking where the answers are — The New York Times published an article yesterday with a pronounced slant against trans kids. (There’s the unpaywalled gift link.) The author interviewed a teenager who said: “When you’re trans, you feel like you are in danger all the time.” I would have led with that, but that’s why I’m…

Transgender

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On Trans Kids, Ask People Who Know
On Trans Kids, Ask People Who Know
Transgender

9 min read

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Tucker Lieberman

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Novel: MOST FAMOUS SHORT FILM OF ALL TIME. Dignity & democracy. Truth & time. https://tuckerlieberman.com/

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