I realized that I’ve been restricting comments to paid subscribers lately, and not totally on purpose? It’s a consequence of this free-essay-with-paid-extras sort of combo-posting I’ve been doing while I work on some other projects. I got a ton of new subscribers this week after being featured on Substack’s homepage — which is very exciting, welcome to our new slugs — so I thought I’d open up a discussion thread?? let’s try it???
You are welcome to discuss anything you like - recent posts, cool stuff you found online, burning questions — just be kind and assume good faith. Disagreement is okay, being a dick about it is not! Although I must say Sluggish readers are some of the most thoughtful, nuanced, interesting people on the internet and I am very grateful to have attracted such a cool audience. :)
I’ll do my best to respond to questions but I am also kinda messy so if I don’t, just know it’s not you, I get distracted/forget/go into a fugue state and suddenly find myself with my hands covered in dirt, surrounded by seed trays. springtime. you know how it is.
Hey! Long-time listener, first-time subscriber here. I’m recently late diagnosed AuDHD, with the ADHD part just confirmed this week, and I’m just having the come-to-Jesus talk with myself that I am in deep Autistic burnout. I’m curious if you or anyone has any good resources on Autistic burnout? Besides just watching hours of TikTok videos? They make my brain hurt. Thanks--love the show. ❤️
hi!! have you heard of Amelia Nagoski? she wrote a book with her sister about burnout from a feminist perspective, but she started a youtube channel where she talks about burnout thru an autistic lens and her videos are great: https://www.youtube.com/@amelianp
I don't have any resources to share, but just wanted to offer a friendly nod of acknowledgement for what you're struggling with. Au burnout can be brutal, so I'm sending my best wishes to you that you get the support you need to grapple with it. 💚
I find your perspective to be refreshingly 'true' in a world gone mad with junk science and junk news. Keep on keeping on -- I recommend Sluggish often;-)
Sluggish really is the nice corner of the internet, I have loved learning from you and other ppl here. For new subscribers, the post you did about mise en place and the Work Clean book was awesome, I'd encourage everybody to read it!
I really like the stuff you post, and I was just going over the account to see what past material I may have additionally passed over.
Then I gifted a few friends a gift subscription, because your content is relevant to the stuff I often discuss with my friends, and I have been wishing there was a way I could share it.
Now I just saw this post where I can comment, so I'm saying hello, and thank your for all the well-researched content. (I'm also relatively new to substack, so I'm still kind of finding my way around this platform and learning ways to interact with it).
I may come back and post a specific comment or question at some point, but right now I basically wanted to express gratitude for all the content you post. :)
Heya! I really appreciate your work, it has clarified so much for me of late and has started me on a journey to understanding myself and my loved ones much more fully 💛 Just wondering, have you every considered having your written work narrated for short-form audio content? I find audio content a lot easier to access and consume, but it's often difficult for me to listen to and understand the automated voice that substack sometimes produces. I don't know how substack works for audio and if you even have the option to upload another file, but I think community members like myself would lend their voices to such a project if it were possible:)
yes I've been thinking about it! I also read something the other day where someone tested an AI voice generator for their own voice and their friends couldn't tell that it wasn't them, so i've also been wondering if that could be a good option for accessibility purposes
Hi! I just want to say I really appreciate your work. Your newsletters make me think about how to care for myself and my loved ones and the world better. Also I just enjoy the way you write things and put your ideas together! Thank you.
aw thats so nice to hear, thank you for listening! sadly I got overwhelmed and had to cut back on projects to avoid burning myself out, so I had to let D-Land go. trying to practice what I preach about slug life.
Are you familiar with the podcast If Books Could Kill? A friend recommended it recently, and I just listened to the episode on The Secret. Of course, it made me think back to your post about it & the whole “law of attraction” thing a few months ago. Honestly, that was one of my all time favorite posts of yours so far.
I think you (& other readers here) would dig this podcast, in general, as it’s basically all about grifters, but this episode is especially good.
What are your thoughts on Thomas Laquer's theory that Medieval Europe had a one-sex model? I believe you mentioned it briefly in one of your posts a while ago, but I can't find it at the moment. The theory seems interesting to me, but I also know it's been criticized on empirical grounds.
Hi there! I am a psychological research scientist, and I had to study Laquer while earning my Bachelor’s. As I understand, this model is the reason why so much became based on and predicated on male bodies. In addition to that, people with wombs were understood to be “inverted” males, which would continue to justice oppression against people with wombs. Discourse leading to “two” sexes would ultimately create the sex binary, in which people with wombs and intersex people would be considered inherent anomalies. It is, what I would to think, the beginning of patriarchal superiority in the medical industrial complex. Though we are technically no longer in a two-sex model thanks to world innovations in transexual health empirically, people still use the theory to oppress people, perpetuate “tradition”, and support and popularize the institution of marriage. For some 500 years, the two-sex model has been used as such, and the one-sex model can also be seen in efforts to make medical science male by default.
Hey! Long-time listener, first-time subscriber here. I’m recently late diagnosed AuDHD, with the ADHD part just confirmed this week, and I’m just having the come-to-Jesus talk with myself that I am in deep Autistic burnout. I’m curious if you or anyone has any good resources on Autistic burnout? Besides just watching hours of TikTok videos? They make my brain hurt. Thanks--love the show. ❤️
hi!! have you heard of Amelia Nagoski? she wrote a book with her sister about burnout from a feminist perspective, but she started a youtube channel where she talks about burnout thru an autistic lens and her videos are great: https://www.youtube.com/@amelianp
I don't have any resources to share, but just wanted to offer a friendly nod of acknowledgement for what you're struggling with. Au burnout can be brutal, so I'm sending my best wishes to you that you get the support you need to grapple with it. 💚
Thank you 🥰😘
I find your perspective to be refreshingly 'true' in a world gone mad with junk science and junk news. Keep on keeping on -- I recommend Sluggish often;-)
thank you for sharing my work, i am eternally bad at promoting myself so I really appreciate it <3
Sluggish really is the nice corner of the internet, I have loved learning from you and other ppl here. For new subscribers, the post you did about mise en place and the Work Clean book was awesome, I'd encourage everybody to read it!
thank you I love it here!! i don't think that mise en place was me, maybe it was Marta? (www.divergentdesign.substack.com)
It was totally Marta, who I found through you!
Hello!
I really like the stuff you post, and I was just going over the account to see what past material I may have additionally passed over.
Then I gifted a few friends a gift subscription, because your content is relevant to the stuff I often discuss with my friends, and I have been wishing there was a way I could share it.
Now I just saw this post where I can comment, so I'm saying hello, and thank your for all the well-researched content. (I'm also relatively new to substack, so I'm still kind of finding my way around this platform and learning ways to interact with it).
I may come back and post a specific comment or question at some point, but right now I basically wanted to express gratitude for all the content you post. :)
Hi!! So happy to hear this, thanks so much for sharing and reading!
Heya! I really appreciate your work, it has clarified so much for me of late and has started me on a journey to understanding myself and my loved ones much more fully 💛 Just wondering, have you every considered having your written work narrated for short-form audio content? I find audio content a lot easier to access and consume, but it's often difficult for me to listen to and understand the automated voice that substack sometimes produces. I don't know how substack works for audio and if you even have the option to upload another file, but I think community members like myself would lend their voices to such a project if it were possible:)
yes I've been thinking about it! I also read something the other day where someone tested an AI voice generator for their own voice and their friends couldn't tell that it wasn't them, so i've also been wondering if that could be a good option for accessibility purposes
that's wild! sounds like a cool way to do it:)
Hi! I just want to say I really appreciate your work. Your newsletters make me think about how to care for myself and my loved ones and the world better. Also I just enjoy the way you write things and put your ideas together! Thank you.
Wondering when the next episode of Disorderland is happening? I’ve listened to them all two or three times and always get something new
aw thats so nice to hear, thank you for listening! sadly I got overwhelmed and had to cut back on projects to avoid burning myself out, so I had to let D-Land go. trying to practice what I preach about slug life.
Are you familiar with the podcast If Books Could Kill? A friend recommended it recently, and I just listened to the episode on The Secret. Of course, it made me think back to your post about it & the whole “law of attraction” thing a few months ago. Honestly, that was one of my all time favorite posts of yours so far.
I think you (& other readers here) would dig this podcast, in general, as it’s basically all about grifters, but this episode is especially good.
yesss I love all michael hobbes podcasts!
What are your thoughts on Thomas Laquer's theory that Medieval Europe had a one-sex model? I believe you mentioned it briefly in one of your posts a while ago, but I can't find it at the moment. The theory seems interesting to me, but I also know it's been criticized on empirical grounds.
Hi there! I am a psychological research scientist, and I had to study Laquer while earning my Bachelor’s. As I understand, this model is the reason why so much became based on and predicated on male bodies. In addition to that, people with wombs were understood to be “inverted” males, which would continue to justice oppression against people with wombs. Discourse leading to “two” sexes would ultimately create the sex binary, in which people with wombs and intersex people would be considered inherent anomalies. It is, what I would to think, the beginning of patriarchal superiority in the medical industrial complex. Though we are technically no longer in a two-sex model thanks to world innovations in transexual health empirically, people still use the theory to oppress people, perpetuate “tradition”, and support and popularize the institution of marriage. For some 500 years, the two-sex model has been used as such, and the one-sex model can also be seen in efforts to make medical science male by default.
Rather than “male bodies,” I would like to say men-identifying individuals with penises and assumed institutional power.
Thanks for the explanation!
My pleasure!
Thanks for sharing your expertise here - very interesting!
Hi, what's a one-sex model? I know I could search on the internet, but I first want to have an idea what it is about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-sex_and_two-sex_theories
Thanks :)