Plus: a space flight that doesn’t involve Katy Perry, testing water for birth control pills, wrestling with my cognitive dissonance, and more in the weekend roundup.

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more For just $5—the cost of a couple cups of coffee—you can get my Sunday link roundups without a paywall. My essays are always free for all, but my weekend newsletter is a thank you to paid subscribers, who make this whole thing possible. Upgrade Feminists again cisness Plus: a space flight that doesn’t involve Katy Perry, testing water for birth control pills, wrestling with my cognitive dissonance, and more in the weekend roundup. Tracy Clark-Flory Apr 20 ∙ Preview   READ IN APP   Pedro Pascal in The Fantastic Four. It’s Sunday. What a sickening week, again. “We are currently witnessing the collapse of our democracy,” wrote the political scientist Steven Levitsky. Indeed, indeed, indeed. If you’re here, I don’t have to tell you any of this. But I do feel the need to note the cognitive dissonance of, on the one hand, witnessing these horrors and, on the other, writing about anything else. I also know that these horrors are deeply tied to so much of what I cover here. Sex, love, desire, and pleasure. Marriage, motherhood, gender, and feminism. This is my corner of focus. I’ll keep doing my best with it. To the links… Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan, is being called a “gory, horny” horror flick. I don’t like gore. I do like horny. Someone report back? I started reading Feminists Against Cisness and it is stretching my brain in excellent ways... Subscribe to TCF Emails to unlock the rest. Become a paying subscriber of TCF Emails to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. Upgrade to paid A subscription gets you: Paid + public posts The full archive The ability to comment   Like Comment Restack   © 2025 Tracy Clark-Flory 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe