Moments of Joy! Plus, Ellis Rosen

A Monday morning hello.

Greetings friends!

If you are here in the U.S., I hope you had a nice long weekend. If you’re not, I hope you had a nice normal-length weekend.

I kicked off the July 4th festivities with a raging migraine and a strong sense of doom. As I shared on social media, it felt gross to just go about daily life and celebrate with movies and barbecues and fireworks and all the summer fun when there are literally people being grabbed off the streets by masked men and taken in unmarked vans and put into places called “Alligator Alcatraz” or sent to countries they've never even been to, and meanwhile Etsy is selling “Alligator Alcatraz” t-shirts and Senators have agreed to decimate Medicaid because the former reality star president signed some merch for them.

But, then I remembered the wise words of author A.E. Osworth:

"Just because the world is on fire doesn’t mean we do not feel joy and we do not feel pleasure. I think it’s really important to remember that, particularly as a trans person living t…