The couple recently moved to Austin from Corpus Christi, saying that they were looking for a more accepting environment.
Austin ranks #2 in anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in Texas, after Dallas, in 2017.
“I think that we would both like it to be [investigated] as a hate crime, as well as bringing awareness back to this issue, that it’s still happening in 2019, and, even as far as we’ve come in the past couple of years, that this is still a relevant problem, obviously,” Tristan said.
Ideally, we lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world — in short, we become more critical and more capacious in our thinking and our acting.
“
| — | Judith Butler, “McGill University commencement address”, 2013 (via philosophybits) |
Critic Barbara J. King says that if you pick up The Snow Leopard Project expecting just a story about big cats, you’ll be pleasantly disappointed:
The broad scope of The Snow Leopard Project makes for compelling reading, not least because it corrects assumptions some of us may have picked up about Afghanistan during these 18 long years of war. Most Americans view Afghanistan, Dehgan writes, “as an inhospitable, dusty land of mud houses, thick clay walls, and bearded, turbaned men and women in burkas.” The reality, of course, is much more complex — and more beautiful.
Check out her full review here.
– Petra
