Jesse’s been off in Israel resolving and/or exacerbating tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians, FAR too busy to talk to some distant goy like Katie, so here’s an interview he recently conducted with Katherine Dee, an extremely smart and perceptive writer and podcaster on internet culture. Topics include the very… *particular* nature of rationalist gatherings, the perils of parasocial relationships, and the question of what identity means when it’s severed from any sort of embodied, real-world existence.

Links:

Aella comes on BARPod:

Some of Dee’s favorite articles that she has written:

Tumblr Transformed American Politics

https://theamericanconservative.com/tumblr-transformed-american-politics/ 

Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made

Rise of the Female-to-Female Transsexual

The Ghost of Adam Lanza, Pt. 1

The brief and wondrous life of a scene.

The image is the ace pride flag: https://grpride.org/product/asexual-pride-flag/

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