Gisel Sánchez

In response to the ads, the tracking, the trolling, the hype, and other predatory behaviors, we’re retreating to our dark forests of the internet, and away from the mainstream.

This very email is an example of this. This theory is being shared on a private channel sent to 500 people who I know or who have explicitly chosen to receive it. This is the... See more

La insistencia en nuestro dolor impide, también, a las personas que no conocen (o, más bien, creen no conocer) a una persona trans como eso, una persona y no un objeto de curiosidad o “valentía”. Centrarse en nuestra transidad facilita la fetichización y la vulnerabilidad social, jurídica y política. Centrarse en la violencia, incluso si están busc... See more

In contrast, the narrative of interconnection reminds us that well-being is relational, that progress stems from cooperation, and that mutual care is a survival strategy, not just a moral concession. This has long been the perspective of Indigenous peoples with the concept of Buen Vivir and African cultures with the philosophy of Ubuntu .

“Terror can only rule over men who are isolated against each other,” Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism.

s Gary Marcus in The Birth of the Mind. “The reason animals can learn is that they can alter their nervous systems based on external experience. And the reason they can do that is that experience itself can modify the expression of genes. ”

For the first time there are facts and (in Kellyanne Conway’s notorious phrase) ‘alternative facts’. As facts become fluid they become contestable; the truth becomes (once again) something you assert, not something you prove. It used to be a peculiar characteristic of totalitarian regimes that they made the facts fit their purposes; now it seems th... See more

language and thought are, in fact, distinct entities that the brain processes separately

“El distanciamiento ideológico entre partidos políticos (polarización ideológica) promueve el escepticismo y la desafección democrática entre la ciudadanía (polarización afectiva). La polarización dificulta el consenso político en temas tan relevantes como la convivencia territorial, la inmigración, la igualdad de género o el cambio climático. El r... See more