Cats make the world go round

Maindronia beieri and Adamsiana sp.

Psychopsis mimica and Enchoptera nigricornis

Menidon falcatus and Celyphus sp. (pretty identifiable as flies still but christ just look at these things)

Unidentified hemipteran and Penicillidia conspicua (I'm familiar with hippoboscoids but again this would feel wrong not to include)

Scaphidomorphus bosci and Peloridora kuscheli

Paralecanium sp. (I know scale insects but it gets to a point. You are a 2D object) and Formiscurra indicus

Gardena melinarthrum and Dorymyrmex sp.

Stathmopoda orbiculata and Horama plumipes

Lagrecacanthops guyanensis and Caurinus tlagu

Unidentified thrips and unidentified lepidopteran

Merope tuber and Apterobittacus apterus

Nallachius americanus and Apioscelis sp. (+ bonus proscopiid because I love these guys)

Cylindracheta campbelli and Psedna nana

Myrmecophilus acervorum and Homoeogryllus orientalis

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Renee Good was a queer white woman, a mother and a wife. She was a US citizen. But too many stories are making sure to include the details of her citizenship first and foremost, even before her name,as if it makes a difference, as if it would have been more understandable or more acceptable if the woman that ICE murdered was an immigrant, documented or otherwise. As if her citizenship should provoke us to a higher level of outrage. 

Of course it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever.

When you talk about the death of Renee Good, talk about her by her name. Talk about her courage in being a bystander interventionist and observer of the lawless behavior of the armed agents engaging in an ethnic cleansing campaign in our country. Talk about her family that is left behind after this wanton act of murder. Talk about her as a role model and inspiration for all of us.