Grace Byron

1 week ago | studyhall.xyz | Grace Byron

On Notes to John Am I the next Joan Didion? Are you? No one can be the woman herself incarnate, but perhaps her new avatar awaits. When someone is declared the new Didion or Sontag or Adler, I pay attention, religiously, wondering who is worthy of such proclamations and if such intellectual celebrity can ever grace us again. Hannah Horvath said it best. If we cannot be the voice of our generation, perhaps we can be a voice of a generation. You are not Renata Adler, I repeat to myself over and over.

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Grace Byron

Over many centuries, interpretations of the Bible have led kings and elected leaders alike to, among other things, set prohibitions on divorce, criminalize homosexuality, and ban contraception. Theological rules still affect people’s private lives—whether they are Christian or not—in modern America, where biblical values are often cited in efforts to outlaw abortion and restrict gender expression.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Grace Byron

Clarenville has a new church, and it's made of Lego bricksThere are two Anglican churches in Clarenville: St. Mary's, and an identical one made of small plastic bricks. Rev. James Spencer has been a Lego …

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Grace Byron

When I first changed the gender marker on all my documents in the spring of 2022, it was during a brief, shimmering moment of legal recognition for trans people across the United States. A year earlier, the Biden Administration had announced that people would finally be allowed to self-select their gender on their passports.

3 weeks ago | thecut.com | Grace Byron

Photo: Lawrence Fafard When Canadian singer-songwriter Bells Larsen heard that the United States would be accepting only visas with gender markers that matched applicants’ assigned sex at birth, he felt his stomach drop. Earlier this month, he was preparing to tour the U.S. in June after the release of his sophomore album, Blurring Time, out April 25. He was already concerned about what recent executive orders targeting trans people might mean for him if he visited the country.