J. Lester Feder

4 weeks ago | businessinsider.es | J. Lester Feder |Andrea Gómez Bobillo

Una jubilación con viajes, buena comida y estabilidad financiera, como la de muchos boomers, parece cada vez más inalcanzable para las nuevas generaciones. Aunque sigamos todos los consejos financieros, la incertidumbre climática y económica hace que soñar con una jubilación estable parezca cada más difícil. Para celebrar el 80 cumpleaños de mi padre, mi familia alquiló una encantadora casa de campo en la Toscana y pasamos una semana disfrutando de grandes comidas y vinos italianos de calidad.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Edith Honan |J. Lester Feder |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . To celebrate my father's 80th birthday, my family rented a lovely farmhouse in Tuscany and spent a week gorging ourselves on epic meals and fine Italian wines. It was a fitting cap to my father's already pretty great retirement. As octogenarians, my parents have more disposable income than they've ever had.

Mar 1, 2025 | thequeerfaceofwar.substack.com | J. Lester Feder

Reverend Yunus Coldman at a vigil for Sam Nordquist. Last week, I went to a vigil for Sam Nordquist, a transman who was tortured and murdered in upstate New York. When it began, the organizers announced that two other trans people who had recently been murdered would also be honored that night.

Jan 27, 2025 | thequeerfaceofwar.substack.com | J. Lester Feder

It’s been a busy summer. While working to find a publisher for The Queer Face of War, I’ve also been reporting a couple magazine pieces about sexuality and gender persecution in wars beyond Ukraine. One published this week in Foreign Policy, looking at how the homophobia Russia is deploying in its conquest of Ukraine is affecting queer people at home. In January, Russians learned the government had declared the “International LGBT Movement” an “extremist” organization in a secret proceedings.

Jan 27, 2025 | thequeerfaceofwar.substack.com | J. Lester Feder

We've never had a war where so many LGBTQ people are willing to be out about their experiences. And they're fighting a government that has made homophobia an explicit weapon of war. The Queer Face of War is the first broad documentary project showing how queer people can be especially vulnerable in conflict — and how they can feel particularly called to fight for their communities. And for queer people, visibility is power.