JD Shadel

1 week ago | goodonyou.eco | JD Shadel

While brands once competed to slap “love is love” on everything during Pride Month, 2025 marks a dramatic corporate retreat. It’s “the big pinkhushing,” as our editor-at-large writes, where brands delete LGBTQ+ commitments, quietly stop Pride campaigns, and cancel donations. It exposes how shallow their rainbow capitalism always was.

2 months ago | them.us | JD Shadel

I don’t really have much extra cash for a gaycation right now. But as soon as I get paid for this article, you can bet the next trip I book will be extra slutty. Yes, I’m tired. You probably are, too. And in these genuinely terrifying times, we need to learn several lessons from the history of queer and trans liberation.

Mar 2, 2025 | esckey.co | JD Shadel

The thing is: On February 25, MIT Press released “Trans Technologies,” an open-access book mapping what happens when people systematically excluded from mainstream platforms build tools they actually need. Author Oliver Haimson spent a year interviewing more than 100 trans tech creators — many working without venture funding or industry support — who’ve crafted everything from healthcare resource maps to mutual aid networks.

Mar 2, 2025 | esckey.co | JD Shadel

This past Wednesday, on a cold winter evening, I queerly power-walked across London’s Waterloo Bridge, over the frigid-looking Thames, along with a fast queer friend. As it so happens, I was procrastinating on finishing this draft. My friend had secured last-minute tickets to attend a sold-out book event at Southbank Centre. The topic? What’s wrong with love. I was late in completing a feature about another author (yes, indeed, this one).

Nov 20, 2024 | cntraveller.de | JD Shadel |Lea Dlugosch

Luxuszugreisen: Warum sich der Trend zur Langsamkeit nun mit luxuriösen Zügen schmückt. Am 26. August dieses Jahres startete in Vancouver, British Columbia, eine ungewöhnliche Bahnreise: Die Route verband vier Kontinente und sieben bereits bestehende Luxuszugstrecken miteinander. Sie begann in Nordamerika, führte im Zickzack durch Europa und Afrika und endete in Asien. Bevor jetzt jemand an unserem Verstand zweifelt oder glaubt, wir könnten übers Wasser fahren: Nein.