Episode 192: Andrea James's Stalking Website Transgender Map Sure Is Creepy
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss Andrea James, the stochastic terrorist trans activist with a website and a grudge. Plus, gay furry hackers target a nuclear lab and Saira Rao gets canceled.
Jesse’s fifth-grade yearbook page:
And in cake form:
Engadget: “Self-proclaimed 'gay furry hackers' breach nuclear” lab
Jesse: “The rage behind Transgender Map”
Alice Dreger: Galileo’s Middle Finger
Benedict Carey: “Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege”
Jesse: “When Children Say They’re Trans”
Axios: “Exclusive: Using data to track transphobia in media”
Kickstarter: “This Is What Transphobia in the Media Looks Like”
Google: December 2022 link spam update releasing for Google Search
Google: A new tool to disavow links
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On the off chance this becomes an issue, it could not be clearer that Andrea James has given permission for this photo to “be used by anyone for any purpose.” Under Creative Commons, according to the image page, we “must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.” We are following all those requirements: credit goes to Andrea James, a link to the license is contained in this language quoted directly from the photo’s page — “This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license” (click the link and you’ll see that commercial use is explicitly allowed) — and no changes were made, with the possible exception of the photo getting cropped by Substack for the web preview. And obviously we have no reason to believe the licensor endorses us or our use of this image.
Thank you, and God bless.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:11.0 | Jesse, happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:13.0 | Did you decide to go with the colonized or the decolonized Thanksgiving this year? |
| 0:17.0 | We are decolonizing Thanksgiving in the single household, which means only |
| 0:23.0 | the BIPOCs are allowed, which means no one will be coming, unfortunately. |
| 0:28.0 | It's actually an idea, an idea, an article. |
| 0:30.0 | It's like, Iowa family blasted for lack of diversity. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, but it's a Boston family. That seems accurate. |
| 0:35.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:36.0 | A Jewish Boston family. |
| 0:37.0 | Although, do you guys count as BIPOC? |
| 0:39.0 | Lots of questions there. |
| 0:40.0 | We should, we should really get into this. It's so interesting. |
| 0:43.0 | But I think that's like a three episode arc of whether Jews are BIPOC. |
| 0:46.0 | It will return to that. |
| 0:47.0 | Yes, we are recording this on Thanksgiving. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm going with a decolonized meal, which means I will not be peeling the mashed potatoes |
| 0:52.0 | first. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm supposed to be making this mac and cheese, and I'm just very worried. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm going to screw it up. |
| 1:00.0 | You just get the box. |
| 1:01.0 | Lots of thoughts and prayers. |
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