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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · 15h

Because I don't really understand this feeling, I just riff on how strange it is to spend so much time looking down at my feet as I spend looking up at the people and the architecture of our new country. open.substack.com/pub/cjjanovy...

Walking on art with strangers

Our giant leap leads to tentative first steps.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · 20h

Here's more context on this image from another expat in Portugal: substack.com/@expatinport...

Reporting from Lisbon

Is it too late?

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

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No Kings action all the way over in Lisbon.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · 7d

What a beautiful day this was: our new town's first Pride march open.substack.com/pub/cjjanovy...

'Our struggle is one'

An old familiar ritual welcomes us to our new town.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · 28d

Basically just an appreciation of British English cussing here open.substack.com/pub/cjjanovy...

A few things we'll have to get used to

Before we arrive, we make some guesses about life in our new country.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Sep 20

James McBride's Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Sep 14

Why must the supposedly greatest country in the world so desperately need to keep bragging about how great it is? open.substack.com/pub/cjjanovy...

What we won't miss about America

Here are a few things we know for sure.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Lifton described a key psychological mechanism, what he called the 'thought-terminating cliché.'"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/opinion/totalitarianism-robert-jay-lifton.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU8.ZIXN.eJ7GZJk2DBt9&smid=url-share

Opinion | Totalitarianism Can Be Terrifying. It Can Also Be Thrilling. He Taught Us Why.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Sep 1

Who else spent the weekend with this painful and necessary reliving of Hurricane Katrina? 20 years ago might as well be today. www.netflix.com/title/816765...

Watch Katrina: Come Hell and High Water | Netflix Official Site

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors reflect on the disastrous storm that forever changed their lives and the systemic inequities it exposed.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Aug 17

"Portugal teaches patience," someone said. I’m 62 and don’t need lessons in patience. But a summer of waiting to leave the U.S. taught us other things. open.substack.com/pub/cjjanovy...

Waiting to leave our country

Or, what we did on our summer vacation.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Aug 13

How my dream of becoming a lesbian elder started vs. going open.substack.com/pub/cjjanovy...

Goodbye to Provincetown

This queer heaven is one place in America I'll miss.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Aug 4

I grew up terrified, justifiably, every day, of nuclear obliteration. Artists had the correct response. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hiroshima and the End We Refuse to Imagine (Gift Article)

Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover “the courage to be afraid.”

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Aug 2

I wrote about how, 40 years ago, a song made even small town #Midwest #queer kids feel like they belonged. Also, I had the same hair as John Mellencamp. open.substack.com/pub/cjjanovy...

We were all 'Small Town'

Forty years ago, John Mellencamp's hit made everyone euphoric — even though we knew we couldn't really be ourselves in small towns.

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Jul 26

Also for the record, so much queer KC history is accessible thanks to Stuart Hinds of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America, who is not on social so it's pointless to send him love here. But Caleb Hearon recently gave him lots of love here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4CMh...

Confronting a Gay Historian

YouTube video by So True with Caleb Hearon

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Jul 26

For some of us, Jon D. Barnett is legendary in Kansas City #queer history. For younger folks, he should be. Here's a word of gratitude as he heads into his next adventure. open.substack.com/pub/cjjanovy...

Colombia calling

For this Midwestern gay-rights pioneer, home is where the adventure is.

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Gina Kaufmann @ginak.bsky.social · Jul 25

“I have forgotten what fruit tastes like” - not sure how many times I reflexively put my hand to my heart while listening to this story theworld.org/segments/202...

'I have forgotten what fruit tastes like': Mass starvation grips the Gaza Strip - The World from PRX

After four months of near-total siege by Israel, people in Gaza are starving. According to the United Nations, at least 1 in 3 people are going multiple days without eating. Death from hunger is risin...

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Jul 20

In her heroic efforts to be at peace with us leaving the U.S., my mom has asked a lot of questions. One was whether I knew of other LGBTQ people leaving. Yes, I told her. Here’s the story of #Kansas' first #transgender legislator.

From Mexico with love

Kansas' first transgender legislator: 'I didn't flee the country — I moved.'

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 17

If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR

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C.J. Janovy @cjjanovy.bsky.social · Jul 16

The entire USA should be required to read this before saying another word about women's sports, especially trans women in sports. @katiebarnes.bsky.social is a national treasure.