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On queer folks speaking truth to power: Read photographer Nan Goldin’s interview with n+1, in which she discusses her participation in the NY Times Writers Bloc protest and pulling out of a project with them. “The more of us there are, the more of us there are.” Cynthia Nixon was on The View, where she passionately argued for a ceasefire. On the power of language: Poet and professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike last week. In a moving display of international solidarity, dozens of users on X have been translating his poem “If I must die” into their native languages.