David Forbes

They don't actually take you to trial. This is one of those kind of welcome to Asheville moments, because I think people buy the marketing sometimes and think we're this super progressive city, and actually it's an incredibly repressive, like, tourism fife.

And that's this kind of really still point, though, like the city government city council here is six Democrats and one kind of like Bernie Sanders type independent, though even more tepid. And the D.A. is a Democrat. And still, you know, they were hell bent.

And that's this kind of really still point, though, like the city government city council here is six Democrats and one kind of like Bernie Sanders type independent, though even more tepid. And the D.A. is a Democrat. And still, you know, they were hell bent.

And that's this kind of really still point, though, like the city government city council here is six Democrats and one kind of like Bernie Sanders type independent, though even more tepid. And the D.A. is a Democrat. And still, you know, they were hell bent.

to persecute trans journalists yeah um one of our one of our journalists matilda bliss was openly mistreated and misgendered based on her gender during that so to some degree what's happening now is certainly a worsening but it is also an extension of what's been going on for a very long time so okay like it is getting worse i don't know where we're going to be in a two three even one year but also like this is not a new fight

to persecute trans journalists yeah um one of our one of our journalists matilda bliss was openly mistreated and misgendered based on her gender during that so to some degree what's happening now is certainly a worsening but it is also an extension of what's been going on for a very long time so okay like it is getting worse i don't know where we're going to be in a two three even one year but also like this is not a new fight

to persecute trans journalists yeah um one of our one of our journalists matilda bliss was openly mistreated and misgendered based on her gender during that so to some degree what's happening now is certainly a worsening but it is also an extension of what's been going on for a very long time so okay like it is getting worse i don't know where we're going to be in a two three even one year but also like this is not a new fight

The extent of it is actually telling on the local level, too.

The extent of it is actually telling on the local level, too.

The extent of it is actually telling on the local level, too.

Here, the Blade did a number of reporting, and we also featured some really well-thought-out and pretty sharp opinion columns, which is one thing we kind of specialize in, because I think they're really good for raising issues on the local level, about how awful the Tourism Development Authority is, which is this hotelier cartel that takes every dime of all the local hotel tax, every bit of it, and then uses it to market the place to more rich people and

Here, the Blade did a number of reporting, and we also featured some really well-thought-out and pretty sharp opinion columns, which is one thing we kind of specialize in, because I think they're really good for raising issues on the local level, about how awful the Tourism Development Authority is, which is this hotelier cartel that takes every dime of all the local hotel tax, every bit of it, and then uses it to market the place to more rich people and

Here, the Blade did a number of reporting, and we also featured some really well-thought-out and pretty sharp opinion columns, which is one thing we kind of specialize in, because I think they're really good for raising issues on the local level, about how awful the Tourism Development Authority is, which is this hotelier cartel that takes every dime of all the local hotel tax, every bit of it, and then uses it to market the place to more rich people and

push crackdowns on pretty much everyone else so we push this it became a widespread public demand a lot of organizing happened around it and there was zip zilch zero mentioned that like spurred by investigations and editorials in the ashfield blade even one of the one of the people who wrote that editorial it was a local um resident activist who dealt with some tourism stuff

push crackdowns on pretty much everyone else so we push this it became a widespread public demand a lot of organizing happened around it and there was zip zilch zero mentioned that like spurred by investigations and editorials in the ashfield blade even one of the one of the people who wrote that editorial it was a local um resident activist who dealt with some tourism stuff

push crackdowns on pretty much everyone else so we push this it became a widespread public demand a lot of organizing happened around it and there was zip zilch zero mentioned that like spurred by investigations and editorials in the ashfield blade even one of the one of the people who wrote that editorial it was a local um resident activist who dealt with some tourism stuff

was literally being quoted the fact she'd written a piece for the blade and that you know was just not mentioned and actually became kind of a running kind of grim joke because we're all working class trans people and you know half of us are trans femme is just the Asheville blade does not exist and. And some of that was for liberals, but honestly, Asheville has a massive trans misogyny problem.

was literally being quoted the fact she'd written a piece for the blade and that you know was just not mentioned and actually became kind of a running kind of grim joke because we're all working class trans people and you know half of us are trans femme is just the Asheville blade does not exist and. And some of that was for liberals, but honestly, Asheville has a massive trans misogyny problem.

was literally being quoted the fact she'd written a piece for the blade and that you know was just not mentioned and actually became kind of a running kind of grim joke because we're all working class trans people and you know half of us are trans femme is just the Asheville blade does not exist and. And some of that was for liberals, but honestly, Asheville has a massive trans misogyny problem.

We think we were the first media outlets to do like a quick guide to trans misogyny, which we did kind of like a slideshow about it in our Patreon and stuff because it was that extensive. But even the left in Asheville has some real problems with trans misogyny.