Maggie Nelson, essayist: ‘Trump is using trans people as scapegoats; these are repressive tactics that will spread’
The California writer recently published a book about intergenerational exchange. In this interview with EL PAÍS, she points out that the political right is angry at the idea that other types of people exist in the world
It’s been several years since Maggie Nelson last visited Spain. But a high school boy’s question from her time there keeps echoing in her head: “He asked me why fascism was so bad for freedom,” the author recalls. That was in 2021. She was on a book tour for On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. “There was a lot embedded in that question… and even though I noted several things in my answer, I realized they weren’t really landing,” Nelson tells EL PAÍS, while sitting in a café in the Highland Park neighborhood of northeast Los Angeles.
