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submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Fun Fact: Suffragettes were the original innovators of the letter bomb, which they used on a wide scale to maim or assassinate politicians.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trans people were on the front lines at Stonewall. Don't let Trump, Musk, or a bunch of Vichy gays and TERFs tell you otherwise. My latest for Slate on what happened to the Stonewall monument website, why autocrats always destroy history, and where it can lead slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

submitted 17 days ago • 39 comments

I'm proud to have participated in this walk-out yesterday organized by students at Oxford. The walk-out was a fantastic symbolic gesture demonstrating that trans people aren't interested in listening to or debating transphobes. www.thetimes.com/article/4379...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I miss all the academic shit posting that happened on twitter - my feed / this site feels way too serious

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

there's been an interesting lag in street mobilizations compared to Trump's 2017 inaugruation - maybe some sort of collective shock and paralysis - but i'm glad to see the upswing in the last week

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I'm happy to say that my article on the role of sodomy in Europe's first democratic revolution against absolutism is now out in Vol. 21 of Modern Intellectual History. It's open access, so check it out if you wanna learn how sodomy helped give rise to the moden nation-state. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

academics, i have a question. I'm doing admission applications for the first time and i'm curious how you think about accepting proposals. Abstractly, what would you rank higher? A proposal that's well written, analytically rigorous, conceptually precise but is boring, uninteresting and leaves you

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

In Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love, @lidamaxwell.bsky.social explores the letters of Rachel Carson & Dorothy Freeman to reveal how Carson's masterpiece, Silent Spring, grew from the love these women shared for their wild surroundings and for each other #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/litera...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I'm writing a chapter for a volume on Lauren Berlant in which many of the authors seem to be former students or colleagues. I'm trying to work in the fact that I didn't really like Lauren personally and had an ambivalent relationship to them. Annoyingly, though, that is a very Berlant thing to say.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing this picture of Norwegian painter Ida Bjerkeskaug circulating the internet. This should go without saying but this is homophobic as shit. Representing degradation and subordination by using homosexual sex is bad aesthetic politics. Weaponizing homophobia against the right is still homophobic.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

turns out people have been less surprised about this recently....

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

@theguardian.com removed these passages from a column judith butler wrote after the ‘gender critical’ hacks who write for them kicked up a fuss. now they’re all running around praising trump.

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

"Ortiz filed a motion requesting that the judge allow him to attempt to shoot President Trump with a rifle from 300 yards away. If he was unsuccessful, he requested the judge honor his original request of removing President Trump from the ballot." www.courtwatch.news/p/court-fili...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Comparing the #J20 anti-fascist resistance to Trump's inauguration in 2017 to the paltry protests that took place on Monday suggests that, pessimistically, the oppositional left in US has been decimated in the last 7 years OR, more optimistically, that people no longer believe in the effectiveness

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Given the ADL’s abysmal failure, some of you may be feeling the need to get involved in the fight against antisemitism. If that’s you, consider getting involved in the newly-revived International Jewish Labor Bund: jewishbund.org

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Out today: CAPACITIES TO: AFFECT UP AGAINST FASCISM, a collection of 40+ pieces that engage fascism through affect. Open access here: imbricate.press/book/capacit...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

For those of you looking to follow some more cool queer scholar/activists in 2025, check out this starter pack. go.bsky.app/Ke4Ctey 🌈🎓

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

Do you remember in 2018, we learned how Avital Ronell sexually harassed her graduate student for 3 years? How it happened during the height of #metoo? How NYU investigated, found her guilty, and supended her for a year? Well, today I learned that she still teaches undergrads and grad students at NYU

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"I realized that centering concepts like sex, gender, or the state gets in the way of understanding what’s actually happening in the local, micro, and particular sites where public authority is exercised"

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I've seen it argued that grooming developed as a term within feminist discourses against sexual violence, but does anyone know when this was supposed to happen? Is there anything written on the history of this term as a feminist concept?

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Guy Hocquenghem on what it meant for him, a militant faggot, to get a job working as an academic

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Personally, I think trans politics have been too apologetic and capitulated to a born this way narrative. I want an offensive trans politics, political transgenderism, cover stories like "how to bring your kids up trans", groups like "Transgender Avengers: We Recruit - Conversion is our Perversion"

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

There are many ways of critiquing this pardon, but doing so in the name of deserving and undeserving criminals just upholds the punitive logic of the prison system and puts a moral face on the carceral state. Jacobin says it's an abolitionist magazine, but this ain't it. jacobin.com/2024/12/hunt...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Queer & Trans Studies Cultural Studies Starter Pack. This one was a bit tricky and there’s lots of room left in here still. LMK who I’m missing —was looking to build a list of queer & trans cultural studies (and adjacent) folks mostly, as I haven’t seen on of thede on here yet. go.bsky.app/6tcCTzg

submitted 90 days ago • 13 comments

Hello new followers! I work on the history of democracy, gender, & sexuality. I recently published an article on the role of sodomy in the formation of the modern nation-state as part of what historians call the first modern revolution - please do check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Hello new followers! I work on the history of democracy, gender, & sexuality. I recently published an article on the role of sodomy in the formation of the modern nation-state as part of what historians call the first modern revolution - please do check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

I came across this photo of a young Judith Butler at the 1982 Barnard Sexuality Conference and its soooo cute omg

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

One of the least talked about aspects of the feminist sex wars of the 80s and I think one of the most enduring taboo subjects was the defense of child/teen sexuality and cross-generational relationships.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments