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billard.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Communication & Sociology at Northwestern University. Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. Author of Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Oxford UP, 2024).
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internally at Meta: -trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger -enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence -tampons removed from men's restrooms -DEI programs shuttered -Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced
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So glad you liked it! ๐Ÿ’•
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Thank you! ๐Ÿ’•
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Thanks for being a part of this project TJ! โค๏ธ This is such an incredibly powerful and well-argued essay.
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And a special thanks to @curdknupfer.bsky.social for making the issue happen, for wanting to include me in it, and for invaluable comments in crafting my piece!
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Thank you so much! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ I was worried about myโ€ฆ directness. So Iโ€™m glad it was well received! ๐Ÿ’•
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It was a pleasure to reflect on the themes of the Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, alongside Maitrayee Basu! A thread running through our conversation: the "centre" has never been unproblematic or neutral, an idea I explore further in a recent essay for PolComm: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Whatโ€™s stopped republicans from doing things they โ€œcanโ€™tโ€ do before?
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Awesome! Iโ€™d love an add too
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Amazing! CATS is on Bluesky now, too @transstudies.bsky.social
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I was so happy to see that this is out for me to cite and assign! Such incredible work!
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Iโ€™ve been bad about logging on here so Iโ€™m just seeing this. ๐Ÿ˜ญ Appreciate the shoutout! ๐Ÿ’•
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Iโ€™m not ready to be a father
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๐Ÿ˜ญ Thank you!!