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Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."

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I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

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This is what I worried about: The Trump administration would just create an enemies lists of universities on the pretext of battling anti-semitism, and threaten them with financial collapse. As universities fall in line, the administration removes any dissent from higher education.

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Check out Anastasia Lavrentyeva, Lefteris Patlamazoglou & Grace Mackie, "The role of engagement with BL manga on queer young people’s sense of belonging," International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies 22, no. 2 (2025), www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenAccess

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Check out Tetsuya Matsui, "Mind perception and fan fiction: a survey using the IDOLM@STER series," Cogent Social Sciences 11, no. 1 (2025), www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenAccess

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Check out Ao et al., "Boy’s love fans versus non-fans in the sexual identity and neural response in the digital age’s young females" BMC Psychology (2025), link.springer.com/article/10.1... #OpenAccess

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Ok also AOC and Elon Musk are not in a “tit-for-tat feud.” AOC is a duly elected member of Congress who operates under an oath to our constitution and Elon Musk is an unelected Nazi billionaire whose wealth makes him think he’s above the law and empowered to illegally torch our government.

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#BHM Spotlight: @pressley.house.gov, who serves on the Subcmte on H&I, and the Subcmte on Digital Assets. Last Congress, Rep. Pressley reintroduced the "Greater Supervision in Banking Act," legislation to strengthen Congressional oversight of the country’s largest banks, protect consumers, and more.

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CFP: Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) - Volume 6 (deadline 13 April) networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.

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The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding 👇 #TraitorTrump

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Current theory: Dowd has been dead for years, quietly replaced by an AI set to "rhyming demon"

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Good luck securing a flu shot next year. Hope your immune system is solid and you're not too young or old to survive.

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Emphasizing again that anyone who responds to "that's illegal" with some variant of "lol all law is meaningless you're a sucker for thinking that matters" is actively doing PR for Trump and helping him. Nihilism about the law is the best way to make sure that the rule of law dies a quicker death.

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Next Tuesday, March 4, I'll be giving a public lecture on my book at Macalester College from 4:45–5:45 in Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center - Art Comm 102. www.macalester.edu/calendar/eve...

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Under Pressure, @cuny.edu removes Palestine Scholar Job Posting System leaders took down a job posting for a Palestinian Studies professor at Governor Hochul’s insistence. Faculty say it’s an unprecedented breach of academic autonomy. bit.ly/4ij5Bgz

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Next Monday, March 3, I'll be giving a public lecture on my book at St. Olaf College from 4:30 pm in Viking. I've got no link for this but I assume if you're in the Northfield, MN, area you can sort it out.

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So excited to be a part of this! Check out our panel: "Reimagining Japanese Studies & Global Asias: Positionality, Perspectives, Possibilities." sites.psu.edu/vergeglobala...

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I am pleased to announce the publication of my book, Geographies of Gender, on January 23, from @cambridgeup.bsky.social. You can use GGOG2024 as a promo code to have a copy from their website. It will be also available on Amazon and elsewhere.

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A message from @ducuuo.bsky.social 📢 We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥

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Chicagoland people, I'm giving a public lecture Thursday, February 27, from 12:30 to 1:50 pm in Harris Hall 101, at Northwestern. Please come! planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/624952

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St. Louis people, I'm here and giving a public lecture tomorrow, Tuesday, February 25, from 5 to 6:30 pm in the Anheuser-Busch Hall, room 103, at UMSL. Please come! tritonconnect.umsl.edu/umslglobal/r...

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We are processing Expressions of Interest and still welcoming new members this LGBT+ History Month (UK). Join us: tinyurl.com/transvce #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #LGBT #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIA2S #SociallyEngaged

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✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at [email protected]✨ Share widely!

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Reminder: my lecture this Friday afternoon is hybrid.

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The LGBTQ+ History Association statement on our outrage and call to update National Park Service (NPS) websites after the removal of reference to the Transgender (T) and Queer (Q) communities and history. Please read our full statement: tinyurl.com/LGBTQHistory...

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I'll be giving a hybrid public lecture about my new book at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Fri, Feb 21 from 1–2:30 pm CST in 1080 SLCL Bldg. Please come! Or join online if you're free. (A registration link is included in the website.) calendars.illinois.edu/detail/904/3...

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I'll be giving a public lecture about my new book at Purdue University on Wednesday, February 19 from 5:00–6:30 pm in Wetherill 104. Please come if you're in the area! events.purdue.edu/event/transf...

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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I'll be giving a public lecture at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, on Tuesday, February 18 from 12–1 pm.

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I'll be giving a public lecture at Butler University in Indianapolis on Monday, February 17 from 4–5:15 pm.

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I'll be speaking at Bates College tomorrow at 4:15! Please come if you're nearby!

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You can now subscribe to J-EN Translations and get updates when I post articles about translation and the localization industry! (Which I admit is pretty infrequent.) Just scroll down to the "Subscribe" section if you want to sign up. j-entranslations.com/home/

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Check out Ting Guo & Aiqing Wang “‘TGCF but lesbian?’: the dangai anime TGCF and its transnational fandom,” International Journal of Media and Culture (2025), www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenAccess

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I have been appalled & disgusted by the silence of academic colleauges on the genocide in Gaza (but not surprised). So I expect little from them. For everyone else who cares about knowledge, humanity & truth, this is an powerful film on the scholasticide perpetrated by Israel youtu.be/G5MmIDc1LXE

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Middle East specialist Abdullah al-Arian says US President Trump’s comments asking Egypt and Jordan to accept 1.5 million Palestinians from Gaza is a credible threat and not just an off-the-cuff remark. 🔴 Read analysis: aje.io/8uyutv

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Amazon workers in Quebec unionized last year. This week, Amazon closed its warehouse operations in Quebec. Amazon denied the closures were related to unionization, but it has a track record of crushing unions in America. Union busting is disgusting — and a global problem.

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Check out Marta Fanasca, "Communicating isolation and personal struggle: Nagata Kabi’s My Lesbian Experience with loneliness," Kervan 28, no. 2 (2024), ojs.unito.it/index.php/ke... #OpenAccess

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The real problem is going to be the media

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