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yeah so if your cats aren’t indoors, now would be a good time to keep them indoors

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

SARUMAN: Lands a tenured position while still finishing his PhD GANDALF: Trail of post-docs and teaching posts. People never sure what his institutional affiliation is. Drops in 'yeah that was when I was in Rhûn for 90 years' RADAGAST: Lives by proofreading and eating the dandelions in his garden

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

If you are in Mormon studies and are a PhD student, junior academic, or independent scholar without a monograph, please consider applying for the inaugural Eugene England Summer Institute. It's gonna be grand. Applications due February 15. www.eugeneenglandsummerinstitute.com/apply

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

The 19th talked with the coeditors of the important new book A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States, which explores the long history of transgender health care across generations and continents. 19thnews.org/2025/01/gend...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

every time i see a major institution in a purportedly progressive state complying in advance, it's such a fuckin punch to the gut, i feel like my heart's been ripped out

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Read “What you can do, right now, for your trans and nonbinary friends, family, students and colleagues.“ by S. Bear Bergman on Medium: medium.com/@sbearbergma...

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

When the leader of your own country wants to legislate you out of existence, how do you keep getting out of bed to face the fresh horrors? bit.ly/40ReuYI

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

“In God’s kingdom, immigrants and refugees, transgender people, the poor and the marginalized are not at the edges fearful and alone. They are at the center of the Gospel story … They are the bearers of the salvation of the world.” — Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe mailchi.mp/episcopalchu...

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

This is something I have had to say multiple times a day at work. It is important to distinguish because news often doesn't contextualize what they are and someone in the office ends up freaking out

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

OPINION: For some, Bishop Budde’s words might seem radical, rude, inappropriate or offensive. But she did not speak in isolation; she is surrounded by a cloud of witnesses in the Christian tradition of speaking truth to power. https://religionnews.com/2025/01/29/bishop-budde-asks-trump-to-show-merc…

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

“‘Queer’- not as being about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but ‘queer’ as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” — bell hooks

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in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 32 days ago • 68 comments

if you’re cis, please stop right now and think about how many other cis people you know are up in arms over these executive orders trying make our existence illegal how many? because there aren’t enough trans people to fix this, YOU CIS PEOPLE HAVE TO and the resounding silence is heartbreaking

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.

submitted 32 days ago • 50 comments

In the wake of the executive orders being released this week and last targeting our community, we want to highlight the January 13th webinar "Building a Fighting Church, Part 1: Defending the Dignity of Trans, Non-binary, and Two-Spirit People." ⚓ www.transepiscopal.org/blog/stand-w...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

A little over a year ago I was in Texas, where I preached a sermon for an explicitly inclusive Episcopalian church which had made its home in a strip mall - we don't have them in the UK but it was just like those you see on TV, a parking lot with glass fronted units beside an enormous road.

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

they were never going to stop at legislating bathrooms, they will not stop at legislating children, they most certainly will continue going for all of us. this is NOT a “distraction”

submitted 33 days ago • 47 comments

I've lived with this fear for a long time.

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

This “distraction” idea relies on the belief that gender politics are a means to an end rather than what they really are: the primary battlefield of the right wing. Controlling gender means controlling society. Gender as we currently know it is a REGIME. And it must be fought to be protected.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Superb reminder from a great thinker and writer: let these times energize you to look around, find your place, and work on what you know, for needs you see. Don’t waste all your energy complaining here or hiding in the closet!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

submitted 37 days ago • 206 comments

also a fun time to grab a queer liberation library membership! tons of audiobooks and ebooks, all very queer, all free, and you get to enjoy them without lining the pockets of an unrepentant greedy billionaire. 😌 available to the entire US! 🌈📚 sign up here: www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

"CPS policy prohibits federal immigration agents from “entering CPS school grounds, unless they provide to CPS administration their credentials, the reason they are requesting access, and a criminal judicial warrant signed by a federal judge.” news.wttw.com/2025/01/24/i...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

If #Jesus' call for #mercy triggered him, just imagine what Mary's Magnificat would do!

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Okay, I’m hoping this will gain some traction on Bluesky inhales SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY IN OREGON IS IN DANGER OF CLOSING. This sets a dangerous precedent for state capital libraries!! This is a continuation of the saga from last year, when we were saved at the last second by the then-mayor. (1/2)

submitted 38 days ago • 124 comments

Hey everyone! Incredible news! Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies! If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you! This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)

submitted 39 days ago • 91 comments

The social security page has removed the instructions on how to change your gender marker at the SSA office: www.ssa.gov/personal-rec...

submitted 39 days ago • 58 comments

I'm seeing a few reports of this, but I can't confirm this is widespread. I have been told a separate passport office is no longer processing changes, but new apps will go by your BC and renewals by your current info. There's a lot of confusion out there on passports and no real answer yet.

submitted 38 days ago • 59 comments

Breaking: DOJ freezes all cases in civil rights division. "It’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration." Story w/ @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 39 days ago • 190 comments

They're doing "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" to the letter

submitted 39 days ago • 28 comments

Legislating trans people out of existence is not non-violent. Forcing poor people to die from homelessness and starvation when there's plenty of food and plenty of homes is not non-violent. Taking away necessary protections for marginalised people is not not non-violent. Attacking the people...

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Right to repair is a matter of life and death. www.404media.co/medical-devi...

submitted 39 days ago • 16 comments

For those keeping track, just Trump's immigration policies have already been condemned preemptively or post-inauguration by the Catholic Archbishop of Washington, the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Episcopal Bishop of Washington.

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

Instead of brainstorming new, different and terrible ways to execute people, what if we just … didn't? www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

here's the thing, as much as I would've loved for Rev. Budde to go fire-and-brimstone on the man, she surely knew she was preaching to a reprobate with a hardened heart - and an appeal for mercy is always already also an appeal for mercy to the reprobate, and that's the care for his soul as well

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

The music doesn’t stop on Bourbon Street for a blizzard

submitted 40 days ago • 17 comments

The passport page about changing your gender marker is now down. I'm expecting trans people's passports to be a major battleground of this administration. travel.state.gov/content/trav...

submitted 41 days ago • 108 comments

Yeah lol i had zero today

submitted 40 days ago • 31 comments

if you’re curious about the biological diversity of sex, check out _Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People_ by Joan Roughgarden. You can learn about species that change their sex, multiple times, and species that have multiple sexes. Fascinating + well-written.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

"Transgender women in federal prison reportedly will be transferred to men’s prisons and no longer provided with gender-affirming medical treatments—potentially forcing up to 1,500 incarcerated trans women to medically detransition." This is inhumane.

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

it's important to remember that the entire trans panic is more or less like if republicans decided people with anemia were faking it and made their entire platform about banning iron supplements

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments