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they’re transvestigating the new pope

submitted 31 days ago • 239 comments

Wonderful to see another excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD student reach her final seminar milestone – @kkasianenko.bsky.social with a thesis on cosmopolitan responses to the Russian war on Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🫶

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The ideas around “neutrality” and “bias” have done so much damage in the mainstream media. These ideas only work in one direction—against the left—and result in people in the industry who personally identify as left-leaning overcompensating and doing the right’s work for them

submitted 65 days ago • 38 comments

Relevantly to International Trans Day of Visibility, the new Read Them Sideways episode discusses recent changes to the Meta hate speech policies, with a particular focus on transgender and queer people. Listen to hear @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social lend her expertise! open.spotify.com/episode/5Fhb...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I’m also reminded of how perpetrators of sexual violence use claims of incompetence or confusion to get away with violence. It benefits fascists to keep their incompetent actors in the public eye for similar reasons. A lot of people believe you can only be evil if you do it on purpose.

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

I’m already feeling deeply grateful to the renters who I have had the chance to interview so far - each one with such interesting stories and perspectives. If you’re a renter and you’ve got experience using ‘RentTech’, I’d love to speak with you too. More details and contact form here:

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

submitted 122 days ago • 70 comments

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

submitted 125 days ago • 50 comments

I’m researching ways that digital technologies are impacting renters and housing justice in Australia. I’m looking for participants! If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ or ‘Landlord Tech’ - I want to speak with you! More info and EOI here: www.samanthafloreani.com/research

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

I ran a “bake your thesis” (or more accurately, “decorate a cupcake like your thesis”) competition with @lynrose.bsky.social at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social summer school this week and everyone smashed it! Here’s to more silly fun times ✨

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

This list is mostly Black women. It's clear that the entire anti-DEI project is just neo-segregation. It's the same reason they only targeted Black women at Harvard. They don't believe people of color or women should have any positions of power. www.aol.com/federal-heal...

submitted 129 days ago • 22 comments

Me: "My brain like almost can't compute the amount of bad news at like every single part of government systems." @mmasnick.bsky.social: "It's a distributed denial of service attack on people who believe in reality."

submitted 131 days ago • 22 comments

This is rapidly becoming a @kattenbarge.bsky.social stan account

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

It’s going off outside Tim Nicholl’s office right now. The trans community will not accept these disgraceful attacks. This is the crowd at 9:30am off the back of one tweet late last night. More actions to come.

submitted 136 days ago • 8 comments

Defamation cases don’t always end in favor of the truth. Remember, Amber Heard lost one for saying “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.” The response to the trial alone proved the veracity of her statement and she still lost.

submitted 144 days ago • 7 comments

A lot of people (especially but not limited to men) are very clear that they don’t think victims of sex crimes should be allowed to talk about it publicly unless they can win a criminal court case, which is exceedingly rare for sex crimes

submitted 151 days ago • 24 comments

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

submitted 155 days ago • 175 comments

Read this whole thread re: #Meta's changes! I have a whole paper on how user reports can be gamed to silence marginalised voices and let me tell you: the move to focus on flags is not good, esp if coupled with not bothering about racist and transphobic abuse. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s me being cranky about Meta, again: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

"housing instability is a major barrier to people getting politically involved and having the capacity to wage organized resistance against systems of oppression for liberation" such a great interview with Kamau Walton on housing justice x prison abolition- criticalresistance.org/resources/is...

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

If Anita Bryant started her whole shtick right now she’d have 2 million Twitter followers and get shoved onto everyone’s feeds with explicit support from politicians and tech leaders

submitted 155 days ago • 202 comments

In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is, this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.

submitted 157 days ago • 129 comments

Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks

submitted 157 days ago • 122 comments

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

submitted 157 days ago • 665 comments

New year, same old Meta. Great article from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. Always ambivalent about seeing the research from by book The Digital Closet (bit.ly/digitalcloset) continue to hold true. #LGBTQ #censorship #queerbooks www.usermag.co/p/instagram-...

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.

submitted 158 days ago • 586 comments

Dark time to be working on content moderation, gender and sexuality www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

2024 was a historically difficult year for transgender people, but it was not without its victories. I list over 60 victories for transgender people this year. There is a case for hope, and the fight for transgender rights is not without wins. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 164 days ago • 38 comments

Back from a beautiful few days at Woodford Folk Festival with @qutdmrc.bsky.social, talking to people about online safety, data donation, and everything in between ✨

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re at Woodford this year, come listen to @essideh.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social, Benson Rajan and me talk about online safety! 29 December, 6:15-7:15pm at the Arbour @qutdmrc.bsky.social

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

Practicing deep controlled calming breathing after reading the Blake Lively smear campaign article

submitted 175 days ago • 26 comments

As someone who has spent the past two and a half years studying the online response to the Depp v Heard trial, I have so much to say about this: www.nytimes.com/video/arts/1... But, for now, I’m just tired, sad and mad.

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

submitted 194 days ago • 368 comments

Queensland’s Liberal National party government has acknowledged their signature youth crime legislation will “directly discriminate” against children, by limiting their “protection from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 198 days ago • 11 comments

‘We deserve better’: Indigenous truth-telling head condemns Queensland government as treaty laws face axe

submitted 198 days ago • 6 comments

Old enough to be tried as an adult Not old enough to use social media ‘Still have their baby teeth’: Queensland children as young as 10 to face life sentences for murder under new laws www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 198 days ago • 11 comments

I’ve been sharing a lot about the social media ban lately (because it’s so ridiculous) but this is just one of many pieces of terrible legislation being pushed through right now. See also: this excerpt from the absolutely ghoulish “Making Queensland Safer Bill” aimed at locking up more kids

submitted 198 days ago • 1 comment

And just like that, after an absurdly short time for consideration and debate, the Australian Senate has passed the Under16s Social Media Ban into law. No good will come of this for young people, and this will not prevent potential harms. If anything, it will increase them.

submitted 198 days ago • 8 comments

When Suicide Prevention Australia is calling out your reckless legislating...

submitted 199 days ago • 12 comments

This time next week we will be welcoming an incredible line-up of researchers to Monash's Caulfield campus in Naarm/Melbourne and via Zoom, for our tenth (!!) Digital Intimacies conference! Draft program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1o3A5...

submitted 199 days ago • 3 comments

New blog post on rent tech and housing (in)justice from a brilliant colleague, Tegan Cohen: www.uottawa.ca/en/news-all/... 🏠

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you so much again to the #AANZCA24 organisers for the kind invitation to be one of the conference keynotes, and to the audience for their attention and great questions + feedback 🫶🏼

submitted 200 days ago • 1 comment