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🏳️‍⚧️ 🎨✍🏻 🦋 Londoner in the Middle West. Historian of late antiquity and Talmud scholar. Comics artist and painter. First Gen x 3. Pissed off.
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They don't like "gender" affirming care? How's LIFE affirming care!

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The ADL's investment strategy seems to be buy Nazi and adjacent, sell center and left. "Lo tov" in my opinion. forward.com/news/700072/...

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U-M Pres. Santa Ono is chair of the APLU; a board member of ACE. Tells his board he is working to guide higher ed sector. Yet every time I've sought an interview on these topics, his team has said he won't talk. detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

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If only all the people reposting this with “This is murder!” we’re showing up or donating to queer and trans prison solidarity orgs like Black and Pink, TJGIP, etc or actually figuring out how to help stop this

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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

Couldn’t agree with this take more.

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What in the absolute fuck is going on at the University of Cincinnati? For the record, trans men are just as biological as any other sort of man. They aren't made of metal or something.

submitted 7 days ago • 178 comments

Make History Trans Again! MaHTA?

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An easy-to-follow Starter Pack of everyone I've highlighted today!

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Don't comply in advance. And when the crackdowns do come, find every means to subvert them.

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NIH has removed its webpage on sexual and gender minority research support. #nih #lgbtq #sgm

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Stimulants make it possible for me to do my job. They also make it possible to brush my teeth and eat on a regular schedule, and help keep me from making boneheaded financial decisions. MANY of the people I love most are likely alive thanks to SSRIs and mood stabilizers.

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Gonna be reductive and rephrase: Vance moved by Auschwitz to advocate for present day German Nazis

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After spending yesterday visiting Dachau and saying he was "really moved" by his time there, today JD Vance went to Munich to say that German political parties need to break the firewall against the far-right, Holocaust-minimizing AfD and start working with it: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

🧵👇🏻for anyone who's angry abt the current demonization & persecution of trans people/ does gender history/ or uses the words "man" and "woman" in your writing or ever!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Hot take: we can do better than "trans people have always existed!" I say, actually it's CISNESS that is the newfangled, upstart invention. It's not that trans people existed before. It's that the whole cis/trans binary is rubbish. Hear me, a pre modern historian/ Talmud scholar, out...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

This excellent piece gets at a sense that I've had of the particularly dual nature of the persecution of trans people: on the one hand a multi-pronged attack on access to basic things like documentation, healthcare, work, & dignity; and on the other hand, explicit, unprecedented rhetorical vitriol.

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Lots of great new digital projects on Black religions on our SPIRIT HOUSE site and new ones added this week!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

For those thinking the NYT grew a spine, hold tight… even in this piece they equivocate on sports and trans youth care.

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

the multiple lines of attack on --CRT/PoC, dei, trans ppl, deliberate conflations of antisemism with protest/ certain speech, undocumented people or noncitizens, and with less explicit/ differentnt kind of hate but equal effect, cis women-- hold a mirror to exactly the kinds of solidarity we need.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

New podcast episode featuring Rafe Neis's When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (U California Press, 2023). https://buff.ly/40vacoz

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