Hey, MLA! Check out KJ Cerankowski’s Nothing Wanting: advancing asexuality studies in new, queer directions—beyond identity and beyond the human #MLA26 Get 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26

We have been remiss, absent, and not here, but, for your belated consideration: Our last issue of 2025 was a special issue guest edited by @laurakolb.bsky.social and Jessica Rosenberg entitled "Comic Epistemologies." Go read! (And see TOC in next posts). www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/curr...

Having watched @liesljensen.bsky.social's fantastic presentation at the Early Modern Asexualities conference about an asexual reading of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, it is truly powerful to see asexual voices speaking not just to asexuality as a focus of study, but also in their personal experience.

The regime has announced two proposed rules intended to make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need. Your public comments probably won't sway this transphobic regime, but they will be very important for future lawsuits:

This conference has been a wonderful breath of fresh air for me, having been so used to the idea that asexuality and the ace experience is something "new" - it's just so amazing to see these experiences mirrored and seen in what is seen as "old".

You can still register to watch the last day of presentations tomorrow! #RenAsexy crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...

The impact that @alokvmenon.bsky.social has had on early-modern asexuality studies continues to reverberate! This slide is from Theo Northcraft's paper "Dis/covering Chastity: Dealing with the Revealing(s) of Britomart" at the Early Modern Asexualities symposium currently underway. #RenAsexy

It's Day 2 of the Early Modern Asexualities conference at my alma mater Victoria College at U of T, and @omaraphd.bsky.social is presenting a fantastic asexual queer reading of Shakespeare's poem The Phoenix and the Turtle! Admission is free, online, and i's not too late to join in!

It's been a while since I've posted about asexual issues, but I wanted to make folks out there aware of a fantastic asexual studies conference at the University of Toronto, from Jan. 5-7. @medrenliza.bsky.social and Ela Przybylo are a part of it! crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...

It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

I’m very pleased to announce the latest from me and the inimitable @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social. In it, we lay out vision for why and how faculty and students should be resisting the AI in education. Please share.

Would you be surprised if I told you people are emailing special collections libraries/archives asking about or to see books & collections that do not exist because AI hallucinated them?

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

A reminder that you can still register to hear some amazing papers at this event: crrs.ca/crrsevents/e... happening January 5-7, 2026, at the U of T and *online*!

YES! As someone said the other day in another context, it’s “decision-based evidence- making.”

Words can’t express my rage. At least 2 students on lockdown at Brown University already survived mass shootings. Zoe Weissman survived Parkland in 2018. Mia Tretta was shot in the stomach in Santa Clarita in 2019 and watched her best friend be murdered. And now…again.

By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R

if you’re going to RSA, you definitely need to come to our roundtable about the revived Abraham Cowley edition (which was started in the 1980s, published one volume, and then all the editors died). All I’ll say is: there is going to be spirited amateur singing during one of the presentations.

Really fast we are going to have to decide if universities exist to help humanity cultivate lives worth living or to crank out workers, it can't be both.

OMG y'all there is a #MarCav Blazing World-themed tea! www.t2tea.com/en/us/t2-x-p...

Pansexual Pride Day is a reminder that identities outside the binary have always been part of our histories and our communities, and offers the opportunity to celebrate ourselves, encourage education, and expand awareness of how diverse attraction can be. Learn more: www.patreon.com/posts/happy-...

Every queer person knows exactly what dogwhistle the threat of “normalcy” is.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I tried to convince my college to set ourselves apart by aggressively marketing ourselves as AI-free. They literally laughed at me but I still think I'm right

not professor, “the graduate student instructor.” as a DGS, this gives me pause.

I just bookmarked the Cheetah Cub Cam, this is the fucking cutest

Seriously this C17 poem is (accidentally?) incredibly affirming. He is embarrassed he guessed "wrongly" his aunt would have a baby boy, so the whole poem is like, you don't know that you didn't have a boy just because of what kind of body the baby was born with. People change sexes all the time! 🏳️‍⚧️

Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.

"All thing[s] are subject unto change we know, And if all things, then why not sexes too?" --Thomas Randolph, trans ally, 1638

Briefly returning to Bluesky for a quick rant about how the concept of "dying alone" is stupid and unhelpful.

We will just have to agree to disagree on whether I’m obligated to be civil with eugenicists

Job Opportunity!

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us

So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

I think it means Dem politicians and their consultants are projecting their own racial resentment onto the rest of us. It's why they only chase rural conservative votes. It's why they're foisting Nazi tattoo guy on us as Mr. Anti-Establishment. The goal of Centrism is two parties of Republicans.

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

One way to stop sex trafficking rings on private islands is to make sure no one has enough money to buy a private island

Video credit Anthony Urso #Winnipeg #Canada

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results. AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

OpenAI is losing 12 billion dollars *a quarter*. Nearly 50 billion dollars *a fucking year*. 50 billion! GONE! FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET! All to make racist fake videos, useless slop art, drive people to suicide, and drink entire lakes of water. They don't *have* a business!