I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

"We all have our faith...mine is in the truth." --Fox Mulder

Every year, on cue, people start referring to the Fall time change as "Daylight Savings Time", when, in fact, it's the opposite. I think this is the single greatest proof of the Mandela Effect. Or the Blue and Gold Dress Effect.

"If you don't work, you don't eat" At once the most absurdly privileged and monstrously inhumane expression of cruelty I've heard lately. It's the voice of the slave master, the sweatshop owner, the prison camp guard--unethical and unworthy of our democracy. No one has to "earn" the right to eat.

I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚

Don't worry DJT, I think you're still eligible for Razzie. 🏆 #NobelPeacePrize #DonaldTrump #fascism

Peaceful protest and civil disobedience are not "rebellion". You know what rebellion is? Storming the Capitol, attacking our representatives, disrupting the peaceful transfer of power, threatening to hang the Vice President. Those same traitorous rebels are now working for ICE.

Trump's failing regime is now reduced to just making up imaginary war zones and street battles against "terrorists" in chicken and frog costumes to justify their illegal use of military and federal law enforcement personnel against American cities. 🐔🐸🪖 It would be laughable but for the fascism.

Let's be clear: Hegseth and Trump just declared war on the American people and gave military leadership the order to wage that war in our cities, against our citizens. If this isn't enough to impeach and remove this regime, then we've already surrendered to tyranny.

So, they summoned every military leader in our armed forces for a misogyny summit and authoritarian pep rally. And made taxpayers foot the bill, while endangering national security globally. Got it.

There is no legal, ethical, scientific, or educational basis for this decision at all. Resist. #censorship #academicfreedom #freespeech #fascism #resistance www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/t...

Oh. I see. Disney put Kimmel back on the air to salvage its subscriber base...two days before they announced a new price increase. 🤔 There is never enough cynicism to go around, even when I try to stockpile it for emergencies.

Repeat: There were NO trans people involved in the murder of Charlie Kirk. The FBI's own evidence proves this. It's the existence of a trans person in the shooter's life that's held up as evidence, because it's their existence that facsists consider a crime.

Watching corporate America and academia crumble to authoritarian power simultaneously makes it clear how symbiotic they've become in the post-Reagan neoliberal era. There's no discernible difference between CEOs and university chancellors or presidents despite their performative "values" statements.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

A coalition of interfaith groups held the first Religious Freedom in Schools summit in Dallas this week to discuss how to push back on legislation it says centers Christianity in schools.

We all figured AI would eventually destroy humanity, we just kind of assumed it would be with nuclear missiles and killer robots, not by taking our jobs and making us stupid. We figured we had that part well in hand with just exploitative capitalism. But why break what ain't fixed, I guess?

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Kevin Huizenga zine about teaching comics. Free for students and teachers—$10 for the rest of you cretins! #SPX2025

"When it comes to the AI technology industry, we refuse their frames, reject their addictive and brittle technology, and demand that the sanctity of the university both as an institution and a set of values be restored." Yessss, may the blowback be swift, hard, and universal

So, as it turns out, there were no libs, Socialists, immigrants, trans people, or gang members shooting up schools this week, just radicalized white supremacists, conservatives, and cis straight white dudes with guns...as usual.

Does anyone really believe that genuflecting at the altar of "civil discourse" will stop Trump and his MAGA-fascists from using violence, terror, or intimidation against their enemies? That's not how fascism works. We won't sweet-talk our way out of it. Speak truth, not comforting platitudes.

And find your activist colleagues, ones in unions and not. The only way through is together.

Last Call! Submissions for #Academizines special issue close 9/15! journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...

This SCOTUS has lost all credibility and generations of trust in the independence and integrity of the courts. They are nothing but the rubber stamp of a fascist regime intent on demolishing our Constitution, our democracy, and our basic human rights. They are no longer to be trusted or respected.

Current reading--keepin' it light... #TheRoad #EdgarAllanPoe #horrorcomics

"The lesson is that defeating the fascism we face now requires much more than defeating the current administration or winning elections. It requires a deeper shift: the recognition that we need to always stand in solidarity and fight for others as if our lives depended on it."

The UNT System’s temporary pause on drag performances went into effect in March of this year. A federal appeals court ruled earlier this month a similar ban likely violates the First Amendment.

These measures touch nearly every aspect of life, from education and healthcare to public safety, property rules and support for first responders. With so many changes coming at once, Texans can expect a variety of noticeable impacts on their daily lives. kerane.ws/3Hy241e

I feel like Sloppy Joes were once a much bigger part of my life and I don't really know what happened to us. I guess we just grew apart. 😒

This regime now gives pardons and full military honors to traitors & insurrectionists while persecuting & erasing loyal, dedicated, competent soldiers, civil servants, scientists, doctors, librarians, teachers, and workers, or anyone not thoroughly indoctrinated into their ideology of hate. #Merica

I've seen graduate students, junior faculty, librarians, research assistants, and technical contributors routinely denied co-author credit by senior faculty or PIs who believe they alone deserve author credit. This is academic dishonesty and violates basic publishing ethics.

Dear Marvel: It's really not necessary to include every character in every movie. Their 10-second cameo is not fan service, it's just moving the goal-post of "success" a few million dollars further out. Fewer characters, better writing, good villain=quality and value. See: Fantastic Four

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

I love the idea of Nicholas Cage doing the next season of True Detective, but I want him to do it as his character from Pig.

I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hit the @communitymarket with my new Bug Out Bag from @stephhawkinsbigsky and returned with spoils. 🌶🍅🥚🥜

Mephisto: [Aside] Enough of all this academic chatter, Back again to devilry! --Johann von Goethe

time for a new afterword

We monster so you don't have to.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

If you walk out of any museum feeling "good"--about yourself, your country, history, or society--you did it wrong.

CFP: Academizines! This special issue invites contributors from across the disciplines to share their research and creative scholarship in zine form. journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...

“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.” Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay