I can barely stand to touch Bluesky nowadays, but my friend Tasneem in Gaza has a new fundraiser link. Times are hard everywhere, but if you have a little to spare, I hope you will consider donating. gofund.me/171953d5

I gotta get surgery for my baby Candy to get an infected tooth removed and it’s $600 even with her insurance so I need at least 6 $100 commissions, so if anyone would like one or knows someone that would, I’d greatly appreciate y’all passing it on 🥺 artistree.io/goldieloxbox

We live in horrifying, depressing times, and there will still be people in the future who will claim they had no idea it was happening. Let the record show: -multiple genocides -concentration camps -people being stripped of their rights Happening. Now.

not a single person's job, not a single grant, will be saved by surrendering instead of fighting. ask columbia.

Remember when Colbert roasted W at the 2006 correspondents‘ dinner, quipping that “reality has a well-known liberal bias”? Twenty years later (almost), and the NPS is now required to crowdsource “information” based on personal feelings because the historical facts are deemed too unpleasant. Cool. 🗃️

Grateful for @joellenovey.bsky.social's voice every single day.

Between starvation and bombs, any efforts to keep Tasneem and her family alive are best described as desperate now. A small amount of food has been let in; our donations give a better chance of being able to afford the steep markup. www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...

Do Shakespeare’s histories count as RPF send post

Tasneem is getting closer to her goal, but she still has a ways to go. As I’m sure you know, the situation is dire, with constant bombings and inadequate food and other necessary resources. Anything you could do would help. gofund.me/c167f4e0

Today is Ed Balls Day.

I was fortunate to speak with @tianarochon.bsky.social last week for this story about Boston’s queer history and ongoing efforts to preserve what my former employer has purged. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/m...

Since my reach is so small and my resources are limited, I’m focused on one person, one family who I can try to help. Tasneem isn’t a scammer or spammer; she’s vetted and I’ve been chatting with her off and on for a couple weeks now. gofund.me/c167f4e0

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

Many of my public history friends here in the Boston area are doing the big important work this weekend. However, the only thing I have to offer is: Took an Edible and Now Watching American Revolution Media We Watched as Children.

Hi everyone, I’ve been chatting with Tasneem for about a week now. She’s trying to get herself and her family to safety, though her fundraiser’s progress has stalled. Anything you can do would be hugely appreciated. gofund.me/7eed9058

“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.” wapo.st/4jdXL8m

This, plus the observation I and others have had, that this was NOT like how we were treated with BLM in 2020. It’s a “wow gee I wonder why 😒” at the cops, but I hope we can take full advantage of the comparative lack of repression and run with this energy as far as we can.

At the Boston protest, perched atop the columns at the entrance to Suffolk Law School, just one among MANY in the crowd demanding that Rumeysa be safely returned to us.

Possibly a spicy take, but if you get on a train and are blasting music on a Bluetooth speaker so loud that I can barely hear the podcast in my headphones (at full volume, no less!)? You’re a really shitty person.

Nick is a good dude and this is an excellent read.

Last month, a former supervisor with the NPS called me to ask what I wanted to do with my queer history website articles, since they needed to be censored now. I asked her what would happen if the park refused to obey.

Kudos to the student journalists at The Tufts Daily, who crashed a last-minute issue of the paper to cover the outrageous arrest and detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk: issuu.com/tuftsdaily/d...

WHAT THE FUCK Also, @universalhub.com:

I was so fortunate to run two sessions at the BAGLY trans youth summit today. Trans kids are among the bravest people in this country right now, and this was such an amazing event. An audience member sketched the panel I moderated; I’m on the right with the unorthodox podium mic setup.

Mahmoud Khalil’s letter is a manifesto for our times: it is our generation’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail “I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear” inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

Dems drinking the transphobia kool aid because of some imaginary (read: inaccurate!!) popularity contest is making me feel like I was the only one reading the “what is right is not always what is popular” motivational posters back in my elementary school classrooms.

I’m on a (much needed!) family vacation—a cruise—and I’ve been so anxious about being very visibly trans this week. A couple cis guys on our snorkeling boat just now saw my top surgery scars and asked if I was trans.

I did not actually need my field guide to American Houses to be able to definitively say that this house is not Georgian Architecture. Or post-medieval English colonial vernacular. Or 18th century in general.

Coping with the state of the world by getting very stoned and watching the terrible Sons of Liberty miniseries the “History” Channel put out like a decade ago to tear it to pieces. @teddybearparker.bsky.social has pulled out the Field Guide to American Houses.

I know I’m basically a stereotypical dad about the thermostat (heating oil is expensive!!) but it’s not cold enough in here for these guys to be huddling for warmth like they’re members of a doomed Arctic expedition.

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

Especially when people need to see these things now more than ever

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the people who whine about the “erasure of history” when Confederate statues come down are being awfully quiet right now. You know, when actual history is being purged from the public record.

As of yesterday afternoon, the National Park Service has been ordered to scrub their websites of all mentions of “transgender,” “queer,” and even their letters in the initialism. Stonewall is the most noticeable right now, but it’s everywhere.

Sylvia Rivera

“And I feel so sorry for those that are not able to read the history of the Stonewall around the world,” Rivera said just a few months before her death from cancer in 2002. But now they’re literally trying to erase that history here too: www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/rive...

The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument. Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed. 3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened. Erasure.

"We've got too many people here. They're up against the barricade. We're losing the barricade"-- phllly pd scanner rn and also les mis, victor hugo, 1862

Gnats are unnoted wheresoe’er they fly, But eagles gaz’d upon with every eye.