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feminist and queer film nerd member of feminist elsewheres
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Heba Gowayed Ùۚ۩ ŰŹÙÙŰŻ
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I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own governmentâs repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:
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The father of a member of our Bensonhurst community was abducted by ICE nearly a month ago, leaving the family w/o their primary breadwinner & eldest daughter Julysa, a student, to care for her siblings & mother. Please contribute if you can, they need help paying legal fees & living expenses â€ïž
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Donate to Support for a family separated by ICE, organized by Julysa Cach Solis
Hello my name is Julysa, and we are trying to raise money for my dad Arturo wh⊠Julysa Cach Solis needs your support for Support for a family separated by ICE
https://www.gofundme.com/f/7vuuf-support-for-a-family-separated-by-ice
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Workshops4Gaza
about 1 month ago
Share her story and her legal fund with everyone you know:
chuffed.org/project/free...
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Dominique Baker
about 2 months ago
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, âEchoes in the Quad,â higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/echoes-quad/2026/01/13/censorship-arrives-campus
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BenjamĂn Schultz-Figueroa
2 months ago
Jesus christ. The Birzeit University raid was over screening a movie about Hind Rajab?! Fucking monsters.
www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
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11 Palestinians injured as Israeli forces raid Birzeit University in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces used live fire, tear gas during raid on university camps, health officials said - Anadolu Ajansı
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/11-palestinians-injured-as-israeli-forces-raid-birzeit-university-in-occupied-west-bank/3791344
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Whirly
3 months ago
I think that very few people in academia have come to terms with what it means that most schools depend on grad student labor but prepare grad students for a job market that doesn't exist.
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The New School AAUP
3 months ago
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement
tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
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OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
https://tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
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Just realizing the irony of how we had to listen to months and months of elected officials calling Mamdani âtoo young and inexperiencedâ for the job while NYC was running a city-wide campaign to call out ageismđ« Well, STOP THE LABELS ADAMS & CUOMO &âŠ
www.nyc.gov/site/dfta/ne...
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https://www.nyc.gov/site/dfta/news-reports/anti-ageism-campaign.page#:~:text=Ageism%20Stops%20With%20You%20Media%20Campaign,-The%20Ageism%20Stops&text=It%20reminds%20both%20younger%20and,inclusive%20city%20for%20every%20generation
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
4 months ago
âForget about the polls. Go into the last eight days of this election assuming you are five points behind.â You heard the man:
zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Micah
6 months ago
going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable
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One of my favorite parts of this journey has been to explain this exact gender constellation to multiple elderly working class relatives who were completely unimpressed by this and simply happy for us!
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Thomas Zimmer
8 months ago
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the âradical Leftâ the more acute threat.
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Myles
8 months ago
After practice today, I asked Natasha Cloud about Trumpâs callous rhetoric directed towards Zohran Mamdani in the days since Zohranâs Democratic mayoral primary win here in NYC. As always, Tash spoke with compassion, with urgency, with morality. (đ„:
@busyxb.bsky.social
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An unexpected landslide win of the candidate that not only runs on an actual platform to make this city truly affordable to all but also to protect queer people all around. Still canât believe this just happened tonightđ„č
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Erin Reed
9 months ago
1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. đ§”
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News Eye
9 months ago
Holy shit, New York! Hereâs the full view.
#NoKings
#50501Movement
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Kat Abughazaleh
9 months ago
The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.
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JW Mason
9 months ago
My local coffee shop is not playing around.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
9 months ago
Quid pro Cuomo. "Many of the donations came after Mr. Cuomo made a rare appearance at the Real Estate Board of New York, where Politico reported that he expressed regret for signing rent reforms as governor that landlords bitterly opposed."
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The Business Interests Bankrolling Andrew Cuomoâs Run for Mayor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/nyregion/cuomo-donors-mayor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Lk8.0I9p.5D5SPtAXg4OP&smid=url-share
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Assigned Media
10 months ago
45 percent of transgender Americans are considering moving or have already moved to escape political persecution in the US. That and two other curated, can't miss stories courtesy of
@billiejsweeney.bsky.social
start our week off here:
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Trans Americans, Citing Hostile Politics, Seek Safer Homes, Survey Finds â Assigned
Leading Off: A poll highlights âextreme pressure.â A quilt pleads for safety. The rabid right revels in harassment. The top story lines as the week begins.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/leadingoff-exile-acluquilt-montana
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Florence Ashley
10 months ago
If you open the anti-trans HHS reportâs appendix in NotePad, youâll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.
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Erin Reed
10 months ago
Lol, Media covering this exactly how we said they would.
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Erin Reed
11 months ago
I have really good news to announce to everyone. Because of our reporting and many readers contacting Planned Parenthood of Arizona, the organization will NOT over comply with Trump, and is restarting its trans adult care. Good work everyone.
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Maggie Hennefeld
12 months ago
Brilliant program for the 2025 *feminist elsewheres* festival in NYC at the Maysles Doc Center (April 19-20)!! đïžâ„ïžđ§š
www.maysles.org/calendar/fem...
"Queer-feminist film work is collective, transnational, & complicated. The networks that emerge from it are expansive, ephemeral, and in need of care."
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feminist elsewheres â maysles documentary center
feminist elsewheres April 19-20, 2025 Two-day film and conversation program, Maysles Documentary Center Queer-feminist film work is collective, transnational, and complicated. The netwo...
https://www.maysles.org/calendar/feminist-elsewheres
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Erin Reed
11 months ago
Shame on Planned Parenthood of Arizona for dropping their trans patients because of threats from Trump. What happens when they make you stop providing abortions? Birth control? PReP? Gonna roll over then too? These orgs complying are cowardly.
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When the day is already going badly there is always something worse coming.
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trans flags, next to Palestine flags, next to unions, next to healthcare workers, next to schoolteachers, next to a lot of people who were just genuinely angry!
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Tanya Goldman
11 months ago
A huge thank you to
@mediaburn.bsky.social
@danerdman.bsky.social
for hosting three different group archive tours this week. It was a pleasure to learn about Media Burnâs collections and preservation challenges unique to video tape formats
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Sandi Bachom đčđ„đŹ
11 months ago
Powerful Die-in at Tesla showroom. Moment of silence.
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#Actup
joined forces with
@teslatakedown.com
in Manhattan today and we brought a sign.
#teslatakedown
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Karen Attiah
11 months ago
I've been thinking about safety, leaving, staying, exile, asylum, displacement, for academics, journalists, activists, etc etc. One thing the heat of this moment is doing-- is revealing the inequities and exploitative nature of academia. This thread nails it.
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Acyn
12 months ago
AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together
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Better Things Are Possible
12 months ago
This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day
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Prem Thakker ă
12 months ago
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confusedâthen said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-dhs-detains-palestinian
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ali alkhatib
12 months ago
if you're a PhD applicant with acceptances to programs in the US, you should ask your potential advisor what is happening at the university, in the department, or at least in their own heads in response to Mahmoud Khalil's abduction and deportation.
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 1 year ago
It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!
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Erin Reed
about 1 year ago
Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trumpâs total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States. I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it. It is NOT just for athletes.
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State Department visa policy could bar trans people from traveling to U.S.
Violations could result in travel bans beyond just athletes
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/marco-rubio-state-transgender-visa-b2704734.html
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Erin Reed
about 1 year ago
1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry
A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/marco-rubio-may-have-just-banned
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The election results in Germany are bitter. But young people launching a comeback of the left party that has been campaigning slogans like this that seem unfathomable in the US rn really makes me hopeful.
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Musa Okwonga
about 1 year ago
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parentsâ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and theyâve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, theyâve bonded over hate.
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The Transexual Menace
about 1 year ago
If you live in the NYC Metro Area, help spread the word about the S_onewall Action. Download, Print and Post the Action Flyer everyone in the NYC Metro Area (and don't forget LI, Jersey, Westchester and.. and...)
#Stonewall
See you on Saturday.
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Erin Reed
about 1 year ago
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
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Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
https://www.reddit.com/r/Passports/comments/1it0ko3/public_comment_on_us_passport_form_changes/
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Dominic
about 1 year ago
Upcoming event on Friday March 14 at NYU that I helped to co-organize with
@sophie-ahoi.bsky.social
and Leticia Berrizbeitia Añez. A timely topic, no? Please RSVP if youâd like to attend! Iâll see if I can link the Eventbrite in the commentsâŠ
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Omah Dieguâs wonderful 1995 experimental documentary âThe Snake in my Bedâ is streaming as part of this yearâs @BGHRA conference. Free to register:
bghra.org/bghra2025/
. Join us for the Q&A with the protagonist of the film and filmmakerâs son on Saturday, 02/22, at 10am EST.
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BGHRA 2025 | BGHRA
http://bghra.org/bghra2025/
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jamelle
about 1 year ago
soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
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Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/race-ethnicity/2025/02/15/trump-admin-threatens-rescind-federal-funds-over-dei
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 1 year ago
On the same day the national park service busy erasing trans people from history, HRC axed is entire trans justice initiative and laid off a bunch of amazing black and brown trans folks. Absolutely despicable, HRC showing us who they've always been. Help out here.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-lg...
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Donate to Support LGBTQ plus Staff Facing Layoffs by Corrupt HRC, organized by Alexandria Costello
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is laying off over 20% of its⊠Alexandria Costello needs your support for Support LGBTQ plus Staff Facing Layoffs by Corrupt HRC
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-lgbtq-plus-staff-facing-layoffs-by-corrupt-hrc
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Erin Reed
about 1 year ago
Protest at Stonewall tomorrow. You canât spell Stonewall without the T.
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Annie Waldman
about 1 year ago
We
@propublica.org
have now confirmed more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the worldâs richest man downsize federal agencies one by one. And we're still tracking DOGE â reach out and help us đ
www.propublica.org/tips/federal...
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time
Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the bi...
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-doge-staffers-additional-names
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I especially encourage fellow
#NYU
employees, students, researchers to send letters. Most of the board members of NYU Langone who let this happen are also on the board of the university. Maybe time to use your NYU email addresses and tell them what you think of this illegal complianceđ€·đŒ
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