going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

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!

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 “radical Left” the more acute threat.

After practice today, I asked Natasha Cloud about Trump’s callous rhetoric directed towards Zohran Mamdani in the days since Zohran’s Democratic mayoral primary win here in NYC. As always, Tash spoke with compassion, with urgency, with morality. (🎥: @busyxb.bsky.social)

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 can’t believe this just happened tonight🥹

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. 🧵

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

My local coffee shop is not playing around.

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."

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:

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll 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.

Lol, Media covering this exactly how we said they would.

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.

Brilliant program for the 2025 *feminist elsewheres* festival in NYC at the Maysles Doc Center (April 19-20)!! 🎞️♥️🧨 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."

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.

When the day is already going badly there is always something worse coming.

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!

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 Burn’s collections and preservation challenges unique to video tape formats #SCMS25

Powerful Die-in at Tesla showroom. Moment of silence.

#Actup joined forces with @teslatakedown.com in Manhattan today and we brought a sign. #teslatakedown

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.

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

This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day

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 confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

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.

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s 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. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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.

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.

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

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.

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/...

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 you’d like to attend! I’ll see if I can link the Eventbrite in the comments…

Omah Diegu’s wonderful 1995 experimental documentary “The Snake in my Bed” is streaming as part of this year’s @BGHRA conference. Free to register: bghra.org/bghra2025/. Join us for the Q&A with the protagonist of the film and filmmaker’s son on Saturday, 02/22, at 10am EST.

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...

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...

Protest at Stonewall tomorrow. You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.

We @propublica.org have now confirmed more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man downsize federal agencies one by one. And we're still tracking DOGE – reach out and help us 🔎 www.propublica.org/tips/federal... www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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 compliance🤷🏼

It was announced that 7,000 people were there today. This photo does a much better job at showing the crowd than mine! #riseupfortransyouth

UbuWeb Founded 1996 just to let you know - that I'm a little happy...: February 1, 2025A year ago, we decided to shutter UbuWeb. ... But now, with the political changes in America and elsewhere around the world, we have decided to restart our archiving and regrow Ubu.

Out of 510,000 NCAA athletes, less than 10 are transgender. They are literally writing an executive order to target less than a hundred people nationwide. Republicans spent over $110 million in anti-trans ads on a made up problem.

For those unaware, in 1933, the first major Nazi book burning was of the first 30 years of research into trans and queer people, far before the concentration camps. Now, Trump has digitally burned the government's research on the same. hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...

The experts, lawyers, and scholars who I’ve been speaking with since last night agree with me that it’s a coup and that this a 5-alarm fire.

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation. We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Credit @alli.gay @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @miralazine.bsky.social @lizsaila.bsky.social