So, I've been reading stale "is [x industry] run by a gay mafia?" conspiracy theories in media for as long as I've been reading the papers Really didn't see another one coming from Wired 🧵

I have to say, regardless of what she's said elsewhere, I am not pleased that McPherson's team promised to get back to us with answers and bailed. I don't pull "as the leading LGBTQ2S+ publication in Canada..." often, but I feel it here. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

You can now pre-order *Cisgender: Disorienting a Category* (out in July) for $20 from Duke UP with a 30% off! Code: E26CGNDR. Really grateful, too, for these amazing blurbs from Susan Stryker and C. Riley Snorton! dukeupress.edu/cisgender

Und ,vielleicht‘ sollte mal jemand darüber schreiben, dass Druck auf Veranstalter*innen gemacht wird und es nicht nur bei Kritik in Texten bleibt. Zumal die Emma-Texte gegen andere Feministinnen mit Falschbehauptungen durchsetzt sind und das kein Journalismus mehr ist.

„Erschaffen“ ist das richtige Wort. Extreme #Ungleichheit ist kein Zufall, kein Naturgesetz. Sie wird erschaffen - by Design. #TaxTheRich @patrickkaczmarczyk.bsky.social

Interesting development, if true...Boulerice was just re-elected last year as MP for Rosemont-Petite Patrie, the only #NDP seat in #Quebec.

Happy birthday Audre Lorde

My colleague Tobias Wiggins is holding this amazing seminar series on trans methodologies at McGill! Please spread the word!

Canadian authors. The PLR program is open. Don’t forget to register your new titles. publiclendingright.ca

The price of paper has been going up every year & publishers have been shrinking fonts on the page to cram as much in. It's exhausting reading tiny type. Let's not forget accessibility implications either.

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

Great little exhibit on Stella’s and s*x work in #mtl #mem

Our investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK https://goodlaw.social/2l1y

Just got my Public Lending Right money from Canada Council. And for the firs time ever, it's pretty good money ($1500). This is thanks to you taking my books out at the library. Keep doing it! And do it for your favourite authors! Even if you don't read the books!!

Remember to give your comrades a socialist fraternal kiss on Valentine's Day

Pillion (2025) 4.5 ⭐ Queens of Drama (2024) 4 ⭐ A Face in the Crowd (1957) 5 ⭐ Monterey Pop (1968) 3.5 ⭐ #LastFourWatched

"An entire community is mourning a horrific loss in Tumbler Ridge this week ... And the dangerous links being made to trans people at large will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come," writes @melwoods.me

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

Check in on your trans friends. We also grieve for the victims but now have to feel more unsafe on top because the identity of the shooter is used to demonize a whole community.

Hey queer editors! An editor friend of mine is wanting to pass along a sensitivity read project. Are there any transwomen here who offer sensitivity read services or who just want to take this on? Lmk so I can forward your info!

Very sad to hear the news about Teresa de Lauretis. I sat on many dissertation committees with her at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and she was a *force*!! Direct, blunt, unsmiling — and always brilliant. Pushed her students to do their absolute best. RIP

I spent a long time trying to figure out what to do with my Harry Potter books, because just dumping them in a little free library felt wrong. So I mailed them to this artist who was turning them into portraits of murdered trans women www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/11/a...

CfP für das jährliche Kolloquium für (Post-)Doktorand*innen in den Postcolonial und Gender Studies in Trier. Ich freue mich auf Bewerbungen!

Don't buy books on Amazon Don't publish through Amazon

#Debanking jetzt auch bei der @vvnbda.bsky.social: Laut Rundbrief der Organisation wurde ihr Konto bei der #Postbank zu Ende März gekündigt. „Wir sind damit die nächste antifaschistische Organisation, die von Debanking betroffen ist. Es wird gerade unsererseits eine Klage geprüft.“

🚨Now recruiting 2 PhD students as part of Gender Insight MSCA doctoral network! My fabulous team at the Department of Medical Psychology at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social is growing. See link below or visit www.genderinsight.eu. Apply by end of February. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/publicati...

Come work with us! Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin. The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions. Deadline 28 Feb 2026 #histmed genderinsight.eu

Catherine O’Hara’s special connection with queer people will long be remembered.

“AI writing is here to stay.” So is syphilis but that doesn’t mean we need to encourage it.

Applications are invited for a Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship on Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. Deadline 27 March. Full details in the link 🌈🎓 bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin...

Deutscher Journalismus ist wie ein Koch der dir ständig matschige Pommes serviert mit einer Attitüde als hätte er ein vier Sterne Menü gezaubert

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

We're hiring! SKOK is seeking a motivated and academically strong candidate for a #PhD Research Fellowship in interdisciplinary #gender #research, commencing 1st August 2026 or as agreed upon. Deadline: 1 March. Read more below 👇 #gendersky🌈🎓 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

If you are a person who cares about books, you’re different from Jeff Bezos. Now would be a good day to stop shopping from Amazon, permanently.

I understand Americans are upset about the Washington Post - but their new smaller newsroom will have about the same number of editorial as all of Postmedia's 130 print and digital news titles combination. Canadians slept through this consolidation, foreign ownership, gutting.

There's a new petition to the House of Commons to support gender-affirming healthcare in Canada. If you're in Canada, please sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #Canada #CdnPoli #CanPoli #TransRights #TransHealthcare

@juliaserano.bsky.social provides an excellent rebuttal to the idea that Dems need to triangulate against trans people in order to win moderate votes. (Calling Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom). Lots of receipts for her argument.

It’s publication day for Ideas on Fire author Beans Velocci! Their new book Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social. 🥳 dukeupress.edu/sex-isnt-real #IoFAuthors

2 year term job, feminist and gender studies, Mount Alison U: universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Call for Papers, please circulate! Ethics of queer in/visibility Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026 queer-in-visibility.de Keynote speakers: J Calder (Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder) Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social (History, University of Warwick)

Because we just had a great chitchat together about trans memory activism and trans memory of national socialist persecutions, I would like to remind you all of the existence of @jonahgarde.bsky.social amazing book👇👇👇 @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

And if you're in Vancouver, mark your calendar for February 7th, where @bookwarehouse.bsky.social will be holding a launch event with @ravineangel.bsky.social !!

What happens when governments override Charter protections. rabble radio explores the impact on 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. #trans #notwithstandingclause buff.ly/thYNa3j

#Feminist and #Gender Studies - Lecturer or Assistant Professor, 2-year Term, Mount Allison University

we’re all O’Hara heads on here

My advice to folks thinking about participating in trans research: look carefully into who is running these studies. Is the principal investigator trans? Is the student investigator trans? If not, stay the hell away from that study. Don't trust trans "science" run by cis people, simple as that.

The Talk of the Town (1942) ⭐⭐⭐ Coming Out (1989) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Riefenstahl (2024) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Tank (2025) ⭐⭐1/2

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

ricochet.media/media/the-pr... The propaganda machine: how far-right media has warped Canada’s political discourse A deep dive into the rise and reach of Rebel News, tracing its roots from fringe commentary to a disruptive force backstage at the federal leaders' debate

Drown out the lies with stories of Trans+ History 🏳️‍⚧️ Simply learning that Trans+ people have always been here shuts down the pernicious lie that we're a "trend", "modern fashion", or "social contagion". Lead with stories and truth. Get your free toolkit now 🧵👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/dotheworkbook/