officially on leave and off to travel through asia next week 😌

i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc it's fucking trans healthcare.

ok, I am officially designating vie a no-skip album

So much for the (terrible) social media ban not including games. We’re already seeing proof that the ban’s definition of social media is broad enough to be applied to any internet service or website the minister of the day wishes to ban. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

basically begging for foreign interference in the form of hard-right cash 🥴

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

If you still use Academia for some reason you should definitely delete your account now 🥴

Honestly, no one, absolutely no one should be asking, "what the hell is going on right now?" The only appropriate question is, "why when people told me this was what was going to happen did I just tell them they were overreacting?"

This is virtue signalling to an extent that would be absolutely unfathomable to even the biggest anti-woke people just five years ago

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist. The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Well, here’s the problem. She said something not conservative in the free speech area.

pretty telling that their lawyers had to find a basis for firing her other than the actual one, which is criticizing Charlie Kirk

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

The Liberal Party hasn't moved an inch forward since 2009, when Turnbull was rolled the first time over climate change policy. This idiocy more than anything else proves its determination to bank on Australia taking the same course as the US and UK - recrudescent nationalist (racist) populism.

Given this is making some waves - here is the piece and you can judge for yourself. (I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does). Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Not that I’m on there to get it first hand but it seems like the journalists and pundits who stayed decided there literally is no line, the owner of the site who *every day* proves how fucking terrible he is can apparently do absolutely anything and they will shrug and scoff at the idea of leaving

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

The greatest minds in history are on the case

charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined

“So what if he disagreed with you, he didn’t deserve to die” But he thought I did. This isn’t disagreement. It’s someone who was not only opposed to my existence but was called a good and faithful servant by the church for doing it. I don’t have to mourn that. And asking me to is violence too.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say charlie kirk died from a grand piano falling on his head and his mouth turned into piano keys and then a flower pot fell on his dick and it honked like a bike horn. don’t say stuff like that

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

"I’m honored to have met people from all over the globe: in Tbilisi, I worked alongside a freelance copywriter from Brooklyn, and in Kuala Lumpur, I met a fascinating man at a café who works in project management in Brooklyn."

my hot take is that places of impotant or threatened biodiversity should not have "visitors". stay home!

Rallies around the country this Saturday 13 September in solidarity with Camp Sovereignty and migrant communities under attack by the far-right. See you there. For updates: www.instagram.com/blakcaucus/

I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture

cringe reddit atheism is now an act of resistance

As of today my book is available for pre-order and you can read a preview of the first few pages to get a sense for the direction I'm taking (see screenshots of the introduction below). Applying a 'queer socialist feminist lens' to sex and work in the digital era. 📲 www.routledge.com/Not-Sex-Work...

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure. Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.

Hate preachers are allowed to picket Rundle Mall every weekend holding signs threatening gay people with eternal damnation btw

NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.

It detects it so quickly, whether you have it or not!

The absolute state of this pissweak flog

no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that

The Australian Age Assurance Technology Trial claims that age assurance can work in Australia, but their own evidence proves the opposite. You can read the full 10 volumes of the report here: www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/m... My top level concerns are in a thread below ... [1/5]

So, the technical report on Age Assurance (nee Verification) basically says no single tool works well enough to be relied on, and all the concerns about inaccuracy, bias and privacy flagged before the report all remain. 🙄 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Me checking my phone every 5 minutes to see if he dead yet.

Honoured to be named on this paper just published in MJA, brilliantly led by Dr Kade Booth at UON. We articulate the urgent need to address inequity in cervical cancer prevention for trans Australians 🌈🎓

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.

we live in a world defined by replacing human labor (employees) with machines which then need human babysitting (independent contractors on slave wages)*

People calling for Sam Altman’s head should also know: These people run the companies of every consumer computing product you buy, from phones to cars. Risk assessments are about THEIR business and profitability, not your life. Regulation is about reigning in the impulses of these sociopaths.

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social