Maybe I should publish something about the various covers of "A Mulher do Fim do Mundo." Just in time for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, samba legend Elza Soares released the song to critical acclaim. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SWI...

Each day, the limits of cis allyship hurts more.

I didn't think the leopards would eat my face... www.queermajority.com/essays-all/l...

I mean, if this is what the leader of the AFT is saying, I guess I have no reason to have faith in the largest union of educators. It’s a shame, really

The best thing about “Sometimes it Snows in April" is that I get to pretend Prince was a prophet. youtu.be/ikZgBhSMSUM?...

I keep on putting off reading Enshittification because I don't want to be depressed. But then I see things like this.

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

I’m going to have to skip a queer, progressive Seder tonight because the host's partner has a cold, is still contagious and he insists on attending anyway. If this holiday didn’t involve food, I would be fine.

Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.

Anyone who's ever had a bad therapist can attest to the kinds of damage that can happen in talk therapy. Sotomayor and Kagan signed onto this... Repeatedly, this court has weaponized the queer calendar to make political statements. Reminding everyone that visibility without protection is a trap.

I have accepted that there’s no way to get AI out of my life without cutting out the rest of the world. today I saw this in the New York Magazine app.

Every day the list of people I trust shrinks.

I really, really need academic organizations to think more critically about travel (conferences, talks, and meetings) during the Trump administration. Sadly, most are not.

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

I'm trying to find English language updates to what happened in Portugal's parliament today. The reports I'm seeing in portuguese say that the far right has taken away self-identification, making Portugal much less appealing as a destination for LGBTQI expats.

What could possibly go wrong?

Scapegoating Jews is a tried and true political tactic.

UMass Amherst is trying to end its Arabic Languages Program. The administration cites low enrollment numbers, but... I dunno... an expanding crisis in the middle east might actually drive interest in the language. Sign the petition here. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Under Kansas law, he must use the women's bathroom or be subjected to criminal charges in government owned buildings or $1000 vigilante lawsuits in public spaces. I think everyone can understand why this is absurd and causes more problems than it was ever intended to fix.

If this gets enacted, it will be the most severe bathroom ban in the country.

Another place where there are tangible, structural consequences afoot due to the Epstein files.

It's March 8, 2026 and despite legally changing my name 4 years ago, I still get deadnamed. The latest examples were: An alumni office related to a niche program, despite contacting UCLA to fix things MANY times. In the minutiae of financial transactions between my HSA and healthcare providers.

sure doesn’t seem compatible with “live free or die”

Apparently someone tried to impersonate me on Instagram. Just so you know, I barely use that account and haven't posted anything to it since January 2025.

Just ira glass narrating my life

This effectively forces every trans person in the state to out themselves while applying for a job, renting an apartment, or being stopped by police. It's part of the same law that allows anyone to sue anyone else they suspect of being trans and using the "wrong" bathroom.

It looks like more sockpuppet accounts are crashing this site. Some racist just showed up in my thread... about the bad musicology job in LA. What on earth?

So... does anyone care about this? That Michael B. Jordan's parents flew to London to see their son and they left the BAFTAs in tears? That he was repulsed? Still don't think an apology was owed? Some of you people are wretched fools.

"An overwhelming majority of New York University contract professors voted to strike, after more than a year of waiting for administrators to finish bargaining a first contract in good faith." 📰 prospect.org/2026/02/25/n...

The Colburn School (in Los Angeles) is hiring a musicology professor and the starting salary is 60-80K. I'm trying to imagine a world where a PhD with classical performance experience can afford to live in LA on 60K. This might have been possible 15-20 years ago, but in 2026?

Why is he so obsessed with us? Why not just leave trans people alone?

I think people still underestimate the extent to which the panic over an increase in trans boys transitioning is about the belief that AFAB bodies are rightfully for breeding and should be preserved as property belonging to their future husbands.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Wellesley College is hiring a new Choral Director. The application deadline is March 27th. Feel free to bug me if you have questions. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/w...

The @nymag.com feature on fujoishi and Heated Rivalry is deep reporting E. Alex Jung. I read enough MM and queer romance to know the difference between what's written by and for women and what isn't. Thanks for going deep into slash, BL, and the rest. www.vulture.com/article/heat...

If you want to see a miniature of why disability studies has a race problem, check out the comments on this. DO BETTER PEOPLE If a person harms people because of their impairments, the harm still happens.

The news out of MA regarding transgender healthcare is bleak. There is no longer a surgeon outside of the Boston area who will work with trans femme patients.

The world’s smallest violin for the British monarchy…

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

I may have made a mistake by telling my students that a certain billionaire pop star has essentially abandoned any pretense of caring about queer people.

Tech inertia is it's own thing.

I know a lot of scholars & critics without expertise in Latin America popular music are tempted to pontificate about the meaning of Benitobowl, but I beg you to check yourself. I could ignore this nonsense yesterday, but I think I've lost my patience. You tell on yourselves more than you realize.

Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history. His son Kweku Taylor: “The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”

Here, my colleague Petra Rivera-Rideau and Vanessa Diaz, co-authors of P FKN R, directly address all of the pop music pundits who thought Benitobowl wasn't political. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Petra and Vanessa are back today with a guide to last night's show in @rollingstone.com! Read this, then grab their book from @dukepress.bsky.social! "But Bad Bunny always finds a way to get many complex messages in his performances, just as he does with his songs."

This is what firing 30% of your staff does.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous