I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

Sorry to hear that Bluestockings is closing. www.bluestockings.com

My current read of Richard Hofstadter's *Anti-Intellectualism in American Life* (1963) is genuinely disarming me in how quintessentially transphobic this genre of conservative rhetoric already was in the 1940s. This example is just one of many, from the first 50 pages alone

In Bukele’s #ElSalvador, he is the only person who is above the law. The road ahead is long. Even the first step—telling the truth—is officially considered a crime. My contribution for the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, a powerful issue that comes out today. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...

Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.

this is literally how i found out what im doing jail support for lmaoooo

Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women (1991)

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

i actually tried to get a day job where i gallivant around evangelical churches generating youtube clips of "communist transsexual DESTROYS rightwing chud" but unfortunately no billionaire investment managers at the Republican National Convention would fund the project

one of the nice things about being an adjunct in an era of overt academic repression by fascists is that i still say whatever i want to students... like what are they going to do, continue not giving me health insurance? take away the job no one wants?

if the evidence is real (legitimately big if) this case really does feel strikingly similar to John Wojtowicz -- a mostly uneducated white guy bungles an act of egoistic passion (which he has mistaken for love) after a downtrodden woman offers him a modicum of affection. or whatever, who knows

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

not a Doge Day Afternoon

One Piece flag at the Nepal Gen-Z protests.

"This [much] is also true for the period of McCarthyism in the United States: no intellectual 'cavalry' appeared to repel the patriotic hysteria. Chance had it that Joseph McCarthy finally attacked the heads of the armed forces, which had the effect of reluctantly bringing in the real cavalry..."

Hell Gate joined Austrian Vice-Chancellor Andreas Babler—leader of the country's Social Democratic Party—on a recent tour of Brooklyn rent-stabilized apartments, where he had some advice for New York lawmakers (and a warning for his fellow Austrians)

Three people died on Rikers Island in the last two weeks. Twelve people have died there so far this year. Forty-five since Eric Adams took office. Does anyone with any power care to stop this? Do New Yorkers care to make them?

now we’re cooking with gas

in fact they did charge a guy, and who wrote the attached address in july abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20510/

this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit

In absence of the "literary" right-wing intelligentsia of 1930s fascist regimes who composed the notorious "treason of the clerks," Trumpism has found its allies in the bloated edifice of "college administrators," thoughtless overpaid do-nothings eager to do his bidding before being asked

in that case i strongly recommend "here comes the sun" by bill mckibben

banning trans people from joining the military, buying guns, and getting married would be pretty cool if it was like an initial rollout program for the rest of the country and not a calculated effort to invent a precarious class of second rate citizens

transphobia is so society-warping it literally has English politicians rallying behind the right of Irish Catholics to incite violence

For those of you who have forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBKu...

a completely brainless take machine designed only to tickle geriatric podcast enjoyers with the vague implication of truth, as disciplined, unflappable, and pleasant to encounter as boxer briefs on a clothesline

youll never be her

'Los Angeles (1937)' www.commondreams.org/views/2018/1...

they also liked to talk about the Columbine shooters being a gay couple, if you remember. a lot of kids over the past 25 years would still be alive if they wanted real prevention

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

A Brazilian trans woman, in the US legally under asylum, has been taken and disappeared by ICE.

NEW: With a new first-time translation from Jamie Berrout, I'm delighted to share this 2023 interview with Mariposas Negras cofounder Laura Glover, originally printed in the zine Trans y Fugas. Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽

A short film for a Saturday: watch Dan Drasin‘s thrilling and funny SUNDAY, an account of the great beatnik protest for the right to sing folk songs in public in a park, @ Washington Square in 1961. “3000 BEATNIKS RIOT IN VILLAGE” said the New York Mirror. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gEvK...

“They are kids … in jail because they raised their own flag or sang their national anthem, or spray-painted walls with messages.” Letter to the anarchist journal Reality Now about the West Bank Prisoner Hunger Strike, by Ahmad Samih Abou-Ali (1984)

the thing about every sexual assault case where a trans woman didnt tell a man she was trans is that there was also a man who didn't tell a woman he's a piece of shit loser so

this book slaps goddamn

how we were dealing with pronatalism…. in 1979 (Rosalind Petchesky, in her introduction to Feminist Studies vol. 5, no. 2)

unpopular opinion but i actually think all these articles about women falling in love with ai is kind of a classic crazy girl slay... sort of like all those turn of millennium sologamy articles where women had marriage ceremonies to themselves or their vibrators but with blade runner aura

im sorry but you simply cannot look at midwestern cuisine and convince me these women truly became the archetype for the ideal housewife in the 1950s. what do you mean "potato chips dipped in chocolate"

going to The Atlantic to search if your stuff is on LibGen is so funny... theres a better site you can use for that

finally starting in on Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and immediately this part of the preface is sending me plz 😭

‘One way dissent on Palestine is often expressed is through graffiti. One morning, on a walk through Kreuzberg, I saw an unusual recommendation from a graffiti artist: “Read Nahum Goldmann’s 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹.”’ Adam Shatz visits Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

i think most of the fabrication about crime in cities is an appeal from the right to (white) smalltown America, who see losing their children to the siren song of multicultural urbanity as the death of their communities

Here is my article on Pipás Pista. zagria.blogspot.com/2020/03/pipa...

the psychology of catcallers is very fascinating. yesterday a man on the street said "you're a perfect ten" and after i gave my little head nod he added "yeah, you have nothing to worry about in life" ???

cant stop thinking about Barack Obarna

"You think I'm a sissy? / I will sodomize and face-fuck you.” ― Catullus, Carmina XVI