I have a new essay coming out next week so stay tuned! since one of the ppl I critique in it is a hardcore "gamete truther", I figured I'd re-up this – discusses both the actual biology & the bonkers anti-trans talking point that's grown out of it (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...

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We love to see it! Lee went to a bread factory where a worker was killed. The next week, they changed to 8-hour shifts from 12. Labour Ministry will fine companies up to 5% of operating profit if they have 3 three deaths in a year. New law: employers can get a 1-year jail term for a single death.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

If you are in the Boston area, please make time to visit C. Rose Smith’s powerful exhibition, “A Silent Rage,” at the Kniznick Gallery. My class was so fortunate to have an opportunity to meet the artist. Some very moving conversations. www.brandeis.edu/wsrc/kniznic...

Requested this book from my libraries 🙏🏾📿🙌🏾

RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit

Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u... “The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’” These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!

Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife. He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released an additional 20,000 pages of documents received from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. oversight.house.gov/release/over...

In my WGS class we discussed Da’Shaun L. Harrison’s book Belly of the Beast which names anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Kegseth should read it.

Indigenous people at #COP30 want change and power, not just visibility. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hell no! Republican want stricter abortion restrictions to extend ACA. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."

Got new book mail 🥰✊🏽 thanks to @haymarketbooks.org

"To cave on such a weak deal spits in the face of all the stress federal employees have endured over the last seven weeks.” www.gravityisgone.com/a-slap-in-th...

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Healthcare is a human right. Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

NEW HAMPSHIRE: HASSAN AND SHAHEEN ARE BOTH ON THE LIST OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT DEFECTING CALL NOW (202) 224-3324 (Hassan) (202) 224-2841 (Shaheen) LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics

A serious cautionary tale for all universities that are on the cusp of closing WGS, ethnic studies, and other departments and programs that extremists have targeted using their violent playbook of harassment, doxxing, pressure, etc. Thank you @pepepierce.bsky.social for posting this.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Shameful, violent. My heart goes out to all trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ What to Know About the New Gender Rules for U.S. Passports www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/t...

“Deadlines are called deadlines because they kill human beings.” Wow, what a quote (wish I knew the source - a NYC artist read it on Tiktok).

Korean universities on school bullying. “This isn’t just personal misconduct. School violence is a breach of social trust,” the university said in a statement. “We believe universities have a responsibility to uphold community values.” www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...

Turn the volume up for immigrants!!🎉

Brandeis will recognize playwright and choreographer Larissa FastHorse with the 2025 Creative Arts Award on Friday, November 21 at 3 p.m. The play will run November 21-23. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thanks... Larissa FastHorse will return to campus for a residency in March 2026.

13 Terrifying and Powerful Indigenous Horror Films You Shouldn’t Watch Alone @johnniejae.bsky.social’s curated list of Indigenous horror films “with stories that scare and haunt every bit as much as they heal and empower." redpopnews.com/13-terrifyin...

Check out the Green Life Trading Co’s “monster” and witchy sustainable swaps in Madison. www.instagram.com/p/DQcUy4kCbQ...

Trump thought he could use the government shutdown he created to purge our federal workforce. The law says otherwise. This is a victory for our dedicated federal workers & we won’t stop until every federal worker unjustly fired by this Administration has been reinstated.

Reporting from night school @huntercollege.bsky.social CUNY. -💔💔💔 We talked about the cycle of crisis with hurricanes in Jamaica. -Kingston Noir, Marlon James -The Pagoda, Patricia Powell Afro-Chinese add LGBT narratives 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ in the #Caribbean Donate to help Jamaica 🇯🇲 supportjamaica.gov.jm

A memorable celebration of Maria Pinto’s gorgeous debut book, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me About Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival. Note Hurricane Melissa overJamaica (Pinto’s country of origin) under the title in the PPT.

“Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant & thought-provoking dialogue between scholar Kareem Khubchandani & his drag persona LaWhore Vagistan.” It explores “drag as a practice & a celebration of its transformative potential.” #drag #aunties #divas brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lesson...

Menstrual blood, previously viewed as useless waste, is now being used by femtechs as “an underexplored sample source” with clinical potential to diagnose conditions from endometriosis to cancers.

Toni Shapiro-Phim & I had the pleasure of taking our students to the #ICA for an engaging guided tour of “The Indigenous Present” exhibition, which includes works by 15 artists who use “strategies of abstraction to represent personal and collective narratives.” www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/...

He really really cares about veterans.

The forecasts for Jamaica and Haiti are terrifying. Thinking of my friends and families of my colleagues and students who are facing Hurricane Melissa.😢

If you’re a praying, spiritual, ritual or witchy type, do your thing for Jamaica. They’re saying it could be the worse hurricane in 35 years with 15-25 inches of rain between Saturday and Monday. I’ll never get used to this worried waiting from afar. abcnews.go.com/US/tropical-...

Okay this made me laugh very hard. Bravo and more please. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

@carsonfaust.bsky.social discussed how horror allows Indigenous writers to speak their truths, confront their monsters, & survive embodied fears that manifest as sleep paralysis & night terrors. “It’s not escapism. It’s documentation. It’s testimony. It is ceremony disguised as a ghost story.”

As SNAP benefits are set to expire, a reminder of Sodom's real sin: "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" (Ezek. 16:49). Pirkei Eliezer 25

I feel like Forrest Gump. Exactly 8 years ago, I met @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social in person when she was awarded the Joseph B. And Toby Gittler Prize at Brandeis. Every year I teach her work in WGS5a, I wax eloquent about this moment 😍

What is an academic? Someone who reaches their desk promptly each morning. In the middle of the desk they find a molehill. By the time they leave, they have built a mountain.😂 Adapted from Ray Ginger's Jokebook about American History (1974)

A reminder that @carsonfaust.bsky.social (contributor to Never Whistle at Night) will read from their debut novel, If the Dead Belong Here and discuss this haunting book with Prof. Preston Taylor Stone. @claudia-foxtree.bsky.social @mahtowin1.bsky.social @tiffmorris.bsky.social

So how much have your insurance premiums gone up for next year? Ours went up 20.5%, and faculty will shoulder 10% of this increase. I worry especially about our junior faculty who will find this additional burden very onerous on top of inflation and tariffs.😢

White men facing consequences for their actions isn't purity testing when everyone else faces consequences for crimes they're not even committing.

Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits, all thanks to the government shutdown.

Canadian paperback. Coming soon-ish.

The grant to protect the village in Alaska that lost all it's homes this week, with houses literally floating away in the flood, was only $20 million 🫠 bsky.app/profile/napa...