This is NGC 2264, also called the "Christmas Tree Cluster." It's a cluster of young stars about 2,500 light years away. They were 'born' during the Pliocene Epoch (2-5 MYA), about the same time as early hominids like Ardipithecus or Homo habilis, so they're barely older than humanity. 🎄💫🔭

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

a little bit of hope means you want to know about the world, no matter what it's done to you

Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people "This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead." prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...

University administrations are eliminating the best critical theory programs on purpose.

They should do MyChart Wrapped

"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…” - Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit

{New book} This invaluable reference work addresses sex, gender, & sexuality in medieval Europe and North Africa, providing an important update previous handbooks from the 1990s. Save 25% with ARC25 www.arc-humanities.org/978164189224...

Save 30% on #NewBook "After Transformation" by Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social, which offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. #ReligiousStudies buff.ly/KJTRp60

My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!

Notable that FIRE (@thefireorg.bsky.social) filed an amicus in support of bullying trans youth. This is why trans people don't trust your transphobic organization, @aricohn.com. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

as we near the 48 hour period that marks my HRT and sobriety anniversaries, it's time for the post I do every year: if you have ever—for more than six minutes, total—considered that transition and/or sobriety might improve your quality of life, you should try it. your only regret will be waiting.

Just bought @jdsargan.bsky.social's book! I cannot wait to spend time with this text. Use the code SAR50 to slash the price! #medievalsky

Deadline extended: abstracts due Oct 31

I’m looking for help translating something from Middle High German! #medievalsky

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing. The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j... Athens GA and online

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

I can’t stand it!!! Here we are @natewolff.bsky.social. In PRINT

Excited to announce that I'll be at IAS School of Historical Studies at Princeton alongside this astounding group of scholars. www.ias.edu/hs/announcem...

Babe wake up, they're transvestigating the new Pope let's fuckin gooooooooooo

deep dish pope

So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

New work from me in The Sundial, all about Greenland and imperial fantasies, old and new.

Very excited to share my work on the Cherokee Press at my own institution in a couple of weeks!

GIGANTIC YELLOW WARNING: we don't serve transsexuals. HAPPY REGULAR WEBSITE: care. no matter what. can't make this shit up man

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

Tapping the sign for tdov

The Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites you to attend its yearly remote seminar on April 10 at 5:30ET, featuring Urvashi Chakravarty (U of Toronto) giving a talk entitled "'Fair Breeders': Gender and Heritability in the Early Modern World."

im trans Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Billionaires should not exist

i want to make art & i want trans people to thrive & i want abortion to be funded

@jhuartssciences.bsky.social and DMV area folks! Join me in conversation with @drewdaniel.bsky.social about my new book, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence (@dukepress.bsky.social 2025). April 8, 12PM. Sponsored by the Chloe Center. krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/event/...

It seemed so far away but now it is NIGH EMoTrans 3!!!! pre & early modern trans studies symposium in Boston! Come see us and you will feel like this happy little doof bat

It should terrify everyone that a green card holder was black bagged and disappeared to Louisiana simply for having opinions this administration dislikes. They're building the prisons and camps to do it to citizens. The time to stand up to this is now.

In case you missed it, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social have a really interesting episode with @wanchuankao.bsky.social about his book White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages newbooksnetwork.com/white-before...

Medievalists—send us your NCS 2026 paper proposals!

March 22 at 2:30pm EST! Join Medievalists for Palestine & @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for a reading group on Orisanmi Burton's Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/tip...

Don't buy shit, write your book

fucked up how HRT weight gain is fear mongered when so many trans people i know gain weight because they start experiencing appetites, they start coming out of depressions, they start participating in the world (going to restaurants, eating in front of friends). it's a good thing!

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I fucking love being trans

NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

‘Free Luigi’ billboard has gone up in lower Manhattan the evening before his next court appearance. Sent in anon.

300+ leading historians and scholars of gender and sexuality respond to Trump admin's removal of references to transgender people from the National Stonewall Monument. This action " is unfounded in historical fact and distorts the legacy" of Stonewall. shorturl.at/ljOYW

i love seeing other trans people out in the world