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it was a total pleasure to celebrate KJ’s new book alongside Ianna. Listen - and teach Nothing Wanting!

“What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on automated taxis, AI, ICE raids, data centers and the rebellions taking shape against a system that treats workers, migrants and whole communities as disposable.

NEW: The ultraconservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the 2023 rule change that allowed for telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone—nationwide.

The first 25 pages of Climbing are available to read pre-publication! Big thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for making this available. So excited for this project to be out in the world.

Two decades ago, a close friend - stern, German - saw one of our profs in sandals and shorts and told me they could no longer respect him. Every year, when it gets warm, I think of this. This year, I actually asked the undergraduates I work with. Verdict: shorts okay, sandals absolutely not.

I've warned for years that Republicans planned to reroute federal family planning dollars to crisis pregnancy centers—groups that won't even talk about birth control. I re-upped that prediction just last week. A day later, this Politico piece dropped. jessica.substack.com/p/the-white-...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 vote, holds that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint, subjecting it to strict scrutiny and likely rendering it unconstitutional when lower courts apply today's decision. Gorsuch writes for the court; Jackson dissents.

one, maybe the only, good thing about the internet is that it still hosts forums where people can look for random friends they made while following jam bands around in the nineties i don’t even like jam bands, but i like this

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.

Like most rational and scientific minded people, I take my cues on the healthcare needs of minority groups from the Catholic Church, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and sundry rightwing influencers with a weird fixation on birth rates. I am the New York Times, a serious newspaper.

“every day well every day we do not listen much to the accounts of the bombardments, naturally enough when you are among the objects to be bombarded it is not as interesting as when you are not” - Gertrude Stein, Wars I Have Seen

sat all the way through the credits of Hamnet waiting for a blooper reel that never came

lots of things I don’t like about today, but reading Stephanie Burt on Richard Siken was not one of them. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

predictably odd + bad times for a book announcement, but nevertheless this little book about climbing (and grief and time and mortality and obsession and work and trust and fun) will be in the world in a few months, thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social available for pre-order now!

my spouse woke up this morning and said “I had a dream that I was writing a book called ‘Who Owns Your Mother? Freud and Copyright in the Age of AI’” one thousand percent would read

i am v clumsy the kind of clumsy where i made a pb + j got jam on my ass and sat in my upholstered office chair that kind of clumsy

The New York City Trans Oral History Project has this wonderful two hour oral history with Miss Major. Take some time to listen to it; it's quite extraordinary. We have learned so much from Miss Major. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...

I am SO stoked for this.

my spouse is walking around the house searching for their Bills hat chanting “Bills hat! Bills hat! Bills hat!” (don’t worry, still gay)

normal week, explained to the students in my grad seminar that the two wolves inside me are Didion and Babitz and that Babitz always wins (yes, I am currently reading the Anolik)

Re-reading “on narcissism” for the first time in a very long time and my god is this funny (also prescient, infuriating, illuminating…but mostly funny)

The Supreme Court is considering three cases this term that could impact the national landscape of trans rights: one relating to conversion therapy and two related to trans student athletes. We’re offering guidance and key context for reporters and newsrooms preparing to cover these developments.

I know it never feels like the right time given *gestures wildly* but please keep posting about what you’re writing, the books and articles coming out, all the cool shit that keeps on happening amidst *gestures wildly once more*

The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!

We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

Job in Disability Studies!

Show hearings and trials are a key marker of a concentration-camp regime. Even in countries with existing detention crises, the conscious step to degrade due process for targeted groups further diminishes the larger legal system while shifting power to emerging quasi-legal and extralegal approaches.

I’ve been writing about Reed Erickson’s relationship with Harry Benjamin lately, and have found Alison Li’s recent biography of Benjamin indispensable. Highly recommend to any and all trans history nerds.

my president

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.

it’s the first day of the fall semester and i’m pleased to report that i already have the item “stuff from last week” lurking at the top of my agenda

The Miccosukee Tribe helped stop Alligator Alcatraz, being constructed on their land! Late yesterday, a federal judge ruled Miccosukee citizens must be able to “access to the site consistent with the access they enjoyed before the erection of the detention camp.” thehill.com/regulation/c...

I’m looking for developmental editor recs! Specifically for first monographs in the humanities. Who’s good?

i know it’s late summer in Appalachia when all my friends start pulling out their phones to compare this season’s timber rattler encounters

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

once i was in an elevator in boston with three dudes and they said they were in town to see Run the Jewels i said “uncle jules? I haven’t heard of them” not to be outdone the following year a student told my partner they liked Harry Styles and my partner responded “oh! what kind of hairstyles?”

Beginning with enslaved Africans jumping off of slave ships, Sam C. Tenorio examines a Black "Politics of Refusal," through Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line, the Watts Riots of 1965 and the case of Assata Shakur. Tenorio joined me on Left of Black. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9a-...

a concession stand, but it’s just some guy behind a counter arguing a point until you agree with him

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

Sotomayor: "the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere ra- tional-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children & their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent."

In light of SCOTUS's ruling in Skrmetti, @brittneymac15.bsky.social asked doctors what trans youth and their families need to know about navigating this. @teenvogue.com experts advise continuing to talk to affirming healthcare providers if you have them and exploring options for care out-of-state.

i am not generally a petty person but my neighbors ripped out a whole row of forsythia so now I quietly mutter “monsters!” under my breath whenever i pass their house

since the election, I have taken up both gardening and woodworking and now I am also just randomly powerwashing gutters send help

weird what courts think they can ratify or derealize

Publication day for HEALTH CARE CIVIL RIGHTS: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients from @ucpress.bsky.social! 118 in depth interviews, analysis of 1500 health insurance plan documents and dozens of legal cases, 8 years of research to explain why our laws fail us when we need them most.