Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

After Mamdani named Lillian Bonsignore as his choice to lead FDNY, a right-wing smear campaign began on X to undermine her because she is a lesbian. A 9/11 first responder, Bonsignore is a 31-year FDNY veteran and headed EMS services. 70-80% of FDNY calls are EMS related. Only 10% are fire related.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand another and well researched story about the utterly homophobic responses to the appointment of Lillian Bonsignore. How predictable.

Aaaaaaand the lesbophobia is on full display, 'courtesy' of the l'idiots of tik tok.

Welcome to A New Era, Lillian Bonsignore!

There are many layers to this manufactured outrage of course, but one thing it demonstrates is that nonconforming, lesbian, qualified women are among the groups systematically targeted. as the fallout from this appointment continues, I assume the lesbophobia will be explicit, if it isn't already.

Mamdani’s appointment of Lillian Bonsignore declares that the New York City Fire Departments future will be shaped by someone who knows what it is to be poor in the Bronx to be queer in a hostile culture to be a woman in a male‑dominated command and to be calm on the worst day of someone else’s life

Trump's corruption is unlike anything I've ever seen: completely centered on one man's narcissitic bloviation.

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Gi til et godt formål:

størst av alle innvortes trusler er transkvinner + Pride som tvinger seg inn i intime rom (toaletter! barns fantasi!) og våre vakre norske gater som *vi* er så glade i. ingen er trygge, politikerne er lammet av politisk korrekthet, bare daddy drumpf, Han som vet at 'sex is real', kan redde oss.

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

Lytt til Henrietta Moore (min phd veileder, tilfeldigvis), forfatter av boken "Roadkill: Unveiling The True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars" som analyserer "the car-industrial-complex" og hvordan vi kan og må bevege oss bort fra bil-avhengighet. www.healthycitydesign.global/news-media/r...

Null faglighet. 100% ideologi. Pluss at den eksplisitte oppfordringen om at Norge må "se til Storbritannia" er urovekkende, gitt hvor ekstremt anti-trans og anti-LHBTQ+, lovverk og offentlig ordskifte, har blitt nå. Forventer at alle andre partier uttrykker eksplisitt støtte til Bufdirs råd.

det er bare å telle ned til at noen av de norske disiplene finner på norsk terminologi og spyr det ut på X og diverse påfunnsgrupperinger.

The Trump administration is attempting to force a new term for gender affirming care to call it "sex rejecting procedures." This term was literally made up this year by the far right group Ethics and Public Policy Center in a comment submitted in April 2025. It is now being used widely by HHS.

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

Important investigation into the 'dark money' behind anti-trans campaigns in the UK.

Part of the unique joy of this collection was writing for other disabled people and creating crip kinship from afar. Thank you Mialise and @nervetowrite.bsky.social for this generous conversation. Read here: www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

This is a fantastisk conversation between two super-smart, visionary and wonderful individuals, Qing Shen and Shana Ye. A highly recommended read:

Noen som sitter heeeelt stille i denne saken er FHI De har finansiert prosjektet og stilt med tre av de syv forskerne. Jeg meldte saken til redelighetsutvalget deres i oktober. De har så langt brukt 56 dager på å vurdere om redelighetsutvalget i det hele tatt skal få se på saken.

Dette er veldig bra, for å si det mildt. Forhåpentlig får dette nå noen konkrete konsekvenser både for de konkrete forskerne involvert, men ikke minst NBTKs behandlingsmonopol.

When transphobic “academics” complained about a “chilling effect” on their “research” they meant people describing their transphobic “research” as transphobic. Now there is a REAL chilling effect for trans academics of top-down establishment measures like fines & toilet bans. archive.is/oYqXS

det var nydelig. hun forstod overhodet ikke temastillingen som Hermstad presenterte. og sa det jo faktisk eksplisitt. for en fantastisk self-own.

You might think I exaggerate, but we live in 2025 when a rapist runs the Whitehouse & the UK govt is stripping ppl with disabilities of the financial means to survive. Don’t fall for the trans panic, it’s coming for you next.

The reason the far right, from Putin to Trump promote so called ‘gender critical’ zealots [transphobes] is because they see trans women as a poorly understood group, a tiny minority unable to fight back & as an easy target. They target them over ‘bodily autonomy’ - the right to control your own body

VACANCY: Excellent tenure-track position in China-studies, University of Oslo. Deadline: 3 February 2026 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Glitrende skrevet (igjen) av beste Ketil Slagstad. Blant annet:

I Morgenbladet denne uka forsøker jeg å trekke noen linjer mellom den aktuelle saken om ulovlig forskning ved Rikshospitalet på unge transkjønnedes journalopplysninger og den mye lengre tradisjonen med uetisk forskning på transpersoner. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/gjenno...

enig.

@tingguowrites.bsky.social : "Many of the tragic events in locations far from us are shaped by local and global politics, international capital, and modern state institutions, rather than by ‘culture’, and we must contextualise these events while also recognising their connections to ‘our world’."

Anbefaler sterkt folk å underskrive på denne kampanjen mot store kutt i ProSentrets ressurser.

"The Tribunal’s findings on Sex Matters and Forstater are crystal clear: • Not skilled evidence • Not expert • Not impartial • Not reliable • Polemic rather than evidence • Material that could not support findings of fact"

I have a piece in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on the anti-trans agenda and the dangers it poses for the rights of cis women. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Could we please have a queer remake of Home Alone 1 a la Schitt's Creek, with the plot revolving around Moira Rose, I mean Catherine O'Hara (the mother), and Daniel Levy (Culkin son) as the forlorn son making do with family out of town ... Just a thought.

Heartbreaking and infuriating, then as now.

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Prison life isn't necessarily what you expect. Would you have guessed that American prisons often rely on incarcerated members of the LGBTQ+ community for their administrative skills? Another remarkable essay from the other side of the wall, by B Speaks. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Høres kjent ut ...

"major, schmajor, samme det. vi har et troll på rømmen." jeg tar troll 2 over streite "oslofilmer" anyday.

New issue out now! @lambdanordica.bsky.social

Gleder meg over at visumfritak til Kina forlenges med ytterligere ett år. Nå blir det endelig skikkelig kinamat å få! blant annet. #nyttårsplan

joda, nrk, det er røykvarslerens dag 1 desember. men det er også Verdens AIDS dag. Nå som bl.a. Trump 2.0 kutter drastisk i USAs økonomiske støtte til globale helseprogrammer og forskning, og med covid pandemien friskt i minne, bør dette være på nyhetsagendaen her. www.who.int/campaigns/wo...

Imens. I verden. Voldsomme tropiske stormer oppstår på steder de vanligvis ikke er. Verste regn på 300 år. Det er varmere hav fra klimaendringer som danner monsterstormene. Arbeiderpartiet i Norge har nettopp sagt de ikke vil skape usikkerhet for olje og gass.

I am glad to see my article 'We Hear About it All the Time: Norwegian Muslims' Merging Stories of Racialisation and Recognition' published in @bjsociology.bsky.social To read the article, click here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @crexuio.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Publishing in February from @sunypress.bsky.social , a co-edited volume with the wonderful Lisa DiBartolomeo. It contains 25 chapters from an outstanding group of authors, and each one is a certified banger. 🙂✊ (gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)

“Fear is now the go-to technique for motivating faculty and staff.” Fleming, Peter. Dark Academia: how universities die. Pluto Press, 2021. #highered #edchat

beautiful.