I wrote about the firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social from the @washingtonpost.com, the expulsion of two Black college students in Texas, and the dangerous precedent that is being set up around free speech and academic freedom in the U.S. for @thebarbedwire.com thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.

NEW: Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX has told faculty that they can't discuss trans people in curriculum. When I asked the justification for the policy, they referenced Texas state law - but Texas law doesn't forbid discussions of trans people in higher ed. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Autism does not need to be cured! It's the rest of society that needs to be more accommodating!! Neurodivergence and disabilities cause suffering only because we have so little understanding or support. Treating it as something "broken" or "wrong" only enforces that, please just help people instead.

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

NPR: “Regarding Antifa…” TRUMP: “Who are you with?” NPR: “NPR.” TRUMP: “You’re still here? Won’t be for long… does Antifa have anything to do with your network?”

I’m reading a book about the history of conversion therapy in 20th Century 🇬🇧 and it’s striking how much the NHS had exactly the same institutional issues back then as they have in trans healthcare right now. Everyone blamed everyone else, complaints went nowhere, and politicians ignored it

It is the official position of the US government that trans people cannot be eradicated because we don't really exist.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This is the first rodeo for a lot of people currently under threat for having dared to criticize Charlie Kirk, even while condemning the violence against him. Here’s some advice for trying to surviving it from someone who’s been here before.

We have learned nothing.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

People will do anything but recognize that a lot of young and adult men have been radicalized by an internet meme and YouTube video culture.

Just got told by a conservative that Kirk was killed because his killer learned his (the killer's) girlfriend was trans and...they're seriously going to do the trans panic defense here, aren't they? They will fabricate a story to blame this on trans people.

If you are on the TPUSA list of professors or are an otherwise visible left academic, I strongly recommend reviewing your digital footprint. Is your address public information? What about your family members? crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

“Texas A&M President Mark Welsh was heard saying in a phone call with the student that the university would review the children’s literature course, adding that ‘there’s not a problem‘ teaching LGBT literature as long as the university clearly states that it will be part of a class.” Dark world.

JUST IN: A judge quashed the subpoena to Boston Children's Hospital by the DoJ that sought the records of trans patients. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid

It makes me mad that youtube buried our last episode of cancel me daddy because we dared talk about NSFW topics. it was in no way salacious and it was a frank and needed conversation about government policy. and yet it is the least viewed episode in months. youtu.be/lwRGW0Jb9TI?...

A few times a year, I get emails from students who have been assigned the task of interviewing a disabled person to learn more about disability. With a new school year upon us, we need to talk about why this approach to teaching about disability isn’t useful. emilyladau.substack.com/p/disabled-p...

I’m thrilled to announce that the Special Issue (JPED Volume 38 - Issue 2), Disabled, Racially Minoritized, and Invisible: The Intersection of Race and Disability in Higher Education is now available for all! I was blessed to be a Guest Editor alongside an amazing group comprised

@theonion.com headline is evergreen, and y'all thought it was satire. theonion.com/it-is-journa...

I have been thinking about the story of Honesty Bishop for days. I truly wish everyone could understand that this is the violence wrought at the intersection of transphobia, health misinformation, mass incarceration, etc. The reporting here is excellent and important. CW: sexual assault and suicide

Surprise!!! I’m excited to announce @nervetowrite.bsky.social, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

the first “compromise” cis people make with trans people’s lives is housing trans women in men’s prisons. few people ever stand up for *anyone* in prison because americans love punishment. there’s a whole thread above this about trans people in prison. if you’re cis, you should read that & this.

Was told I look like feminized 90s Fester Addams, and do i just go *snap snap* in response or wut? Auntie Festina, I guess? Also, Christopher Lloyd would have pulled it off cute as heck.

Millennials are killing the Being Alive Industry

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Y'all, I'm asking for your help with a GoFundMe I'm sponsoring. Along with other members of my local community, I'm fundraising to support a pregnant asylum-seeking Mom and her family here in central Kentucky. Every dollar helps, as does every share. Thank you thank you! gofund.me/afcd1f1a

$5000 is a big goal, but it'll mean the world to this family, which needs some breathing room after recent financial hits. to respect their privacy, we're not sharing tons of details. I hope y'all know me well enough to know that every dollar that goes to this family is needed and appreciated.

It's incredible how this story keeps getting worse. In case anyone was unclear about the consequences of the Online Safety Act, this is @taliabhatt.itch.io's itch page viewed in the UK.

This EO is the culmination of bipartisan efforts at the state level (including blue states like CA) to persecute and criminalize people who are homeless by busting up their camps, impounding their vehicles, wrecking their homes, and chasing them deeper into danger

Kennedy’s HHS is turning civil rights on its head to target trans people and their medical care.

Good book arts things today: @josefbeery.bsky.social +a scurry of BookBeetles in @scholarslab.bsky.social; printed @adahubrig.bsky.social's "Ending Gender Truth" for my wall (poetry redaction of a hate Exec Order www.citizentrans.com/ending-gende...); @kennedyprints.bsky.social book from the library

Getting needed medication infusion for an autoimmune disease, a monthly process which keeps my immune system from destroying my body (not to be dramatic, but that is the case). Lots of people are dealing with disabilities and illnesses that aren't apparent. Please be gentle with eachother ❤️

🏳️‍🌈🎉🏳️‍⚧️We hope your month has been full of #pride! If you're looking for a good read, this fantastic and important conversation is perfect for #PrideMonth! 🔗 constell8cr.com/issue-8/reco... #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky #LGBTQIA #RhetComp #WritingStudies @adahubrig.bsky.social

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

This is really bad. I wrote a whole scholarly paper about this specific kind of anti-trans rhetoric focused on "protecting kids" and how it works--and why it's especially harmful and tragically effective. www.academia.edu/125461381/Po...

Today's newsletter is about the study Republicans in Utah ordered about trans youth... that they're now ignoring. www.readtpa.com/p/the-study-...

after a heated debate in which Republicans, including sponsor Jeff Leach, called gay straight alliances "Sex Clubs" and Dems called Rs "monsters," SB12 passed (leach later apologized for the sex clubs comment and said he "misspoke")

It means he's looking at the federal government not paying out its share of Medicaid funding and trying to figure out who he can fuck over without too many powerful people complaining about it.

And what's getting lost in all of this: what Newsom/California are proposing will not appease the people who just straight up want trans people out of society.

This has been a long coming, but I am beyond thrilled & ecstatic to announce that TOWARD A TRANS[]CRIP THEORY is now out with TSQ 🥹 Our intro is open access and we can’t wait for you to read and engage with us. @jlsmilges.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

The full issue with @ainokash.bsky.social @cavar.bsky.social @adahubrig.bsky.social and many more stellar authors! read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/12/2

i won’t link that politico article. i’m not a journalist; it’s the same consent manufacturing op they’ve been running for ages. but look at these two stories from today side by side. “third way” is afraid of being canceled—a thing they can’t even do to nazi kanye. my friends are at risk of dying.

you know it’s a load-bearing component of the social safety net but I feel like I’m still learning HOW load-bearing. I didn’t realize until Trump started plotting to cut it that it’s like …. literally the only way we have nursing homes

When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.