This is a really important article, co-written by settler scholar Leon Laidlaw and Fallon Aubee, a Metis Two-Spirit survivor of both day schools and prison incarceration. I'm particularly blown away by the study showing that of the 99 gender-diverse incarcerated people studied, HALF are Indigenous

Orange Shirt Day thoughts, as someone whose nations are split by the border and who spends a lot of time on both sides: We had 2 events for OSD on campus here, a film showing and discussion, and a memorial walk. I couldn't attend the walk but there were maybe 20 people at the film showing.

Canada Post is on strike, and I need to mail several decks of cards to various people in Canada this weekend...does anyone know what the best method to send them would be so that they actually get to people in a timely manner? Do UPS or FedEx deliver to Canada???

I have a lot of thoughts about how Orange Shirt Day has been imported to the US. This month I learned my grandma’s older brother attended an Indian boarding school in Wisconsin. Hoping that Indigenous people in the US get a chance to address our specific experiences with boarding schools.

In 1912, Chief Star Blanket wrote a letter against residential schools addressed to the Governor General. For years he had been resisting the government's taking of children from his community.

More people need to understand that saying only “criminals” should be subjected to expanding state violence around us is what led to the broader public being targeted by it, too. Criminality is subjective, and power determines what it is or is not.

i went to college with tucker (the husband) and this whole ordeal has been fucking horrifying to watch go down over the past few days. i’m glad he knows where barbara is, but she’s being denied medication and is in terrible holding conditions. fuck ICE. abolish ICE. free barbara there is a gofundme

This drives me sooooo crazy. You get various versions of it too. Race didn’t exist before 19th century race science, or before 18th century enlightenment ideas, or before 1662 when Virginia enshrined racial slavery in law, or before…. Just bc ideas of race have changed doesn’t mean it didn’t exist

Apparently I need to be clear about this also.

People interacting with my antisemitism post: if you have Zionism in your bio you’re getting blocked on sight

lmfao at the descriptions between the quoted parts. Reportinggggg

Halp, over on a different site I am talking myself into doing a Substack series on snapshots of North American history ca. 1000 CE. I do not have time or energy for this!!!! But it sounds so fun 😭

When we talk about fundraising for people in Gaza it is about survival, it is about getting out of the worst circumstances. We rarely discuss their dreams, hope, for rebuilding? What lives will be lived if the bombs were to stop falling tomorrow? Alaa is asking for support for her future

People on twitter are trying to argue that the term “Jewish Diaspora” is a Zionist construction that was invented to lay claim to Palestine…like r u kidding me? the term Diaspora in English was literally borrowed specifically to refer to Jewish people’s experiences in the SIXTEENTH CENTURY

A 16th-century canoe! #VastEarlyAmerica #earlymodern #skystorians

ngl I’m shocked but also glad to see that this story is being covered in Newsweek. Also, note that this abuse started under the Biden administration.

Tw extreme transphobia and imprisonment Jesus fucking Christ

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

I've wondered for a while why Lou Sullivan chose to put Ralph Kerwineo on the cover of his 1985 pamphlet. Never thought of this until it came up talking to my students about it yesterday - I wonder if he was drawn to their shared connection to Milwaukee. I'm so curious how he found all those photos.

It’s hard to call anything an escalation these days when we’ve been escalated so far already, but jfc. (Really doesn’t matter, but he’s a US citizen born in the US.)

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Oh this is so happening. The synapses are firing, baybeeeee

I really want to force a group of trans people to read this book and lock us all in a room together to discuss it

just finished this book. oh my god. hoping I can get my shit together long enough to write a substack essay about it because oooooooomg

Noteworthy that in the section near the top listing recent assassinations and alleged attempted assassinations, it does not mention Melissa Hortman or her husband, only Republicans

Wow. Currently if you search “Monsieur Vénus transfag” in google, without the quotes, there are ZERO results. Hashtag erasure

This is nuts. This is so wild. It’s the transfaggiest passage I’ve ever read and it was written by a 20 year old in 1880 and that’s real history that I did not make up Also LOL at the literal cishet man who is trying to score freaking out at the end

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

There are literally over 30 legal orders and a half dozen resolutions from First Nations Leadership telling ISC what to do next- comply with the orders, stop fighting First Nations kids in court and pull back discriminatory policies and conduct.

reading a thing about how the site of Roman London within the city walls was abandoned and not occupied for several hundred years, and thinking about the quote-unquote "Vacant Quarter" in the American Midcontinent. Gonna start denying British ppls' claims to London due to this period of absence

"Le problème posé par les transgenres [amérindiens] ne tient pas tant au fait que la conception européenne bi-partite des genres est confrontée, à travers eux, à une conception tripartite inédite et incompréhensible..."

every time I try to express to my students that queer/trans terminology and taxonomy is not a linear progression of "getting better and more accurate language now than they used to have," they ALWAYS just stare back at me like doubt.jpg

I have to admit this is a new type of use of the term coloniality for me

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker? www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Wow, google news, thank you for this riveting update but I think I’d actually rather not know and stay happy eating cheese for the rest of my life

I was thinking about something I read, maybe when A Short History of Transmisogyny came out, which said there were no previous books focusing exclusively on transfem history. Which made me wonder what the comparative number was for transmasc history, as it was implied to be nonzero. So I'm counting.

You all know we won't shut up about this, but there is a specific dynamic of national outlets reporting on Chicago carelessly—as if there are no real stakes here because the middle of the country is a big black hole to them Thanks to @huffpost.com for participating in it!!!

This is what "reasonable concerns" by centrists placating bigots leads to.

does anyone have updates on evidence of the US strikes on vessels in the Caribbean? I remember seeing an article that Venezuela said the first one never actually happened, but I wasn't sure where the consensus ultimately fell - if there is a consensus at all yet

jesus.

just found out this book with a rather problematic angle on transmasc historical figures was read and peer reviewed “extensively” by Jack Halberstam which the cis author found “incredibly helpful”…….so many things are making sense now

From the book “Before Trans” on three 19th century transmasculine writers who married cis men. Problematic language & conception aside, I’m making my 👀 emoji re: me and @androgynyfiend.bsky.social’s convos about bb transfags who identify more with transfems than with straight or lesbian transmascs

if there's one thing about me that you can count on, it's that I will find a way to include the words "also," "too" and "as well" all in the same sentence

It’s been a couple of years since I read this last and just finished it for my grad sem. Goddamn what an absolute banger of a book this is 🔥

there's...a lot going on in this article

Sorry, I hyped this up and then didn't follow through. Here we go: rating the Five Lords of the Great Lakes (in order of the common acronym HOMES)