“I really think of Lake Street as kind of like the heartbeat of the city,” filmmaker Yasmin Yassin says. “Depending on where you go, it has different significance, based on the landmarks that are there.”

this is so embarrassing. can they not at least care that he's actively bad FOR OTHER NATIVE PEOPLE, let alone the whole rest of the country / world?

the moment when I grasped that to these people, trans women's very existence is inherently an assault ANYWHERE, because the only reason they can or will entertain for why trans women exist is based in perversion and deviance - that was when this whole issue was clarified for me

raven's coffee shop ☕ sticker design for january! "gyemgii" in the top right is sm'algya̱x for "hot?", "ligi" just above the bottom left is "or" and "gwatgii" in the bottom left means "cold?". so basically asking "hot, or cold?" #formline #indigenousart

Having Mullin rolled out as Noem's replacement means we will soon be getting a stream of racist, anti-Indigenous "jokes" and memes from Liberals & Lefties. If you feel yourself temped...don't.Go instead for his public nose picking, incompetence, or general worthlessness as a human being, okay?

!!! Just found this transcription and translation of a love song by an Ojibwe woman who fell in love with an Algonquin man while traveling near Deux-Montagnes, QC in 1759 during the 7 Years War. I can't quite interpret her name, it looks like Baigwaineoshee "The White Eagle Driven by the Wind"

Do you like old documents, or 19th century poetry, or Native women's history? The Library of Congress is currently crowdsourcing the transcription of papers from 19th century Ojibwe poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft!!!

it's wifefucker friday! new music from Ishtar Sr. and a new zine from Other Spaces!

Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury

Over the past six months, dozens of immigrants held in Wisconsin jails awaiting deportation have challenged their detention in federal court. Judges ruled in their favor in more than half the cases. Paul Kiefer reports for Wisconsin Watch:

What are the modern trans memoirs (let’s say, since 2010) that are weird and unhinged in interesting ways? I’m reading Claude Cahun’s memoir and thinking about my “trans speculative literature” list and I’m curious who is out there doing that in nonfiction these days

This is exactly what I thought would happen and it’s just like what the fuck are we even here for then

Hangan suggests that Afro-Latino and African American communities’ everyday lives in the Southwest may be underrepresented in archaeology due to a lack of identifiable artifacts. Read why this matters. buff.ly/3VioFCx #Archaeology #History

WAIT isn’t there an ancient tumblr post about this

I put some new stuff up on internet archive this morning, including Jamie Berrout's translations of the late Argentinean travesti theorist and organizer Lohana Berkins. archive.org/details/loha...

I’m not ready for tonight but I am also already not ready for tomorrow. I’m actually ahead of schedule on my unpreparedness

new hasji!

A new book of trans speculative short stories by Luna Merbruja has just been released! Get the ebook here (or a paper copy via the amazon link)

Hi hello has anyone compiled a list of Black writers who live around or engage with the North American Great Lakes region? And if not does anyone wanna collaborate on making a list bc I think one should exist

ngl any time I am reminded of the first mental health professional I saw for Trans-Related Issues back in 2010 I’m just deeply overwhelmed by how shitty trans healthcare has been for so long and the fact that it’s sometimes even halfway decent is an EXTREMELY recent development

this semester, as a way to manage attendance, I gave all my students a composition notebook and every class we spend 5-10min copying down and reflecting on a different quote. I am now collecting their journals at the halfway point and this was like the best teaching idea I ever had ngl

Some notes after reading the report: They include both modern-day lynchings (deaths by multiple perpetrators ruled suicides) and single-perpetrator hate crimes that include official misconduct/disregard though not ruled suicides. The majority of Black trans women included are in the second category.

"How the book came to function as a key representative of Canadian settler exceptionalism" -- a new study by my brilliant colleague Jody Mason www.mqup.ca/Books/B/Book...

Oxford U.P. is looking for proposals for the series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures. Go for it! :)

If I had the ability to actually write even one of the many books I have outlined concepts for I would be so powerful

on my syllabus I said tomorrow I would be teaching my students about early artistic works by Two-Spirit people (e.g. We'wha, Hastiin Tl'a, Arroh-ah-och, RC Gorman, Elmer Gates) but uh. I am realizing I have no idea how to teach art things.........."here is a pot. do u like it y/n????"

I always highly recommend a good historyiswhat reading list!!!!

Not to brag but this is the most extensive archive of texts on anarchists in relation to Palestine and Zionism that anyone has ever tried to construct... because it's the only one anyone has ever tried to construct, to my knowledge.

I think sometimes non-Indigenous people don't realize that Indigenous placenames in North America aren't just "what these places used to be called." Sometimes, that's true. But a lot of the time we are still calling them that, esp when speaking our languages

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next Friday, 3/6 Savan DePaul drops her new Ishtar Sr. record – savandepaul.bandcamp.com/album/wifef-... Other Spaces drops the exclusive lyrics zine – otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/ishtar...

!!!!! I have benefited so much from Freda Ahenakew's work over the years. I hope I can see the film eventually

YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

thirty sophomore students show up to my Modern Literature classroom on the first day of the semester. I lock the doors. "welcome to weirdass trans literary history class, my children" screams are heard glass smashing etc

concept: I teach a class that's just titled like, Modern Literature but the students show up on the first day and every book on the syllabus is a trans book (by modern I mean like. 1800s to present lol)

my list of really weird overly niche historical trans novels that more people need to talk about is growing.... -Monsieur Venus by Rachilde -Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop -Beatrice the Sixteenth by Irene Clyde add more if ya got em

OMG I just discovered someone has written a dissertation on Pueblo pottery and Two-Spirit people! It's by Victoria Sunnergren and you can read it here (she includes a link on her website so I assume it's ok to share)

me singing to myself under my breath in this coffeeshop: 🎵 too many things inside my brain, too many things inside itttttt 🎵

Drivers license gender marker updated successfully ✅

On this day in 1972, the first episode of Ka Leo Hawai'i airs. Recognizing the need to preserve ʻōlelo Hawai'i, Larry "Kauanoe" Lindsey Kimura started an all Hawaiian language radio program on KCCN. anticolonialhistory.com/event/214/

John Sakeouse, a Greenland Inuk whaler and draughtsman who kayaked to and then boarded a whaling ship to visit Scotland in 1816. He’s said to be the first Inuk to visit Scotland on his own free will, though Inuit had by this time been spotted for centuries in kayaks around the Northern Isles.

Testing a new metaphor for the relationship between transmisogyny and anti-transmasculinity It feels like the current form of transphobia is like, ppl claiming to defend “women (transmascs)” by swinging a baseball bat at trans women and then on the recoil hitting trans men “accidentally” on purpose

okay this may be more :/ but while I've talked a lot about how coming from an Indigenous studies (Anishinaabe) perspective has given me a unique perspective on European Medieval studies, tbh I also feel I'm getting new ideas about Indigenous things from Euro-Medieval studies

there are some people you just don't "gotta hand it to" no matter what

weird timing but I just got a call from the county courthouse today that the judge signed the papers for my gender marker change, so I'm going to pick that up after work today. sending love to all the trans people in Kansas rn <3

Join us this week to read & resist all those who wish to enforce monolingualism & monoculturalism, eurocentric nationalisms, & heteronormative & regressive gendering. Visit tracepress.org for 15% off all our books To learn more: languageadvocacyday.org & freedomtoread.ca #LAD26 #FTRW26

Struck by what Jamie said here in her conversation with Aoi. It's not enough to archive this work. People have to know it exists, how to find it. It has to keep circulating.

I just put Aoi Fukuyama's Needlepoint up on the archive, which I think is the only photography zine the Trans Women Writers Collective ever released. Really cool work! archive.org/details/aoi-...

+ in particular if you haven't read my essay from the Strange Horizons criticism special last year it's the thing I'm proudest of: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... focused on Celtic-language cultures but hopefully speaking to general questions about fantasy's extractive use of colonized cultures

in all seriousness, if you wanted to nominate me for things, here is a list of my eligible things from 2025: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/claran-leugh...