A remarkable essay on, among other things, the personal toll of working at the consent factory. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

I want to do a performance that conveys what it was like when one would gestate a child or love a sibling and then you would watch them die of diphtheria, pertussis, measles, polio, smallpox, rheumatic fever and then it would happen to another and another and that was called having a normal life

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Daniel Raab from Chicago sniped one unarmed civilian and then his brother as he tried to retrieve the body: “It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and ... doesn’t interest me ... I mean, what was so important about that corpse?” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Protesters shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed: https://bit.ly/4mdySuu

There is no bottom

Hello modest number of followers: there is movement toward translating Feminism Against Cisness into Spanish and ppl have expressed enthusiasm abt translating The New Woman. If anyone knows of any presses or translators who might be into it please dm.

I’m re-opening the books for manuscript consults — I can take 3 for August and 4 for September. This is ideal for writers thinking of restructuring their projects, or who aren’t sure how to finish an incomplete one, but it’s also helpful for people who need general guidance with revision.

The future!!!!!!!!

I’ve been thinking a lot over the past three years about the fetishization of literary quality and how abolished it is by the aesthetic diversity of people who’ve stood tall against genocide. It’s a little window into the future where we can all love our weird things (the writing and the reading)

Let's hold hands and be weird obstacles

every scholarly organization, honestly every organ of public and intellectual life, has split itself rather than tell the truth, which feels like an essential reality about liberalism

It's a Rothko night

I love demos of this scale. I love demos that are a practice of everyday life. I want to memorialize acts like this, generalize them, make them just what we’re doing all the time.

VICTORY: Our clients UMD SJP will receive a $100,000 settlement from the University of Maryland — the highest financial penalty likely ever imposed on a US university for violating pro-Palestinian students’ free speech rights, to our knowledge. palestinelegal.org/news/umd-set...

Dog Section Press crowdfunding the print costs of their new publication - Feminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers on the subject of feminism. Each piece is illustrated by Cat Sims (@catsimsart.bsky.social) - 👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/feminisms - youtu.be/uwM3wz70s4U

“Mississippi Masala asks: What might it mean to forge a politics explicitly based on an investment in the places where we are, rather than in an imagined ideal of the places from which we came?” Good day to reread this lovely essay by @durba.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/mississippi-...

“On the Baselessness of Sex”

Look at this beautiful book from Dog Section Press that pairs essays on feminism in 2025 with drawings by Cat Sims! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/feminisms?...

I think it’s important for Americans to understand that the current famine in Gaza is a joint US-Israeli production. We are not “failing to stop this”. We did this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Institutions sacrificing trans youth and student protesters in the hopes appeasing an angry god. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

“Israel is pursuing an extensive PR effort to remove itself from blame for the starvation and killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the face of overwhelming evidence that it is responsible.” Forceful and necessary pushback to Israeli propaganda by @peterbeaumont.bsky.social

“From inside Nasser hospital, I am telling you: this is deliberate. This is preventable. And this must stop now.”

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

das Buch meines Mädchens!!!!!

Academics, if you need a reason, in these urgent times, reminder that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social has set up a tab where you can redirect membership fees and conference costs from AHA, MLA, AWP & PEN to the Sameer Project, run by Palestinians open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

The nicest word in an outer borough accent is “forever”

An unheard prayer from a dying empire that other people's suffering will finally be our gain

Only enemies and comrades now

Specious charges of antisemitism against a widespread antiwar campus protest movement in 2023-24 were a test many institutions and leaders failed by not rejecting. The same charges against Zohran Mamdani are another test that many leaders are failing again – but fewer, and voters are not fooled.

All the news that’s fit to print

Today, June 23, at Humboldt U, in Berlin

An honest accounting might look like, “How the Alliance Defending Freedom bet on the latent bigotry of NYT masthead editors to launder religious intolerance into ‘concern’ about safe and effective medical practices … and won.”

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.

3) We are looking at two worlds - one where the opinion is does little to authorize further attacks on trans people, and one where its exception for "medical use" swallows more. The difference will be made in public education, state courts, community organizing, and local politics.

There is a window of possibility for trans childhood that kids opened up in the early 2020s. You see this is the public sociality of trans kids on the subway, in first-year college comp classes, on the playground where two little femme friends run together in mutually produced and adoring freedom.

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

i can only repeat this so many times but similar to abortion the government cannot end gender transition medicine (for youth or otherwise), it can only increase the danger and precarity of the lives of those who access it. essentially no mainstream media recognizes this correct framing

Re-upping this for no particular reason.

Skrmetti is out. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

In the weeks before Joshua Clover died he was stealing away with anti trans signs that had been staked on the quad at Davis. He died a partisan of the people. May we all find a way to live toward such deaths. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/f...

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

CFP in C19 trans studies for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference! #C192026 #transstudies #c19

I cried reading this

Beauty. www.them.us/story/jules-...