I know that one article going around is doing a clickbait fearmongering but also like. Hey it worked! Im scared!

Well, this seems like a pretty topical day to read this essential nonfiction cut from @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Fitness Tip: Did you know! Science has shown that if you are listening to Lady Marmalade from the Moulin Rouge (2001) Soundtrack you can lift any amount of weight!

3) "Trans Joy (& a little bread, as a treat)" using a bread block I got for ZineBakery.com prints:

'normalize non transitioning trans people' buddy they're passing laws to ban transition. how much more normalized do you need it

they are trying to kill us every fucking day.

Re-upping this for no particular reason.

Reporter: Five fellow mayoral candidates came here within 90 minutes of you being arrested and called for your release. What does that say about the tenor of the mayor's race? Lander: Was one of them Andrew Cuomo? Reporter: It was not. Lander: Imagine that!

I simply love to collaborate on all my little projects with Simone Chess and if that's not a reason to keep going in academia I literally don't know of any others.

I am so weary, so tired

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Self Harming by seeing 3 Twelfth Nights this summer

Just saw an ad for an AI to help with your fantasy sports rosters and like, WHAT IS THE POINT!!! why are they intent on automating the PLEASURE out of things???? I truly feel like I have outlived myself. I am so close to a Timon of Athens rejection of society I'm going full cave I swear

This Production of Twelfth Night Could Have Been A Vampire Movie.

I got bored of all my playlists and started just making my way through the entire discography of Snoop Dogg.

A genuinely surprising amount of academia involves sitting with an email and going "are you...being an asshole, or do we have incompatible types of autism?"

not to be dramatic but how does one, uhhhhhh, go on

They announced CUNY students had visas revoked like 17 hours ago and there are 900 new signal chats and zero useful or instructive or even acknowledging emails from administration

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Next month at Penn: A symposium on Premodern Trans Studies featuring @transliterature.bsky.social, @ldevun.bsky.social, @badinfinity2.bsky.social, @hamlethologram.bsky.social, and Nat Rivkin ! Philly come thru!

"parse the illegibility of the gender nonconforming body" do NOT parse me i'll kick

I love love love doing the posters every year for EMo Trans! A very small number from the edition will only be available for sale at the conference to non-presenting attendees. Glasses included. (Risograph and Letterpress printed by @meanwhilelttrpress.bsky.social )

colleges have food pantries now.

It seemed so far away but now it is NIGH EMoTrans 3!!!! pre & early modern trans studies symposium in Boston! Come see us and you will feel like this happy little doof bat

anyway please god please let the NEA catastrophe mean that trans people say fuck the NEA fuck grants fuck corporate theatre with big money donors and start making our own scrappy liberation oriented art again

one of the most mortifying parts of the whole fascist coup situation is it puts socialist radicals like me into the posture of having to be like "but that's not what the CONSTITUTION said" like don't make ME do the patriotism here cmon

huge congrats to all the reasonable & evenhanded university presidents who set new records for advance compliance on this, since nobody even had to ask before they all lined up to make dissent into a crime

There’s an active fascist takeover going on. Let’s check in with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee to see how they’re resisting it. Oh… oh I see. They’re trying to blow up Section 230 and open the floodgates for Trump to censor the Internet. Inspiring!

Wanted to see pictures of Sam Nordquist without the journalism narrative of Sam Nordquist and I got so sad looking at how beautiful he is that I wrote a fucking poem in my fucking journal I am in my stupid and useless era

Am I "putting too much time into teaching at the expense of my research" or am I "teaching this queer theory class like it might be the last time it ever gets taught because it might be the last time it ever gets taught"

I LOVE YOU WE WILL WIN

hey kids you wanna see a dead body

I'm going to say this as clearly as I can. This has always been the point of my work but it is more important than ever to do and pursue and reward and attend to work in historical modes of trans studies that is not about who is wearing pants or some kind of diagnostic reheated gender studies.

The absolute glee some are displaying in blaming Palestinians, and people who protested on their behalf, for their own ethnic cleansing is a strategic error (obvs you target the decision maker), a political error (obvs you need those votes), and a moral error (obvs fix your hearts or die).

New Yorkers Abbreviating one of the Boroughs, a place where many trans and queer young people live, using a shorthand that I have encountered regularly for the last 2 and a half years: BK Me Every Single Time, Still: Burger King.

I simply love to do gender ideology extremism with all my extreme gender ideological friends.

transition has been mostly DIY and community-organized since forever. when you're ready, figure out what you can offer and what you need. talk in real life, use signal, get creative, don't get caught. they can't break us in a way that matters!!!! I love you.

I'm not escaping to a fantasy world of blood-sucking faggots YOU'RE escaping to a fantasy world of blood-sucking faggots

I am once again reading deeper into the Anne Rice vampire chronicles to understand the cognitive dissonance maintained by my late, god-fearing mother who owned every single one of them but was very upset to have 2 gay children.

They should invent a testosterone that makes you sound like you are on Day 5 of a chest cold.

Our administration is so out of touch with the operations of the actual education part of the school that they once famously issued an academic calendar without first/last day of instruction on it at all, but this semester the first day is a Saturday which is somehow even more peculiar.

One thing I've learned after living 3 years in New York is the woman who lives in the apartment above me hates her husband and loves her vacuum.

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

Exactly the same as having a Research Assistant* . . . . *this research assistant has been placed in your lab by a corporation who now owns everything you write. in 3 years the assistant’s salary will begin increasing like a Netflix subscription. the assistant also fired three human researchers.

NO ONE EXPECTS A PLEA FOR COMPASSION

[every american institution:] yes?

These were the weeks in 1649 when John Milton was writing “The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates”, pointing out that many people love a tyrant because they love “not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants” #milton

I would be lying if I said I wasn't anxious about being pre-tenure at a public college with a research portfolio entirely composed of trans stuff but what can you do; it's too late to go back and be one of those object oriented ontology bitches innit