this is on @jamellebouie.net's reading list and it should be on yours too, because @paisleycurrah.com is just too good at what he does. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

“The number of anti-trans bills considered each year has grown from twenty-one in 2015 to over one thousand in 2025.” — @paisleycurrah.com

Paisley Currah (@paisleycurrah.com) on how the conservative strategy to remove trans rights sets the stage for legally enforcing gender stereotypes

From the latest New York Review of Books (a good subscription): www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Congratulations to Laurie Bertram Roberts, co-founder and executive director of the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund, and winner of the 2025 Ann Snitow Prize! To learn more about Laurie and to register for the ceremony on December 9 at 6 PM ET. annsnitowprize.com

I have a piece in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on the anti-trans agenda and the dangers it poses for the rights of cis women. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Our Holiday Issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood, @luxante.bsky.social on Joe Brainard’s comics, Susan Tallman on plundering museums, @paisleycurrah.com on the attack on trans rights, @agordonreed.bsky.social on Thomas Jefferson and liberty, and much more.

Appreciate Muckrock and the Trans Journalists Association for the work they've done using FOIA to track anti-trans policies. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Just when you think it can't get worse, it does....

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

As I wrote in Sex Is as Sex Does, in the past, even "red" states let people change the sex marker on their ID--because it's in the state's interest to do so. @mashagessen.bsky.social's column today is on Trump's shift to using sex markers to enforce social hierarchies. nyupress.org/978081471710...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Supreme Court lets Trump put birth sex on passports because, a majority of justices say, "the Government is likely to succeed on the merits" when they hear the case. Apparently, they think the United States (& not trans people?) will suffer "irreparable injury" www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Headline change from this morning, I see. Probably meant what they said the first time. Liberal feminism doesn't really work as a euphemism for women.

Dems following Carville’s advice I see: “It’s time for the Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead.” (February 2025)

Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Or, as @lornab.bsky.social put it, don't let UT Austin succeed in its bid to become the University of Austin

This decision by UT’s administration is not driven by any educational reasons--UT administrators are bowing to a national political attack on the freedom to learn by censoring subjects and silencing departments. The state should not be telling administrators what their students can study.

Politico reports on Cuomo's record of defunding CUNY--devastating. A vote for Cuomo in this year's mayoral race is a vote to decimate CUNY and affordable public higher education once again. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Love this guy. The kind of Democratic we need.

This is amazing--The Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia tells University of Virginia leadership that if UVA signs Trump's Compact for Higher Education, “there will be significant consequences in future Virginia budget cycles" bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/cbs19news.co...

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Make a plan now to join the PSC, a growing number of other unions, & community groups to protest ICE’s abuses in the courtrooms & in our communities, resist the deployment of federal troops in our city, & demand state legislation to protect immigrants. tinyurl.com/NYersAgainst...

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think of pronouns as part of grammar of civility. It's simply common courtesy to use the pronoun someone prefers. "These codes of neighborliness or of common decency are...the bare minimum for us to exist peacefully as profoundly different people who nevertheless share the same time and place."

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

The sickening feeling when you realize the institutions of civil society are much worse than you thought—Berkeley handing over 160 names, & what will ensue now that the FBI is targeting trans people as “violent extremists”? Excellent column by @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

A powerful op-ed about MAGA's fixation on trans issues from @polgreen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

NEW @teenvogue.com: a Texas bill passed this summer mandating schools deadname trans students, leaving enforcement to districts. @kitoconnell.com speaks to trans students in TX: “I’ve never felt more at threat here. I can’t stop thinking that everything would be so different if I detransitioned.”

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

A personal story, from a child's vantage point, about what it's like to live under never-ending state surveillance and persecution. Also to survive that through resistance and solidarity. From Joan Wallach Scott, who I was lucky to have as a colleague last year. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

Too many people seem to believe that “wokeism” has killed art, rather than enriched it. And yet trans people have been underrepresented in major institutions even before Trump’s suppression of so-called gender ideology, Grace Byron writes.

I've posted a draft article on the Supreme Court's Skrmetti decision on SSRN. I argue that this harmful decision represents the worst sort of legal formalism, but does not predetermine the results in other transgender rights cases or eviscerate sex discrimination law. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Chaos as governing…comparing Brazil 2019 with the US in 2025, from the Sexual Politics Bulletin: sxpolitics.org/spw-library/...

There are less trans woman History Professors in the US than I have fingers on one hand, and one of them was just FIRED 🚨 Why? Anti-trans alumni/donors threatened to pull support form the university... substack.com/home/post/p-...

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

Theda Skocpol puts the creation of Trump's secret police force, which is the centerpiece of the OBBB, in historical perspective. It has close precedents in Europe between the wars.

Good morning Brooklyn.

Watch my talk on “Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics,” virtually live, Saturday, July 5th, 7:00 p.m. @socialismconference.org (Chicago time).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8HTgoHqW7o&list=PLcqXhvSDf0z1h6gfcz5WM3IPbuBIm1C9F&index=3

Trump helping Eric Adams the way he helped Pierre Poilievre. Carry on.

A terrible decision from the 11th Circuit. (Linked here if you don't want to set up a pacer account: www.paisleycurrah.com/document)

Perhaps the centrist Dems will stop taking their cues from Trump--agonizing over "trans issues" as a way to avoid economic issues--and realize campaigning on "affordability" isn't that hard. Or perhaps not.

This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome