Trump getting elected a few weeks AFTER the Access Hollywood tape dropped was to America’s culture of sexual violence what Sandy Hook was for gun violence—a clear sign that tens of millions of “conservatives” were totally fine with it.

haven't paid much attention at all to the epstein stuff until today because, you know, genocide, mass deportations, etc etc, but WOW WHAT THE FUCK

the dentist convinced me to get an electric toothbrush bc i'm at risk for cavities and now every night i get to make up a new lil 2 min electronic music composition~~

Did I go to the bar and make a Lisa Frank-themed social media ask for an organ? Yes. benefits to donating: - temporary break from work and responsibilities as you convalesce - badass scar - you grow your own organ back, that’s kinda cool - good karma - you save my life (please share)

"When speaking about the months since he lost his job [as a correction officer], he repeatedly used the phrase 'becoming human.' 'The more I become human again,' he said, the more he could see this predicament from the incarcerated man’s point of view.'" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

first snow of the season; first hot toddy of the season

just spent 7 weeks cat-sitting and now i am finally home and i just found myself exclaiming "these copy-editors are fucking with my commas!!!" to an empty room

ok i know i complain a lot here on bluesky, mostly because i appreciate commiseration/solidarity, but FOR THE RECORD i recognize that i am very lucky

@erinkmaher.bsky.social ok i'm sorry for the trouble but you strike me as a good person to ask a fairly time-sensitive Q... i have a journal article in copy-editing stage and words aren't making sense for me rn. does "the year prior" sound ok? ("the year before"? "the previous year"?)

one cool thing about clinic escorting for 6+ years (other than helping ppl access abortion!) is that now i am REALLY good at speedily getting dressed for 25° weather while it's so early that the sun isn't even up yet

literally just logged on while taking a break from folding laundry and ugh, what a fucking bummer. not surprised, just so so exhausted.

str8 people when they find out i don't want kids: "but who will take care of you when you're old?" 1) weird that part of your reason for procreating is so your offspring will feel obligated to take care of you 2) to answer your question: an entire discord server full of lesbians

finally (FINALLY) cancelled my spotify subscription, and my chest feels so much lighter, like i finally rid myself of the albatross hanging around my neck

ten-year anniversary of my first national conference: AMS in Louisville, where my friend sneaked a pic of a celeb while we ate brunch at a local biscuit joint

still kinda embarrassed about how last week at lez book club, when someone introduced themself as "actually just an ally", i blurted "for now!!"

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

Post you from a different era. We used to get into so many antics when my best friend lived on St. Marks; I now refer to this as our "Broad City" era.

my nephew is being raised bilingual/bicultural, and it breaks my heart that my brother & sister-in-law followed their announcement that they're gonna enroll him in a spanish-speaking daycare with "but now we have to worry about ICE raids"

sometimes i still get mad about getting ghosted (and then scooped!) by my own editor at the NY Times, but then i see some headline that makes my face look like this, and i kinda don't care anymore

today in the class i teach we watched "Disclosure" (documentary about trans representation in film & tv) and based on their free-writes, these red state Gen Z-ers are either capable of deep empathy & compassion or REALLY good at faking it

maybe if i don't look at my inbox the emails will cease to exist

i have missed NYC every single day since i left for my PhD (~1200 days ago) and i truly cannot wait to move back (in ~300 days) 🖤🖤🖤

@schumer.senate.gov are u gonna vote for the same mayoral candidate that trump endorsed

"ethereal bisexual who reads Foucault and Woolf and wears a lot of black" + "Skittle-haired they/them activist" = my genderfluidity in a nutshell

explaining to str8 people that my platonic life partner is a woman i met on a dating app & dated for a couple months before we became best friends... "and there's rly nothing romantic btwn y'all?" "well no, but sometimes we send each other nudes to hype each other up" i love being queer so much

i know this is far from original, but we have been told to "dress as spooky as you can" for the department party tonight, and i am very lazy, so i think i'm just gonna wear a nametag that says "reviewer #2"

In news that will shock no one but which everyone needs to hear, abortion bans hurt the speed and quality of medical care across the board—even when treatment has nothing to do with abortion, new study shows

I WANT MY TAX MONEY PAYING FOR KIDS TO EAT LOBSTER AND STEAK AND COOKIES, NOT PAYING TO BOMB PALESTINIAN AND SUDANESE KIDS AND INVADING VENEZUELA.

can't stop smiling after getting to witness my nephew (who is a baby) meeting my other nephew (who is a dog)

i've been writing about "sonic patriarchy" for ~8 years now, but this still floored me

🧵Harrisonburg, Virginia. Please watch. Please share. This mother was driving her daughter to school. Trump's masked thugs violently assaulted her because she didn't have her social security number memorized.

this is one of my fave books i've read so far this year. check out my rave review: www.instagram.com/p/DQFf3usAaLt/

my gut reaction: this is the first time in my life that i'm glad my mom is dead, so that she wouldn't have to be alive and bear witness to our current living nightmare. she was such an incredibly empathetic person and seeing stuff like this would have destroyed her.

me when i have a migraine

post-midterm lesson plan for tomorrow

to my fellow chronically ill/depressed musician pals: what is one piece that, even on the bleakest of days, reminds you that it's worthwhile to keep on keepin' on?

Happy 121st birthday to the NYC Subway, opened on this day in 1904. Like the city itself, you can’t truly love it until there are days where you hate it. But I will always be grateful for it every one of those days.

Lía Smith, a missing trans student in Vermont has been found dead. "Vermont State Police touted the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for those in distress or their loved ones." This is the same lifeline the Trump admin cut for LGBTQ people in crisis. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

new personal record: migraine started up overnight w/ pain so severe i couldn't open my eyes until 1pm

bleak af that we're all crowdfunding each other's groceries

after a lifetime of commitophobia i am pleased to announce that i have entered a monogamous relationship with my dissertation, sorry to all my suitors and admirers

Pregnant people in ICE detention have suffered severe medical neglect and abuse. ICE must identify and release all pregnant people in their custody immediately.

giving a talk on “nontraditional approaches to teaching gender in 2025” at a conference this weekend. and when i told my dad and brothers they were like, “what’s your presentation going to say about teaching gender? ‘don’t’?” 🥴

wake up babe, new key signatures just dropped. [Adding an AI policy to my syllabus this semester, and wanted an illustration so I went to ChatGPT. Now I'm really considering just making the policy, "If you'd like me to give you grades based on stuff like this, knock yourself out"]

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Men who think they can get away with sexually abusing women can EAT SHIT

for once, scrolling feels good

"Andrew Cuomo is visibly upset and people are crying"