URGENT: ICE Detention Surge in MA - Toolkit Link to share: bit.ly/icesurge-ma-525 Context: Since the start of the new presidency, ICE activity has surged across the United States, with close to 50,000 people in ICE detention centers.

Alternately: “it could write the best most efficient and error proof code in the history of technology, and it still would not be worth the ecological and political cost”

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

A detained US greencard holder's lawyers don't know where he is. They were told he was being held in one facility, yet when his wife went, she was told he was not there. (h/t @premthakker.bsky.social). When reporting these facts in other contexts globally, we call this disappearance.

We're getting close to 200 sold, as we enter the last stage of this campaign! If you've sat on the fence, now is the time to join, to help us send thousands of dollars in raised funds to these critical orgs helping ensure trans and queer refugees to the state of MA find stable housing!

Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

Colleagues, I’m about to make an ask that used to work better on Twitter, but if you could help me out that would be so amazing. I’m considering the timing of my tenure process and looking to make my strongest case. If you’ve used my work in class, could you please email or dm me to let me know?

Derrick Bell's reminds us: The goal is DEFIANCE. Resist oppression, harass those who seek to harm us and our communities. We will not sacrifice Black & Brown people, Trans folks, immigrants, Disabled folks, and all of us at the intersections of multiple oppressions. Defiance is the way forward.

I'm looking forward to gathering again in a few weeks <3 Join us for collective community reflection & growing connections that can sustain our work around Queerness & Learning. I'd love to see you!

Leslie Feinberg

I hope that the ceasefire deal truly means an end to the vicious, murderous bombardment of Palestine and I also know that there are not enough ceasefire deals to cover the dead. The United States supplied the weapons and Israel used them. Never forget. Free Palestine!!!

I'm reading news of an imminent ceasefire deal. I'm praying that the violence truly stops, that we don't see drawn-out death by another name. I pray that we all stay alert and awake regardless of what comes next. None of us are free until Palestine is free and a ceasefire is not freedom.

Deadline Jan 31 for Graduate Student Travel Awards – $250 to support travel to the AERA 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver. New QTBIPOC Opportunity Awards $250 for QTBIPOC scholars attending AERA. More info in our January newsletter. www.canva.com/design/DAGcD...

New map from The Washington Post shows properties alleged to use rent-setting algorithm RealPage www.washingtonpost.com/business/int... This is what it looks like in Boston.

Planning your writing calendar for 2025? Consider including us in your plans! @ftmathteacher.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue, “Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education”, through @jqtsie.bsky.social. The quoted thread has all the info you need! Abstracts due 5/30/25.

Just beyond words

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

Here’s a great overview of the phenomenal Nikki Giovanni. Truly a legend. 💔

Let today’s Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in spark an era of radical defiance. Trans folks refuse to bow to hate and bigotry. We demand dignity and respect. We will fight like our ancestors. We are building with our elders and peers. And trans youth will inherit a better world. 📸: Alexa Wilkinson

my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social: I interviewed trans teens across the U.S.—including L.W., the 16-year-old at the heart of U.S. v. Skrmetti—on their fears and anxieties about the threat of gender-affirming care bans and a looming Trump admin. "Trans healthcare is suicide prevention, at its core."

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

The editors, educators, & artists of "The Adventures of Trans Educators: A Comic Book Issue" would love to celebrate the comics with you! Join us virtually on Wed Dec 4th 7-8:30p ET. Per Sia & I are looking forward to sharing a bit of our collaborative process 💖✨ Register: mailchi.mp/bankstreet.e...

The editors, educators, & artists of "The Adventures of Trans Educators: A Comic Book Issue" would love to celebrate the comics with you! Join us virtually on Wed Dec 4th 7-8:30p ET. Per Sia & I are looking forward to sharing a bit of our collaborative process 💖✨ Register: mailchi.mp/bankstreet.e...

I have a new article out today with colleagues @drmcquillan.bsky.social @harperkeenan.bsky.social @ftmathteacher.bsky.social, Bishop Owis, Christina Cook and Daniel Gallardo! We interviewed trans school workers and invited them to respond to this cultural moment: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZVP6D...

BREAKING: The US vetoed a UNSC resolution for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, which received 14 votes in favor and one against. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lvp7pu

If you’re like me and think independent media should collaborate instead of compete with each other, then this is the starter pack for you. The Movement Media Alliance has been working together for a year to build each other up and better inform our collective audience. Give us a follow:

Tonight! Last chance to sign up to learn how to do the vital and life-sustaining work of sending eSIMs to people in GZ 📲

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

Made some choices to try to reflect the actual subfield of critical scholars that is interacting at LS conferences and in LS journals. 😅 If you are doing work that analyzes power and are in this subfield, DM to be added. It can be a living list + research agendas change and grow! go.bsky.app/UpKWYJE

Figuring out ways to build community as we transition to this app. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #QTSE go.bsky.app/VitwfUt

Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other! Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/BaXvoap

Hiii, everybody! With the recent influx to Bluesky, I thought I'd reshare my Against AI and Its Environmental Harms Library. It's an open document with journalism, peer-reviewed research, podcasts, and other media about AI's climate costs. Add, share, and let's resist! pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI...

Collaborating with Per Sia to create this comic (my first comic!) over the last year has been such a delight. With lots of trans and queer love, I'm so glad to finally be able to share it! I hope it offers a balm, along with the rest of the gorgeous issue 💖 www.bankstreet.edu/research-pub...

ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 8th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

Join our 3-part online series on Queerness & Learning hosted by the Network of the Learning Sciences in Canada. We’ll start with an informal Meet & Greet poster session on Nov. 21. Submit your abstract by Nov. 14 to share your work & connect with others! bit.ly/3Uk3AXT

#Israel is about the strike the large Sahel hospital in Dahieh #Beirut #Lebanon, claiming that there’s a tunnel underneath it. It’s one of the largest hospitals in the area. Many folks I know have been treated there.

Ran across another friend who didn't get Paxlovid bc it was hundreds of dollars so here's this link again. You have to have a prescription to enroll and will need to educate the pharmacist but it works. No one should pay hundreds of dollars for Paxlovid! Privatization sucks! wapo.st/47hF7aO

Folks in Mass: DOT proposal wld revive passenger rail service along northern tier railway on tracks already in place It’d be great to connect Boston to the Berkshires via mass transit, only option now is a circuitous bus route Please comment here if you support it: www.mass.gov/northern-tie...

NEW WRITING: “When students organize a protest, even when they are not defending human rights, they are always engaging in an intellectual as well as moral experiment. They are trying their hand at living their values. It is not our job to snitch on them.” news.chanda.science/archive/our-...

"Five tenants unions from around the country convened Tuesday to announce the launch of a new national organization...The Tenant Union Federation marks the first major national effort at tenant organizing in 40 years." I hear we're doing good news now inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

At least 90 people were killed in Bangladesh on Sunday The unrest comes as student leaders have declared a campaign of civil disobedience to demand that [the PM] step down. Both police and some supporters of the governing party were seen shooting at anti-government protesters with live ammunition.

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A word from rural Maine www.teenvogue.com/story/trans-...

I'm in big mess first drafting of faculty app materials. In attempts to recalibrate the activity to be more energizing than deflating, I decided to spend some time with some of my favorite writing/writers. Here I'll share a few in case they may be energizing and grounding for fellow writers, too. 🧵