Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

I went to the book launch of Gendertrash from Hell in Toronto a few nights ago. It was magical. Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay really said "fuck this!" and owned who they were/are. Get a copy of this iconic zine through @littlepuss.net: www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...

Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...

Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.

NOW ON SALE: PINKO MAGAZINE ISSUE 4! 100 luscious pages of the most advanced gay communist print material you can find in English. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY to get it in hand by the end of the year shop.pinko.online/products/issue-4

Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing: 1. Academia resumes control of publishing 2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity 3. Independent fraud detection and prevention 4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

one way of thinking about the last century of left political thought—from Benjamin & Arendt to Adorno & Althusser to Glissant & Deleuze to Foucault & Butler to Agamben & Mbembe—is that it studies fascism's ultraviolence and its decisive break from reality to try to stop it from every happening again

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

Grant applications assess merit in the same way course evaluations assess learning: they don't. There's a clear "Matthew effect" in grants where winners keep winning and losers drop out *even when they're similarly rated*. Cut the red tape, give us what we need to do our jobs and let us get to work.

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

zines are little museums you can carry around

Semicolon use or its absence correlates with the author's attitude towards trans women

Happy Anita Bryant Pie Day to all who celebrate.

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

this is why social media companies should have no business doing age / ID verification ! it is a catastrophic data security hazard that leaves ordinary people vulnerable to doxxing, identify fraud, and other harms. even worse, age / ID verification has no benefit for platform moderation !

names, then, names are what remain when words cannot suffice www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

the final 2 pieces of the Queering Feminist Geography Collective's report on queer & trans inclusion have been published! thx to all the brilliant members of the collective for persisting through a long and difficult writing & pub process :) links to all 4 pieces here: wiley.pink/publications...

somehow bechdel has become almost as scary as orwell to the evangelical right lmao

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. Rest in power Assata

I would add to this that this small group of analytic philosophers continues to enjoy the protection of the field due to how they have leveraged their institutional and academic connections to cast any criticism, any attempt at holding them to account, as a violation of their academic freedom.

for some reason analytic philosophers still think it's acceptable to opine about gender while ignoring the last 75 years of research in the philosophy of gender

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

i tried to ship something from canada... had to download an app and submit 2 online forms to confirm that the package was in fact a gift and exempt from duties. the whole thing made me want to scream. im sure the company behind the app is profiting nicely from this extortion though :/

Judith Butler: "It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are right now, invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal and rising authoritarianism."

“What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria. You would have plainclothed officers without any warrant come and take you just because of your political speech.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social interviews Mahmoud Khalil

Ann Friedman's newsletter reminded me of this Graeber essay that I've read many times. If you haven't encountered it, it's worth reading: davidgraeber.org/articles/a-p...

Oh hey it turns out another thing Covid cautious people have been saying nonstop for several years is true: lockdowns did not cause “immunity debt,” and Covid infections DO cause immune disruptions that make you more vulnerable to other illnesses.

provocative interview w/ wendy brown @thedrift-mag.bsky.social: "Should we stop worrying so much about liberal democratic principles & processes—let go of liberal democracy the way the right did—and figure out how to seize the state to stem climate change..." www.thedriftmag.com/theyre-using...

everyone drop what you're doing and read hothead paisan now

yesterday was the incredible june jordan's birthday! and i happened to come across an essay she wrote on whitman and the american tradition of poetry for the mass. thought i would pass it on to yall: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/686...

for the last two years, I've been a part of the Queering Feminist Geography Collective, a group working to raise issues of queer & trans inclusion within feminist geographic theory and professional practice. to that end, we've drafted a set of viewpoint articles for Gender, Place, and Culture (1/n)

q for ppl who have experience managing chronic health conditions: how do you balance dealing with healthcare bureaucracy with work and the rest of your life? every time i see a doctor it seems to eat my whole day

brilliant talk a few months ago by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social on how the political economy of surveillance capitalism led to the AI boom, and how communications infrastructure must be fundamentally redesigned to protect the freedom of privacy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

a few months ago, GEOZONe organized a zine fair at a conference in detroit! we were overwhelmed by the response from colleagues, and we were delighted to give away almost all of the zines we brought. we collected some reflections about our experience on our blog here: geoz.one/blog/aag25/

on the existential problem of LLMs, the humanities, and indeed the good life: "language-generating AI, whether it is utilized to write emails or dissertations, stands as an enemy to the human form of life by coming between the individual and her words." thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

love that us copyright law is basically now just 'piracy for me, but not for thee'

I was honored to speak at the CAG's Suzanne MacKenzie Memorial Lecture on the future of feminist geography in Ottawa last week! I'm excited to develop my thoughts in dialogue with this brilliant slate of scholars... look forward to our roundtable in The Canadian Geographer later this year !

thanks for spreading the word, Sarah! and if any geographers want to get together and put together some material for our experimental, open, online feminist syllabus, please get in touch!!

"I have come to believe that writing should be a last resort—you should only write if you absolutely have to. for me, the thoughts, arguments, and ideas I want to commit to paper should ideally be the kind of thinking I can only do while writing" www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/a...

earlier this year, i had the pleasure (& the pain!) of writing a on the state of trans politics in the US with some wonderful colleagues. we conclude that these political attacks are nothing less than an effort to erase trans people from public life. open access link here: doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

the incredible gabriel winant, relevant far beyond uchicago: "why, indeed, is the university not a democracy?... this is not an idle academic matter. in fact, it is of the greatest urgency, not only for our university, but for all of higher education..." chicagomaroon.com/47073/viewpo...

judith butler on the recent spate of executive orders: "when authoritarians promise a return to an imaginary past, they stoke a furious nostalgia in those who have no better way to understand what is actually undermining their sense of a durable and meaningful future" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

on this note, our zine archive (geoz.one) is unacceptably light on #trans #zines.... if you are a trans zine-maker or have zines about trans folks that fit the purview of our collection—including radical spatial politics, abolitionist organizing, and critical scholar/activism—please get in touch !

if you're coming to the AAG In Detroit, drop by and say hi at the zine fair !! we will have so many wonderful zines for you to take home and read and share with friends :)

thrilled to share that my first solo-authored article is now available online in social & cultural #geography!! I explore how #queer and #trans youth make places of possibility from overlooked in-between spaces in suburban Toronto. please share and lmk what you think :)) doi.org/10.1080/1464...

nobody's lines cut deeper than andrea long chu: "most trans memoirs read like exercises in carefully solicited prurience, as if their authors think we will be given our rights if we just lift our skirts high enough..." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

"emancipating womanhood is not inherently incompatible with... eugenic or imperial violence... This comes down to the definitional composition of the kind of womanhood at the heart of any given emancipationist project" @reproutopia.bsky.social on fascist feminism thebaffler.com/latest/femin...

excited to share that a paper on #queer suburban #geography written with Alison Bain has just been published! we analyze the normative affordances of social infrastructure in Toronto's suburbs, and we explore how queer subjects hack these regimes into livable lives. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

"Publication ethics and professional standards... are safeguards of best scientific practice and integrity—and will not yield to bad practice like gag orders, suppression, and authoritarian whims." incisive editorial from @bmj.com: www.bmj.com/content/388/...