BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

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

And that's another genociding colonizing failson of England fallen

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."

“Did you consider not complying with this request?” Judith Butler spoke to @samtlevin.bsky.social about being reported to the feds by UC Berkeley for supposed antisemitism

If you click through to the video, you’ll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and she’ll be meeting with the head of the university about it. It’s chilling and scary.

“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

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

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

trans women shall not be welcome on campus

Years of advocacy to address the serious underfunding of graduate and postdoctoral scholars at Canadian universities finally succeeded last year. But sure, living wages for one of the largest research workforces in Canada and investment in research are "inefficiencies" in government spending.

really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

My younger son just got off a plane coming back from a program in Toronto and deboarding was held up. He joked to the guy in front of him “it’s probably an ICE raid.” The guy he was talking to flashed a badge and told him to STFU. They arrested a passenger and dragged him off the plane. America.

You should always listen when @attackerman.bsky.social tells you something is going to happen:

At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.

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...

The TSA is ending its shoes-off rule after more than 20 years without finding a single shoe bomb, so you know I had to go in:

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)

Under global climate catastrophe, spring is when 80°F/26.6°C, summer is when 95°F/35°C, fall is when 80°F/26.6°C, and winter is when -20°F/-28.8C

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

The budget for border fascism implementation is $170 billion which is larger than the MILITARY BUDGET OF RUSSIA, A COUNTRY CURRENTLY FIGHTING AN ACTIVE LAND WAR Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Since Bob Vylan is trending, here's a banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXQm...

hi everybody! if you're an academic philosopher and would prefer your colleagues didn't produce propaganda which furthers the trump administration's attempt to eradicate transgender people from public life, consider reading/signing this open letter about it! dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com

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/

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Jules Gill-Peterson isn’t mincing words: Forget euphemisms like “gender euphoria.” “We need hormones, sex changes, and surgeries.” Not affirmation—access.

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org #beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy

"Vivian Taylor, a climate policy expert who co-authored the analysis, said the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from 'the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.'" heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

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...