IDK y'all if your plan is just "solve the racism/transphobia/sexism that is foundational to our society" with no intermediary steps, you mighta zoomed out too much to be useful Ya can't galaxy brain everything, sometimes you need actionable steps, you know?

As a cis lesbian who cares a lot about this topic I am begging other cis queers to sit and listen Now is not the time to make this about us Self soothe or talk to other cis queers if you want comfort but don't put your emotions onto the shoulders of trans people right now They're carrying enough

On the one hand, these are opportunities to build solidarity with folks who are predisposed to want to learn about us On the other hand, if one more person equates being a bit more nervous about holding hands in public with ongoing trans administrative genocide, I will scream very very loud forever

Losing hope is fundamentally not useful at the moment. I mean do what you want, but IMO there's a time and a place.

Might have been a mistake to massively empower all the white men who looked at Ted Faro and thought "now THAT is a life plan"

I'm just saying, the "isolate all the billionaires on an island and leave them to fight each other to the death" plan is a ton more viable now that we have a *specific island* that we already know is cursed and not used that most of them have already been to a ton of times.

Love to see a new TikTok created by the company that controls every piece of business database software that has ever made you want to destroy your work machine.

I want to see shorter wait times with more extensive benefits given to people with less means testing and I'm not kidding.

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

She's right. Panic isn't helping anyone. It's certainly serving to entertain a few extremely privileged people who are kinda having the "first time?" moment right now. But for most of us? The panic is just demobilizing people and pushing them towards despair. Stop freaking out and DO SOMETHING.

TERFs: I AM UPHOLDING THE LEGACY OF SAPPHO Sappho: What did you not understand about the "liking women" thing I kept mentioning? I think was very clear.

Boston is a pretty good city, y'all should try it

It is very nice to be lesbian married, let me tell you. I recommend it.

I cannot stress this enough: do not use email for organizing. Set strict retention so emails delete after a short period of time. Assume every Big Tech company will rat you out to the gestapo without lifting a finger to protect your rights theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...

New Star Wars ain't worth it, cancel your Disney+ subs today

Cool States Michael Ann Likes Health Coalition, let's gooooooo

New from Ezra Klein: "Why didn't the dinosaurs try to debate the asteroid on its own terms?"

Trying to calm my mounting resentment over having to do all the emotional labor and articulation work in most situations by telling myself it's "very gender" and "just like a cis woman would have to!"

If you want to write fiction, go join a literature department. There's no place for fake participants in social science.

I've been saying this for yearsf: LLM-GENERATED SAMPLES ARE JUST FALSIFIED DATA. It's similar to just lying about what people said, or taking your own best guesses. HEY FELLOW SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: STOP TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO AVOID ACTUALLY TALKING TO THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING

One thing I legit can't stand is when other women compare their bodies to mine. It's always uninvited, and it's always offensive. Talk about your body in terms of your own body, leave other people's bodies out of it.

It's so funny when the classroom spaces in a building have been recently upgraded but then you go to use the bathroom and suddenly you've stepped directly into the 1940s

sometimes if you walk around the house for a month singing "I will play for gumbo" to yourself constantly the love of your life will eventually provide gumbo I am sharing this knowledge, use it wisely

I understand wanting to work with a broad roster of colleagues, that's an awesome thing, but some of y'all are basically conflicted with *everyone relevant* in your area, and that....... kinda makes it impossible to get reviewers for your papers. Don't see a good solution to that, unfortunately.

I hadn't thought of this but it's a good point, considering how much lesbophobia takes the form of "it's patriarchal to use straps," "butches are heteronormative," and stuff like this.

Be nicer to straight trans women. Like honestly - do you REALLY think this is the moment to be shitty to other trans women? REALLY? Because it seems to me that if there was ever a moment to find some solidarity with girls who face *the same damn shit* as other trans women most of the time, it's now

I want to support more of you but honestly I can't bring myself to route any money through Substack. It's been the beachhead for a number of harassment campaigns that personally targeted me on the basis of being a trans woman, and I can't support that horrible, Nazi-supporting company.

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

New play through: Commander Gertrude Shepard, an old woman who is entirely sick of your shit

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

It'd be nice if there was a moment of reflection from the many cis people who just witnessed the WSJ attempt to initiate a pogrom against trans Americans at the behest of a fascist influencer. But I won't hold my breath.

This is: 1) 100% true, nailed it 2) Kinda unforgivable from a journalistic ethics standpoint 3) Really, really sad on a human level, those reporters are... kinda interpersonally pathetic

I am the type of person who says stuff like "that's the business, right there" when I am enjoying a thing that is happening. Take that as you will.

The instinct to praise a dead man who spent his life trying to goad other people into hurting marginalized folks is the same one that makes people talk about how much child abusers loved their family at funerals while their victims are forced to stay silent because "it isn't the time" Think on that

I beg you, in the name of basic human decency (& my mental sanity), STOP calling being anti-LGBTQ+ “a disagreement.” Stop calling racism “a disagreement.” Stop calling being anti-reproductive rights “a disagreement.” Do not normalize these vile views as one equal side of a reasonable debate.

I think if there's someone who has spent his entire life calling for violence against marginalized groups, you can simply not write a glowing hagiography upon his death 🤷‍♀️.

This is what most mentorship on writing grants feels like in the current environment

"This played out exactly the way that benefits us the most," said anonymous administration sources Jesus Christ did you absolute goons forget everything you learned in journalism school

IDK how some people can be surprised their kids go no-contact after they spend years supporting politicians and policies that directly put those same kids at risk of getting shot in school every day. If my parents had voted to keep me constantly at risk of dying, I probably wouldn't talk to them!

I think that if you're not regularly in the classroom, you should shut up and listen to people who actually are about school shootings. You're talking out of your ass while those of us who are actually in the classroom risk our lives to teach your kids. Who kinda hate you, btw.

Trying to see the silver lining here, and the best I can come up with is "at least more people know Ezra Klein is a craven piece of shit now" It's grim out here, chat

Personally, I think it kinda sucks that I've had to live in fear of being shot in school since I was in sixth grade. It's stressful.

I've been doing this for quite some time now, and the best projects remain the ones where I and some co-authors were pissed off about something and decided to do research at it until it improved.

Yesterday I saw a post about how trans people are required to choose their forever heart emoji color on coming out, and damned if the chats where we're finishing a bunch of papers as a group of mostly-trans academics are not filled with a bunch of different heart emoji colors. Mine is purple, obvi.

Shoutout to the student who inevitably gets to "wait, hold on... is this just loving each other?" every time I teach feminist care ethics

There's theory, and then there's basic human compassion, and there's a few pretty big areas where I see a lot of "feminists" using theory as an excuse to completely sidestep human compassion towards other women, who are usually much more economically disadvantaged than the theorist.

Be nice to academic staff, faculty and students. They make this shit work and it sucks how people tend to treat them.

I am very proud of my students, who are learning to kill their darlings. It's a hard, but absolutely necessary, part of learning how to be a good scientific writer.

Hey, don't get mad at me for saying this, but what if it was fundamentally a mistake for games companies to start chasing the approval of games YouTubers and journalists, who represent a tiny and *extremely* atypical proportion of the overall gaming audience?

Friends, I promise I will get back to shitposting as soon as we finish writing for the CHI deadline. I understand my responsibilities to all of you.