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Richard Price (they/them)
@advincensorship.bsky.social
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Non-binary political scientist studying the censorship of queer stories and LGBTQ educational activism. Bossed around by five cats. Blog intermittently at https://adventuresincensorship.com/

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · Nov 20
It's been 7 years since I started censorship work so lets do a thread. My first publication wrestled with the vague doctrine given by Pico through a case study of how NJ schools handled controversy over Fun Home. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2021/10...
Publication: Navigating a Doctrinal Grey Area — Adventures in Censorship
I have finally published my first academic article from my censorship research, a little later than I hoped thanks to the never-ending pandemic. “Navigating a doctrinal grey area” is online with Fi...
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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 15h
I'm going to live forever!
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15h
Got no worries about dementia. My body is 90% coffee.

2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf.
www.nytimes.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15h
Got no worries about dementia. My body is 90% coffee.

2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf.
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 17h
Just the classy literature I encounter. Have to remind myself that spending $35 for this is unnecessary. Maybe I should have included a smutty book fund in my last internal grant application?

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 19h
I don't have a publicist, therefore I am the publicist. New website for my forthcoming book. Please especially check out the Author Q&A at the end of the page (Why did i write the book? Who's it for?. Journos, pod-casters, museums can find my contact info & how to obtain a bound review copy. 1/
Book - Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Anna O. Law
www.annaolaw.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 20h
Just saw a medicine ad that including the words “may cause infection around the anus and genitals.” Around.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d
How denouncing Bad Bunny could give Gavin Newsom a much-needed Sister Souljah moment.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d
Fuck you don’t see a shot that beautiful often.
cjzero.bsky.social CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d
Dropkin's shot to knock all 3 stones out with sound and replays

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d
I know how to party on Superb Owl Sunday ... by ordering 25 boxes of archival material for my Spring Break trip to LA.
a penguin wearing sunglasses and a pink jersey with the number 23
ALT: a penguin wearing sunglasses and a pink jersey with the number 23
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d
Dropkin's shot to knock all 3 stones out with sound and replays

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 1d
Don’t know who needs to hear this but one of the puppies on the Puppy Bowl this year is named Chappell Bone
Chappell Bone playing on the Puppy Bowl. It’s a puppy chewing on a blue and orange puffy thing

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d
I think about how I’d break an ankle stepping onto the ice.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 2d
I can almost remember the time when this logic suprised me but it doesn't even register anymore. Nebraska police chief threatened sellers to coerce them into removing Tropic because it would force kids to commit sex crimes.

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 2d
Blown away by a virtual rally tonight for THE LIBRARIANS with THE Steven Pico. The man is a quote machine!

“Book banners are very good at choosing excellent literature”

“I’ve never thought book banning protects young people. It makes them defenseless.”

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He took his school to the Supreme Court in the 1980s for pulling ‘objectionable’ books. Here’s his message to young people | CNN
When school officials in New York removed 11 books they disliked from library shelves, 17-year-old Steven Pico joined a legal fight that would eventually take him and his school to the US Supreme Cour...
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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 3d
Review of Tropic of Cancer by SLC City Attorney:

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 3d
Rupert helps me read a decade of group meeting minutes. He is very helpful and demands first authorship.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 3d
Found a great pamphlet on the greatest scourge of the 1950s: obscene mail!

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d
"This is how men behave." I mean it certainly is but fuck you don't have to enthusiastically engage in it. Anyone who asked me how fuckable a student was would just find me cutting off communication and I'd let the student know and, if they were ok with it, release the info publicly.
tframpton.bsky.social Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 4d
Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind."

This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d
I'm the person who laughs at the nerd in meetings trying to follow rules and take minutes who also then gets ridiculously excited at a decade of meeting minutes from a pro-censorship group in Utah.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d
Born the right kind of white made me giggle in a weird way.
ifbookspod.bsky.social If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 4d
Episode 49: The Millionaire Next Door

In 1996, two marketing professors revealed the characteristics of America's new elite class: They buy the right kind of watch, marry the right kind of wife and were born the right kind of white.
The Millionaire Next Door
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 02/05/2026 · 1h 11m
podcasts.apple.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d
It’s not like this is an example of “I was friends with x and he turned out to be a sex criminal.” These folks were hanging with him after that was known. Fuck Chomsky was giving PR advice in like 2019. That isn’t a moral panic, it’s a dude abetting a pedophile knowingly.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
Charles Manson.
Claire Lehmann: Who would be a good person to write an essay about the Epstein story being a moral panic?

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d
I can imagine. If you don't mind sharing I'd like to take a look at those.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
Charles Manson.
Claire Lehmann: Who would be a good person to write an essay about the Epstein story being a moral panic?

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d
I've hit the part of the day where I am just looking through 1940s nudist magazines. I'm a serious political scientist folks!

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d
Sometimes I think about making shirts from censorship quotes I find.

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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 4d
Episode 49: The Millionaire Next Door

In 1996, two marketing professors revealed the characteristics of America's new elite class: They buy the right kind of watch, marry the right kind of wife and were born the right kind of white.
The Millionaire Next Door
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 02/05/2026 · 1h 11m
podcasts.apple.com

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 4d
Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind."

This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5d
JUST IN: Texas A&M professor Melissa McCoul sues over firing linked to gender-related content in youth literature class. TX Gov. Abbott called for her firing. Among the defendants: former POLITICO owner & NOTUS founder, Robert Allbritton. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#1 in McCoul v. Texas A&M University System (S.D. Tex., 4:26-cv-00865) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants (Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ATXSDC-35013427) filed by Melissa McCoul. (Reichek, Amanda) (Entered: 02/04/2026)
storage.courtlistener.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 5d
One of many reasons is because we like to dress up public support as tax deductions to reduce idiotic opposition. This of course causes huge problems in inequality and the like such as mortgages are deductible but rent isn't

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 5d
Pro tip: If you want to argue facts with a peer reviewed specialist who has 6 library cards, well over a million words published, and a penchant for cranky pedantry, do some brief research first

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 5d
REading a bunch of 1960s smut stories in Utah newspapers and it amuses me when censors complain about people not complaining enough or showing their support for censorship. Somehow they never treat that as evidence that the community standards were cool with smut.