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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 18h

I keep thinking about this. This was a real representation of actual dudes in the 70s and I heard shit like this in the 90s a lot.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d

Watching some Voyager and the Vulcan nerve pinch amuses me. Like every species has some nerve there. No one screams “hey don’t grab my testicle!”

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d

I was so excited by this post that I got multiple copies. Or something got messed up in my order. Still looking forward to it.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d

Talk about a finding aid line meant to entice me:

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d

Stein did an oral history interview with him!
outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

Richard Gayer (born 1938), Interviewed January 11, 1994 · Philadelphia LGBT History Project, 1940-1980, by Marc Stein · OutHistory

outhistory.org

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d

As often has, a silly thought led to finding info about a pretty cool fighter for gay rights. www.uclawsf.edu/2024/12/12/l...

Let the Record Show: Dick Gayer ’75 Fought for LGBTQ+ Equality - UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)

www.uclawsf.edu

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d

I like to pretend to be a mature adult but that facade breaks when I find a 1970s gay student leader with the name Dick Gayer.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 1d

Some thoughts on the recent end of academic freedom at Texas A&M which is on its way more broadly soon. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/11...

The End of Academic Freedom — Adventures in Censorship

In Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967) SCOTUS reviewed a New York law that required public employees, including college faculty, to be fired for “utterance of any treasonable or seditious word or...

adventuresincensorship.com

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Thrilled that my former student Will Schultz has his first book out with @uncpress.bsky.social. Check it out!

Jesus Springs

In the years after World War II, American evangelicals flocked to the once-sleepy mountain town of Colorado Springs. Drawn by cheap property, beautiful scene...

uncpress.org

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 3d

At some point I thought about reading a new dystopian novel and just shrug and figured it couldn't pass reality and instead went totally fantasy

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 3d

It took less than 12 hours for none of my five cats to poop in my beautiful spotless newly remodeled bedroom.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d

Me sitting here needing to pull the trigger on a proposal.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4d

For #UPWeek I teamed up w/ Alec Loganbill, my co-chair of the @aupresses.bsky.social Fac Outreach Cmte, to write tips on publishing yr 1st book for Higher Ed Jobs. Tip 1: Don't Go It Alone! Pub'ing is more collaborative than it seems & resources abound. #TeamUP www.higheredjobs.com/Articles/art...

Don’t Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press

<p>Publishing a book can be an isolated -- and isolating -- experience, but it doesn't have to be. Two university press editors share

www.higheredjobs.com

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4d

For #UPWeek I teamed up w/ Alec Loganbill, my co-chair of the @aupresses.bsky.social Fac Outreach Cmte, to write tips on publishing yr 1st book for Higher Ed Jobs. Tip 1: Don't Go It Alone! Pub'ing is more collaborative than it seems & resources abound. #TeamUP www.higheredjobs.com/Articles/art...

Don’t Go It Alone! And Other Tips on How To Get Your First Book Published with a University Press

<p>Publishing a book can be an isolated -- and isolating -- experience, but it doesn't have to be. Two university press editors share

www.higheredjobs.com

Anna Kaminski @anna-writes.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector

A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.

kansasreflector.com

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d

Had to explain to intro students why third parties will not save them. A few were as disheartened as I was when I learned that lesson so many decades ago.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d

Read about two dozen Michigan State faculty who staffed a Saigon based US government funded research institute for 7 years and only one bothered to learn any Vietnamese. That sounds like academic area experts at mid-century.

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8d

Hard not to come away with a sense that (however they might vote) many a university's leadership agrees with the Tr*mpist vision on some visceral level. They think they have erred in allowing *those people* access to any level of power, say or attention, and they're only too happy to course correct.

kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 9d

The Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee is temporarily closing two branches in order to remove books from them.

Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon.

bookriot.com/rutherford-c...

Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books

Rutherford County Library System announced on social media a surprise shutdown of two libraries. Why? "Reviewing inventory."

bookriot.com

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 9d

These are amazing bits of governmental communication.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

The Social Security Administration used to have an incredible communications arm, including even a film unit. This was crucial in helping people understand the program, and how it would work. From 1936, 1939.
www.ssa.gov/history/puba...

Poster from 1936 says: Join the March to Old Age Security, with a long line of happy people

Poster with picture of old man holding pipe: More Security for the American Family (1939)

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

The Social Security Administration used to have an incredible communications arm, including even a film unit. This was crucial in helping people understand the program, and how it would work. From 1936, 1939.
www.ssa.gov/history/puba...

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 13d

Zek. I can’t believe I never realized.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 13d

How am I only learning this now?

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 13d

These are good people be like them.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 13d

As a principle, we try negotiate starting salary on behalf of the candidate before making an offer and max out the band. Like if they say up to X, I always want to start at X because not everybody negotiates as well, and I want my new colleague to get the most money possible.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 13d

As a principle, we try negotiate starting salary on behalf of the candidate before making an offer and max out the band. Like if they say up to X, I always want to start at X because not everybody negotiates as well, and I want my new colleague to get the most money possible.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 17d

Just reading about how a 1987 episode of Crossfire, a serious news program, was titled "Does Rock Music Cause AIDS?"

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 18d

Time to work on my music censorship lecture and that means revisiting one of my favorite 1980s censorship books. I always wonder if Tippers daughter ever throws on Prince today just to see her mom’s reaction.

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 18d

My version of this is "cite that dude that wrote that paper on the thing."

Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 18d

Reminds me of 2016 aftermath and a colleague said that Clinton spent too much time on trans issues. I asked them to show me evidence that she spent any time on trans issues. It then transitions to "well people believer she did." And I wept a bit that a political science colleague could be duped

Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18d

there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right.

i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19d

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 18d

Just about spit out my coffee when I saw this in my morning newspaper @theonion.com

Fake ABC ad: At the request of the president, Abbott Elementary is white now

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