Alice 🏳⚧
@alicepaige.bsky.social
Alice Paige. Trans author, creative writing professor, disheveled department chair & coffee enthusiast. ☕ The academic dyke.
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I dunno, maybe the Supreme Court majority could have the decency to bestir themselves to write an actual, you know, opinion, with their names on it, explaining their endorsement of using race and ethnicity as part of a national policy of harassing and intimidating non-white Americans.
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
September 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I dunno, maybe the Supreme Court majority could have the decency to bestir themselves to write an actual, you know, opinion, with their names on it, explaining their endorsement of using race and ethnicity as part of a national policy of harassing and intimidating non-white Americans.
Today brings in a further loosening of any leash on the machine that is the American carceral system. The dissenting opinion, written by Justice Sotomayor, is ringing an alarm bell for the American people that falls into din of klaxons of the last several months.
September 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Today brings in a further loosening of any leash on the machine that is the American carceral system. The dissenting opinion, written by Justice Sotomayor, is ringing an alarm bell for the American people that falls into din of klaxons of the last several months.
The impact of the Trump administration on academia will be felt for decades. Fascism asks the average citizen to value the words of its demagogues above any expertise, research, or evidence. The truth is not the truth beneath facism's boot.
A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
September 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The impact of the Trump administration on academia will be felt for decades. Fascism asks the average citizen to value the words of its demagogues above any expertise, research, or evidence. The truth is not the truth beneath facism's boot.
some personal news: in a few weeks, I, along with my Rolling Stone comrade and editor @andrewperez.bsky.social, will be up and running at the expanding political reporting team at @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s outlet @zeteo.com
www.semafor.com/article/09/0...
www.semafor.com/article/09/0...
Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo wants to take on Politico Playbook from the left
The publication is expanding its politics coverage to gear up for the midterm elections.
www.semafor.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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April 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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”we have condemned 228 men to die in a foreign prison without charge or trial” is a fact that I cannot shake from my mind. It just keeps reasserting itself. God have mercy bc this is just the beginning.
March 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
”we have condemned 228 men to die in a foreign prison without charge or trial” is a fact that I cannot shake from my mind. It just keeps reasserting itself. God have mercy bc this is just the beginning.
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Looking beautiful Time Square. 🇺🇦
March 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Looking beautiful Time Square. 🇺🇦
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most of us can’t even comprehend how this possibly feels. solidarity with Palestine always.
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The first Ramadan Iftar in Gaza
[photo of rows and rows and rows of tables amidst the rubble]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q4kdx6fcdk4jllhog2lhjxwe/bafkreihodh6u65fzb55jbuxgp6nzbaqk72y6l3k5cfach3ph44bvf7nfe4@jpeg)
March 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
most of us can’t even comprehend how this possibly feels. solidarity with Palestine always.
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We have always been at war with ...
*Checks notes*
Ukraine?
Hmm.
Anyway.
We have always been at war with Ukraine.
*Checks notes*
Ukraine?
Hmm.
Anyway.
We have always been at war with Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We have always been at war with ...
*Checks notes*
Ukraine?
Hmm.
Anyway.
We have always been at war with Ukraine.
*Checks notes*
Ukraine?
Hmm.
Anyway.
We have always been at war with Ukraine.
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From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything.
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
#poetry #books #writing
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
#poetry #books #writing
March 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything.
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
#poetry #books #writing
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
#poetry #books #writing
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I have friends at the protest. The removal of gender from the civil rights bill of Iowa would be a tragedy and another step towards the genocide of trans bodies. Fight like hell, folks. Fight like hell.
chants are unbelievably loud, "fully audible over the wind." at the entrance to the capitol. inside, it's packed.
the mantra right now: "the people united will never be divided."
the mantra right now: "the people united will never be divided."
February 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I have friends at the protest. The removal of gender from the civil rights bill of Iowa would be a tragedy and another step towards the genocide of trans bodies. Fight like hell, folks. Fight like hell.
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i really am not being glib at all when i say that i do not want nazis to know everything about us or crash our planes or forcefully separate our neighbors from their children or detransition the coolest kids in our lives
February 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
i really am not being glib at all when i say that i do not want nazis to know everything about us or crash our planes or forcefully separate our neighbors from their children or detransition the coolest kids in our lives
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"
February 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Today!
From cir_lagusc on IG:
🚨 🚨 🚨
“Join CIR and other community members to demand CHLA maintain gender-affirming care for their patients
Thursday, February 6th
5:30 pm
4650 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA”
🚨 🚨 🚨
“Join CIR and other community members to demand CHLA maintain gender-affirming care for their patients
Thursday, February 6th
5:30 pm
4650 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA”
February 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Today!
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I am surrounded by the strong, brave people who I wish with all my heart didn't have to be either of those things.
February 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I am surrounded by the strong, brave people who I wish with all my heart didn't have to be either of those things.
The conversations I've been having with fellow trans folks lately have been bleak, but also helpful. We're already finding ways to build community and support one another. I'm thankful for that in these years of darkness.
February 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The conversations I've been having with fellow trans folks lately have been bleak, but also helpful. We're already finding ways to build community and support one another. I'm thankful for that in these years of darkness.
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Forever pissed that I have to be Aware and Informed instead of reading science fiction and fantasy and writing stories.
I'm a children's literature critic, not an expert on government!
(Not a fan of this timeline. At all.)
I'm a children's literature critic, not an expert on government!
(Not a fan of this timeline. At all.)
February 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Forever pissed that I have to be Aware and Informed instead of reading science fiction and fantasy and writing stories.
I'm a children's literature critic, not an expert on government!
(Not a fan of this timeline. At all.)
I'm a children's literature critic, not an expert on government!
(Not a fan of this timeline. At all.)
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
There are so many awful things happening. But today is the first meeting of the SPCPA D&D club and for that I am thankful. We need stories to know dragons can be slain.
January 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
There are so many awful things happening. But today is the first meeting of the SPCPA D&D club and for that I am thankful. We need stories to know dragons can be slain.
I've got a short story about transgender escapism, the sea, and Moby Dick in this new anthology from Pride with a Bite. All proceeds are going to the HRC to continue the fight for trans rights.
Order link: pridewithabite.com/we-bite-back...
#booksky
Order link: pridewithabite.com/we-bite-back...
#booksky
January 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I've got a short story about transgender escapism, the sea, and Moby Dick in this new anthology from Pride with a Bite. All proceeds are going to the HRC to continue the fight for trans rights.
Order link: pridewithabite.com/we-bite-back...
#booksky
Order link: pridewithabite.com/we-bite-back...
#booksky
I will never support concentration camps. Not in Gaza. Not in Nazi occupied Poland. Not in Minidoka. And not in Guantanamo Bay.
Concentration camps are evil.
Concentration camps are evil.
January 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Even limiting spending at icky Target is helpful - it’s understandable if it’s the only place available to buy your basic needs! But limiting impulse buys - even l a pack of gum - could make a difference. I think the all-or-nothing mindset is a colonizer’s game we all need to evict from our minds.
January 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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No Subjecting Me To New Horrors Until I've Had My Coffee.
January 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
No Subjecting Me To New Horrors Until I've Had My Coffee.
as it’s always been, death before detransition
January 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM