Liz Schirmer
@bertilak.bsky.social
Medievalist, teacher, reluctant administrator; queer solo parent by choice; borderlands dweller, trans advocate; piersplowman.org
Maybe they think white people in the South won’t stand up for their neighbors. I think they’re wrong. #charlotte
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Maybe they think white people in the South won’t stand up for their neighbors. I think they’re wrong. #charlotte
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Jupiter says trans rights
This Friday - join us!
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This Friday - join us!
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.
Home
UC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands
sites.google.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.
Convo w bff 6 months ago: our institutions are huge and pretty entrenched, and I suspect they won’t be that easy to dismantle
Convo w bff today: at this point I want to be in a blue state when the war breaks out
Convo w bff today: at this point I want to be in a blue state when the war breaks out
October 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Convo w bff 6 months ago: our institutions are huge and pretty entrenched, and I suspect they won’t be that easy to dismantle
Convo w bff today: at this point I want to be in a blue state when the war breaks out
Convo w bff today: at this point I want to be in a blue state when the war breaks out
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
September 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
“We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves,” they said. “But none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land … It is an enormous breach of trust.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves,” they said. “But none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land … It is an enormous breach of trust.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
go go go!
PhD student union at Emory just ratified our first contract (and first union contract at Emory, first PhD union contract in Georgia). It's got some good stuff, but also I'm just very happy to be done bargaining!
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
go go go!
Today! Please note time: 12:30 ET (not 1:30).
September 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Today! Please note time: 12:30 ET (not 1:30).
Can we get some professional assessment of signatures on all those batshit executive orders? Pls and ty.
September 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Can we get some professional assessment of signatures on all those batshit executive orders? Pls and ty.
Friday - join us!
September 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Friday - join us!
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
“It’s not tht traditional liberal learning is out of step w student demand. Instead, it’s out of step w priorities, values & desires of a powerful board of trustees… & an administrative class tht won’t fight for the liberal arts… even when it attracts major $$ gifts”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education
Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.
www.nytimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“It’s not tht traditional liberal learning is out of step w student demand. Instead, it’s out of step w priorities, values & desires of a powerful board of trustees… & an administrative class tht won’t fight for the liberal arts… even when it attracts major $$ gifts”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
How LA is uniting to provide mutual aid for those impacted by ICE raids
Through fundraisers, grocery deliveries and ‘adopt a corner’ initiatives, Angelenos are coming together to support their immigrant neighbors.
wagingnonviolence.org
August 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
Tony is a local hero, having rescued two small children from drowning in the Rio Grande. He lives at Camp Hope, where he can keep his dogs and focus on sobriety while working landscaping jobs. Help Tony and other move to stable housing: tentstorents.org.
August 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tony is a local hero, having rescued two small children from drowning in the Rio Grande. He lives at Camp Hope, where he can keep his dogs and focus on sobriety while working landscaping jobs. Help Tony and other move to stable housing: tentstorents.org.
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...
August 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be."
A Profession, If You Can Keep It
Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
contingentmagazine.org
July 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be."
Join us! Two-day online Colloquium on the medieval English dream vision Piers Plowman. All are welcome. Come for the allegory, stay for the cocktails!
July 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Join us! Two-day online Colloquium on the medieval English dream vision Piers Plowman. All are welcome. Come for the allegory, stay for the cocktails!
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
So Stephen Miller’s really running this show, right?
July 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So Stephen Miller’s really running this show, right?
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list
The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.
www.miamiherald.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
July 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
Reposted by Liz Schirmer
Exclusive: Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García.
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Exclusive: Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García.