Callan Hummel
@callahummel.bsky.social
Political scientist, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. LGBTQ+ politics, labor, public health, policy. Dr./e/em/eirs 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Callan Hummel
@callahummel.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Antitransgender Legislation and Needs of Transgender Floridians, 2018–2024 | AJPH | Vol. Issue
Objectives. To document transgender Floridians’ service needs before and after antitransgender state legislation. Methods. We conducted descriptive and change point analyses of intake survey data coll...
ajph.aphapublications.org
As anti-trans legislation ramped up in Florida, trans Floridians sought legal, health, and employment help from advocacy groups.
Check out our collaborative project with trans advocates in Florida in the American Journal of Public Health: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
Check out our collaborative project with trans advocates in Florida in the American Journal of Public Health: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
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I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
January 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
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When you buy your SCIF from Temu:
January 3, 2026 at 7:04 PM
When you buy your SCIF from Temu:
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is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events
New publication from our trans advocacy research collaboration!
We find that trans people seeking to change their names contend with heavy intersecting administrative burdens that push justice-involved and unhoused people out. healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We find that trans people seeking to change their names contend with heavy intersecting administrative burdens that push justice-involved and unhoused people out. healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New publication from our trans advocacy research collaboration!
We find that trans people seeking to change their names contend with heavy intersecting administrative burdens that push justice-involved and unhoused people out. healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We find that trans people seeking to change their names contend with heavy intersecting administrative burdens that push justice-involved and unhoused people out. healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
If you want federal funding judged by a committee of your peers with high success rates, UBC Political Science is hiring an endowed chair in democracy and SFU is hiring in political psychology
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If you want federal funding judged by a committee of your peers with high success rates, UBC Political Science is hiring an endowed chair in democracy and SFU is hiring in political psychology
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
I moved here a year ago from Florida and I am grateful I live here every single day.
September 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I moved here a year ago from Florida and I am grateful I live here every single day.
Dear US-based democracy scholars: We (UBC political science) are hiring an endowed chair in democracy — come to Canada: politics.ubc.ca/faculty-hiri...
UBC
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September 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dear US-based democracy scholars: We (UBC political science) are hiring an endowed chair in democracy — come to Canada: politics.ubc.ca/faculty-hiri...
Our article on gender-affirming IDs in Bolivia is out and open access!
Gender-affirming IDs are associated with positive outcomes, using interview and survey data that we designed and collected with the largest trans advocacy group in Bolivia:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gender-affirming IDs are associated with positive outcomes, using interview and survey data that we designed and collected with the largest trans advocacy group in Bolivia:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gender-Affirming identification documents are associated with positive health-related outcomes for transgender people in Bolivia
Legislation has improved access to gender-affirming identification documents (IDs) in many countries but few studies address the laws’ effects. We document the relationship between gender-affirming...
www.tandfonline.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Our article on gender-affirming IDs in Bolivia is out and open access!
Gender-affirming IDs are associated with positive outcomes, using interview and survey data that we designed and collected with the largest trans advocacy group in Bolivia:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gender-affirming IDs are associated with positive outcomes, using interview and survey data that we designed and collected with the largest trans advocacy group in Bolivia:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As anti-trans legislation ramped up in Florida, trans Floridians sought legal, health, and employment help from advocacy groups.
Check out our collaborative project with trans advocates in Florida in the American Journal of Public Health: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
Check out our collaborative project with trans advocates in Florida in the American Journal of Public Health: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
Antitransgender Legislation and Needs of Transgender Floridians, 2018–2024 | AJPH | Vol. Issue
Objectives. To document transgender Floridians’ service needs before and after antitransgender state legislation. Methods. We conducted descriptive and change point analyses of intake survey data coll...
ajph.aphapublications.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
As anti-trans legislation ramped up in Florida, trans Floridians sought legal, health, and employment help from advocacy groups.
Check out our collaborative project with trans advocates in Florida in the American Journal of Public Health: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
Check out our collaborative project with trans advocates in Florida in the American Journal of Public Health: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
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Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.
Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49
A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.
A UMiami reunion in Seoul!
July 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
A UMiami reunion in Seoul!
Ban Ki Moon plenary address at IPSA 2025!
July 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Ban Ki Moon plenary address at IPSA 2025!
I brushed my teeth with dental prosthesis fixer last night because that’s what I bought instead of toothpaste at an airport pharmacy:
July 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I brushed my teeth with dental prosthesis fixer last night because that’s what I bought instead of toothpaste at an airport pharmacy:
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Indianapolis lost federal matching funds for replanting trees in the city because of the word “diversity” in biodiversity.
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
June 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Indianapolis lost federal matching funds for replanting trees in the city because of the word “diversity” in biodiversity.
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
Bukele made corrupt pacts with gangs like MS-13 that the US investigated. Trump is dismantling the investigation and releasing gang members to Bukele.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Bukele made corrupt pacts with gangs like MS-13 that the US investigated. Trump is dismantling the investigation and releasing gang members to Bukele.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
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We’re celebrating our most cited authors of 2024 by making their articles free to access 🥳
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/EJPG...
See the thread below for our top 5 most cited authors
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/EJPG...
See the thread below for our top 5 most cited authors
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We’re celebrating our most cited authors of 2024 by making their articles free to access 🥳
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/EJPG...
See the thread below for our top 5 most cited authors
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/EJPG...
See the thread below for our top 5 most cited authors
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Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
June 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
Just to be clear, the accident was walking into a Bolsonaro rally. I always look like a big ol queer on purpose.
June 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Just to be clear, the accident was walking into a Bolsonaro rally. I always look like a big ol queer on purpose.
Whoops! Accidentally walked into a Bolsonaro rally looking like a big ol dyke
June 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Whoops! Accidentally walked into a Bolsonaro rally looking like a big ol dyke
Spending Pride Saturday at the first meeting of LGBTI+ politicians of São Paulo in the State Assembly building
June 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Spending Pride Saturday at the first meeting of LGBTI+ politicians of São Paulo in the State Assembly building
Erika for president! I’m floored by the organizing going on in Brazil
June 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Erika for president! I’m floored by the organizing going on in Brazil
I got there at 6pm and left at 10pm and the event was still going strong
June 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I got there at 6pm and left at 10pm and the event was still going strong
And capoeira vogue from Capoeira para Todes!
June 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
And capoeira vogue from Capoeira para Todes!
It was also a packed crowd of young Black, queer, and trans people in a very traditional room of the São Paulo city council on a Friday night
June 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
It was also a packed crowd of young Black, queer, and trans people in a very traditional room of the São Paulo city council on a Friday night