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
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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...
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...
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
politics.ubc.ca
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...
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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….
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
I went to a political rally of Black trans politicians in São Paulo, led by Deputada Erika Hilton, and it was a master class in transforming political space. It started with ballroom:
June 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I went to a political rally of Black trans politicians in São Paulo, led by Deputada Erika Hilton, and it was a master class in transforming political space. It started with ballroom:
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I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people"
Zohran Mamdani is the only democrat in the mayoral race that released an LGBTQ platform and the only democrat in the country (that I know of) to commit to safeguarding gender affirming care for youth + adults with $$.
June 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people"
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The US pulling back from global leadership on LGBTQI+ rights is further emboldening autocrats to take "anti-LGBTQI+ measures without diplomatic consequence."
@williamsinstitute.bsky.social's @arimshaw.bsky.social joined us to unpack how threats to LGBTQI rights mean threats to all our rights.
@williamsinstitute.bsky.social's @arimshaw.bsky.social joined us to unpack how threats to LGBTQI rights mean threats to all our rights.
June 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The US pulling back from global leadership on LGBTQI+ rights is further emboldening autocrats to take "anti-LGBTQI+ measures without diplomatic consequence."
@williamsinstitute.bsky.social's @arimshaw.bsky.social joined us to unpack how threats to LGBTQI rights mean threats to all our rights.
@williamsinstitute.bsky.social's @arimshaw.bsky.social joined us to unpack how threats to LGBTQI rights mean threats to all our rights.
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They want to use FEMA’s Shelter & Services Program money, during Florida’s hurricane season, to set up this tent detention center in the Everglades. It will cost $450 million per year to run when the state faces budget shortfalls (up to $2.8 billion next year). Make it make sense
Florida’s decision to build a massive detention facility for undocumented immigrants in the middle of the Everglades is fast becoming one of the most controversial symbols of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Here’s what we know so far:
Here’s what we know so far:
‘Alligator Alcatraz’: What you need to know about the Everglades detention camp
Florida’s decision to build a massive detention facility for undocumented immigrants in the middle of the Everglades is fast becoming one of the most controversial symbols of the Trump administration’...
www.miamiherald.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
They want to use FEMA’s Shelter & Services Program money, during Florida’s hurricane season, to set up this tent detention center in the Everglades. It will cost $450 million per year to run when the state faces budget shortfalls (up to $2.8 billion next year). Make it make sense
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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I think about this figure a lot.
June 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I think about this figure a lot.
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So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.
June 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.
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You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure"
It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Trump approval falls, Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and vaccines: June 13-16, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov
This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers Trump approval numbers, the Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his actions
today.yougov.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure"
It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...