Leah Tigers
@leahtigers.bsky.social
"Queer theory running riot," according to my detractors.
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Leah Tigers
@leahtigers.bsky.social
· Feb 23
Postrevolutionary Modes
An essay about trans women and fashion
trickymothernature.com
Over a year ago I began research on why many trans women love fashion and (more important) why the industry only sometimes loves us back. On the way I uncovered lost images, unknown models, and got sent way back to the French Revolution. Hope you enjoy
trickymothernature.com/postrevmodes...
trickymothernature.com/postrevmodes...
I've noticed a "fun" phenomenon on Google Translate (which I use to help build flashcards off audio) where when I accidentally translate a Spanish word in English to Spanish the machine spits out gibberish, *which is always themed on petroleum*. Fifth time, very ominous.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I've noticed a "fun" phenomenon on Google Translate (which I use to help build flashcards off audio) where when I accidentally translate a Spanish word in English to Spanish the machine spits out gibberish, *which is always themed on petroleum*. Fifth time, very ominous.
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Translated into English for the first time, on the anniversary of his death, signed by Durruti himself, the Durruti Column's formal refusal of the government's militarization decree.
historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...
historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Translated into English for the first time, on the anniversary of his death, signed by Durruti himself, the Durruti Column's formal refusal of the government's militarization decree.
historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...
historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...
"spending my time" is such an insane little momento mori just thrown into casual English speech
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"spending my time" is such an insane little momento mori just thrown into casual English speech
its funny being a queer theory refugee getting very into language learning because i keep encountering the word "structuralist" in a totally different original context
November 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
its funny being a queer theory refugee getting very into language learning because i keep encountering the word "structuralist" in a totally different original context
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i love this article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
i love this article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
when i brought up to the plagiarizing students in question the idea of an addiction and dependence on ChatGPT that was corroding their ability to think, organize, function, and succeed in life they were all just like damn. i hadnt thought about it like that. let me ask ChatGPT
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
when i brought up to the plagiarizing students in question the idea of an addiction and dependence on ChatGPT that was corroding their ability to think, organize, function, and succeed in life they were all just like damn. i hadnt thought about it like that. let me ask ChatGPT
me at the Metropolitan Museum of Art whenever the security guard looks away
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
me at the Metropolitan Museum of Art whenever the security guard looks away
US immigration officers posing as US immigration officers have also been doing these things as part of their job description, so it's difficult to differentiate
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, sex assaults in several states, FBI says
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
US immigration officers posing as US immigration officers have also been doing these things as part of their job description, so it's difficult to differentiate
31-year-old single female feverishly looking up Zohran Mamdani's margin of victory at 62.5% of votes counted GIRL YOURE WORRIED ABOUT THE WRONG MAN DATE
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
31-year-old single female feverishly looking up Zohran Mamdani's margin of victory at 62.5% of votes counted GIRL YOURE WORRIED ABOUT THE WRONG MAN DATE
several days ago i got my advance copy of Gendertrash, a compilation from @littlepuss.net of the legendary 90s trans zine, which releases today. only holding it did i really grasp the significance of the repub, amount of lost material recovered, and the honor of being asked to write the afterword. x
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
several days ago i got my advance copy of Gendertrash, a compilation from @littlepuss.net of the legendary 90s trans zine, which releases today. only holding it did i really grasp the significance of the repub, amount of lost material recovered, and the honor of being asked to write the afterword. x
oh they were gooning
October 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
oh they were gooning
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How is this worse than the buildup to Iraq?
The U.S. Isn’t Even Bothering With Its Usual Lies to Sell Its Regime Change War in Venezuela
Selling the lies of the Iraq War took months. With Trump and Venezuela, there’s no pretense of anything other than regime change.
interc.pt
October 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
How is this worse than the buildup to Iraq?
Today was my first time doing immigration courtwatching in 2 months, but it was also the first time I was really able to understand some of the questions and provide answers in Spanish. The feeling of satisfaction is profound. Language learning pays off everyone, keep up the study
October 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Today was my first time doing immigration courtwatching in 2 months, but it was also the first time I was really able to understand some of the questions and provide answers in Spanish. The feeling of satisfaction is profound. Language learning pays off everyone, keep up the study
Can anyone recommend me the best history book about May 68 in France? Can be in French
October 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Can anyone recommend me the best history book about May 68 in France? Can be in French
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#OtD 21 Oct 1929 anarchist, feminist, sci-fi and fantasy novelist Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California. We have made available some of her little-known works in our online store. Check them out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#OtD 21 Oct 1929 anarchist, feminist, sci-fi and fantasy novelist Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California. We have made available some of her little-known works in our online store. Check them out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Yes, delighted to review the new edition of MEMORIES THAT SMELL LIKE GASOLINE by David Wojnarowicz, one of my favorite books, for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social💥 lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-fe...
I Feel Like a Human Bomb Tick Tick Tick | Los Angeles Review of Books
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reviews the new edition of David Wojnarowicz’s collection “Memories That Smell Like Gasoline.”
lareviewofbooks.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Yes, delighted to review the new edition of MEMORIES THAT SMELL LIKE GASOLINE by David Wojnarowicz, one of my favorite books, for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social💥 lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-fe...
my big issue with "enshittification" as a term is that it represents what it critiques: a general decline in facility with metaphor, overall literary cleverness, public intellectual culture itself. Compare with a term like Twain's "The Gilded Age"
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
my big issue with "enshittification" as a term is that it represents what it critiques: a general decline in facility with metaphor, overall literary cleverness, public intellectual culture itself. Compare with a term like Twain's "The Gilded Age"
these quotes are from the 1880s!
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
these quotes are from the 1880s!
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This is the result of the Rufo experiment at New College of Florida: more spending for worse results. Extrapolating to how this will work more broadly across the country isn’t difficult.
Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida
Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.
www.insidehighered.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This is the result of the Rufo experiment at New College of Florida: more spending for worse results. Extrapolating to how this will work more broadly across the country isn’t difficult.
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If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
www.pbs.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
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I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.
The Right’s Baseless Project to Link Trans People With Extremism
A campaign for the FBI to adopt a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism” is less about law enforcement than politics.
newrepublic.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.
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So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...
Who Really Runs DHS?
Kristi Noem is the face of Trump’s police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle.
nymag.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Sorry to hear that Bluestockings is closing. www.bluestockings.com
Bluestockings Cooperative
Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's only queer, trans, sex-worker run bookstores.
www.bluestockings.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sorry to hear that Bluestockings is closing. www.bluestockings.com
My current read of Richard Hofstadter's *Anti-Intellectualism in American Life* (1963) is genuinely disarming me in how quintessentially transphobic this genre of conservative rhetoric already was in the 1940s. This example is just one of many, from the first 50 pages alone
September 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My current read of Richard Hofstadter's *Anti-Intellectualism in American Life* (1963) is genuinely disarming me in how quintessentially transphobic this genre of conservative rhetoric already was in the 1940s. This example is just one of many, from the first 50 pages alone
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In Bukele’s #ElSalvador, he is the only person who is above the law. The road ahead is long. Even the first step—telling the truth—is officially considered a crime.
My contribution for the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, a powerful issue that comes out today.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...
My contribution for the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, a powerful issue that comes out today.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...
A Permanent State of Exception in El Salvador - Dissent Magazine
In cooperation with gangs and with massive popular support, Nayib Bukele is cracking down on dissidents and massively expanding the state’s carceral apparatus.
www.dissentmagazine.org
September 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
In Bukele’s #ElSalvador, he is the only person who is above the law. The road ahead is long. Even the first step—telling the truth—is officially considered a crime.
My contribution for the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, a powerful issue that comes out today.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...
My contribution for the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, a powerful issue that comes out today.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...