Margot Weiss
@margotweiss.bsky.social
Writer, professor, queer anthropologist. Books: TECHNIQUES OF PLEASURE (Duke), QUEER THEN AND NOW (Feminist Press), and UNSETTLING QUEER ANTHROPOLOGY (Duke).
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October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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hey hey it's a job! 📣 🙌
The American Studies department at Wesleyan is hiring TT in Ethnic Studies! We're a pretty nice department, all things considered lol.
Please apply & share with your people!
The American Studies department at Wesleyan is hiring TT in Ethnic Studies! We're a pretty nice department, all things considered lol.
Please apply & share with your people!
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Wesleyan University’s Department of American Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure track Assistant Professor specializing in Ethnic Studies beginning July 1, 2026. Ph.D. in American Stu...
wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Due Oct 15!
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wrote a book about the B of E and the history of financial crises, so, obligatory:
"Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI."
"Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI."
October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
wrote a book about the B of E and the history of financial crises, so, obligatory:
"Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI."
"Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI."
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so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):
many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl
September 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):
deadline is tomorrow!! please consider submitting a proposal on QUEER and CLASS!
Deadline extended to Sept 15!
And there are now possibilities for 100% virtual panels!
SEE YOU THERE ALL
And there are now possibilities for 100% virtual panels!
SEE YOU THERE ALL
...got something to say about queer and class?
please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~!
Proposals due Sept 1!
Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~!
Proposals due Sept 1!
Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
September 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
deadline is tomorrow!! please consider submitting a proposal on QUEER and CLASS!
Deadline extended to Sept 15!
And there are now possibilities for 100% virtual panels!
SEE YOU THERE ALL
And there are now possibilities for 100% virtual panels!
SEE YOU THERE ALL
...got something to say about queer and class?
please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~!
Proposals due Sept 1!
Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~!
Proposals due Sept 1!
Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
Call for Proposals – Queer-Class Relations Conference
queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
August 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Deadline extended to Sept 15!
And there are now possibilities for 100% virtual panels!
SEE YOU THERE ALL
And there are now possibilities for 100% virtual panels!
SEE YOU THERE ALL
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:
The Blue-State Hospitals Carrying Out Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda
In states where gender-affirming care remains legal, some hospitals have nonetheless stopped providing it. What gives?
newrepublic.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:
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If anyone is unsure of the mechanisms by which the Brown-Trump agreement facilitate government oversight of course evals, I’ve laid it out here in response to a skeptic.
Sure! It’s not obvious if you don’t know how course evals, title vi/vii/ix complaints, employment privacy laws, gov’t oversight of agreements like this work. The agreement facilitates gov’t oversight of course evals in 3 ways.
(1) Brown has agreed to send course evals to the feds [1/5]
(1) Brown has agreed to send course evals to the feds [1/5]
July 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If anyone is unsure of the mechanisms by which the Brown-Trump agreement facilitate government oversight of course evals, I’ve laid it out here in response to a skeptic.
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So disappointed in this move from Randi and AFT. This is not the orientation that labor needs to be adopting towards AI. Between this, and the AFL-CIO moving to invest in data center projects in places like Wisconsin, we are removing one of the most effective AI countergovernance institutions.
AI should be a tool used by educators, students, and the public, not the other way around. Think of it like a GPS system for your car. You should still make the best decisions that work for where you are trying to go! www.edweek.org/technology/m...
Microsoft, OpenAI Partner With AFT to Train Teachers on AI
The announcement comes as a rising number of school districts are providing AI training to teachers and administrators.
www.edweek.org
July 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
So disappointed in this move from Randi and AFT. This is not the orientation that labor needs to be adopting towards AI. Between this, and the AFL-CIO moving to invest in data center projects in places like Wisconsin, we are removing one of the most effective AI countergovernance institutions.
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If you live in Connecticut show up for these Friday vigils — and sign the petition!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...
July 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you live in Connecticut show up for these Friday vigils — and sign the petition!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...
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What’s happening in Gaza is not a war it’s the total collapse of everything humanity claims to stand for. This is not just a crime; it’s a global scandal unfolding in full view of those who built their reputation on human rights while watching children starve under siege.
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
July 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
What’s happening in Gaza is not a war it’s the total collapse of everything humanity claims to stand for. This is not just a crime; it’s a global scandal unfolding in full view of those who built their reputation on human rights while watching children starve under siege.
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p
It’s nothing but here are a few places you can send money
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
gazasoupkitchen.com
chuffed.org/project/1152...
gazafunds.com
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
gazasoupkitchen.com
chuffed.org/project/1152...
gazafunds.com
Gaza Funds Spotlight Campaign
Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here
gazafunds.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It’s nothing but here are a few places you can send money
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
gazasoupkitchen.com
chuffed.org/project/1152...
gazafunds.com
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
gazasoupkitchen.com
chuffed.org/project/1152...
gazafunds.com
...got something to say about queer and class?
please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~!
Proposals due Sept 1!
Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~!
Proposals due Sept 1!
Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
Call for Proposals – Queer-Class Relations Conference
queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
July 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
...got something to say about queer and class?
please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~!
Proposals due Sept 1!
Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~!
Proposals due Sept 1!
Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
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ICYMI, watch Angela Y. Davis in conversation at the CUNY Graduate Center as she receives the José Muñoz Award from CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies – video on YouTube! youtu.be/PYL39fLvW64 #lgbtqpride
Angela Y. Davis: Conversation and José Muñoz Award Presentation
YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center
youtu.be
June 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ICYMI, watch Angela Y. Davis in conversation at the CUNY Graduate Center as she receives the José Muñoz Award from CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies – video on YouTube! youtu.be/PYL39fLvW64 #lgbtqpride
hey hey it's a job! 📣 🙌
The American Studies department at Wesleyan is hiring TT in Ethnic Studies! We're a pretty nice department, all things considered lol.
Please apply & share with your people!
The American Studies department at Wesleyan is hiring TT in Ethnic Studies! We're a pretty nice department, all things considered lol.
Please apply & share with your people!
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Wesleyan University’s Department of American Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure track Assistant Professor specializing in Ethnic Studies beginning July 1, 2026. Ph.D. in American Stu...
wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
hey hey it's a job! 📣 🙌
The American Studies department at Wesleyan is hiring TT in Ethnic Studies! We're a pretty nice department, all things considered lol.
Please apply & share with your people!
The American Studies department at Wesleyan is hiring TT in Ethnic Studies! We're a pretty nice department, all things considered lol.
Please apply & share with your people!
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If you're not writing your long book what are you even doing. It's the summer of writing your long book, not the summer of experiencing happiness
I'm going to tell you exactly how to write a book. Do you see that impenetrable brick wall ahead of you? You're going to ram your head into it until long book is long.
July 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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im looking forward to this seminar on monday -- should be a smart, fun conversation about queerness, sex, desire, capitalism, class/caste, power ... hope you can join us!
Mo, 7.7. Radical Spotlight "Desire, Sexuality and the Economy" - with Vaibhav Saria, @margotweiss.bsky.social, Valentini Sampetai and Erik Bähre 🌹❤️🔥
@enqa.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social @anthrodesires.bsky.social @economicanthro.bsky.social
@enqa.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social @anthrodesires.bsky.social @economicanthro.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
im looking forward to this seminar on monday -- should be a smart, fun conversation about queerness, sex, desire, capitalism, class/caste, power ... hope you can join us!
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Still can’t get over the NYT giving their Pride cover to the guy who said Stonewall was when the queer movement lost its way. If it were in a movie it would be heavy handed!
June 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Still can’t get over the NYT giving their Pride cover to the guy who said Stonewall was when the queer movement lost its way. If it were in a movie it would be heavy handed!
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THIS IS THE BEST ONE MAMDANI GET TO WORK
is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,
June 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
THIS IS THE BEST ONE MAMDANI GET TO WORK
do you have rec for a fairly short (30-45 min) podcast that is queer/left and/or intellectually stimulating? so many are like 2 hours of loose chat and I need more focus to distract me from the horrors of exercise.
things like Toshio Meronek's Sad Francisco or Che Gossett's Gender Jawn...
things like Toshio Meronek's Sad Francisco or Che Gossett's Gender Jawn...
June 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
do you have rec for a fairly short (30-45 min) podcast that is queer/left and/or intellectually stimulating? so many are like 2 hours of loose chat and I need more focus to distract me from the horrors of exercise.
things like Toshio Meronek's Sad Francisco or Che Gossett's Gender Jawn...
things like Toshio Meronek's Sad Francisco or Che Gossett's Gender Jawn...
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IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
yes -- agree -- these are GREAT interviews! Great to catch up, glean some insights for things you're teaching, listen to authors you might have missed. I always learn something new.
I did one on Unsettling Queer Anthropology :
newbooksnetwork.com/unsettling-q...
I did one on Unsettling Queer Anthropology :
newbooksnetwork.com/unsettling-q...
June 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
yes -- agree -- these are GREAT interviews! Great to catch up, glean some insights for things you're teaching, listen to authors you might have missed. I always learn something new.
I did one on Unsettling Queer Anthropology :
newbooksnetwork.com/unsettling-q...
I did one on Unsettling Queer Anthropology :
newbooksnetwork.com/unsettling-q...
Read this if you are tired of white gay men and their hot takes on how trans people and other “radical queers” are to blame for Skrmetti.
Thank you @melissagiragrant.com!
Thank you @melissagiragrant.com!
It’s telling how the Christian right’s role in getting Skrmetti to SCOTUS is being erased—and by those seemingly desperate to blame trans people for asking for “too much.” So I spoke with legal historian @kredburn.bsky.social and ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social, who argued the case:
What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Transgender Ruling
The Skrmetti decision to uphold a state ban on gender-affirming care for minors was not as sweeping as it seems—nor is the trans rights movement to blame for it.
newrepublic.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Read this if you are tired of white gay men and their hot takes on how trans people and other “radical queers” are to blame for Skrmetti.
Thank you @melissagiragrant.com!
Thank you @melissagiragrant.com!