Matthew Thomann
@mattytho.bsky.social
medical/queer anthropologist, ethnographer & associate professor @ university of maryland | global public health | marginality and exclusion | queer and trans resistance and intimacies | medicalization | health justice
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The perfect skeet doesn’t exist… oh, wait…
April 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The perfect skeet doesn’t exist… oh, wait…
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I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.
March 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.
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This DCQS, join us for lunch and Queer/Trans Activism at UMD: Archives of the Past for the Future. 🌈🎓 . Discover the history of queer and trans activism at UMD and explore what is (and is not) held in the archive and how activists & archivists are working to preserve documentation of these movements
March 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This DCQS, join us for lunch and Queer/Trans Activism at UMD: Archives of the Past for the Future. 🌈🎓 . Discover the history of queer and trans activism at UMD and explore what is (and is not) held in the archive and how activists & archivists are working to preserve documentation of these movements
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We're so excited! DC Queer Studies 🌈🎓 is next week! Come celebrate with us and engage with some exciting queer studies scholarship! RSVP now at go.umd.edu/DCQS2025
March 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We're so excited! DC Queer Studies 🌈🎓 is next week! Come celebrate with us and engage with some exciting queer studies scholarship! RSVP now at go.umd.edu/DCQS2025
My Fulbright allowed me to study how state sponsored homophobia and myopic global health policies align to worsen the health of queer Kenyans. Never thought I’d find myself defending the “soft power” of the US State Dpt given its perpetuation of US exceptionalism and homonationalism and yet…
My Fulbright scholarship and research changed my life, and helped me get into Columbia for grad school.
It’s what made me decide to pursue journalism. I still advise Fulbrighters.
The admin is destroying soft power through international knowledge exchange and America will be worse off for it.
It’s what made me decide to pursue journalism. I still advise Fulbrighters.
The admin is destroying soft power through international knowledge exchange and America will be worse off for it.
March 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My Fulbright allowed me to study how state sponsored homophobia and myopic global health policies align to worsen the health of queer Kenyans. Never thought I’d find myself defending the “soft power” of the US State Dpt given its perpetuation of US exceptionalism and homonationalism and yet…
My Fulbright allowed me to study how state sponsored homophobia and myopic global health policies align to worsen the health of queer Kenyans. Never thought I’d find myself defending the “soft power” of the US State Dpt given its perpetuation of US exceptionalism and homonationalism and yet…
Similarly my Fulbright fellowship was life-changing and helped cement my path to becoming a professor.
My Fulbright scholarship and research changed my life, and helped me get into Columbia for grad school.
It’s what made me decide to pursue journalism. I still advise Fulbrighters.
The admin is destroying soft power through international knowledge exchange and America will be worse off for it.
It’s what made me decide to pursue journalism. I still advise Fulbrighters.
The admin is destroying soft power through international knowledge exchange and America will be worse off for it.
March 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My Fulbright allowed me to study how state sponsored homophobia and myopic global health policies align to worsen the health of queer Kenyans. Never thought I’d find myself defending the “soft power” of the US State Dpt given its perpetuation of US exceptionalism and homonationalism and yet…
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Vaccines, transgender health studies at risk as $300 million in federal cuts expected in Maryland
New round of federal health cuts threaten kids’ vaccines and research
Another round of federal health grant cancelations threatens kids' vaccines and other medical research.
buff.ly
March 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Vaccines, transgender health studies at risk as $300 million in federal cuts expected in Maryland
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Fresh from endorsing the German far right, Musk is now defending the French far right.
When people show you they are, believe them the first time.
When people show you they are, believe them the first time.
Elon Musk slams Marine Le Pen guilty verdict as arch-conservatives unite in fury
Key adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump signals he will make the French far-right standard-bearer a new cause célèbre.
www.politico.eu
March 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Fresh from endorsing the German far right, Musk is now defending the French far right.
When people show you they are, believe them the first time.
When people show you they are, believe them the first time.
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From our friend the Informed Alarmist… @informedalarmist.bsky.social .
Here’s the DOGE plan for merging USAID into State. SBU but MUST READ for anyone who cares about development.
open.substack.com/pub/informed...
open.substack.com/pub/informed...
USAID: The Final Solution...
DOGE has submitted the plan for merging State and USAID to Congress for its rubber stamp of approval.
open.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
From our friend the Informed Alarmist… @informedalarmist.bsky.social .
“Unequivocally, no blame in this falls on Signal,” says White. “Signal is a communication tool designed for confidential conversations. If someone's brought into a conversation who’s not meant to be part of it, that's not a technology problem. That's an operator issue.”
“Signal is a tool. If you misuse a tool, bad things are going to happen. If you hit yourself in the face with a hammer, it’s not the hammer’s fault. It’s really on you to make sure you know who you’re talking to.”
SignalGate Isn't About Signal
The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.
www.wired.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“Unequivocally, no blame in this falls on Signal,” says White. “Signal is a communication tool designed for confidential conversations. If someone's brought into a conversation who’s not meant to be part of it, that's not a technology problem. That's an operator issue.”
“At one point, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif, asked Kerger if Sesame Street character Elmo was a communist? "No" she replied.
Garcia: "Are you sure Ms. Kerger? Because he is red."
"Well, he is a puppet, but no," Kerger replied.”
Garcia: "Are you sure Ms. Kerger? Because he is red."
"Well, he is a puppet, but no," Kerger replied.”
The public broadcasting CEOs defended their networks against accusations from House Republicans of bias in news and cultural programming.
NPR, PBS heads answer lawmakers' allegations of bias
The public broadcasting CEOs defended their networks against accusations from House Republicans of bias in news and cultural programming.
www.npr.org
March 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“At one point, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif, asked Kerger if Sesame Street character Elmo was a communist? "No" she replied.
Garcia: "Are you sure Ms. Kerger? Because he is red."
"Well, he is a puppet, but no," Kerger replied.”
Garcia: "Are you sure Ms. Kerger? Because he is red."
"Well, he is a puppet, but no," Kerger replied.”
Ahem
March 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Ahem
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Waiting until after Democrats caved on the CR, Trump issues a late night order to eliminate 7 agencies “to the maximum extent” allowed by law, including the organization running the Voice of America, the agency that helps fund museums and libraries in all 50 states, and so on. Order in alt text:
March 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Waiting until after Democrats caved on the CR, Trump issues a late night order to eliminate 7 agencies “to the maximum extent” allowed by law, including the organization running the Voice of America, the agency that helps fund museums and libraries in all 50 states, and so on. Order in alt text:
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If you’re in the neighborhood…
March 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If you’re in the neighborhood…
COWARDS.
Columbia continues to destroy itself in the malign and stupid effort to hang on to Zionist and federal money (which it doesn't really need).
Today's slaughter includes the expulsion of the president of the grad worker union. A day before bargaining is due to begin.
Today's slaughter includes the expulsion of the president of the grad worker union. A day before bargaining is due to begin.
March 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
COWARDS.
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Columbia continues to destroy itself in the malign and stupid effort to hang on to Zionist and federal money (which it doesn't really need).
Today's slaughter includes the expulsion of the president of the grad worker union. A day before bargaining is due to begin.
Today's slaughter includes the expulsion of the president of the grad worker union. A day before bargaining is due to begin.
March 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Columbia continues to destroy itself in the malign and stupid effort to hang on to Zionist and federal money (which it doesn't really need).
Today's slaughter includes the expulsion of the president of the grad worker union. A day before bargaining is due to begin.
Today's slaughter includes the expulsion of the president of the grad worker union. A day before bargaining is due to begin.
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I'm delighted to have co-authored this critical paper alongside other African global health experts (@seyeabimbola.bsky.social and Dr Ebere Okereke) on how Africa's health systems can adapt and build resilience following the abrupt USAID cuts.
March 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm delighted to have co-authored this critical paper alongside other African global health experts (@seyeabimbola.bsky.social and Dr Ebere Okereke) on how Africa's health systems can adapt and build resilience following the abrupt USAID cuts.
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one of the maddening things about being in discourse studies or rhetoric is that whenever we tell people that bad actors love to appropriate the language of their enemies values in order to subvert them and confuse onlookers, people simply don’t see it until it’s too late!!
I’m struck by the Trump administration’s attempt to redefine equality as discrimination against white people. This is a deeply racist idea that *equal outcomes* must be unfair, assuming white people are naturally at the top of the hierarchy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
March 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
one of the maddening things about being in discourse studies or rhetoric is that whenever we tell people that bad actors love to appropriate the language of their enemies values in order to subvert them and confuse onlookers, people simply don’t see it until it’s too late!!
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A New York federal judge is set to hear pivotal questions in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of large Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University who now faces deportation after his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Mahmoud Khalil case goes to court, spotlighting green card holders' rights
A New York federal judge is set to hear pivotal questions in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of large Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University who now faces deportation after his arrest by...
www.npr.org
March 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A New York federal judge is set to hear pivotal questions in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of large Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University who now faces deportation after his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
FFS
Weldon’s confirmation hearing is this Thursday. He, like RFK Jr is a nightmare for CDC and everyday Americans.
We will cover his crazy as it arrives and encourage our colleagues to keep an eye on their blood pressure.
We will cover his crazy as it arrives and encourage our colleagues to keep an eye on their blood pressure.
More reasons from @drjudystone.bsky.social why Dave Weldon should be nowhere near CDC. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
March 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
FFS
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This woulda been me in 2024-2016. Straight outta grad school on an already barely livable salary (by NYC standards) as a T32 postdoc at Columbia. Wonder if the admin is rethinking their strategy now that they’ve been smacked down despite their capitulation
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
March 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This woulda been me in 2024-2016. Straight outta grad school on an already barely livable salary (by NYC standards) as a T32 postdoc at Columbia. Wonder if the admin is rethinking their strategy now that they’ve been smacked down despite their capitulation
Ahem
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Ahem