Dr. Rine Vieth 🚐
@rinewithoutacat.bsky.social
move with care • researches anti-genderism, migration, law, govt, religion • makes comics, posters, podcasts, zines, balcony gardens • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct, but I cite my sources • usually MTL
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As some of you know, I'm working on a project looking at anti-gender/anti-trans politics and its impacts on SOGI asylum/refugee policymaking in Canada and the UK.
I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.
Please share!
I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.
Please share!
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I was really going to wait longer to post this until I'd added all the examples to github, but since clearly the pace of 2026 may actually outstrip 2025: here is a rough guide to archiving legislative and congressional hearings. 2026 is going to be an all-hands situation. We need eyes on everything.
Streamripping democracy: archiving legislative hearings — Jessica Kant
While people scrambled to the livestreams and, whenever possible, posted updates as they happened, the sheer size and scale of the project was too much for any one person. Even the most well-resourced...
jessk.org
January 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I was really going to wait longer to post this until I'd added all the examples to github, but since clearly the pace of 2026 may actually outstrip 2025: here is a rough guide to archiving legislative and congressional hearings. 2026 is going to be an all-hands situation. We need eyes on everything.
Logged in to Twitter (got my archive to wipe my acct) and managed to get hit with the weirdly transphobic Heated Rivalry article, then had a panic about a particular part of submitted job applications...in both cases friends and an old cat are great for dealing with existential dread on a Saturday.
January 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Logged in to Twitter (got my archive to wipe my acct) and managed to get hit with the weirdly transphobic Heated Rivalry article, then had a panic about a particular part of submitted job applications...in both cases friends and an old cat are great for dealing with existential dread on a Saturday.
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Trying to explain to friends why I'm back at it applying for jobs when most people are still on holiday break, and remembered this
Common misconception that postdocs are professional academics. In fact, postdocs are professional applicants to academic jobs
January 3, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Trying to explain to friends why I'm back at it applying for jobs when most people are still on holiday break, and remembered this
I find there is usually a Mary Oliver poem for things I need to sit with—this is from "Red Bird" (2008).
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I find there is usually a Mary Oliver poem for things I need to sit with—this is from "Red Bird" (2008).
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If you want a sense of the state of Canadian news gathering right now, I don't think any Canadian news sites have a story up about Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 8:46 AM
If you want a sense of the state of Canadian news gathering right now, I don't think any Canadian news sites have a story up about Venezuela
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This is a stark reason—one of several—to be very cautious here. Others: Almost everyone involved is an unreliable narrator. It’s night. It’s the new year weekend and so still a holiday time for most journalism staffing operations.
People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.
People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.
Whatever the fuck is going on is clearly very bad and an era of fake/recirculated video making it very hard to tell what is real is making it even worse.
January 3, 2026 at 7:14 AM
This is a stark reason—one of several—to be very cautious here. Others: Almost everyone involved is an unreliable narrator. It’s night. It’s the new year weekend and so still a holiday time for most journalism staffing operations.
People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.
People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.
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Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti.
Mattia sips on an espresso during his.
Truly the heroes we need during these times.
Mattia sips on an espresso during his.
Truly the heroes we need during these times.
January 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti.
Mattia sips on an espresso during his.
Truly the heroes we need during these times.
Mattia sips on an espresso during his.
Truly the heroes we need during these times.
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Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
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UofT students: I'm offering a Black Radical Theory from the Global South class, JAA 377H on Tuesdays. We'll be reading folks like Neville Alexander, Keguro Macharia, Beatriz Nascimento, Grace Musila, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Wangui Kimari etc...
January 3, 2026 at 2:17 AM
UofT students: I'm offering a Black Radical Theory from the Global South class, JAA 377H on Tuesdays. We'll be reading folks like Neville Alexander, Keguro Macharia, Beatriz Nascimento, Grace Musila, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Wangui Kimari etc...
Deciding to belatedly add the intention of "don't post stuff to just generate rage" because "look at this horrible thing!!" feels both too easy and unhelpful.
I want to be more intentional and more useful and more productive with communication and...well, we do not need constant cortisol-spikes.
I want to be more intentional and more useful and more productive with communication and...well, we do not need constant cortisol-spikes.
Have decided on intentions for next year:
- Get stronger at the gym (as my body allows)
- Write a *rough* draft of a book I've wanted to write for a couple years (the outline is there)
- Do more comics + printmaking (see: fix my riso)
- Reconnect with old friends + connect more with new/er friends
- Get stronger at the gym (as my body allows)
- Write a *rough* draft of a book I've wanted to write for a couple years (the outline is there)
- Do more comics + printmaking (see: fix my riso)
- Reconnect with old friends + connect more with new/er friends
January 3, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Deciding to belatedly add the intention of "don't post stuff to just generate rage" because "look at this horrible thing!!" feels both too easy and unhelpful.
I want to be more intentional and more useful and more productive with communication and...well, we do not need constant cortisol-spikes.
I want to be more intentional and more useful and more productive with communication and...well, we do not need constant cortisol-spikes.
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New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra
Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation
www.nybooks.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Ok so the Habs were not cozy hockey, but a 7-5 win (first win against Carolina in Carolina since April 2016?!) is indeed a win
*getting cozy for hockey-watching, but I like the way this is phrased so will not be deleting, you should all get some cozy hockey-watching if that's what you're into (or the existential anxiety of the Habs taking things to OT, yet again)
January 2, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Ok so the Habs were not cozy hockey, but a 7-5 win (first win against Carolina in Carolina since April 2016?!) is indeed a win
Living Jan 1 as I intend to continue the year—still glowing from a lovely walk last night, texting a dozen friends, smooching my cat on the noggin, making some writing plans (and then writing), ending up on a migrant solidarity call, and then getting cozy hockey-watching.
January 1, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Living Jan 1 as I intend to continue the year—still glowing from a lovely walk last night, texting a dozen friends, smooching my cat on the noggin, making some writing plans (and then writing), ending up on a migrant solidarity call, and then getting cozy hockey-watching.
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Hearts starve as well as bodies
Give us bread but give us roses
Give us bread but give us roses
Watch Lucy Dacus perform the women's suffrage and workers' rights anthem "Bread And Roses" at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's NYC mayoral inauguration
Watch Lucy Dacus Perform "Bread And Roses" At Zohran Mamdani's Mayoral Inauguration
Indie rockers were among the many musicians who played a part in Zohran Mamdani’s successful campaign to become mayor of New York City. Lucy Dacus, for instance, welcomed Mamdani onstage during her pe...
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January 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Hearts starve as well as bodies
Give us bread but give us roses
Give us bread but give us roses
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when we all collectively lost our minds until the wee hours and by the end even the players didn’t care who won
Favorite sports moment of 2025? 🎉
January 1, 2026 at 2:41 AM
when we all collectively lost our minds until the wee hours and by the end even the players didn’t care who won
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Bernie Wagenblast, best known as the “please stand away from the closing doors” voice is the announcer for Mamdani’s inauguration.
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Bernie Wagenblast, best known as the “please stand away from the closing doors” voice is the announcer for Mamdani’s inauguration.
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Happy to share this open access article I co-authored with Dimitrios Theodossopolous
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Happy to share this open access article I co-authored with Dimitrios Theodossopolous
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The swiftness with which Trump dismantled decades of meager, hard-fought protections exposed the limits of legal work.
twp.ai/4itNhb
twp.ai/4itNhb
In the Face of Anti-Trans Escalation, We Need More Than Legal Strategies
The swiftness with which Trump dismantled decades of meager, hard-fought protections exposed the limits of legal work.
truthout.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The swiftness with which Trump dismantled decades of meager, hard-fought protections exposed the limits of legal work.
twp.ai/4itNhb
twp.ai/4itNhb
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One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
First walk of the year with a friend, complete.
January 1, 2026 at 8:38 AM
First walk of the year with a friend, complete.
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I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread
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the point is that together we can find a way. the point is that. together.
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
the point is that together we can find a way. the point is that. together.
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you are here at the end of a year in which I'll bet you wondered what the point was, at some point
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
you are here at the end of a year in which I'll bet you wondered what the point was, at some point