Sarah Simi Cohen, Ph.D.
@sarahsimicohen.bsky.social
Empowering equity & liberation through queering education, research, policy, praxis, & centering community care & love • 💜 Social justice, snacks, puns, & my dogs • FGLIQ • 🌈 🇵🇸 • Currently an independent critical scholar & consultant, always an organizer
Is anyone else concerned with the way #ACPA is framing the conversation around the LBCC boycott and the labor union? How are folks feeling as they navigate the moral/ethical stance of attending while an active boycott is happening? I know personally, I will never and can never cross a picket line.
February 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Is anyone else concerned with the way #ACPA is framing the conversation around the LBCC boycott and the labor union? How are folks feeling as they navigate the moral/ethical stance of attending while an active boycott is happening? I know personally, I will never and can never cross a picket line.
How are y'all navigating the grief of wanting to delete Meta and other social media platforms when there are so many memories of loved ones who have passed embedded throughout? Entire profiles of their existence? Groups for survivors, community building, and education that reach communities (1/3)
January 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
How are y'all navigating the grief of wanting to delete Meta and other social media platforms when there are so many memories of loved ones who have passed embedded throughout? Entire profiles of their existence? Groups for survivors, community building, and education that reach communities (1/3)
Who/what gives you hope in the field? What do your dreams look like today? How do you see them changing tomorrow? 6 months?
#highereducation #highered #edchat #dreaming #academicsky
#highereducation #highered #edchat #dreaming #academicsky
January 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Who/what gives you hope in the field? What do your dreams look like today? How do you see them changing tomorrow? 6 months?
#highereducation #highered #edchat #dreaming #academicsky
#highereducation #highered #edchat #dreaming #academicsky
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If you do education policy or civil rights issues in a blue state, poke around and listen to the conversations. Trans kids are not safe even with democrat controlled government.
December 6, 2024 at 3:37 PM
If you do education policy or civil rights issues in a blue state, poke around and listen to the conversations. Trans kids are not safe even with democrat controlled government.
Reposted by Sarah Simi Cohen, Ph.D.
“I’m here for trans joy and trans love. For me, my hope is that trans people are able to fill up their trans-o-meters and connect in meaningful ways, and also to leave this place with a sense of urgency to expand those connections as much as possible”
How does a transgender news outlet cover a major national story?
We center trans voices, and we tell the truth without showing excessive deference to the justices who are holding our lives in the balance.
Read Assigned Media's story on US vs Skrmetti.
We center trans voices, and we tell the truth without showing excessive deference to the justices who are holding our lives in the balance.
Read Assigned Media's story on US vs Skrmetti.
Supporters of Trans Rights Rally Despite Conservative Court’s Ominous Leanings — Assigned
Outside supporters of trans rights showed their fighting spirit. While inside, questions about detransition signaled court’s openness to gender affirming care bans.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 5, 2024 at 3:52 AM
“I’m here for trans joy and trans love. For me, my hope is that trans people are able to fill up their trans-o-meters and connect in meaningful ways, and also to leave this place with a sense of urgency to expand those connections as much as possible”
Reposted by Sarah Simi Cohen, Ph.D.
Democrats' backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights must stop now! here is my proposed action. Please share widely and please let me know if you plan to participate! #LGBTQNotGoingBack
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...
Planned Action for LGBTQ+ & Allies in Response to Democrats Capitulating on Trans Rights
As most of you are aware, since Kamala Harris’s election loss (which trans people were not in charge of nor responsible for), Democratic politicians and pundits have been signaling that they plan to t...
juliaserano.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Democrats' backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights must stop now! here is my proposed action. Please share widely and please let me know if you plan to participate! #LGBTQNotGoingBack
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...
This is far beyond over-compliance. Removing words like race and equity from course titles is disingenuous and quite frankly terrifying. Of course they target schools of Ed first 🙄
Academic freedom is fully at risk and under attack.
Academic freedom is fully at risk and under attack.
Read this Texas AAUP statement on the egregious censorship of academic freedom going on at the University of North Texas. @penamerica.bsky.social, Heterodox Academy, @thefireorg.bsky.social, and @aaup.bsky.social all in agreement on this one. #StrongerBetterTogether aaup-texas.org/blog/f/unive...
University of North Texas Censors Course Content
Texas AAUP-AFT Raises Faculty Concerns Over Course Censorship at the University of North Texas (Denton)
aaup-texas.org
November 19, 2024 at 6:01 PM
This is far beyond over-compliance. Removing words like race and equity from course titles is disingenuous and quite frankly terrifying. Of course they target schools of Ed first 🙄
Academic freedom is fully at risk and under attack.
Academic freedom is fully at risk and under attack.
Grateful to have had the opportunity to come to the Spectrum Center to co-facilitate a conversation with (almost!) Dr. Jesse Beal on Serving and Supporting Trans and Nonbinary People in US Higher Education.
This work is vital, especially in today's sociopolitical climate #HigherEd #QTScholars
This work is vital, especially in today's sociopolitical climate #HigherEd #QTScholars
November 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Grateful to have had the opportunity to come to the Spectrum Center to co-facilitate a conversation with (almost!) Dr. Jesse Beal on Serving and Supporting Trans and Nonbinary People in US Higher Education.
This work is vital, especially in today's sociopolitical climate #HigherEd #QTScholars
This work is vital, especially in today's sociopolitical climate #HigherEd #QTScholars
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“…to suggest we should compromise on the rights of trans people, for instance, and all of the other critical issues we care most about, is unacceptable. It is shameful and cowardly. We cannot abandon the most vulnerable communities to assuage the most powerful.” @roxanegay.bsky.social
“Absolutely anything is possible, and we must acknowledge this, not out of surrender, but as a means of readying ourselves for the impossible fights ahead.”
@roxanegay.bsky.social
[This is a gift link; please just read Roxane’s piece or don’t. I don’t care about subscription politics.]
@roxanegay.bsky.social
[This is a gift link; please just read Roxane’s piece or don’t. I don’t care about subscription politics.]
Opinion | Enough
To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:26 PM
“…to suggest we should compromise on the rights of trans people, for instance, and all of the other critical issues we care most about, is unacceptable. It is shameful and cowardly. We cannot abandon the most vulnerable communities to assuage the most powerful.” @roxanegay.bsky.social
University of Michigan bound! Surprised at how excited I was to be up *this* early on a Sunday.
November 17, 2024 at 1:11 PM
University of Michigan bound! Surprised at how excited I was to be up *this* early on a Sunday.
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Join the community of Queer & Trans Studies in Education.
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November 15, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Maybe I'll be better at this than Twitter?
November 15, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Maybe I'll be better at this than Twitter?