Matthew Thomas-Reid (he/him)
@thedrmtr.bsky.social
#queerapplachia #queertheory #queerpedagogy
Associate Professor, writer, nerd, queer activist and Appalachian native looking to speak truth to power. I seek an educational future safe for my son to attend school and my husband to teach. Views are my own.
Associate Professor, writer, nerd, queer activist and Appalachian native looking to speak truth to power. I seek an educational future safe for my son to attend school and my husband to teach. Views are my own.
I love this perspective on how and who we cite...
Reading notes on the politics & poetics of citation, and experimenting with the syllabus as a genre. www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-note...
The Politics and Poetics of Citation — Lisa Diedrich
It all begins with an idea.
www.lisadiedrich.org
August 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I love this perspective on how and who we cite...
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This is a good book. If you like space and want to understand the moment, read this book
Wrote a whole fucking book about doing the cosmos ethically
#BookSky
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#BookSky
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The Disordered Cosmos
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June 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is a good book. If you like space and want to understand the moment, read this book
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oh look it’s the thing everyone said wouldn’t happen and hadn’t happened, happening
1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use.
Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trans Man Detained After Using Women’s Restroom in South Carolina
Anti-trans lawmakers want to force trans men to use the women's restroom. Here’s what happened when one did.
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May 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
oh look it’s the thing everyone said wouldn’t happen and hadn’t happened, happening
Professors can spot AI because we know how to read scholarly work: we pay attention to citations and to whose work is referenced. AI won't make academics redundant, rather AI will make those with the expertise to spot a fake even more important...
But why do my humanities profs tell me not to write my paper with AI....
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations: A report on children’s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist.
This is orders of magnitude worse than anything Claudine Gay was even **alleged** to have done.
This is orders of magnitude worse than anything Claudine Gay was even **alleged** to have done.
May 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Professors can spot AI because we know how to read scholarly work: we pay attention to citations and to whose work is referenced. AI won't make academics redundant, rather AI will make those with the expertise to spot a fake even more important...
It occurred to me today how silly the scarcity argument is in relation to protections for trans and intersex students. So we can have peanut free zones for the roughly 1-2% with peanut allergies but we can't create safe bathrooms and lockerrooms for that same percentage because it's inconsequential?
April 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It occurred to me today how silly the scarcity argument is in relation to protections for trans and intersex students. So we can have peanut free zones for the roughly 1-2% with peanut allergies but we can't create safe bathrooms and lockerrooms for that same percentage because it's inconsequential?
One just needs to look to Hungary to see where we could be headed. Orban's regime has been a model for US Christian nationalists.
There are people in the UK and Ireland also who'd do this today if we let them. It's our absolute duty to resist that.
Banning Budapest Pride was just the beginning.
Viktor Orban will attempt to introduce more homophobic legislation in Hungary today.
The EU must act now to preserve human rights.
“This is not child protection, this is fascism.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Viktor Orban will attempt to introduce more homophobic legislation in Hungary today.
The EU must act now to preserve human rights.
“This is not child protection, this is fascism.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
April 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
One just needs to look to Hungary to see where we could be headed. Orban's regime has been a model for US Christian nationalists.
The book is out!
April 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The book is out!
Comes out next month! Available for pre order!
February 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Comes out next month! Available for pre order!
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WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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Alt: a black background with the words black history month in red yellow and green
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February 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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This seems to reverse the relationship Simone de Beauvoir first diagnosed in 1949 in THE SECOND SEX: woman as Other to man’s Self. Thus, women understand themselves only in relation to men, not as autonomous beings. Here, men are so fearful of a femininity they are helping to bring it into being.
Most men have defined masculinity as not-feminine.
This means that the more women expand their abilities and interests once the domain of men, these men then have to more narrowly define their masculinity.
Soon all that’s left is just the toxic parts.
This means that the more women expand their abilities and interests once the domain of men, these men then have to more narrowly define their masculinity.
Soon all that’s left is just the toxic parts.
January 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This seems to reverse the relationship Simone de Beauvoir first diagnosed in 1949 in THE SECOND SEX: woman as Other to man’s Self. Thus, women understand themselves only in relation to men, not as autonomous beings. Here, men are so fearful of a femininity they are helping to bring it into being.
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The most radical, anti-fascist thing you can do right now is stay alive. 💜🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈💜
January 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The most radical, anti-fascist thing you can do right now is stay alive. 💜🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈💜
#anitabryant #lgbt
A little PSA for the "don't speak ill of the dead" crowd: With the passing of Anita Bryant, there will probably be some celebration. Before you criticize, remember this woman leveraged her fame to lobby against gay teachers and led the way in promoting anti-LGBTQIA+ propaganda.
A little PSA for the "don't speak ill of the dead" crowd: With the passing of Anita Bryant, there will probably be some celebration. Before you criticize, remember this woman leveraged her fame to lobby against gay teachers and led the way in promoting anti-LGBTQIA+ propaganda.
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#anitabryant #lgbt
A little PSA for the "don't speak ill of the dead" crowd: With the passing of Anita Bryant, there will probably be some celebration. Before you criticize, remember this woman leveraged her fame to lobby against gay teachers and led the way in promoting anti-LGBTQIA+ propaganda.
A little PSA for the "don't speak ill of the dead" crowd: With the passing of Anita Bryant, there will probably be some celebration. Before you criticize, remember this woman leveraged her fame to lobby against gay teachers and led the way in promoting anti-LGBTQIA+ propaganda.
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Check out this cool new book my grad school buddy Juan wrote!
@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social and I delighted to announce a *new book* in our Queer and Trans Studies in Education book series with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social: Juan A. Ríos Vega's _Voicing Vulnerable Bodies Living on the Edges:
The Autoethnography of a Transnational Mariposa_.
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The Autoethnography of a Transnational Mariposa_.
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November 25, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Check out this cool new book my grad school buddy Juan wrote!
This phenomenon frustrated me when people were making fun of conservatives percieved to be in the closet. Critique a person because of their words and actions, not their Sexuality or gender identity, joke or not.
the “Elonia Musk” thing rests entirely on “ha ha what if he was a woman” and that is so self-evidently transphobic and misogynistic that I do not understand calling yourself progressive and unironically using it as an insult
November 25, 2024 at 1:44 AM
This phenomenon frustrated me when people were making fun of conservatives percieved to be in the closet. Critique a person because of their words and actions, not their Sexuality or gender identity, joke or not.
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I have a chapter with Bishop Owis in this fabulous collection on queering the helping professions, edited by Adam Davies and Cameron Greensmith. It's out today! Please request a copy through your university library: utorontopress.com/978148755092...
University of Toronto Press - Queering Professionalism
With a focus on neoliberalism and its intersection with systems of oppression, inequalities, and the regulation of queer knowledge and subjectivities, Queeri...
utorontopress.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
I have a chapter with Bishop Owis in this fabulous collection on queering the helping professions, edited by Adam Davies and Cameron Greensmith. It's out today! Please request a copy through your university library: utorontopress.com/978148755092...
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Looking for my #lgbtq people! My forthcoming book is called: Queer Justice at School: A guide for youth activists, allies, and their teachers. Out in March 2025! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
November 18, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Looking for my #lgbtq people! My forthcoming book is called: Queer Justice at School: A guide for youth activists, allies, and their teachers. Out in March 2025! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
This is the power of the right's strategy: bring enough issues into political discourse that any resulting "neutrality" is in effect the same as silencing. My students ask "why is this course so political" instead of asking "how did we let the right to exist become a subject for political debate."
“Be truthful, but not neutral.”
Christiane Amanpour
“The journalist’s job is truth, not objectivity.”
Neil Barsky, Founder, The Marshall Project
Christiane Amanpour
“The journalist’s job is truth, not objectivity.”
Neil Barsky, Founder, The Marshall Project
November 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM
This is the power of the right's strategy: bring enough issues into political discourse that any resulting "neutrality" is in effect the same as silencing. My students ask "why is this course so political" instead of asking "how did we let the right to exist become a subject for political debate."
I expect to see many of these strategies implemented in other states. Nobody will have to ban courses or overtly silence academic freedom, they will just slowly cut courses from programs and gen ed requirements.
Thanks to our very wise Board of Trustees, one of the courses I normally teach (LGBTQ History), along with 431 others, will no longer count toward the fulfillment of general education requirements. Just another day in the “Free State of Florida.” 🗃️
"The 432 courses that were removed from General Education range from Theories of African American Studies, Critics of Religion and American Multi-Ethnic Literature to Feminism and Globalization, the Evolution of Human Sexuality and LGBTQ History."
November 24, 2024 at 3:21 AM
I expect to see many of these strategies implemented in other states. Nobody will have to ban courses or overtly silence academic freedom, they will just slowly cut courses from programs and gen ed requirements.
Yup. I'm constantly replicating and reposting online content to simply repeat the process every time a site is sold to a new company ( flipgrip and jamboard being the most recent)
1994: internet is ephemeral
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
November 22, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Yup. I'm constantly replicating and reposting online content to simply repeat the process every time a site is sold to a new company ( flipgrip and jamboard being the most recent)
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people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization
November 21, 2024 at 5:17 PM
people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization
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Cis gays: we must stand with our trans brothers and sisters. The disgust you see directed at them is unconscionable, and was directed at us not more than a generation ago. We abandon them, we abandon our humanity.
November 20, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Cis gays: we must stand with our trans brothers and sisters. The disgust you see directed at them is unconscionable, and was directed at us not more than a generation ago. We abandon them, we abandon our humanity.