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It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
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it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
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> long as it is either with the blessing of the father/husband/master (ed child marriage, which republicans have long fought to protect) or done to a child who is sorted into the category of "public" instead of "private" property--homeless, racialized, etc children. the fact that queer & trans kids>
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
> long as it is either with the blessing of the father/husband/master (ed child marriage, which republicans have long fought to protect) or done to a child who is sorted into the category of "public" instead of "private" property--homeless, racialized, etc children. the fact that queer & trans kids>
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> are frequently kicked out of the house and MADE homeless by their parents is a way of punishing "tainted, corrupted" property by throwing it away, it's lost its value and is now publicly accessible for abuse. epstein recruited homeless girls, gaetz abused a homeless girl etc--these are children >
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
> are frequently kicked out of the house and MADE homeless by their parents is a way of punishing "tainted, corrupted" property by throwing it away, it's lost its value and is now publicly accessible for abuse. epstein recruited homeless girls, gaetz abused a homeless girl etc--these are children >
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> not considered to be inside any "fence" of anyone's private patriarchal property. in other words, free game, there is no violation, there is no infringement on anyone's property to claim what no one else properly owns.
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
> not considered to be inside any "fence" of anyone's private patriarchal property. in other words, free game, there is no violation, there is no infringement on anyone's property to claim what no one else properly owns.
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when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.
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we have GOT to stop thinking about this in terms of hypocrisy because that's not what's going on! we NEED to understand why pedo apologia is so rampant in anti-trans pseudoscience, why abuse is so rampant in the home, why child marriage is still legal across the country etc.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
we have GOT to stop thinking about this in terms of hypocrisy because that's not what's going on! we NEED to understand why pedo apologia is so rampant in anti-trans pseudoscience, why abuse is so rampant in the home, why child marriage is still legal across the country etc.
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sexual violence is THE patriarchal technology of oppression. wherever there is any kind of oppression--colonialism, genocide, capitalism, the state, the police--there is sexual violence as its frontline operative mechanism. the child is THE archetypal object of legitimate disciplinary violence.
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
sexual violence is THE patriarchal technology of oppression. wherever there is any kind of oppression--colonialism, genocide, capitalism, the state, the police--there is sexual violence as its frontline operative mechanism. the child is THE archetypal object of legitimate disciplinary violence.
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ngl i am pretty exhausted with repeating this again and again, every single time there's another republican outed as a sex pest, another youth pastor charged with csam, etc etc etc. i really strongly wanted to just not bother this time because i'm a broken record and i'm tired. but it HAS to click.
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
ngl i am pretty exhausted with repeating this again and again, every single time there's another republican outed as a sex pest, another youth pastor charged with csam, etc etc etc. i really strongly wanted to just not bother this time because i'm a broken record and i'm tired. but it HAS to click.
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Watching the Trump/MTG feud like
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Watching the Trump/MTG feud like
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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NYT: the transes are a menace. gender is hunting your children. they’re not enbies they’re fearthembies.
Also NYT: how can we help cover up crimes mister epstein call us anytime
Also NYT: how can we help cover up crimes mister epstein call us anytime
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
NYT: the transes are a menace. gender is hunting your children. they’re not enbies they’re fearthembies.
Also NYT: how can we help cover up crimes mister epstein call us anytime
Also NYT: how can we help cover up crimes mister epstein call us anytime
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I’m one “had sex with underage women” headline away from this
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I’m one “had sex with underage women” headline away from this
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Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou on Donald Trump: “Ghislaine Maxwell did introduce me to him and she introduced me to him with a clear message of my being with him in the same way that she had trafficked me and brought me to Jeffrey Epstein” #OpDeathEaters
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou on Donald Trump: “Ghislaine Maxwell did introduce me to him and she introduced me to him with a clear message of my being with him in the same way that she had trafficked me and brought me to Jeffrey Epstein” #OpDeathEaters
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Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
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i don't think democratic voters should have to spend this much time whipping democratic elected officials.
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
i don't think democratic voters should have to spend this much time whipping democratic elected officials.
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
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Mamdani speaks.
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I say his name, as we turn the page that abandons the many in favor of the few."
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I say his name, as we turn the page that abandons the many in favor of the few."
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Mamdani speaks.
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I say his name, as we turn the page that abandons the many in favor of the few."
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I say his name, as we turn the page that abandons the many in favor of the few."
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BREAKING: PROP 50 HAS PASSED IN CALIFORNIA
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
BREAKING: PROP 50 HAS PASSED IN CALIFORNIA