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Teddy Davenport
@tsdav.bsky.social
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Recent Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Washington researching queer/trans spaces, politics of community care, disability justice, and critical data studies. Looking for postdoc/TT opportunities! he/they
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tessahill.bsky.social
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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leximcmenamin.com
thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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leximcmenamin.com
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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leximcmenamin.com
the massive scale of the No Kings protests, from the organizers’ perspectives, was ALWAYS about making it easy for people to people to go and meet organizers and organizations and mutual aid:

“Let this be a springboard, not the end of your journey.”

if you went, how are you doing so?
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
tsdav.bsky.social
Gary Newman warned us about this
mattburgess1.bsky.social Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Oct 14
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
October 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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autumnwolff.bsky.social
Y’all should read @taliabhatt.itch.io’s Verge article on trans indie publishing challenges.

It’s fucking great, y’all. (The article. Not the trans indie publishing challenges 😭)

www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat
Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.
www.theverge.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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echomikeromeo.bsky.social
We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
Logo with the words 'GLINTS: Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary and Trans Studies' in coral text on a purple background.
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · Oct 8
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
tsdav.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
A new complaint from ACLU and other human rights groups details how the warden at a Lousiana ICE facility created an unofficial “work program” of manual labor and sexual humiliation for trans men at the facility. This is very hard to read.

rfkhumanrights.org/wp-content/u...
I. Factual Background The facts presented below are drawn from the testimonies of four survivors: Mario, Monica, Kenia, and Jane Doe. These facts demonstrate systemic abuse at SLIPC. Forced Labor Targeting Transgender and LGBTQ+ People Assistant Warden Mr. Manuel Reyes ("AW Reyes") ran an unsanctioned 'night shift cleaning crew' between 8:00 pm and 6:00 am. This program was not reported in official records and targeted transgender and LGBTQ+ detained people. Mario, Monica, and Kenia were forced into hard manual labor without protective equipment. Tasks included stripping floors, painting, and exposure to industrial-strength chemicals, causing burns, respiratory distress, and lasting injuries. Sexual Assault, Harassment and Exploitation AW Reyes stalked, harassed, and assaulted detained people in camera 'blind spots.' Mario and Monica witnessed AW Reyes coercing sexual acts from others. Monica was groped and assaulted multiple times. AW Reyes also told him that he watched him shower on cameras. Kenia was harassed and threatened with retaliation when refusing to cooperate. Jane Doe was repeatedly stalked, groped, and coerced into performing oral sex under threat to her and her family. The survivors' individual stories are detailed below: Monica (he/him); Transgender Man; Detained Since May 9, 2023 Monica has been detained by ICE continuously since on or about May 9, 2023. In late September 2023, AW Reyes approached Monica about joining a "cleaning crew" to work an "off the books night shift program," alongside another transgender man detained at SLIPC. That month, Monica began to perform hard manual labor at the instruction of AW Reyes. The "shifts" occurred late at night, between the hours of 8:00 pm and 6:00 am. Unlike the other work programs at SLIPC, these work shifts were not recorded in a formal log book or shift schedule. AW Reyes approached transgender people and masculine-presenting LGBTQ+ people to participate in this "program." Each person targeted by AW Reyes identified as transgender or LGBTQ+. AW Reyes would enter the housing units and wake up Monica and the others and bring them to do hard manual labor in various locations inside SLIPC. The "shifts" were randomized and Monica and the others did not have a designated schedule. AW Reyes would compensate them for their labor at times by adding $1/day into their commissary accounts. Other times, he would bring a trash bag full of commissary items and give them to Monica and the others. AW Reyes routinely entered the housing unit late at night, between two and three o'clock in the morning, while detained people were sleeping. He would walk around the unit while people were sleeping and take people's used underwear and sanitary pads from the housing unit. Monica witnessed him say to a detained woman walking to her bunk in her nightshirt, "Is that how your breasts bounce when you are fucking?" AW Reyes required Monica and others to perform hard manual labor without any personal protective equipment, resulting in significant health risks and physical injuries. Despite repeated requests, Monica and others were denied access to gloves, face shields, and steel-toed boots. In response to these…
September 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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notrightruth.bsky.social
New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.

It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.

It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
Reject Trans Doom-Posting
This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…
ruthpearce.net
September 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
tsdav.bsky.social
@averyeverhart.bsky.social and I are SO excited to share "How to lose a culture war: Social media, trans disinformation and the authoritarian right," a paper we co-wrote on disinformation, digital authoritarianism, and anti-trans politics! Now available open access with Dialogues on Digital Society.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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volts.wtf
This matters a lot more than his tweets.
Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers warn
Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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michaelann.bsky.social
Here's a fun fact: most professors only get paid for 9 months of the year, and if you want to get paid for the rest, you have to get grants and fund it out of those yourself. So the functional ban on trans people getting grants is also functionally a huge pay cut for all trans academics! Fun!
September 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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vivmccall.bsky.social
I broke this last week! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...
Tacoma’s Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital Axes Gender Clinic Waitlist
Citing “changing federal expectations,” the gender clinic at MultiCare’s Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network in Tacoma has cut  its waitlist for trans youth, a...
www.thestranger.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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leximcmenamin.com
today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American.

"The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."
From Famine in Gaza to Trump Cutting SNAP, Child Hunger is An American Pastime
"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy."
www.teenvogue.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
tsdav.bsky.social
I saw Leah present this project at the last AAG and am so delighted that the game is finally public!
leahgovia.bsky.social Leah Govia @leahgovia.bsky.social · Aug 25
Finally sharing one of my favourite things to come out of the PhD! I got to develop Ethemblage, an interactive game about #ethics and nature-focused technology 🤖🌻 You can access the game, its teaching guides, and a feedback survey here: leahgovia.itch.io/ethemblage
Ethemblage by leahgovia
Interactive story about more-than-human ethics
leahgovia.itch.io
August 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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pplscitycouncil.bsky.social
It is absolutely ridiculous that Adrienne Villa's death has basically gone unreported in local & national media

An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!
The System Killed Her. A recent report led to the striking discovery of a woman who died in LASD custody in June amid a legal assault against anti-ICE protestors. Her story raises troubling questions. with picture of Adrienne in background As if it were nothing more than a minor aside, the article’s author then immediately shifts away to other information. A woman was found dead in her holding cell directly near the courtroom she had been in earlier that day, where she pleaded not guilty to assault and battery of a police officer, and all she had was a fairly vague paragraph. If she were an anti-ICE protestor, as the article seemingly implied, then this would be a major escalation, as she would be the first anti-ICE protestor to die in Los Angeles. This would have been the direct fault of the state, in particular ICE and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD), which was in charge of her detention at the time. Even if she weren’t, the seeming lack of details and the fact that it took multiple months for this tragic story to be reported on at all seemed perplexing and worth investigation.
August 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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isabelott.bsky.social
It’s a common complaint to spend an afternoon reading papers in search of something that turns into half a sentence (that you delete next week) – I’d argue that the “foraging” benefits are real, only pay off if you’re engaging with the actual material, & worth the “inefficiency” to learn more.
August 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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19thnews.org
UPMC’s move to cut gender-affirming care mirrors a broader trend. Major health systems — from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to Penn State Health — have also ended gender-affirming care for minors.

Copublished with @publicsource.org:
He graduated early to get gender-affirming surgery before college. Then his hospital cut him off.
Months before his first class at Carlow University, Lee, a 17-year-old in Pennsylvania, found himself without a provider.
19thnews.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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joyurcaba.bsky.social
NEW: I spoke to SJ Joslin, a park ranger and wildlife biologist who was fired by Yosemite National Park last week for helping to raise a transgender pride flag on the park's iconic El Capitan rock face.

For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
Park ranger fired after helping drape a transgender pride flag on Yosemite's El Capitan
The ex-ranger said they plan to fight the decision, citing an executive order issued by President Trump that protects Americans’ free speech rights.
www.nbcnews.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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tashjoeza.bsky.social
This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.
A tattooed knee, I think, featuring Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm in an apple car. Text reads: You got a fast car. I got a plan to get us out of here.
August 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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danifroom.bsky.social
While Newsom pals around with Nazis and has his staffers write like just totally epic tweets mocking Trump, trans bans are spreading through California like wildfire, ignited by his willing segregation of trans girls just over a month ago.
cbs4local.com/news/nation-...
California school board votes to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports
The Kern County Board of Education voted to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports that align with their gender identity.
cbs4local.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM