Richard Price (they/them)
@advincensorship.bsky.social
Non-binary political scientist studying the censorship of queer stories and LGBTQ educational activism. Bossed around by five cats. Blog intermittently at https://adventuresincensorship.com/
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Publication: Navigating a Doctrinal Grey Area — Adventures in Censorship
I have finally published my first academic article from my censorship research, a little later than I hoped thanks to the never-ending pandemic. “Navigating a doctrinal grey area” is online with Fi...
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It's been 7 years since I started censorship work so lets do a thread. My first publication wrestled with the vague doctrine given by Pico through a case study of how NJ schools handled controversy over Fun Home. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2021/10...
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I'm done with teaching for the semester, but I'm in the middle of grading. To procrastinate grading the book reviews that I require for my American Legal History course I'm gonna make a thread of all the books that the students reviewed.
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I'm done with teaching for the semester, but I'm in the middle of grading. To procrastinate grading the book reviews that I require for my American Legal History course I'm gonna make a thread of all the books that the students reviewed.
This was more or less my experience, especially in upper division courses. My students were pretty engaged almost like they enjoyed the material and wanted to be there to learn it. Maybe just out of spite for the world, I get that too.
For what it's worth, my experience was the exact opposite.
I found my students this semester to be more engaged and excited about the work than they have been in years.
I found my students this semester to be more engaged and excited about the work than they have been in years.
Hearing, and seeing, many university professors express despair, of this sort, this fall. Faculty are famously headstrong and truculent, if sometimes grouchy. But this affect is new. ’ve never seen the widespread descent into sorrow before, that I am seeing now.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This was more or less my experience, especially in upper division courses. My students were pretty engaged almost like they enjoyed the material and wanted to be there to learn it. Maybe just out of spite for the world, I get that too.
Hey I'm on this week's episode of American Campus podcast @americancampus.bsky.social talking about my latest article “The Straight College Strikes Back: 1990s Backlash Against Inclusive Campuses.” Thanks @llassabe.bsky.social for having me!
STRAIGHT at Penn State and anti-gay backlash in the 1990s with Richard S. Price
Podcast Episode · American Campus Podcast · 12/04/2025 · 40m
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December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Hey I'm on this week's episode of American Campus podcast @americancampus.bsky.social talking about my latest article “The Straight College Strikes Back: 1990s Backlash Against Inclusive Campuses.” Thanks @llassabe.bsky.social for having me!
Getting closer to being caught up with my censorship class posts. Here is the video games one that again can't do justice to the student interaction. They were so on top of this subject. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/12...
Censorship Class: FINISH HIM! — Adventures in Censorship
One of my favorite topics to teach is battles over games and the intersection with free speech. Partly this is because I grew up in this world. I was a nerdy 1990s teen who read sword and sorcery fant...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Getting closer to being caught up with my censorship class posts. Here is the video games one that again can't do justice to the student interaction. They were so on top of this subject. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/12...
Academia has taught me that the folks who claim to work nearly impossible hours work the least of anyone.
Sen. Roger Marshall on Trump's health: "I'll work 110 hours a week. He outworks me. He's the first person I've ever known that works harder than I do. He runs around that golf course. He's in incredible shape right now. And you talk about sharp! He's playing 4 dimensional chess"
December 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Academia has taught me that the folks who claim to work nearly impossible hours work the least of anyone.
But how many campus panic stories would survive? 5%? That’s generous.
What do the editors of this magazine think their job is?
"Too many kids are getting extra time on tests!" should immediately be followed by "how many kids are getting extra time on tests?" If you don't know, either find out or write about something you do know.
"Too many kids are getting extra time on tests!" should immediately be followed by "how many kids are getting extra time on tests?" If you don't know, either find out or write about something you do know.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
But how many campus panic stories would survive? 5%? That’s generous.
I share this all the time. One of the hardest assignments I give is when queer politics and history students are asked to just sit with this and read sections, to explore it and think about the people lost and their stories.
The above image is a screenshot from the interactive AIDS quilt site. You can search by name and see the panel, which is very cool: www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I share this all the time. One of the hardest assignments I give is when queer politics and history students are asked to just sit with this and read sections, to explore it and think about the people lost and their stories.
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My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.
I just put together a quick outline for a chapter I am late on. Its 3000 words max. My outline is already 550 words. I'm in deep trouble.
December 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I just put together a quick outline for a chapter I am late on. Its 3000 words max. My outline is already 550 words. I'm in deep trouble.
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My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
I fell behind on my censorship class posting but here is my music one. Sadly a lot of the fun of the class can't be adequately expressed here. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/11...
Censorship Class: Tipper Gore and the Dangers of Porn Rock — Adventures in Censorship
I had to follow up the week e xploring comedy and the FCC with the music wars of the 1980s and ‘90s. Music had long been a source of controversy in the U.S. around the questions of race, sex, and dru...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I fell behind on my censorship class posting but here is my music one. Sadly a lot of the fun of the class can't be adequately expressed here. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/11...
Imagine sitting in that room and this is what you come up with.
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Imagine sitting in that room and this is what you come up with.
Do I even want to know what this is referring to?
Should pro-Trump Pakistanis be allowed to vote in American elections? This Federalist Society judge thinks so.
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Do I even want to know what this is referring to?
Sitting here grading and grooving to a new jack swing playlist. So I've pretty hit the peak of coolness.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Sitting here grading and grooving to a new jack swing playlist. So I've pretty hit the peak of coolness.
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
Wow. Just straight lie after lie from the gestapo.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Wow. Just straight lie after lie from the gestapo.
It's been 7 years since I started censorship work so lets do a thread. My first publication wrestled with the vague doctrine given by Pico through a case study of how NJ schools handled controversy over Fun Home. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2021/10...
Publication: Navigating a Doctrinal Grey Area — Adventures in Censorship
I have finally published my first academic article from my censorship research, a little later than I hoped thanks to the never-ending pandemic. “Navigating a doctrinal grey area” is online with Fi...
adventuresincensorship.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It's been 7 years since I started censorship work so lets do a thread. My first publication wrestled with the vague doctrine given by Pico through a case study of how NJ schools handled controversy over Fun Home. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2021/10...
On the one hand I’m excited to get cool new queer history for both my work and teaching. On the other hand I have to find the time and energy to read it.
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
On the one hand I’m excited to get cool new queer history for both my work and teaching. On the other hand I have to find the time and energy to read it.
This was what I assumed but not being a person who actually practiced law I worried it was just one of those things that maybe doesn't happen. Glad my first instinct of WTF was good.
Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.
Translate for us non-law-talkers...?
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This was what I assumed but not being a person who actually practiced law I worried it was just one of those things that maybe doesn't happen. Glad my first instinct of WTF was good.
Good news!
We are thrilled that reason has prevailed in Missouri and library books will be returned to the shelves!. www.stlpr.org/government-p...
Missouri court strikes down book ban law that pushed libraries to remove hundreds of titles
A law creating a misdemeanor offense for school employees who supply ‘sexually explicit material’ to students is now void.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Good news!
In 1966 the U.S. military changed college deferments so that it was lost for men in the bottom half of the class. The weight of grading in that system is terrifying. Imagine staring at your papers/exams and thinking that a C vs. B could send some 19 year old to fight in Vietnam.
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
In 1966 the U.S. military changed college deferments so that it was lost for men in the bottom half of the class. The weight of grading in that system is terrifying. Imagine staring at your papers/exams and thinking that a C vs. B could send some 19 year old to fight in Vietnam.
Excited
In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Excited
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In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
As a censorship scholar, I'm seen it all before so nothing truly surprises me. But this is still pretty amazing.
In this specific book in the kitty corn series their complaint is that the male unicorn has eyelashes and is pink (even though he’s not pink 🤔).
November 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
As a censorship scholar, I'm seen it all before so nothing truly surprises me. But this is still pretty amazing.
I keep thinking about this. This was a real representation of actual dudes in the 70s and I heard shit like this in the 90s a lot.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I keep thinking about this. This was a real representation of actual dudes in the 70s and I heard shit like this in the 90s a lot.