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Brie
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Tech-services-adjacent health sciences librarian. She/they.

See also: https://mastodon.social/@briagne
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noethematt.bsky.social
"To be clear, the movement to ban books has never been about protecting our children. It’s about censorship, and about controlling ... young people..."

Bingo!

time.com/7341120/book...
To be clear, the movement to ban books has never been about protecting our children. It’s about censorship, and about controlling what young people are allowed to learn and understand. Book bans routinely target stories dealing with race, racism, gender, and sexuality, especially those written by Black and LGBTQ authors. When these titles disappear from shelves, it’s an attempt to erase experiences, reshape history, and force a narrow worldview onto entire communities.
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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fascistdemtracker.bsky.social
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
fascistdemtracker.bsky.social Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 6d
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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tktk.bsky.social
NEW: Wondering how a college student's homework assignment worth 25 points becomes a national controversy?

With @joyurcaba.bsky.social we unraveled how it happened after a Univ of Oklahoma student emailed politicians and activists about her grade dispute www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
How an Oklahoma student's gender essay became a national culture war fight
Conservative activists and politicians have rallied around a college student who received a zero on an essay. Some grad students said they’re worried about what happens next.
www.nbcnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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kaceyisspacey.bsky.social
Saw transitioning in your 20s referred to as "later in life transition" and im gonna transition into dust
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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anna-aslanyan.bsky.social
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
briagne.bsky.social
I'm still holding right around 2 books/week for #DecemberTransReadathon, which is over double my normal pace in recent years. Started A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett today.
December Trans Readathon 2025 calendar December 1-3: For the Love of April French (Penny Aimes) December 4-7: A/S/L (Jeanne Thornton) December 8-10: Stag Dance (Torrey Peters) December 11: A Safe Girl to Love (Casey Plett) Every day, add a picture of the book you read to the calendar! If a book takes you multiple days, add it more than once <3 Reading every day matters more than finishing books!
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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kagcomix.bsky.social
Some thoughts on some things I've been dealing with lately. 1/6
comic. a person sits at a computer. Text: I got an email the other week comic. a person sits at a computer. Text: School District in Arkansas banned JO: An Adaptation of LIttle Women (Sort Of), Good afternoon Kathleen,... text: In it was a link to an article where a man in another country, in a place I have never visited, who does not know me, calls me a [censored] and sinister and a [censored] because 'JO' features a lesbian protagonist. comic: the image zooms out and the background darkens as the person at the computer says "oh." text: I'm ashamed to admit that I cried. That reading this made me feel scared & small & alone. I felt paralyzed.
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
briagne.bsky.social
On to my third book in #DecemberTransReadathon, which has me reading more consistently than I have in ages. Today's new start is Stag Dance by Torrey Peters.
December Trans Readathon 2025 calendar December 1-3: For the Love of April French (Penny Aimes) December 4-7: A/S/L (Jeanne Thornton) December 8: Stag Dance (Torrey Peters) Every day, add a picture of the book you read to the calendar! If a book takes you multiple days, add it more than once <3 Reading every day matters more than finishing books!
December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
briagne.bsky.social
Day four of #DecemberTransReadathon and I'm finally starting a new book! I finished For the Love of April French last night and am now on to A/S/L by @jeannethornton.bsky.social (whose Summer Fun I greatly enjoyed last month.)
December Trans Readathon 2025 calendar December 1-3: For the Love of April French (Penny Aimes) December 4: A/S/L (Jeanne Thornton) Every day, add a picture of the book you read to the calendar! If a book takes you multiple days, add it more than once <3 Reading every day matters more than finishing books!
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
briagne.bsky.social
This seems fun. I just started For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes yesterday. #DecemberTransReadathon
December Trans Readathon 2025 calendar December 1: For the Love of April French (Penny Aimes) Every day, add a picture of the book you read to the calendar! If a book takes you multiple days, add it more than once <3 Reading every day matters more than finishing books!
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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chessawrites.bsky.social
Thinking about the trans grad student placed on admin leave at OU. A lot of talk centers around the student, but I suspect the story's rightful center is the instructor. It feels like she is the target of a bad-faith trap. 🧵 1/?
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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sandyernestallen.bsky.social
the tendency of cis folks to do this — to sacrifice trans folks' rights and also say, 'oh we're not doing that!': it's added insult to injury. it's gaslighting. the point is: they don't CARE what we think or the truth of anything ... it's all just cover-your-ass style, spineless shameless cowardice.
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18d
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."

Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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joffeorama.bsky.social
I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
kellysue.bsky.social Kelly Sue DeConnick @kellysue.bsky.social · 27d
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Washington State University has credentialed an anti-trans, conversion therapy org SEGM to teach CMEs to medical providers.

The panel is filled with the most vitriolic of anti-trans activists.

Unsuspecting providers may be taught harmful practices.

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Washington State University Credentials Anti-Trans Hate Group SEGM to Teach Medical Providers
The Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine an anti-LGBTQ hate group for its role in proliferating pseudoscience and transphobic policies.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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johnculver689.bsky.social
Of course the WaPo editors think this is dandy. What utter shit the paper has become.
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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madycast.com
The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.

The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
That includes any race-based scholarships and programs, including any promotion of external scholarships that consider race, and DEI trainings and workshops. Institutions were also told they should no longer prioritize “underrepresented groups” for admissions or hiring, and they must prohibit transgender students from playing on sports teams and using facilities designated for women and girls.
October 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
briagne.bsky.social
Define your music taste with 8 artists:

* Backxwash
* Lingua Ignota
* underscores
* Saya Gray
* Khruangbin
* Massive Attack
* Lucinda Williams
* Judee Sill
danifinnwrites.bsky.social HoliDani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · Oct 17
Define your music taste with 8 artists:

• Pomme
• Chris aka Redcar aka Christine and the Queens
• LEJ
• Clara Luciani
• Georges Brassens
• Alex Montembault
• Zaho de Sagazan
• Youssoupha

(yes they’re all French sue me)
ddwardiswriting.bsky.social Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · Oct 17
Define your music taste with 8 artists:

• Queen
• David Bowie
• Charli XCX
• Janelle Monae
• MF Doom
• Within Temptation
• The Dead South
• Diablo Swing Orchestra
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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notrightruth.bsky.social
So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare.

I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.
What’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence
[last updated 15/10/25] Wednesday 10 April 2024 saw the long-awaited publication of the final report of the Cass Review. This report was commissioned by NHS England, and provides a review of eviden…
ruthpearce.net
October 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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flipinthestacks.bsky.social
This. Absolutely this.
"While much has been written about the vulnerabilities of contingent faculty, there has been almost no discussion of the academic freedom needs of one of higher education’s most rapidly growing workforces: third-space professionals." #HigherEd #Staff #AcademicLibraries
Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too (opinion)
Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.
www.insidehighered.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
briagne.bsky.social
Big if true
hausofdecline.bsky.social Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Sep 26
No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.
September 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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tranniehathaway.bsky.social
Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately, by Jackie Sabbagh
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
It is day infinity of everyone wanting me dead. People are having fun bringing lemon squares and automatic artillery to the anti-trans community meetings. Divorced legislators harangue about pedophile cults and surgeried infants and what ever happened to forever ago. I am more beautiful than you and I would like to be loved. I am getting concerned about the monomaniacs who make their entire lives about deadnaming and transvestigations: obviously it’s working but aren’t you exhausted, don’t you remember when someone loved you without knowing what you were? I am eating shortbread on a patio table overlooking the enormous green ocean. Somewhere an octopus is being eaten by an octopus and not panicking. Black dress to the floor, red acrylic nails, silver teardrop earrings, waterproof mascara. I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified. I hear a noise behind me and I don’t turn around
November 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM
briagne.bsky.social
Any #medlibs (or others) have info on transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines going offline? Hoping it's a technical issue, but given the times I'm wary.
transcare.ucsf.edu
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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katelynburns.com
Equality Caucus Rep. Mark Takano calls on Speaker Johnson and GOP House leadership to reign in their party's extreme rhetoric in trans people per this statement that just hit my inbox:
"Over the last several months, Members of Congress have used increasingly derogatory language to refer to transgender people, including one member repeatedly using slurs on the House floor," said Rep. Mark Takano, Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus. "Now, Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson are calling for transgender people to be locked up against their will and institutionalized. These comments are abhorrent and have no place in our society, especially coming from elected leaders. This demonization of the transgender community must end. Speaker Johnson and Republican leadership have a duty to reign in these extremist Members and put a stop to this vile, hateful rhetoric."
September 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
"Well I'm given to understand that for an extremely limited time, members of our nation's political violence party are shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame." www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...
Gambling In Casablanca
Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.
www.the-reframe.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM