But the parts about more low level or mundane harassment, the vulnerabilities of marginalized faculty, and failures of institutional support really resonated with a lot of my own experiences.

I'm curious how other people are responding to this piece

I'm so very privileged that I haven't had to deal with anything close to as horrific as what these profs, and many profs of color, have been subjected to.

… instead of giving my houseplant a lovely gift, I feel like I’ve just threatened it with how bad the real world is

Outside days 1-3: severe danger air quality alerts from the Canadian wildfires and disgustingly smoggy smoke-filled air

Outside day 4: severe thunderstorm with high winds and pitch black sky

It sure is striking that these policies that benefit wealthy cishet white men are allowed, while policies that help marginalized folks are struck down as “unfair”

People warned the academy and the wider world about this. We said that uncritical support for this bullshit was costing trans and gender non-conforming lives. We said that it was making our courses unsafe. "Academic freedom," they said.

Fuck that. Academic freedom isn't worth other people's lives.

Everyone i know who teaches queer theory, trans theory, or gender studies is very very aware that this kind of violence could happen and is increasingly likely

I teach this same course at my uni. I've had students dismiss feminist scholarship as just "angry women," I've had students send me homophobic messages at 3am, I've had students corner me in a classroom in an empty building at night. And without excusing or minimizing any of that, I've been LUCKY.