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Dan Holliday (they/them) 🇵🇸
@danholliday.bsky.social
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Free Palestine, Lebanon, Congo, Sudan, and all people from colonization.

Doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee studying trans health and wellbeing. Genderqueer, Queer, They/Them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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This is the language they're using.
Text reads: Latest AJPH Issue. July 2025. The Environmental, Health, and Humanitarian Crises in Gaza. The July issue of AJPH features a special section on conflict and the environment presented through the lens of the current crisis in Gaza. Selected articles cover the environmental destruction of Gaza, Israel and Gaza's past cooperation in public health, and opportunities for action. Other articles in this issue address quality scientific publication, detection of measles in Texas wastewater, firearm injury hospitalizations, HIV criminalization in the Black LGBTQIA+ community, and more. There is an image of the front cover of the current issue.
June 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Relatively affordable Welsh culture class! welshmuseum.com/intro-to-wel...
January 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"Death becomes a form of collateral damage in the pursuit of life."
For Foucault, modern biopower, emerging at the end of the eighteenth century, is the management of life—the distribution of risk, possibility, mortality, life chances, health, environment, quality of living—the diferential investment of and in the imperative to live. In biopower, propagating death is no longer the central concern of the state; staving off death is. Cultivating life is coextensive with the sovereign right to kill, and death becomes merely reflective, a byproduct, a secondary effect of the primary aim and efforts of those cultivating or being cultivated for life. Death is never a primary focus; it is a negative translation of the imperative to live, occurring only through the transit of fostering life. Death becomes a form of collateral damage in the pursuit of life."
January 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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From Jasbir Puar´s ¨Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times" from 2007
Delineating Palestine as the site of queer oppression—oppression that is equated with the occupation of Palestine by Israel—effaces Israeli state persecution of queer Palestinians. Israeli state persecution of queer Israelis—because Israel is hardly exempt from homophobic violence toward its own citizens regardless of religious or ethnic background—is erased in this trickle-down model of sloganeering. This dialectical analogy, whereby the persecution of Palestinians by Israel is ‘‘like’’ Palestinian persecution of queers, does a tremendous disservice to the incommensurate predicaments at stake and refuses any possible linkages between the two, indeed refuses that one form of oppression might sustain or even create the conditions of possibility for the other.
January 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Spotify really came for me this year.
December 4, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Celebrating the fact that I don't mind these photos of me! I had such a great time presenting the research I did as part of my prelim exam. Now I just have to... y'know... actually propose my dissertation.
November 26, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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Update on the prelim paper. It's due in two weeks ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
Screencap of an Excel sheet which reads, "secondary analysis of a participatory project that went tits up"
October 7, 2023 at 5:34 AM
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Will my eyes survive grad school? Honestly am not sure.
an excel sheet supremely zoomed out to show a chaotic mess of information
September 24, 2023 at 9:30 PM