Edward Kammerer
@efkjr.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Political Science. LGBTQ politics and law & courts. From Boston. But living in Idaho. 🏳️🌈 if you couldn’t tell, views are my own.
UMass Amherst, Suffolk Law, and Northeastern University Alum.
UMass Amherst, Suffolk Law, and Northeastern University Alum.
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Edward Kammerer
@efkjr.bsky.social
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Teaching LGBTQ Politics (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures)
Teaching LGBTQ Politics (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures) - Kindle edition by Kammerer, Jr., Edward F., Cravens, III, Royal G., Mayo-Adam, Erin. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Teaching LGBTQ Politics (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures).
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Somehow I wound up with a day with zero meetings and zero teaching. So nice to be able to focus on catching up on writing.
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Somehow I wound up with a day with zero meetings and zero teaching. So nice to be able to focus on catching up on writing.
Woohoo! Paper accepted to MPSA! This will be good motivation to finish it. It’s like mostly done but I’ve been ignoring that last 20% to get it over the line. Also looks like I’ll be discussant on two interesting panels, so that’s fun. See you all in Chicago!
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Woohoo! Paper accepted to MPSA! This will be good motivation to finish it. It’s like mostly done but I’ve been ignoring that last 20% to get it over the line. Also looks like I’ll be discussant on two interesting panels, so that’s fun. See you all in Chicago!
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Submit your #APSA2026 proposals by January 14 for the 122nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 3–6, held in Boston, MA, exploring “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.” Submission deadline: January 14, 2026.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Submit your #APSA2026 proposals by January 14 for the 122nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition, September 3–6, held in Boston, MA, exploring “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.” Submission deadline: January 14, 2026.
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Elena Gambino’s “Research as Waystation in the Midcentury Homophile Movement” shows how homophile organizations reshaped the homosexuality narrative, turning audiences from passive observers into active participants.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#QueerStudies #PoliSky
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#QueerStudies #PoliSky
Research as “Waystation” in the Midcentury Homophile Movement | Polity: Vol 57, No 4
Homophile organizations at midcentury have long been linked to the “rise and fall” of professions like psychiatry in the American political landscape. In this paper, I engage the various ways that lea...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Elena Gambino’s “Research as Waystation in the Midcentury Homophile Movement” shows how homophile organizations reshaped the homosexuality narrative, turning audiences from passive observers into active participants.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#QueerStudies #PoliSky
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#QueerStudies #PoliSky
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Tomorrow at noon! Join APSA’s Careers Diversity Committee for Advising and Mentoring Political Science PhDs for Careers Beyond the Academy, a virtual discussion on challenges #polisci #faculty & #graduateadvisors face when advising doctoral students for careers beyond the academy. buff.ly/cnx2otv
Advising and Mentoring Political Science PhDs for Careers Beyond the Academy: APSA Careers Diversity Committee Virtual Workshop -
An APSA Careers Diversity Committee Virtual Workshop Details: Advising and Mentoring Political Science PhDs for Careers Beyond the Academy Tuesday, October 28, 2025 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Eastern…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Tomorrow at noon! Join APSA’s Careers Diversity Committee for Advising and Mentoring Political Science PhDs for Careers Beyond the Academy, a virtual discussion on challenges #polisci #faculty & #graduateadvisors face when advising doctoral students for careers beyond the academy. buff.ly/cnx2otv
Present me would like have words with past me and explain why we cannot keep agreeing to do all the things. Future me would like some downtime soon.
October 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Present me would like have words with past me and explain why we cannot keep agreeing to do all the things. Future me would like some downtime soon.
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Last chance to apply! APSA’s Diversity Fellowship Program awards $5,000 to support future political science scholars applying to political science PhDs for Fall 2026 admission.
Learn more about the #APSADFP program and application eligibility:
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Learn more about the #APSADFP program and application eligibility:
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Call for Applications: APSA Diversity Fellowship Program – Fall Cycle | Deadline: October 26, 2025 -
Applications are now open for the 2026-2027 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program! The fall application cycle provides financial support to undergraduate seniors, recent graduates, or other individuals…
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October 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Last chance to apply! APSA’s Diversity Fellowship Program awards $5,000 to support future political science scholars applying to political science PhDs for Fall 2026 admission.
Learn more about the #APSADFP program and application eligibility:
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Learn more about the #APSADFP program and application eligibility:
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Join us today for a training webinar on how you can be a more effective advocate for political science, feat. Wendy Naus, Exec. Dir. of of COSSA & moderated by Ben Goodrich of APSA.
Guiding Principles for Advocating for Political Science
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
Registration: Free
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Guiding Principles for Advocating for Political Science
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
Registration: Free
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October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Join us today for a training webinar on how you can be a more effective advocate for political science, feat. Wendy Naus, Exec. Dir. of of COSSA & moderated by Ben Goodrich of APSA.
Guiding Principles for Advocating for Political Science
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
Registration: Free
buff.ly/7K8Yb8W
Guiding Principles for Advocating for Political Science
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
Registration: Free
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Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
Love this!!
Amazing sign being held by a small child
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Love this!!
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
I really need to teach him the difference between indoor toys and outdoor toys. He loves his sticks but they make such a mess.
October 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I really need to teach him the difference between indoor toys and outdoor toys. He loves his sticks but they make such a mess.
What books are we using to teach courses on the Supreme Court as an institution? So not con law but like… wtf goes on up there?
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
What books are we using to teach courses on the Supreme Court as an institution? So not con law but like… wtf goes on up there?
Not publishing the book I want to use for my class until February — a month after my class starts — is not helpful, Cambridge University Press. Not helpful.
October 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Not publishing the book I want to use for my class until February — a month after my class starts — is not helpful, Cambridge University Press. Not helpful.
Maybe 115 (ish) house plants is, in fact, a few too many. Thankfully I’m having a friend help build a few more shelves. So I can either spread these out a bit or maybe get more. But not toooo many more.
October 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Maybe 115 (ish) house plants is, in fact, a few too many. Thankfully I’m having a friend help build a few more shelves. So I can either spread these out a bit or maybe get more. But not toooo many more.
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The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts
The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
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I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.
Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...
Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back bef...
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September 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.
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Opening October 1st! Apply for the APSA Graduate Student Member Support Grant!
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September 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Took the puppy hiking for the first time this week. He was too excited to bother with pictures.
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Took the puppy hiking for the first time this week. He was too excited to bother with pictures.
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I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.
September 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
Had a great time at @apsa.bsky.social in Vancouver! Looking forward to seeing everyone next year in my homeland of Boston!
September 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Had a great time at @apsa.bsky.social in Vancouver! Looking forward to seeing everyone next year in my homeland of Boston!
Caucus Meeting! Tonight at 6:30! Pan Pacific Oceanview 2! LGBT reception to follow!! Then probably off to the gayborhood.
September 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Caucus Meeting! Tonight at 6:30! Pan Pacific Oceanview 2! LGBT reception to follow!! Then probably off to the gayborhood.
Are you at @apsa.bsky.social ? Don’t forget to come to the Caucus business meeting today at 6:30 and then the reception after!
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Are you at @apsa.bsky.social ? Don’t forget to come to the Caucus business meeting today at 6:30 and then the reception after!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at @apsa.bsky.social this week!
September 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Looking forward to seeing everyone at @apsa.bsky.social this week!