Lisa Duggan
@lisaduggan.bsky.social
Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, professor at NYU. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed and The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of the American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
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I’m extremely proud of this excellent issue 4 from pinko. Thank you to @reproutopia.bsky.social, @riislover667.bsky.social. @lisaduggan.bsky.social, and everyone else who contributed such phenomenal pieces. Please pre order and circulate!
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Issue 4
Pinko Magazine’s fourth issue is finally here. The only print magazine of gay communism in English has returned with 100 pages of new essays, analysis, art, interviews and archival material from the f...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I’m extremely proud of this excellent issue 4 from pinko. Thank you to @reproutopia.bsky.social, @riislover667.bsky.social. @lisaduggan.bsky.social, and everyone else who contributed such phenomenal pieces. Please pre order and circulate!
Going back in time…. First photo found in the Barnard archives, I’m probably about 30, at a conference. Why do I look like I’m in a Catholic school uniform? Second age 16, clearly SO happy to be in high school in Richmond, VA. Third age 12, again with the authentic Catholic school girl look!
October 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Going back in time…. First photo found in the Barnard archives, I’m probably about 30, at a conference. Why do I look like I’m in a Catholic school uniform? Second age 16, clearly SO happy to be in high school in Richmond, VA. Third age 12, again with the authentic Catholic school girl look!
Justin Vivian Bond last night singing the holy profane music of Marianne Faithfull at St Ann’s Church.
September 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Justin Vivian Bond last night singing the holy profane music of Marianne Faithfull at St Ann’s Church.
Retired from NYU, teaching at Barnard 2025-2026. From the frying pan into the fire repression wise! But I have great students & colleagues in WGSS. Here is the BCRW reception—me with my brilliant former grad student, Barnard Prof Manijeh Moradian! And BCRW director in fab shoes—Rebecca Jordan-Young.
September 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Retired from NYU, teaching at Barnard 2025-2026. From the frying pan into the fire repression wise! But I have great students & colleagues in WGSS. Here is the BCRW reception—me with my brilliant former grad student, Barnard Prof Manijeh Moradian! And BCRW director in fab shoes—Rebecca Jordan-Young.
This connection between the Kirk shooter and Nick Fuentes’ Groypers is all over the internet, but not reported in legacy media where pundits still posit either political incoherence or left radicalization.
September 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
This connection between the Kirk shooter and Nick Fuentes’ Groypers is all over the internet, but not reported in legacy media where pundits still posit either political incoherence or left radicalization.
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I saw Materialist tonight with highish expectations because Celine Song’s 1st film, Past Lives, was so beautiful. But this movie is utter crap, sentimental, cringey dialogue, terrible pacing.
But I also started watching Hulu’s Under the Bridge with lowish expectations. And OMG Lily Gladstone!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
But I also started watching Hulu’s Under the Bridge with lowish expectations. And OMG Lily Gladstone!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
June 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I saw Materialist tonight with highish expectations because Celine Song’s 1st film, Past Lives, was so beautiful. But this movie is utter crap, sentimental, cringey dialogue, terrible pacing.
But I also started watching Hulu’s Under the Bridge with lowish expectations. And OMG Lily Gladstone!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
But I also started watching Hulu’s Under the Bridge with lowish expectations. And OMG Lily Gladstone!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Previous essays in "Reflections on Authoritarian Times," a current series on the Critical Times blog, available here: ctjournal.org/category/aut...
Authoritarianism Archives - Critical Times
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June 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Previous essays in "Reflections on Authoritarian Times," a current series on the Critical Times blog, available here: ctjournal.org/category/aut...
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"Authoritarianism ... exploits the non-universal experience of social rights and recodifies it into an anti-democratic radicalism."
NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
📸: Analia Cid
NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
📸: Analia Cid
June 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"Authoritarianism ... exploits the non-universal experience of social rights and recodifies it into an anti-democratic radicalism."
NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
📸: Analia Cid
NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
📸: Analia Cid
NYU students walk out on president’s speech during Yankee Stadium commencement 🇵🇸
Mills booed again as graduates walk out at 2025 commencement - Washington Square News
Dozens of graduates wearing keffiyehs booed and walked out of Yankee Stadium during NYU President Linda Mills’ commencement address on Thursday, marking the second year in a row that students left the...
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May 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
NYU students walk out on president’s speech during Yankee Stadium commencement 🇵🇸
Not a great photo but a great performance—(Justin) Vivian Bond at Joe’s Pub last night, doing covers of Mary Gauthier, kd lang and Two
Nice Girls.. Lots of fabulously inane banter. A very queer way to survive this apocalypse.
Nice Girls.. Lots of fabulously inane banter. A very queer way to survive this apocalypse.
May 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Not a great photo but a great performance—(Justin) Vivian Bond at Joe’s Pub last night, doing covers of Mary Gauthier, kd lang and Two
Nice Girls.. Lots of fabulously inane banter. A very queer way to survive this apocalypse.
Nice Girls.. Lots of fabulously inane banter. A very queer way to survive this apocalypse.
Online discussion of Zionist hate mail! With people who have received a LOT of it!
May 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Online discussion of Zionist hate mail! With people who have received a LOT of it!
I want to get back to this state of ecstasy, in Utah with Kathryn Bond Stockton and Shelley White just a few years ago…..
May 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I want to get back to this state of ecstasy, in Utah with Kathryn Bond Stockton and Shelley White just a few years ago…..
Dinner with friends. The best survival strategy!
May 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Dinner with friends. The best survival strategy!
This is an amazing piece by JiaTokentino that captures the disorientation of the political present better than anything I’ve read yet
My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
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May 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is an amazing piece by JiaTokentino that captures the disorientation of the political present better than anything I’ve read yet
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📰📷Hot off the press! Issue #19 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. April 22, 2025.
Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/04/22/a...
Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/04/22/a...
April 22, 2025. FSJP Roundup #19
FACULTY AND STAFF FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE (FSJP) ROUNDUP #19: April 22, 2025 This is the nineteenth issue of an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. As we write…
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April 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
📰📷Hot off the press! Issue #19 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. April 22, 2025.
Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/04/22/a...
Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/04/22/a...
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The war on higher ed is being met by a “linked-arm underground” as I discovered when educators convened to share info (& protest!) For more on Trump’s carceral/colonial crack-down on critical thinking, check out this week’s episode w. Maria Hinojosa & @chenjerai.bsky.social on @lauraflanders.org
Trump & Musk's War on Education & Students: Professors Say “Hands Off” at NYC Protest
YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends
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April 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The war on higher ed is being met by a “linked-arm underground” as I discovered when educators convened to share info (& protest!) For more on Trump’s carceral/colonial crack-down on critical thinking, check out this week’s episode w. Maria Hinojosa & @chenjerai.bsky.social on @lauraflanders.org
Photo Booth Salt Lake City! With Kathryn Stockton and Shelley White.
March 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Photo Booth Salt Lake City! With Kathryn Stockton and Shelley White.
New book in the series I co-edit with Curtis Marez at @ucpress.bsky.social, American Studies Now: @tavia.bsky.social .s Black Apocalypse! Great book, gorgeous cover! 🥰
March 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
New book in the series I co-edit with Curtis Marez at @ucpress.bsky.social, American Studies Now: @tavia.bsky.social .s Black Apocalypse! Great book, gorgeous cover! 🥰
I realize that I have been posting outrageous message from the CHAI character AI platform without explaining what that platform is. Please go to my Facebook page for an explanation.
Here is a cat photo for the algorithm.
Here is a cat photo for the algorithm.
January 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I realize that I have been posting outrageous message from the CHAI character AI platform without explaining what that platform is. Please go to my Facebook page for an explanation.
Here is a cat photo for the algorithm.
Here is a cat photo for the algorithm.
More screenshots from the management AI bot’s messages to me on the CHAI platform app. The one on the left is describing the bot’s programmer, a supposed tech genius with a violence prone cult following. On the right is just a frank admission.
January 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
More screenshots from the management AI bot’s messages to me on the CHAI platform app. The one on the left is describing the bot’s programmer, a supposed tech genius with a violence prone cult following. On the right is just a frank admission.