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Transition is a class struggle

PhD student, drag king, musician, fool
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Israel “has moved the war from Gaza to the West Bank,” says the Palestinian National Initiative’s Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, who joins us from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

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Mustafa Barghouti on Israel “Moving the War” from Gaza to the West Bank
Israel “has moved the war from Gaza to the West Bank,” says the Palestinian National Initiative’s Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, who joins us from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military’s on...
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February 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Read Stone Butch Blues, it's free: lesliefeinberg.net
January 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Some light reading for this Monday morning 🌈🎓

Transgender Marxism edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke
January 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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faemossrealm.bsky.social
Call for respondent for a special issue of Feral Feminisms 🌈🎓

As guest editor I’m searching for someone who is willing to read through our short (yet mighty!) issue and write a response to the work.

Check out the original call for submissions below for more info:
January 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
rhyswhitham.bsky.social
Some patches I embroidered during first semester 🧵🌈🎓
January 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊

It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.

ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.

Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
Quote tweet by Richard Hanania from 1/11/2025. The quoted tweet, which has a community note, is by Christopher F. Rufo on 1/10/2025. Christopher's tweet reads: "I'm sorry, but we have to stop with the ridiculous sign language interpreters, who turn serious press conferences into a farce. There are closed captions on all broadcast channels and streaming services. No wild human gesticulators necessary." The community note (which has supporting .gov links) reads: "Fact: Not all broadcast channels have closed captions, which isn't universally effective anyway; many Deaf rely on ASL for comprehension as ASL offers nuances captions miss. This is part of ADA requirements, passed by GOP." Richard's tweet reads: "The community note shows that the process has been captured by the disability lobby. It’s not about access, CC works fine. They have to pretend like it doesn’t to force this absurdity onto us. And the ADA amendments of 2008 have led to a nightmare, as I explain in my book."
January 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The whole debate about personal carbon footprint versus systemic change is kind of silly because both are true. As a society we ARE the sum of our collective actions AND certain people wield greater power (wealthy people, leaders, and legislators) to affect system change. We can act on both fronts.
January 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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“Transsexual subtext is for cowards” yes sure make the queer stuff as direct and explicit as you want, but please use at least SOME subtext.

Subtext is for cowards =/= tell don’t show
January 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚

Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚
January 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I know there's a lot happening unrelated to this rn, but I'd love broad and generative engagement with this call. Please share!

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drbeef.bsky.social Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · Jan 4
Fascinated by the sociogeny of madness and "mental health”? Compelled by the affective turn? Want to burn down the house neurodivergence research currently resides in and build something much better from the ashes?

Consider submitting a proposal to join the 4S Panel I’m organizing!

Link in 🧵.
We have yet to see “the affective turn” genuinely embrace the world of neurodivergence and mental health. Scholars of disability and physical “health” are expanding notions of what it means to be disabled, and critiquing the interrelated necropolitical systems of incarceration, policing, public health, Capitalism, white supremacy, fascism, and others, that impact debility, wellness, and flourishing. Sadly, scholars of neurodivergence and mental health have largely not followed suit. This open panel aims to change that. We invite submissions that explore the complex interrelations of discursive practices, the human body, social and cultural forces, and individually experienced but historically situated affects and emotions of madness and/or mental health. Explorations might include: sanism and its discontents; critical psychopathology and/or emerging alternative approaches to mental health and wellbeing (e.g. somatic approaches, neo-pharmaceuticals/medicinals); historical-comparative case studies of madness and mental “illness" (including papers that explore the appropriation of indigenous and First Nations methods and modes of care/treatment and/or the exploitation of Black and Indigenous peoples themselves); critiques of the DSM (and/or other diagnostic tools and psychometrics); narratives and first-person accounts of diagnosis (including self-diagnosis) and/or coming in/to disability/madness (particularly those that decenter whiteness and cisheterosexuality, and/or that are global/transnational); visions of neurodivergent and/or mad futurity; stories of mad/crip thriving and kinship/care networks during the crumbling of empires; and many others not named here.
January 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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uvichumanities.bsky.social
Did you know @uvic.bsky.social is home to the world's largest Trans+ Archives?

English/Art History student Sky Dragushan (they/them) researched trans newsletter FTM as a Lowens UVic Libraries Special Collections Fellow, finding trans+ community in the archive: www.uvic.ca/news/topics/...
Finding trans community in the archive - University of Victoria
Fourth-year English and art history student Sky Dragushan is blending their study of literature and art history to gain archival research experience that they hope will equip them for a graduate progr...
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December 10, 2024 at 5:06 PM