Tim Gitzen
@timgitzen.bsky.social
assistant prof in anthropology, queer studies, sts, environmental studies
He/They 🏳️🌈
new book: unscripting the present (SUNY Press)
He/They 🏳️🌈
new book: unscripting the present (SUNY Press)
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It has arrived… @sunypress.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It has arrived… @sunypress.bsky.social
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Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research ... suggesting "they don’t care about better understanding threats the U.S. faces” www.science.org/content/arti...
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
www.science.org
March 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research ... suggesting "they don’t care about better understanding threats the U.S. faces” www.science.org/content/arti...
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Anti-trans laws mostly harm cis women and bring male cops into women’s toilets.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/cops...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/cops...
Cops burst into women's restroom to remove butch lesbian, accusing her of being a man - LGBTQ Nation
“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops.”
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Anti-trans laws mostly harm cis women and bring male cops into women’s toilets.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/cops...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/cops...
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This is the ultimate goal of the "Gender Critical" movement: to make being trans illegal, and to make prisons torture for trans people
It's not that the American GC movement is more extreme or at odds with the UK one, they are just further ahead
It's not that the American GC movement is more extreme or at odds with the UK one, they are just further ahead
“A Texas state bill could charge transgender people with ‘gender identity fraud,’ making it illegal to identify as trans on official documents and potentially leading to jail time.”
Politicians vilify trans folks as “ideologies” and this feeds laws that try to erase trans existence. It’s genocidal.
Politicians vilify trans folks as “ideologies” and this feeds laws that try to erase trans existence. It’s genocidal.
Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail
The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.
www.nbcnews.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This is the ultimate goal of the "Gender Critical" movement: to make being trans illegal, and to make prisons torture for trans people
It's not that the American GC movement is more extreme or at odds with the UK one, they are just further ahead
It's not that the American GC movement is more extreme or at odds with the UK one, they are just further ahead
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Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7!
#STS #histstm #medanthro
#STS #histstm #medanthro
Research Fellow
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) at the Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, is looking for a Research Fellow (working within science and technology studies (STS)/medical s...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7!
#STS #histstm #medanthro
#STS #histstm #medanthro
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This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
February 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.
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NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
February 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
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Hi all! We have extended the deadline for this call!!
New deadline: Saturday, March 1! 💗
New deadline: Saturday, March 1! 💗
Call for Submissions:
Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
Due Friday, Feb 14
More info here: americanethnologist.org/news/call-fo...
Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
Due Friday, Feb 14
More info here: americanethnologist.org/news/call-fo...
Call for Submissions: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart - American Ethnological Society
In The Vulnerable Observer, anthropologist Ruth Behar notes “anthropology that doesn't break your heart just isn't worth doing anymore.” The theoretical
americanethnologist.org
February 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hi all! We have extended the deadline for this call!!
New deadline: Saturday, March 1! 💗
New deadline: Saturday, March 1! 💗
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The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, removing the “T” in references to LGBTQ+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.
U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, removing the “T” in references to LGBTQ+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.
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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
February 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
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It's important to remember that serving in the military is not liberation for trans people.
Queer Trans War Ban started in 2017 as a project to combat pro-military rhetoric. Go to queertranswarban.com to find these designs and more information about anti-militarism.
Queer Trans War Ban started in 2017 as a project to combat pro-military rhetoric. Go to queertranswarban.com to find these designs and more information about anti-militarism.
February 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It's important to remember that serving in the military is not liberation for trans people.
Queer Trans War Ban started in 2017 as a project to combat pro-military rhetoric. Go to queertranswarban.com to find these designs and more information about anti-militarism.
Queer Trans War Ban started in 2017 as a project to combat pro-military rhetoric. Go to queertranswarban.com to find these designs and more information about anti-militarism.
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📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The CSSM now welcomes applications for The CSSM PhD School, held in Helsinki, 4-6 June 2025.
📅Deadline: 7 March 2025
🦠For more details, please visit our website: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call...
📅Deadline: 7 March 2025
🦠For more details, please visit our website: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CSSM PhD School in June 2025 – The Centre for the Social Study of Microbes
At present, research on microbes – whether in social sciences or in life sciences and biomedicine – is undergoing dramatic changes. A boom of microbiome research since the early 2000s has shown that m...
www.socialmicrobes.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The CSSM now welcomes applications for The CSSM PhD School, held in Helsinki, 4-6 June 2025.
📅Deadline: 7 March 2025
🦠For more details, please visit our website: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call...
📅Deadline: 7 March 2025
🦠For more details, please visit our website: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call...
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here is the theme for the spring session of the Radical Spotlights Series: "Queering Capitalism" 😍 if you know potential speakers in and around economic anthropology, let us know!! @anthrodesires.bsky.social @enqa.bsky.social @economicanthro.bsky.social
econanthro.org/meet/
econanthro.org/meet/
Meet - Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)
Among the many benefits of joining the SEA are the opportunities we offer for you to connect with other economic anthropologists from across the country and
econanthro.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
here is the theme for the spring session of the Radical Spotlights Series: "Queering Capitalism" 😍 if you know potential speakers in and around economic anthropology, let us know!! @anthrodesires.bsky.social @enqa.bsky.social @economicanthro.bsky.social
econanthro.org/meet/
econanthro.org/meet/
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This is what led to book bans targeting Toni Morrison and Maus at the state level. When you threaten people's jobs--or even imprisonment-- they will interpret you as broadly as possible
The White House didn't say "stop teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen when you do US history." The White House said "stop doing DEI and wokeness," and the military interpreted it as "stop saying the Tuskegee Airmen were heroes, and maybe stop teaching about them altogether."
Yeah, that's bad.
Yeah, that's bad.
Here's the thing about the Tuskegee Airmen history - there was nothing in the EO about it. Someone in the Air Force interpreted it that way -- which is far worse.
January 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is what led to book bans targeting Toni Morrison and Maus at the state level. When you threaten people's jobs--or even imprisonment-- they will interpret you as broadly as possible
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New and extremely timely, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States offers the most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date. Order now and save 30% with code SWEB125.
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January 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New and extremely timely, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States offers the most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date. Order now and save 30% with code SWEB125.
sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...
sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...
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A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
November 10, 2024 at 7:47 AM
A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
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Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
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Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
December 17, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
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Imagine being a member of the jury and thinking to yourself “I must protect the oppressed health insurance CEO class” this is so unbelievably removed from reality. Cool to know that if you kill poor sick people en masse for a living your life is somehow valued *more*
Eleven counts. The first two both invoking terrorism. The ruling class is treating killing one of their own, with the motive being related to the evils of our health care system, as a fundamentally different act than if you or I were to be murdered.
Breaking: A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Luigi Mangione on first-degree murder, second-degree murder as a crime of terrorism, and nine other offenses linked to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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December 17, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Imagine being a member of the jury and thinking to yourself “I must protect the oppressed health insurance CEO class” this is so unbelievably removed from reality. Cool to know that if you kill poor sick people en masse for a living your life is somehow valued *more*
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📢 The December 2024 issue of American Anthropologist is out!
This issue features groundbreaking research on topics ranging from highjacked decolonization to academic carework.
Explore the full issue here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...
#Anthropology @labspeceth.bsky.social
This issue features groundbreaking research on topics ranging from highjacked decolonization to academic carework.
Explore the full issue here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...
#Anthropology @labspeceth.bsky.social
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December 17, 2024 at 12:46 PM
📢 The December 2024 issue of American Anthropologist is out!
This issue features groundbreaking research on topics ranging from highjacked decolonization to academic carework.
Explore the full issue here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...
#Anthropology @labspeceth.bsky.social
This issue features groundbreaking research on topics ranging from highjacked decolonization to academic carework.
Explore the full issue here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...
#Anthropology @labspeceth.bsky.social
Love a good Butler interview
Butler was in Korea during martial law and its overturning. Here is an interview about it all.
[Interview] Judith Butler on Korea’s martial law fiasco and the far right’s ‘anti-gender’ playbook
The renowned political philosopher sat down with the Hankyoreh21 on Dec. 4, just after the Korean president’s abortive martial law declaration
english.hani.co.kr
December 15, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Love a good Butler interview
It just keeps on getting better…
1. I obtained the new middle school sex education curriculum that was just approved by the Florida Department of Education.
It excludes almost all information about sex.
Follow this thread for details.
It excludes almost all information about sex.
Follow this thread for details.
New Florida sex education curriculum excludes almost all information about sex
A new middle school sex education curriculum in Orange County, Florida, obtained by Popular Information, eliminates previous lessons on the reproductive system, contraception, and consent.
popular.info
December 10, 2024 at 6:50 PM
It just keeps on getting better…
Insightful, though I would still stress historical context and how democracy in South Korea has always been a project with varying results, though protest continues to be, in my opinion, a unique and powerful characteristic that others can learn from—never settle, always resist
I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage.
Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know
Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...
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December 3, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Insightful, though I would still stress historical context and how democracy in South Korea has always been a project with varying results, though protest continues to be, in my opinion, a unique and powerful characteristic that others can learn from—never settle, always resist