Tom Cho 曹勵善
@tom-cho.bsky.social
Writer and editor in St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk. Author of Look Who's Morphing, a collection of fictions. Writing a novel that philosophises about religion. Represented by Wolf Literary Services. tomcho.com | 🌈 as in 🍉
Elevated Access is a US-based nonprofit that provides free flights for people who need access to healthcare services. Learn how to get involved as a pilot, partner, or volunteer, or find out how to get help with abortion care or gender-affirming care. www.elevatedaccess.org
Elevated Access
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October 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Elevated Access is a US-based nonprofit that provides free flights for people who need access to healthcare services. Learn how to get involved as a pilot, partner, or volunteer, or find out how to get help with abortion care or gender-affirming care. www.elevatedaccess.org
As the Trump administration continues to relentlessly expand its anti-trans agenda, we must be relentless in supporting the resistance projects that trans people are leading. tiny.cc/transfund
Donate to Fight Back! Support Trans Health in the US!, organized by Gender Affirming Healthcare Saves Lives
Right now, access to gender-affirming healthcare in the US is… Gender Affirming Healthcare Saves Lives needs your support for Fight Back! Support Trans Health in the US!
tiny.cc
September 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
As the Trump administration continues to relentlessly expand its anti-trans agenda, we must be relentless in supporting the resistance projects that trans people are leading. tiny.cc/transfund
This petition calls on Canadian officials to send the HMCS St. John's, which is already in the Mediterranean, to accompany the Global Sumud Flotilla. The petition is sponsored by the Canadian BDS Coalition and International BDS Allies, among others. actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...
Canada Send the HMCS St John's to accompany the Sumud Flotilla
The criminal Israeli regime has once again attacked a humanitarian flotilla in international waters. Italy and France have announced that they are sending naval vessels to accompany the Sumud Flotilla...
actionnetwork.org
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This petition calls on Canadian officials to send the HMCS St. John's, which is already in the Mediterranean, to accompany the Global Sumud Flotilla. The petition is sponsored by the Canadian BDS Coalition and International BDS Allies, among others. actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...
Politicians like Danielle Smith are quick to invoke notions of freedom and government overreach when it suits their needs. Meanwhile, they're happy to ram through restrictions on youth accessing gender-affirming care. This conservative libertarianism is so selective. bccla.org/2025/09/tell...
Tell Danielle Smith: We're not(with)standing for this! - BC Civil Liberties Association
On September 19, a leaked provincial memo revealed that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to use the notwithstanding clause to pass not one, not two, but THREE bills […]
bccla.org
September 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Politicians like Danielle Smith are quick to invoke notions of freedom and government overreach when it suits their needs. Meanwhile, they're happy to ram through restrictions on youth accessing gender-affirming care. This conservative libertarianism is so selective. bccla.org/2025/09/tell...
I spoke on a panel last week. In my remarks, I noted that the arts are not inherently a force for good. Right now, the prime example of this is the widespread institutional failure in the arts sector as it relates to the genocide in Gaza. Bravo to these protesters. Encore!
Pro-Palestine protesters interrupted the opening night of Canadian Stage's "Romeo & Juliet" at High Park on Thursday. The protesters are asking the performing arts organization to stop accepting donations from the Azrieli Foundation, a Canadian philanthropic group with ties to Israel. #CanadianStage
July 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I spoke on a panel last week. In my remarks, I noted that the arts are not inherently a force for good. Right now, the prime example of this is the widespread institutional failure in the arts sector as it relates to the genocide in Gaza. Bravo to these protesters. Encore!
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Just a ghoulish, evil attempt to deny Breonna Taylor justice and give a greenlight to future impunity for white supremacist violence.
US seeks one-day sentence for police officer convicted in Breonna Taylor case reut.rs/40rt1tv
US seeks one-day sentence for police officer convicted in Breonna Taylor case
The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge to sentence a former Louisville police officer who was convicted last year of violating Breonna Taylor's civil rights to serve just one day in prison, despite the fact the conviction carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
reut.rs
July 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Just a ghoulish, evil attempt to deny Breonna Taylor justice and give a greenlight to future impunity for white supremacist violence.
More novel research: Currently reading the intro of Gemma Lucy Gibson's PhD dissertation "Body Positive Babes: An Exploration of the Contemporary Body Positivity Movement and the Acceptable Fat Woman’s Body." Been a while since I've read fat studies scholarship, and it's great to return to it.
July 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
More novel research: Currently reading the intro of Gemma Lucy Gibson's PhD dissertation "Body Positive Babes: An Exploration of the Contemporary Body Positivity Movement and the Acceptable Fat Woman’s Body." Been a while since I've read fat studies scholarship, and it's great to return to it.
I'm loving the book I'm currently reading. "Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahābhārata" by Vrinda Dalmiya. 🤯😍 I'm hoping this book will inform the ending of my novel.
June 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I'm loving the book I'm currently reading. "Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahābhārata" by Vrinda Dalmiya. 🤯😍 I'm hoping this book will inform the ending of my novel.
Gender-affirming healthcare in the US is more in peril than ever. If you want to support but don't know how, here's an option you likely haven't heard about yet. Please support! Spreading the word helps, too. 🏳️⚧️🦄🦞 www.gofundme.com/f/fight-back...
Donate to Fight Back! Support Trans Health in the US!, organized by Gender Affirming Healthcare Saves Lives
Right now, access to gender-affirming healthcare in the US is… Gender Affirming Healthcare Saves Lives needs your support for Fight Back! Support Trans Health in the US!
www.gofundme.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gender-affirming healthcare in the US is more in peril than ever. If you want to support but don't know how, here's an option you likely haven't heard about yet. Please support! Spreading the word helps, too. 🏳️⚧️🦄🦞 www.gofundme.com/f/fight-back...
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Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trvr.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
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Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
April 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
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"It's worrying that a leader of a political party in Canada would try to dictate how research funds will be granted," said David Robinson, CAUT's executive director. "This kind of American-style culture war has no place in Canada." #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Trump is freezing funding for universities they don't adr | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to cancel funding for some universities unless they accede to his demands to change ideological policy, similar to a pledge Pierre Poilievre has made f...
www.cbc.ca
April 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"It's worrying that a leader of a political party in Canada would try to dictate how research funds will be granted," said David Robinson, CAUT's executive director. "This kind of American-style culture war has no place in Canada." #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
Do you have social media and communications skills—and a drive to promote anti-racism in Newfoundland and Labrador? Anti-Racism Coalition of Newfoundland and Labrador is seeking a Social Media/Communications Coordinator. Applications close Sunday April 13. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c9vav...
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April 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Do you have social media and communications skills—and a drive to promote anti-racism in Newfoundland and Labrador? Anti-Racism Coalition of Newfoundland and Labrador is seeking a Social Media/Communications Coordinator. Applications close Sunday April 13. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c9vav...
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The NEA's new compliance guidelines are anti-trans, so we aren't applying. Today, we're asking our readers to stand with us. Please donate to help us raise $15K to replace our annual grant by April 15.
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
Why Electric Literature Isn't Applying to the NEA - Electric Literature
The NEA’s new compliance requirements are anti-trans, so we aren’t applying
buff.ly
March 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The NEA's new compliance guidelines are anti-trans, so we aren't applying. Today, we're asking our readers to stand with us. Please donate to help us raise $15K to replace our annual grant by April 15.
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East has assessed each of the candidates in the Liberal leadership race in terms of their commitment to a foreign policy that upholds Palestinian human rights.
March 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East has assessed each of the candidates in the Liberal leadership race in terms of their commitment to a foreign policy that upholds Palestinian human rights.
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History is repeating itself.
There were more LGBTQ people removed from government during the lavender scare than were suspected communists during the red scare. They only really taught the latter in history classes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende...
There were more LGBTQ people removed from government during the lavender scare than were suspected communists during the red scare. They only really taught the latter in history classes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende...
February 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
History is repeating itself.
There were more LGBTQ people removed from government during the lavender scare than were suspected communists during the red scare. They only really taught the latter in history classes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende...
There were more LGBTQ people removed from government during the lavender scare than were suspected communists during the red scare. They only really taught the latter in history classes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende...
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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
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I hear reports both from the early polls and from peers that MANY voting cards did not arrive. You can vote if you bring ID and proof of address, even if you don't have anyone to vouch for you.
Elections matter!
Vote in Ontario's provincial election on Thursday. ✅
Elections matter!
Vote in Ontario's provincial election on Thursday. ✅
📣🗳️Ontario folks: the provincial election is on Thursday, Feb 27! You do NOT need a voter card - bring ID/proof of address. Find your polling location at link or call 1-888-668-8683 tty 1-888-292-2312. #ONPoli voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/search?mode=postalCode
Elections Ontario
voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca
February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I hear reports both from the early polls and from peers that MANY voting cards did not arrive. You can vote if you bring ID and proof of address, even if you don't have anyone to vouch for you.
Elections matter!
Vote in Ontario's provincial election on Thursday. ✅
Elections matter!
Vote in Ontario's provincial election on Thursday. ✅
The Trump administration continues to use its many levers to push its transphobic agenda. I agree with Caraballo—this will not just be about sport.
THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Trump administration continues to use its many levers to push its transphobic agenda. I agree with Caraballo—this will not just be about sport.
For people in “Australia”: The People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine has been established by a coalition of activists, academics, students, and legal experts. This inquiry is open to the public, and public hearings may be organised where appropriate. apan.org.au/peoples-inqu...
Submissions open: People's Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine - Australia Palestine Advocacy Network - APAN
The People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine is gathering testimonies on censorship, repression, and suppression of advocacy in Australian universities. Submit your experience today to he...
apan.org.au
February 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
For people in “Australia”: The People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine has been established by a coalition of activists, academics, students, and legal experts. This inquiry is open to the public, and public hearings may be organised where appropriate. apan.org.au/peoples-inqu...
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This year’s Trans Rights Readathon will run from March 21st to 31st, ending on Trans Day of Visibility. We hope you’ll join us as we spend 11 days reading, recommending, and celebrating trans+ stories, alongside calls to action to support the trans community both locally and globally.
February 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This year’s Trans Rights Readathon will run from March 21st to 31st, ending on Trans Day of Visibility. We hope you’ll join us as we spend 11 days reading, recommending, and celebrating trans+ stories, alongside calls to action to support the trans community both locally and globally.
“The New York Times Editorial Board [has] published an opinion piece decrying the state of transgender rights under the Trump administration…. What the piece conveniently omits, however, is the Times’ own complicity.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/nyt-hypocr...
NYT Hypocrisy: Outlet Criticizes Trump's Attacks On Trans People That They Helped Usher In
The New York Times Editorial Board today released an opinion piece calling Trump's attacks on transgender Americans "shameful." The paper has been influential in fueling those attacks.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“The New York Times Editorial Board [has] published an opinion piece decrying the state of transgender rights under the Trump administration…. What the piece conveniently omits, however, is the Times’ own complicity.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/nyt-hypocr...