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wiley sharp
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· Mar 17
Wild places: interstices of queer and trans* possibility in suburban Toronto
How do queer and trans* youth survive and thrive in the precarious landscapes of the colonial–modern metropole? This paper explores the suburban interstices – in-between places – where youth create...
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thrilled to share that my first solo-authored article is now available online in social & cultural #geography!! I explore how #queer and #trans youth make places of possibility from overlooked in-between spaces in suburban Toronto. please share and lmk what you think :))
doi.org/10.1080/1464...
doi.org/10.1080/1464...
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Every encouraging message I have ever received has felt like a buoy when I wanted to quit or wondered if anyone would notice if I stopped writing and reporting to the standards and levels of my role models. And I send my own messages to other writers and reporters too.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Every encouraging message I have ever received has felt like a buoy when I wanted to quit or wondered if anyone would notice if I stopped writing and reporting to the standards and levels of my role models. And I send my own messages to other writers and reporters too.
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Attacking trans children is about attacking all children in the same way attacking trans autonomy is about attacking all bodily autonomy. Our actions are particularly powerful, autonomous and brave, and that means even well meaning ppl find us ideologically disturbing
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Attacking trans children is about attacking all children in the same way attacking trans autonomy is about attacking all bodily autonomy. Our actions are particularly powerful, autonomous and brave, and that means even well meaning ppl find us ideologically disturbing
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I've been thinking about this quote all day
"Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The mass killing of Palestinians has also extinguished the knowledge, memories, experiences and indeed the histories that they carry as individuals. Genocide targets a people’s past as much as their present."
"Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The mass killing of Palestinians has also extinguished the knowledge, memories, experiences and indeed the histories that they carry as individuals. Genocide targets a people’s past as much as their present."
Writing History in a Time of Genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I've been thinking about this quote all day
"Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The mass killing of Palestinians has also extinguished the knowledge, memories, experiences and indeed the histories that they carry as individuals. Genocide targets a people’s past as much as their present."
"Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The mass killing of Palestinians has also extinguished the knowledge, memories, experiences and indeed the histories that they carry as individuals. Genocide targets a people’s past as much as their present."
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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I went to the book launch of Gendertrash from Hell in Toronto a few nights ago. It was magical. Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay really said "fuck this!" and owned who they were/are. Get a copy of this iconic zine through @littlepuss.net: www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...
Gendertrash From Hell - ALL-NEW — LittlePuss Press
Long-lost and all-new zines revealing the secret history of contemporary transgender culture
www.littlepuss.net
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I went to the book launch of Gendertrash from Hell in Toronto a few nights ago. It was magical. Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay really said "fuck this!" and owned who they were/are. Get a copy of this iconic zine through @littlepuss.net: www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/gende...
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Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
Apply now—Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis” - Antipode Online
Toronto, Ontario, Canadathe traditional territory of the Huron Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit June 1st – 5th, 2026 The contemporary global landscape is increasingly defined by w...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
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Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.
Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education Crisis in Five Figures | The Local
Stagnant provincial funding, a domestic tuition freeze, cuts to international students, and expensive capital projects—the numbers behind the emergency in higher education.
thelocal.to
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.
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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 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
NOW ON SALE: PINKO MAGAZINE ISSUE 4! 100 luscious pages of the most advanced gay communist print material you can find in English. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY to get it in hand by the end of the year shop.pinko.online/products/issue-4
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Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing:
1. Academia resumes control of publishing
2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity
3. Independent fraud detection and prevention
4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity
1. Academia resumes control of publishing
2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity
3. Independent fraud detection and prevention
4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure
are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data,
text and image fabrication....
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing:
1. Academia resumes control of publishing
2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity
3. Independent fraud detection and prevention
4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity
1. Academia resumes control of publishing
2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity
3. Independent fraud detection and prevention
4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity
one way of thinking about the last century of left political thought—from Benjamin & Arendt to Adorno & Althusser to Glissant & Deleuze to Foucault & Butler to Agamben & Mbembe—is that it studies fascism's ultraviolence and its decisive break from reality to try to stop it from every happening again
Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.
November 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
one way of thinking about the last century of left political thought—from Benjamin & Arendt to Adorno & Althusser to Glissant & Deleuze to Foucault & Butler to Agamben & Mbembe—is that it studies fascism's ultraviolence and its decisive break from reality to try to stop it from every happening again
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Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
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Grant applications assess merit in the same way course evaluations assess learning: they don't. There's a clear "Matthew effect" in grants where winners keep winning and losers drop out *even when they're similarly rated*. Cut the red tape, give us what we need to do our jobs and let us get to work.
The Matthew effect in science funding | PNAS
A classic thesis is that scientific achievement exhibits a “Matthew effect”: Scientists
who have previously been successful are more likely to succ...
www.pnas.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Grant applications assess merit in the same way course evaluations assess learning: they don't. There's a clear "Matthew effect" in grants where winners keep winning and losers drop out *even when they're similarly rated*. Cut the red tape, give us what we need to do our jobs and let us get to work.
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"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"
“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”
“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”
EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion
After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.
goodlawproject.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"
“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”
“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”
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zines are little museums you can carry around
September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
zines are little museums you can carry around
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Semicolon use or its absence correlates with the author's attitude towards trans women
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Semicolon use or its absence correlates with the author's attitude towards trans women
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Happy Anita Bryant Pie Day to all who celebrate.
Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com
YouTube video by NBCUniversal Archives
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October 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Happy Anita Bryant Pie Day to all who celebrate.
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Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
October 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
this is why social media companies should have no business doing age / ID verification ! it is a catastrophic data security hazard that leaves ordinary people vulnerable to doxxing, identify fraud, and other harms. even worse, age / ID verification has no benefit for platform moderation !
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
this is why social media companies should have no business doing age / ID verification ! it is a catastrophic data security hazard that leaves ordinary people vulnerable to doxxing, identify fraud, and other harms. even worse, age / ID verification has no benefit for platform moderation !
the final 2 pieces of the Queering Feminist Geography Collective's report on queer & trans inclusion have been published! thx to all the brilliant members of the collective for persisting through a long and difficult writing & pub process :)
links to all 4 pieces here: wiley.pink/publications...
links to all 4 pieces here: wiley.pink/publications...
October 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
the final 2 pieces of the Queering Feminist Geography Collective's report on queer & trans inclusion have been published! thx to all the brilliant members of the collective for persisting through a long and difficult writing & pub process :)
links to all 4 pieces here: wiley.pink/publications...
links to all 4 pieces here: wiley.pink/publications...
somehow bechdel has become almost as scary as orwell to the evangelical right lmao
September 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
somehow bechdel has become almost as scary as orwell to the evangelical right lmao
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The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
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Love is contraband in Hell,
cause love is an acid
that eats away bars.
But you, me, and tomorrow
hold hands and make vows
that struggle will multiply.
Rest in power Assata
cause love is an acid
that eats away bars.
But you, me, and tomorrow
hold hands and make vows
that struggle will multiply.
Rest in power Assata
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Love is contraband in Hell,
cause love is an acid
that eats away bars.
But you, me, and tomorrow
hold hands and make vows
that struggle will multiply.
Rest in power Assata
cause love is an acid
that eats away bars.
But you, me, and tomorrow
hold hands and make vows
that struggle will multiply.
Rest in power Assata
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I would add to this that this small group of analytic philosophers continues to enjoy the protection of the field due to how they have leveraged their institutional and academic connections to cast any criticism, any attempt at holding them to account, as a violation of their academic freedom.
There has never been a reckoning over a small group of analytic philosophers constantly publishing slop dressed up in neutral-sounding academese to push their right-wing political projects. They circumvent peer review, ride off of the prestige of their job titles, and act way outside their AOE
I love the field of academic philosophy, it sure is producing some top-notch—
[putting a finger to my earpiece]
Oh dear.
[putting a finger to my earpiece]
Oh dear.
September 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I would add to this that this small group of analytic philosophers continues to enjoy the protection of the field due to how they have leveraged their institutional and academic connections to cast any criticism, any attempt at holding them to account, as a violation of their academic freedom.
for some reason analytic philosophers still think it's acceptable to opine about gender while ignoring the last 75 years of research in the philosophy of gender
This is virulently anti-trans: not simply arguing that there's a reasonably natural concept of transition-independent biological sex (fine) but also that there is no reasonably natural biological or social concept whose extensions is trans and cis women dailynous.com/2025/09/19/p...
Philosophers File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Cases on Transgender Athletes - Daily Nous
A group of 24 philosophers has submitted an amicus curiae brief for two US Supreme Court cases concerning laws about the participation of transgender athletes in sports. The two cases are Bradley Litt...
dailynous.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
for some reason analytic philosophers still think it's acceptable to opine about gender while ignoring the last 75 years of research in the philosophy of gender