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Politics_Oxford@politicsoxford.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ History Month DPIR highlight: Dr. aylon cohen (Feminist Political Theory). Research explores Democratic Theory & queer politics. Current work: a queer-feminist history of manhood democracy in England, exploring fraternity & sodomy as political symbols. Interview: https://ow.ly/hBZU50YmjFy.

Where can i find the intimacy of strangers on the internet that is wider than a group chat but smaller than blueksy. Are my only choices reddit and discord have chit chats?

I haven’t heard people saying this yet: it is highly unlikely that Jeffrey Epstein was running the only billionaire pedophile ring in the world. The documents have revealed whole global elite networks that include access to young girls. Who’s running the current rings for all these men?

I dislike the language of transition. I'm not transitioning to a healthier body when I'm mindful of what I eat, I'm not transitioning into retirement when I go to work, I'm not transitioning to death when I celebrate my birthday, and I'm not transitioning gender when I take hormones. Im just living.

up early after the party reading @mckenziewark.bsky.social happy 2026 out there

Femmunist Intimations - Journal #159

McKenzie Wark describes four types of masculinity and how to overcome them.

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"Raising both hands is a universal sign of surrender for isolated members of armed forces. Under international law, those who surrender are considered hors de combat, the French term for those out of combat, and may not be attacked."

Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Bradley did not perceive their waving to be a “two-arm surrender. After 45 minutes, a second missile screamed down from the sky on Bradley’s order. Two more missiles followed in rapid succession, sinking the remnants of the boat. Nothing remained of the men. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/b...

more evidence of trump's favourite little phrase to critique the left: "open borders, men in women's sports, transgender for everyone"

aylon cohen@ayloncohen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Why does the Trump administration blame trans people together with migrants? As Paul Preciado argues in Can the Monster Speak? (2020), the history of homosexuality/transsexuality shows us that "migration" has always been a central issue for political regimes of sex, gender, and sexual difference

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan

Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...

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Why does the Trump administration blame trans people together with migrants? As Paul Preciado argues in Can the Monster Speak? (2020), the history of homosexuality/transsexuality shows us that "migration" has always been a central issue for political regimes of sex, gender, and sexual difference

aylon cohen@ayloncohen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

From the website of the USDA: more evidence of how the US authoritarian regime is constantly obsessed with the bodies of migrants and trans people.

From the website of the USDA: more evidence of how the US authoritarian regime is constantly obsessed with the bodies of migrants and trans people.

aylon cohen@ayloncohen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I saw an interview of Trump talking about how economy is doing well when he suddenly pivots and says "the radical left democrats, these people are crazy, they want open borders, they want to have men in women sports, they want to have transgender everybody" it's like a tagline for him now

So this happened. At at open call for "new models," someone was reading CAPITAL IS DEAD while waiting in line. Telfar himself asked the aspiring model to read it out loud. They then hired me to appear in this video to talk about it. Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Io1...

Stop using the word genealogy when you really just mean history

politicians posting AI slop to make their opponents say and do stupid things is really just another turn in the downward spiral of the absolute stupidity of our present moment.

I'm ready for this Y2K fashion trend to make a comeback

I saw an interview of Trump talking about how economy is doing well when he suddenly pivots and says "the radical left democrats, these people are crazy, they want open borders, they want to have men in women sports, they want to have transgender everybody" it's like a tagline for him now

aylon cohen@ayloncohen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In response to the Kirk shooting, Trump once again invokes the danger of trans people, saying: "Radicals on the left are the problem... They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country." Why does he talk about trans people?

In response to the Kirk shooting, Trump once again invokes the danger of trans people, saying: "Radicals on the left are the problem... They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country." Why does he talk about trans people?

biggggg issue of queer political science. I'm gagged to see this area of research exploding.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last yr.

NEW ISSUE from @pspolisci.bsky.social - PS: Political Science & Politics - Contemporary and Future LGBTQ+ Scholarship in Political Science - Volume 58 - Issue 3 - July 2025 - cup.org/45ivMQC cc @apsa.bsky.social

I went to a queer music festival over the weekend called Whole. At about 1am on Sunday, I was talking to some friends about what turned us onto feminism when we were young. We were sitting on a platform painted to mimic a large twister board while three gays were fucking a few feet away from us

it's a provocation for queer political scientists not to seek assimilation into the discipline and a call/demand/shout for straight political science to queer its disciplinary practices if it wants to stay relevant in the study of democracy

aylon cohen@ayloncohen.bsky.social · last yr.

Im happy to finally see this thing @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote together out in the world. It's called "Grooming Authoritarianism" and it's about how social and political panic around trans/queer lives can teach us about the decline in democracy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Im happy to finally see this thing @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote together out in the world. It's called "Grooming Authoritarianism" and it's about how social and political panic around trans/queer lives can teach us about the decline in democracy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🧵 Last week, Robin White, a barrister and trans woman, was harassed for using the women’s toilets in the Parliament. Today, Parliament has implemented a trans bathroom ban, telling trans people that they are no longer be allowed to use toilets which align with their lived gender.

It's weird when I hear people repeat this tired idea that patriarchal sex centers the male orgasm to the exclusion of female pleasure. If you've watched straight porn, then you know that the majority of screen time is centered not on male pleasure at all but men's ability and skill to make women cum

In an endless state of surprise seeing so many of my liberal friends posting and sharing the kind of protest security tactics and tips that were common in anarchist spaces over a decade ago but were considered tin foil hat crazy at the time. One important lesson I learned in all these opsec talks

I am so excited to announce Love in a F*cked Up World, the podcast! The first episode is out today — a conversation with adrienne maree brown — and I'll be releasing new episodes every two weeks for the next few months. youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...

Introducing: Love in a F*cked Up World | Podcast with Dean Spade

YouTube video by Dean Spade

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Woohoo! Finally got the proofs for this text @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote on why political scientists need to 'queer' the discipline to properly study authoritarianism today. This isn't a call for inclusion, assimilation, but for undoing the cis-heteronormativity of the discipline's analytics