I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

When you buy your SCIF from Temu:

is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events

New publication from our trans advocacy research collaboration! We find that trans people seeking to change their names contend with heavy intersecting administrative burdens that push justice-involved and unhoused people out. healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

If you want federal funding judged by a committee of your peers with high success rates, UBC Political Science is hiring an endowed chair in democracy and SFU is hiring in political psychology www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Dear US-based democracy scholars: We (UBC political science) are hiring an endowed chair in democracy — come to Canada: politics.ubc.ca/faculty-hiri...

Our article on gender-affirming IDs in Bolivia is out and open access! Gender-affirming IDs are associated with positive outcomes, using interview and survey data that we designed and collected with the largest trans advocacy group in Bolivia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gender-Affirming identification documents are associated with positive health-related outcomes for transgender people in Bolivia

Legislation has improved access to gender-affirming identification documents (IDs) in many countries but few studies address the laws’ effects. We document the relationship between gender-affirming...

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As anti-trans legislation ramped up in Florida, trans Floridians sought legal, health, and employment help from advocacy groups. Check out our collaborative project with trans advocates in Florida in the American Journal of Public Health: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

Antitransgender Legislation and Needs of Transgender Floridians, 2018–2024 | AJPH | Vol. Issue

Objectives. To document transgender Floridians’ service needs before and after antitransgender state legislation. Methods. We conducted descriptive and change point analyses of intake survey data coll...

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Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.

Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

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A UMiami reunion in Seoul!

Ban Ki Moon plenary address at IPSA 2025!

I brushed my teeth with dental prosthesis fixer last night because that’s what I bought instead of toothpaste at an airport pharmacy:

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Indianapolis lost federal matching funds for replanting trees in the city because of the word “diversity” in biodiversity. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Indianapolis program killed by federal government sought diversity ... among trees

A planting program including the words 'biodiversity' and tree 'equity' may have prompted grant revocation, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful leader fears

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Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Bukele made corrupt pacts with gangs like MS-13 that the US investigated. Trump is dismantling the investigation and releasing gang members to Bukele. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.

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We’re celebrating our most cited authors of 2024 by making their articles free to access 🥳 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/EJPG... See the thread below for our top 5 most cited authors

Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?  The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….

Whoops! Accidentally walked into a Bolsonaro rally looking like a big ol dyke

Spending Pride Saturday at the first meeting of LGBTI+ politicians of São Paulo in the State Assembly building

I went to a political rally of Black trans politicians in São Paulo, led by Deputada Erika Hilton, and it was a master class in transforming political space. It started with ballroom:

I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people"

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Zohran Mamdani is the only democrat in the mayoral race that released an LGBTQ platform and the only democrat in the country (that I know of) to commit to safeguarding gender affirming care for youth + adults with $$.

The US pulling back from global leadership on LGBTQI+ rights is further emboldening autocrats to take "anti-LGBTQI+ measures without diplomatic consequence." @williamsinstitute.bsky.social's @arimshaw.bsky.social joined us to unpack how threats to LGBTQI rights mean threats to all our rights.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

I think about this figure a lot.

So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.

You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure" It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Trump approval falls, Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and vaccines: June 13-16, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov

This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers Trump approval numbers, the Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his actions

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For fuck’s sake

“I just find it fascinating that this student can write [a racist] article, a series of [racist] articles that are essentially manifestoes, and that’s free speech,” Ms. Chatman said, “but my class can’t be called ‘Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality.’”

A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

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