New paper alert, out today in @journalcam.bsky.social with my esteemed colleagues @walkerwestbrewer.bsky.social, @ifra-j.bsky.social, and @billard.bsky.social 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The parent trap: The roles of parent status and pervasive ambiguity about gender in public opinion on transgender rights in the United States

The rights of transgender youth have become a defining site of cultural and political conflict in the United States, with parents increasingly positioned as moral and political arbiters. Using nati...

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Guys i just joined my profs zoom meeting but he isnt there and his camera is switched on should i pretend to leave and come back

For almost 2 weeks, Badar Khan Suri was kept in a room without a bed & with TV blaring 21 hrs/day. He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees. Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm. His little son has stopped talking in his absence.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

New ACLU video shows the moment ICE arrested Georgetown Scholar Dr. Badar Khan Siri. Masked agents accosted him on his way home from an iftar. In just 4 days, he was transferred among 5 different facilities across 3 states. Multiple refused him food or water to break his fast.

I didn’t even know there were this many people in evantson

Aaron Shaw@aaronshaw.bsky.social · last yr.

easily biggest protest I've seen in downtown Evanston. #handsoff

I feel bad for people who live in places with temperate climates year-round. They will never know the pure joy of a 50-degree February day after a long, cold winter. Soak it up this week, fellow midwesterners.

Can anyone recommend readings for undergrads that explicit link the survival and flourishing of indigenous and non-western gender systems to material struggles over land, sovereignty and against colonialism?

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

Its just me (out for a smoke) and the people walking their dogs in this snow storm

Wtf is a superbowl? 👀

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Performing the bare-est minimum function in R and feeling so accomplished. Only my fellow qual people will understand

My first polar vortex i hate it here. Like what do you mean campus is not closed during -30 C weather????

Today and in the coming days, remember

The overwhelming level of police and politicians here is not about making sure Luigi doesn’t escape, it’s about reassuring corporate America and scaring anyone who might consider copying what Luigi did. I think their strategy has backfired

They got the surname wrong but lowkey I get it

Great work in Punjabi language studies is on its way after Alyssa Ayres. "Paindoo: Punjabi as an Accent" by Prof. Iqra Cheema @cheema.bsky.social is a really promising start to what I hope will be a broader project on language, class, politics, and aesthetics.

Sednaya prison outside of Damascus is called the human slaughterhouse. The things that I read happened there will never leave me. Just the absolute most twisted things a human can come up with. The fact that we’re counting down the minutes to it being obliterated is beyond. Just incredible.

The beginning of every revolution is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law…& the greater good…From there we understand the hostility of…authority towards these figures, & its use of the law…to…criminalize them. —Basel al-Araj

1 pm and already on my 5th espresso shot of the day. Exam week is going great 👍🏽👍🏽

Something about billionaires being afraid is so heartwarming

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2y ago

New: multiple major health insurance companies (Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource, Medica, Elevance Health) have taken down pages on their websites which listed their leadership, following the murder of United Healthcare CEO www.404media.co/multiple-maj...

I think this essay is one of the most important essays re. gender theory ever written. I have been reading it over and over and I think you should all read it too (and support Talia's work). taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...

The Third Sex

“The Gender Binary” is a misnomer; gender has always been a hierarchy.

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NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.

BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

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Omg fuck the hand-wringing about people not finding the murder of the UHC CEO tragic. No, actually, we don't have to mourn the deaths of people who oversee the denial of our medical needs, who are also responsible for many, many deaths, all bc of their greed. STFU already.

whose idea were endnotes?

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

Getting sick AND depressed af 3 days before final submissions for the plot

The internet in Pakistan is fucked. Government-imposed firewalls stifle freedom of speech and expression, leaving people disconnected and silenced. Connectivity without VPNs is virtually non-existent, and now even the VPNs are starting to act up.

Going out in this weather is an extreme sport