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alex manley

@alexicon.bsky.social

non-binary word person. author of The New Masculinity (2023) and Post-Man (2025), translator of Made-Up (2021). alexmanley.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18h ago

The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo

Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · yesterday

We are Still Here Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe 2021

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️@ashleylynch.bsky.social · 5d ago

Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 6d ago

Flu info and eligibility here (not eligible means out of pocket or otherwise covered by private insurance, can still get it) www.quebec.ca/sante/consei...

Vaccination contre la grippe

Prendre rendez-vous en ligne, s'informer sur les types de vaccins.

quebec.ca

Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 6d ago

Québec friends, the RAMQ eligibility criteria of the COVID boosters is out! They broadened it beyond the very restrictive May criteria, so you may be eligible (click though chronic conditions, too). www.quebec.ca/en/health/ad...

COVID-19 vaccination

Making your appointment, learn about types of vaccines.

quebec.ca

Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 2w ago

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2w ago

#OtD 18 Sep 1990 Canadian soldiers and police tried to invade the Kahnawake reservation. Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) First Nations people who were resisting construction of a golf course fought back, and forced them to retreat after seven hours of fighting stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...

Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action)@foeus.bsky.social · 2w ago

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to announce the repeal of greenhouse gas pollution limits for coal and gas power plants today. We condemn this move as anti-science, inhumane, immoral, and dangerous. foe.org/news/stateme...

Statement from Friends of the Earth U.S.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to announce the repeal of greenhouse gas pollution limits for coal and gas power plants today.

foe.org

Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 3w ago

Who DOES this

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 3w ago

We must hold the line on this. Slop doesn't equal "bad" it means slop, the byproduct of some automated process. There's plenty of human-generated "content" that is not great, but that's not slop.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Slop does not refer to criticism or mere dislike. You can use even the most colloquial of definitions for slop and all of them at least minimally refer to volume and machine produced.

arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · 3w ago

HEATED RIVALRY for realz: CUTTING EDGE by Daniel Gawthrop is a fascinating and timely examination of ice hockey through a queer lens. arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Cutt...

The cover of the book “Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Culture” by Daniel Gawthrop. Stacked text above reads, “Happy book birthday,” along with the book's title and subtitle and the author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp [dot] com. The painted abstract background is pale purple and has the publisher’s logomark (a circle with an off-centre jagged cross cut through) in the top-right.

On the book cover, the silhouettes of two hockey players holding hockey sticks face each other, with one player on the upper right-hand side and the other player on the lower left-hand side, on a dark purple background. The silhouettes have a gradient of green, blue, and light purple. The title and subtitle, “Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Culture,” appear in the top left corner. The author’s name, “Daniel Gawthrop,” appears in the bottom right corner. Below the player on the right is text that reads, “An incredibly timely and personal examination of hockey at its cultural crossroads. —Ren Dawe, You Can Play.”

The background continues from the first slide, with a photograph of the author, Daniel Gawthrop, taken by Trevor MacNeil. A small caption lists the author’s and photographer’s names.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4w ago

A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?

Kate Allen@kateallen.ft.com · 4w ago

Police are facing growing questions over how up to 500 masked activists dressed in black brought parts of Dover to a standstill on Saturday. Authorities have been accused of failure to act, intelligence failures and being ‘caught on the hoof’. www.ft.com/content/f244...

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 4w ago

SOURCE CALL: Looking for experts who can interview for a piece related to trans people and sexuality. Thanks! If anyone's willing to share, much appreciated. You can feel free to write me via my site: www.sandyernestallen.com/contact

Contact — Sandy Ernest Allen

Contact author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen for consulting, speaking, etc.

sandyernestallen.com

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4w ago

#OtD 2 Sep 1962 Oswald Mosley and his fascist blackshirts tried to hold a meeting in east London while the British National Party attempted to assemble nearby. Both were attacked by anti-fascist locals. Mosley's meeting collapsed and he fled www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...

alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · 4w ago

cute bookseller said 'ooh great book' when i went to pick up NEVADA by imogen binnie at the cool local bookstore. immediately became v flustered & when they said 'happy reading!' i said 'likewise!', realized i'd made thee classic service-worker-interaction blunder, grabbed the book & fled wordlessly

alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · last mo.

how it feels, basically

eight panel screenshot representation of the now-infamous exchange between dominic monaghan and elijah wood on the lord of the rings press tour where dominic asks elijah if he'll wear wigs, has he worn wigs and when will he wear wigs and elijah gets increasingly exasperated. first panel: do you wear wigs (replaced with: do you use ai?) second panel: uh, no, i do not. third panel: have you worn wigs? (replaced with: have you used ai?) fourth panel: no, i have not. fifth panel: will you wear wigs? (replaced with: will you use ai?) sixth panel: maybe! (replaced with: no!) seventh panel: when will you wear wigs? (replaced with: when will you use ai?) eighth panel: no text, just an exhausted and insane-looking elijah wood opening his mouth wide in despair.

Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 4w ago

The original poem in English by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social, published in echolalia echolalia

incense search engine #AskYrAncestorsAnything

how do u say help me in yr language
how much ginseng do u take each morning
how do u say fed up in yr language
what’s yr favourite tea
how do u say no more in yr language
did u like these dumplings i made u
what colour is precious in yr language
how much baijiu do i pour u
can u hear the cicadas in yr language
do u like this painting i made
what storms do i part in yr language
what do u think of corn oh oh oh
what of u am i holding in yr language
how do u fold yr dumplings tho
what do i let go of in yr language
n what about this pomegranate
what will it take in yr language
how do u do yr hair
what would disappoint yr language
how do u like yr spices
how do u stay in yr language
i really like donut peaches
do i keep searching in yr language
do u like them too
how would u pronounce my name

alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · last mo.

how it feels, basically

Joshua Graves @joshuagraves.me · last mo.

Shit, not Wendell Berry. I had really only recently begun reading his work through my friend @bryanzug.bsky.social. It was this what got me into him. What a voice.

Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry 1. How much poison are you willing to eat for
the success of the free market and global trade?
Please name your preferred poisons. 2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are
you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of
your favorite evils and acts of hatred. 3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you
would most willingly destroy. 4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most
readily do without. 5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the
children whom you would be willing to kill.

Vic Michaelis @vicmmic.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today’s a great day to donate some eSims!!!! chuffed.org/project/crip...

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

chuffed.org

Hal Newman @bigmedicine.bsky.social · last mo.

30-08-2026 15:16 — Alerte Zéro Orange - Montréal & Laval Les paramédics et les répartiteurs médicaux d'urgence desservant Montréal et Laval travaillent à pleine capacité.

Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · last mo.

Hi! So our eSims are keeping a whole hospital going in Gaza, and countless of students who are studying for exams right now. Our funds are about to run out because the usage of those eSims are especially high. <3 #ConnectingGaza

Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i think for the rest of the month of the #SealeyChallenge i will reshare our esims fund throughout since we are soon going to run out of funds! <3 bit.ly/eSimsRUs

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · last mo.

if you're Canadian, there is a petition active right now to have him removed and sent back to the US for signaling his obvious allegiances here. There's already a quarter million signatures. Get him out of our country, we don't have time for this bullshit rn www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-7531 - Petitions

ourcommons.ca

Charles Rusnell@charlesrusnell.bsky.social · last mo.

The U.S. ambassador to Canada reposted this

Repost by American ambassador to Canada Pete Hoeskstra of a Whitehouse post of an AI-generated photo of an eagle killing a Canada goose.

the apple guy™@wackhumanbeing.bsky.social · last mo.

Here's a silly little thing I do as a fun exercise at the start of every college football season. Presenting the 2026 All-Heirloom Team.

The 2026 FBS All-Heirloom Team (The College Football Players Whose Nmaes Sound The Most Like Old-Timey Apple Varieties)

2026 All-Heirloom Team Offense:
QB: Arrington Maiden (James Madison)
RB: Savion Red (Sacramento State)
WR: Major Pride (UCLA)
WR: Roman Mothershed (LSU)
WR: Prince Jean (Kentucky)
TE: Gray Maultsby (Miami Ohio)
OT: King Large (Missouri State)
OG: Willie Goodacre (North Texas)
C: Ashton Funk (Texas A&M)
OG: Jimmy Walls (Sam Houston State)
OT: August Weight (Akron)

2026 All-Heirloom Team Defense
DE: James Early (Cincinnati)
DT: Leonard Sharp (Toledo)
DT: Titan Davis (Michigan)
DE: Emerson Joy (West Virginia)
LB: Blanche Gold (UAB)
LB: Royal Weber (Missouri State)
LB: Langston Long (Toledo)
CB: Jeremiah Favorite (Michigan State)
S: Red Morgan (Alabama)
S: Marquis Raspberry (Oregon State)
CB: Rodrick Pleasant (UCLA)

2026 All-Heirloom Team Special Teams
K: Colton Boomer (Boise State)
P: Anderson Green (Alabama)
LS: Deed Capper (Virginia Tech)
KR: Ben Black (Rutgers)

alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · last mo.

march 11, 2025 is crazy

screenshot of a bluesky interaction dated march 11, 2025: user @juniorhoncho.bsky.social posts "have to figure trump's gonna rename lake ontario soon" and user @wuhanclams.bsky.social replies "Lake America."

infamous meme showing a girl preparing to throw a red dodgeball at a group of other girls standing in a grassy backyard. text overlays: the ball is 'the gift of prophesy', girl with ball is 'apollo', three other girls are 'random internet users just trying to be comedic'

Aaron Kreuter @aaronkreuter.bsky.social · last mo.

COVER REVEAL! Thrilled to share the cover for Asunder: An Anthology of Jewish Antizionist Fiction, out on April 1, 2027 with Baraka Books! Available for pre-order now, wherever you get your books!All royalties from Asunder will be sent to Connecting Gaza: www.connectinggaza.org/donate.More

Nathan Whitlock @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social · last mo.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · last mo.

a roof over every head food in our stomachs healthcare for all bodily autonomy freedom to love/marry who you want safety to be yourself freedom to worship, or to not clear air, water, soil safe roads accessibility in all spaces a living wage fair taxes to fund the public good our radical agenda