imagine being a menswear writer and having to go back to writing about this fall’s best socks after reading anthropic employees say AI might destroy humanity in a few years
Hil Malatino
@hilmalatino.bsky.social
Woods Weirdo // Professor at Farmer’s High// Author of Climbing, Side Affects, Trans Care, and Queer Embodiment he/they if you insist
Since it went down for awhile last week, I thought it best to go ahead and share the copy of Emi Koyama's personal site, eminism.org, I scraped in mid-June. Koyama was a prolific archivist of both her own writing and online discussions generally, particularity around MichFest and Camp Trans.
eminism.org Web Scrape · Queer Digital History Project
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it's a monday morning in mid july so of course we're writing syllabi! against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, please send! against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
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it was a total pleasure to celebrate KJ’s new book alongside Ianna. Listen - and teach Nothing Wanting!
University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · 3mo ago🆕🎧 New podcast episode: KJ Cerankowski talks with Hil Malatino and Ianna Hawkins Owen about absence, asexuality, and expansiveness. share.transistor.fm/s/dfafdc4f
“What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on automated taxis, AI, ICE raids, data centers and the rebellions taking shape against a system that treats workers, migrants and whole communities as disposable.
Capitalism Without Humans
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
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NEW: The ultraconservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the 2023 rule change that allowed for telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone—nationwide.
Published Opinion – #119, Att. #1 in State of Louisiana v. FDA (5th Cir., 26-30203) – CourtListener.com
NON DISPOSITIVE PUBLISHED OPINION FILED. Judge: LHS, Judge: SKD, Judge: KDE; granting Motion to stay the 2023REMS under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending appeal filed by Appellant State of Louisiana [12]; denyin...
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The first 25 pages of Climbing are available to read pre-publication! Big thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for making this available. So excited for this project to be out in the world.
Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 5mo agoLongtime climber @hilmalatino.bsky.social’s "Climbing," new in the Practices series, explores how the sport has changed, saved, and occasionally threatened his life. buff.ly/f7ZHacZ
Two decades ago, a close friend - stern, German - saw one of our profs in sandals and shorts and told me they could no longer respect him. Every year, when it gets warm, I think of this. This year, I actually asked the undergraduates I work with. Verdict: shorts okay, sandals absolutely not.
a rainbow with the words " be more you know " and a star
ALT: a rainbow with the words " be more you know " and a star
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I've warned for years that Republicans planned to reroute federal family planning dollars to crisis pregnancy centers—groups that won't even talk about birth control. I re-upped that prediction just last week. A day later, this Politico piece dropped. jessica.substack.com/p/the-white-...
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 vote, holds that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint, subjecting it to strict scrutiny and likely rendering it unconstitutional when lower courts apply today's decision. Gorsuch writes for the court; Jackson dissents.
Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack
The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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one, maybe the only, good thing about the internet is that it still hosts forums where people can look for random friends they made while following jam bands around in the nineties i don’t even like jam bands, but i like this
*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...
What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022
“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …
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A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 7mo agoHorrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...
Like most rational and scientific minded people, I take my cues on the healthcare needs of minority groups from the Catholic Church, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and sundry rightwing influencers with a weird fixation on birth rates. I am the New York Times, a serious newspaper.
“every day well every day we do not listen much to the accounts of the bombardments, naturally enough when you are among the objects to be bombarded it is not as interesting as when you are not” - Gertrude Stein, Wars I Have Seen
sat all the way through the credits of Hamnet waiting for a blooper reel that never came
lots of things I don’t like about today, but reading Stephanie Burt on Richard Siken was not one of them. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephanie Burt · On Richard Siken
When Didion declared ‘we tell ourselves stories in order to live,’ she meant that we lie to ourselves all the time....
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predictably odd + bad times for a book announcement, but nevertheless this little book about climbing (and grief and time and mortality and obsession and work and trust and fun) will be in the world in a few months, thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social available for pre-order now!
my spouse woke up this morning and said “I had a dream that I was writing a book called ‘Who Owns Your Mother? Freud and Copyright in the Age of AI’” one thousand percent would read
i am v clumsy the kind of clumsy where i made a pb + j got jam on my ass and sat in my upholstered office chair that kind of clumsy
The New York City Trans Oral History Project has this wonderful two hour oral history with Miss Major. Take some time to listen to it; it's quite extraordinary. We have learned so much from Miss Major. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...
Miss Major – NYC Trans Oral History Project
Archive of interviews with trans-identified people who have called New York City their home.
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M. E. O'Brien@genderhorizon.com · 11mo agoI had the honor of once organizing a dialogue between Miss Major and Tourmaline for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, hosted by the NYPL. Major was a people’s hero, a tremendous force of revolutionary commitment and love.
my spouse is walking around the house searching for their Bills hat chanting “Bills hat! Bills hat! Bills hat!” (don’t worry, still gay)
normal week, explained to the students in my grad seminar that the two wolves inside me are Didion and Babitz and that Babitz always wins (yes, I am currently reading the Anolik)
Re-reading “on narcissism” for the first time in a very long time and my god is this funny (also prescient, infuriating, illuminating…but mostly funny)
The Supreme Court is considering three cases this term that could impact the national landscape of trans rights: one relating to conversion therapy and two related to trans student athletes. We’re offering guidance and key context for reporters and newsrooms preparing to cover these developments.
Tracking trans rights at the Supreme Court in 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering three cases this term that could impact the national landscape of trans rights. As part of our ongoing work to promote accurate, nuanced coverage of trans communi...
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I know it never feels like the right time given *gestures wildly* but please keep posting about what you’re writing, the books and articles coming out, all the cool shit that keeps on happening amidst *gestures wildly once more*
The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!
Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies (731) - HigherEdJobs
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