1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

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whoa october is around the corner!

reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.

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CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

⚠️ Sonderregister für trans* Personen?
⚠️ Meldelisten für psychisch Erkrankte?
Klingt dystopisch, aber das fordert die CDU.

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Wenn ihr euch fragt, was der von unserer Bundestagspräsidentin normalisierte Diskurs gebracht hat:

Eine Studentin im Praxissemester hat mir erzählt, dass sie gewarnt wurde, ihren Laptop mit 🏳️‍🌈aufklebern nicht im Unterricht zu benutzen, weil sie zur Neutralität verpflichtet sei.

#fall in #mtl

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Welcome to the life of every teacher.

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wow. #zohran #transrights

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has voiced support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and other efforts to topple the government; she aims to privatize the country’s state oil industry and has praised right-wing Latin American leaders, such as Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele.

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

And don’t forget that you can still get 20% off on select banned and challenged titles on our site through October 19 using code BBW25 at checkout!

Keep reading. Keep fighting the good fight. I’ll see you soon. 💜

London: Come listen to me prattle on about trans history (and watch Framing Agnes!) at this free event at Birkbeck next week! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Die von der Bundesregierung geplanten Totalsanktionen treffen insb depressive Menschen, die sozialarbeiterische und psychologische Aufsuche benötigen würden. Ein autoritärer Sozialstaat verschärft soziale Probleme und löst kein Problem.

"Today, Black and trans users continue to see their posts suppressed or removed, or their accounts banned for challenging Bluesky’s increasingly irresponsible leadership."

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.

Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

Oh, so business as usual? We learned nothing from the disasters of the Digital Service Tax and the Online News Act? #canpoli #tech

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration.

Please share!

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...

Listen to my interview on my community quilt project on CBC's Daybreak that aired this AM. Special thanks to Dionne Codrington who did an amazing job and was caring in her work and questions.

Yes, me complaining about the comité des sages made it to the interview!

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Write PM Carney, Foreign Minister Anand, and your MP to demand the release of the illegally abducted Canadians by the state of Israel!

Template letter and contact list on Proton Drive free for use and reuse here: bit.ly/3TelsCj

#CADpoli #FreedomFlotilla