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Richard Price (they/them)
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Non-binary political scientist studying the censorship of queer stories and LGBTQ educational activism. Bossed around by five cats. Blog intermittently at https://adventuresincensorship.com/

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · Nov 20
It's been 7 years since I started censorship work so lets do a thread. My first publication wrestled with the vague doctrine given by Pico through a case study of how NJ schools handled controversy over Fun Home. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2021/10...
Publication: Navigating a Doctrinal Grey Area — Adventures in Censorship
I have finally published my first academic article from my censorship research, a little later than I hoped thanks to the never-ending pandemic. “Navigating a doctrinal grey area” is online with Fi...
adventuresincensorship.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 2d
Cinnamon says happy Friday and get with the scratches!

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 2d
This seems on the up and up.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 2d
The world is terrible so here is Rupert to brighten things up. His favorite things are his food, anyone else’s food, and playing with big cats when they don’t want to play.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 3d
I literally couldn’t do my job under these conditions. LGBTQ existence and race are realities of American life and politics and there is no way to purge that.
belaforams.bsky.social Christina Belanger, Ph.D @belaforams.bsky.social · 3d
“…an intro. sociology course on race and ethnicity was canceled, a comm. course on religion and the arts was renumbered and stripped of core curriculum credit, and a philosophy prof. was told to remove Plato readings and other material related to race and gender from a core course or be reassigned.”
Texas A&M restrictions on race, gender could affect 200 courses
With the semester set to begin next week, professors have been directed to alter courses, and some classes have been removed or reassigned from the core curriculum at the College Station campus.
www.texastribune.org

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Christina Belanger, Ph.D @belaforams.bsky.social · 3d
“…an intro. sociology course on race and ethnicity was canceled, a comm. course on religion and the arts was renumbered and stripped of core curriculum credit, and a philosophy prof. was told to remove Plato readings and other material related to race and gender from a core course or be reassigned.”
Texas A&M restrictions on race, gender could affect 200 courses
With the semester set to begin next week, professors have been directed to alter courses, and some classes have been removed or reassigned from the core curriculum at the College Station campus.
www.texastribune.org

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4d
Some thoughts on the ACLU's lawsuit against Utah book banning.
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Fighting Censorship in Utah — Adventures in Censorship
The ACLU of Utah has filed a lawsuit against Utah for its censorship of books in public schools. In brief, Utah requires the removal of any book that “depicts” sex without any consideration of merit...
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 4d

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 5d
Got to remove Plato to protect western civilization.
tamu-aaup.bsky.social AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 5d
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 5d
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 5d
On the flip side, I still dream of the amazing Italian food from then. Hard to find that in Utah

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 5d
Honestly what passed for Mexican food when I lived in Rhode Island wasn't much better.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 5d
BIG NEWS!

Utah's chapter of the ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the state for its banning of 22 books from all public school students.

This case could have massive implications nationwide.

bookriot.com/utah-sued-ov...
State ACLU, on Behalf of Authors and Students, Sues Utah Over Book Bans
The ACLU of Utah has filed a lawsuit against the state over legislation that has allowed them to ban books from public school students.
bookriot.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 5d
My brain is slowly spitting out ideas for this chapter that I'm late on. Now if I can just figure out how to put these ideas into a coherent order ...

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 6d
Just reacting to the headline: nope we need to federalize more of it. Like fucking natural resources. Use oil profits to benefit the country.
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 6d
50-60 million acres of this land is held in trust for sovereign Native nations. This was written by a professor who teaches at the most highly ranked law school in the country and who should have mentioned this.

reason.com/volokh/2026/...
President Trump’s New Housing Policy Should Include Massive Privatization of Federal Land
The U.S. government currently owns 28% of the land in the United States, which is way too much.
reason.com

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 6d
50-60 million acres of this land is held in trust for sovereign Native nations. This was written by a professor who teaches at the most highly ranked law school in the country and who should have mentioned this.

reason.com/volokh/2026/...
President Trump’s New Housing Policy Should Include Massive Privatization of Federal Land
The U.S. government currently owns 28% of the land in the United States, which is way too much.
reason.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 6d
I feel like a generation of legal realists from a century ago just rolled over in their graves. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say
www.nytimes.com

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 6d
And I’m reminded of 30 Rock joking about how Chaney offered to make Jack King of Iraq. What was absurd has become our world.
ericumansky.bsky.social Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 6d
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

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Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 6d
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 6d
Of course there will be a test. It will measure skin tone.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 9d
I’d much rather use my sleep apnea scores that made the doctor say in a very fake neutral voice “well let’s make sure we keep you alive.”
rmdean.bsky.social Rebecca Dean @rmdean.bsky.social · 9d
This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.
A screenshot of a National Review article by George Leef. The title is “Let’s Hire Professors Purely on Merit”. The first paragraph reads: the diversity media that has swept over American education for the last 50 years or so has had a align effect on the quality of professors. Many of those hired to fill quotas for certain groups are, to be blunt, not especially qualified. Moreover, such hiring violates the law against discrimination. What should we do?” It’s the usual thing about white men not being able to get jobs because women and minorities are given preference. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Rebecca Dean @rmdean.bsky.social · 9d
This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.
A screenshot of a National Review article by George Leef. The title is “Let’s Hire Professors Purely on Merit”. The first paragraph reads: the diversity media that has swept over American education for the last 50 years or so has had a align effect on the quality of professors. Many of those hired to fill quotas for certain groups are, to be blunt, not especially qualified. Moreover, such hiring violates the law against discrimination. What should we do?” It’s the usual thing about white men not being able to get jobs because women and minorities are given preference. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 9d
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
Cream colored book cover of Anna O. Law's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship--African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants with a human figure behind an American flag

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 10d
If I ever need an authors photo I now have one.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 10d
Reminds me of the 30 Rock where Jack invokes the Patriot Act as empowering any white man to detain another person.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 11d
Ugh. I love the underlying assumption of the judge's order: learning about queer people lacks sufficient justification and can be ignored, but learning about race wins out.
universalhub.com Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 11d
Judge orders #Lexington schools to let father keep son away from books and lessons related to LGBTQ issues
www.universalhub.com/2025/judge-o...
#Massachusetts #lawsuits
Man objects to the lessons his son might get from a drawing showing all sorts of people, including same-sex parents being welcomed

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 11d
There’s a massively important book on law and society that uses Boston’s practice here as an important example of informal societal norms.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 11d
Teaching in Utah is weird. Nothing like before class conversations between 21 year olds being told they need to have kids before they are too old.

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 11d
Judge orders #Lexington schools to let father keep son away from books and lessons related to LGBTQ issues
www.universalhub.com/2025/judge-o...
#Massachusetts #lawsuits
Man objects to the lessons his son might get from a drawing showing all sorts of people, including same-sex parents being welcomed

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 11d
These things are always great. Like the political value difference is over marginal tax rates and not whether entire groups of people qualify as equal humans deserving of rights and recognition.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 11d
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 11d
I’m partial to Twisted Sisters We’re not Gonna Take It but mostly because it illustrates the moral panic around videos well.