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move with care • researches anti-genderism, migration, law, govt, religion • makes comics, posters, podcasts, zines, balcony gardens • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct, but I cite my sources • they // iel www.rinevieth.com

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · Aug 19

As some of you know, I'm working on a project looking at anti-gender/anti-trans politics and its impacts on SOGI asylum/refugee policymaking in Canada and the UK.

I'm looking for interviewees to discuss their experiences as legal professionals, community supporters, and NGO workers.

Please share!

Call for Participants
Impacts of Anti-Gender Politics on
SOGIE Refugees in Canada and the UK
Are you a legal professional, NGO employee, or
community supporter of refugees and asylum-seekers in Canada and/or the UK?
Or, do you have lived experience in Canada or the UK as
an LGBTQ+ refugee or asylum-seeker?
Are you willing to share your experiences for a research project about the impact of anti-trans/anti-gender
politics on LGBTQ+ refugee and asylum claims?
What's Involved
You are invited for an interview of approximately one hour, to be
conducted online and at a time that suits you.
Your participation will be anonymous, and for your time, you will be compensated $20 (Canadian participants) or £15 (UK participants).
For more information, contact rine.vieth.1@ulaval.ca
This project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Université Laval:
Approval Number 2024-528 A-1 / 18-08-2025

Appel à participation
Impacts des politiques anti-genre sur
les réfugié·e·s SOGIE au Canada et au
Royaume-Uni
Êtes-vous professionnel·le du droit, employé·e d'une ONG ou
militant·e communautaire des réfugiés et des demandeurs d'asile au
Canada et/ou au Royaume-Uni ?
Ou avez-vous vécu au Canada ou au Royaume-Uni en tant que
réfugié·e ou demandeur·se d'asile LGBTQ+ ?
Êtes-vous prêt·e à partager vos expériences dans le cadre d'un
projet de recherche sur l'impact des politiques anti-trans/anti-genre
sur les demandes d'asile et de réfugié des personnes LGBTQ+ ?
Qu'est-ce que cela implique ?
Vous êtes invité·e à participer à un entretien d'environ une heure, qui se
déroulera en ligne à l'heure qui vous convient.
Votre participation sera confidentielle et vous recevrez une compensation de 20 $ (pour les participant·e·s canadien·ne·s) ou de 15 £ (pour les participant·e·s britanniques) pour le temps que vous aurez consacré à cet entretien.
Pour plus d'info, veuillez contacter rine.vieth.1@ulaval.ca
Ce projet a été approuvé par le Comité d’éthique de la recherche de l’Université Laval :
No d’approbation 2024-528 A-1 / 18-08-2025

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

maybe some of these guys just *like* extra innings

it is just an observation if i loved doing something i would also not want it to end

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone should bunt. Only bunting.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 5h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Erica Fischer @ericafd.bsky.social · 7h

These posters are going up next week in hopes of averting a #SMUstrike 🪧

#canlab #cdnpse @cupe3912.bsky.social @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @cupens.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 11h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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vagabondpainter.bsky.social @vagabondpainter.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog - the hero we didn't know we needed

A small, simple watercolour of a stylised frog with a blue kerchief around its neck

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 4h

I also flew my drone this morning, and you can watch that video here:

youtu.be/h0mdC09o2wo?...

#OceanDevotion

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 7h

“EDM bagpipers are climbing the bridges” is not something i expected to hear about portland but now that i have i’m like yeah, sure. naturally.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 6h

Whoa, Judge Perry says the Feds’ declarations about unrest at ICE facilities are not credible because some of the incidents they cite in their declarations were separately no-billed by grand juries

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants' declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants' declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 10h

I appreciate you masking, as another often-lone masker!

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 10h

Spanish "How to Report ICE" zines now available:

#Chicago
#Florida
#LosAngeles
#Marin County, CA
#Massachusetts
#NewYork
#Philadelphia
#Portland
#Sacramento, CA
#SanFrancisco
#SanDiego

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Zines en Español - Google Drive

drive.google.com

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 11h

help your #polisky colleagues out in this rough market year y'all

Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 11d

Just want to thank folks contributing to the #psjminfo job status update section of the site. It's a small thing, but I know people appreciate knowing the status of jobs.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org/status-updates

PS Jobs - Status Updates

This is a listing of job market updates. You can submit updates here.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 1d

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks.

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 14h

Irresponsable contracts costing QCers hundreds of millions of dollars...this has come to light multiple times this year.

Meanwhile, we don't have the money in QC to pay for COVID vaccines for all.

www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...

Legault menace de «conséquences» le signataire du contrat du projet SIFA

Ce projet du virage numérique en santé a été suspendu la semaine dernière et est dans la mire de l’AMP.

www.ledevoir.com

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 1d

The point to first is bleakly hilarious. Like watching someone die gruesomely in a Wes Anderson movie

The Good Phight @thegoodphight.bsky.social · 1d

J.T. Realmuto is pointing to first base. Just a brutal, brutal way for your season to end

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 17h

DON'T celebrate Prime Day unless you have accepted Optimus Prime into your heart as your lord and saviour.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 17h

Love after Love. Derek Walcott.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 16h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 1d

Journalism matters—coverage of an injured Haitian woman who's seven months pregnant helped push to delay (I hope, stop!) her deportation.

Part of why she was injured is bc of the Safe Third Country Agreement w/the US, which is pushing people to cross irregularly.

www.ledevoir.com/actualites/i...

L’ASFC annule l’expulsion d’une Haïtienne enceinte de 7 mois et blessée

«Je suis malade, je ne peux même pas marcher. Ma vie est en danger et celle de mon enfant aussi.»

www.ledevoir.com

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 1d

Having a night when I miss @jmhenner.bsky.social—saw a mutual, also languaging—and I'm also glad I got to learn from him. (A good thing about social media is that we met!)

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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · 2d

Out now in Canada & the US! #QueersAtTheTable is an anthology of essays, comics, and recipes that reveals the dynamic and transformative relationship between queerness and food, edited by Megan J. Elias and Alex D. Ketchum.

👉 arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...

The cover of the book "Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes)," edited by Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias, with stacked text above reading, "Happy book birthday!", along with the book title, subtitle, and author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp dot com.
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On the book cover is an illustration of a diverse group of people sharing a friendly meal at a table. They are placed around the frame of the cover. In the centre is the book title, “Queers at the Table,” the subtitle, “An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes),” and the words, “Edited by Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias.” The cover is illustrated in a dynamic cartoon style with inked lines. Each person is presented in a single tone including pink, blue, green, yellow, and purple.

Part of the table of contents from the book "Queers at the Table" edited for social media, listing different sections of the book and its pieces along with their authors/contributors as follows:
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Introduction by Alex D. Ketchum & Megan J. Elias.
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We're Here, We're Queer: Forerunners and History
• "Gen and Lou: Queer Food Ghosts" by John Birdsall
• "The Cart-Sisters" by Rani Som
• "Knead the Self, Cook the World: Audre Lorde's 'Uses of the Erotic' as Cookbook" by Diana Farin
• "Positive Snowball" by Jon Macy
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We Are Everywhere: Community
• "Festival Cuisine" by Bonnie J. Morris
• "Multicultural Kitchen" by Mihael B. Peralta
• "A Movable Feast: Twentieth-Century Trans Feminine Subcultural Get-Togethers" by Aino Pihlak
• "Breaking Bread" by Tara Madison Avery
• "Nourishing Connections: An Essay on Bringing People Together Through Food Memories" by Ericka Mabrie, Jackson Tucker & Iñaki Zárate
• "Feeding Intimacy" by bailey macabre
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We Take Care of Each Other: Health and Care
• "HIV/AIDS and Nourishing Well-Being: Sharing Recipes (and Jokes) to Feel Better" by Isabel Marie Barbosa, Elena Kalodner-Martin & Jo Michael Rezes
• "Peanut Butter Cocktail" by Dave Davenport
• "Nourishing Well-Being: Food Spaces as Pathways to Resilience Building and Transformation" by Danielle Rousseau
• "Attempting to Eat for Two" by Ashley R. Guillory
• "Queer and Hungry" by Danielle Kydd
• "Tea 4 Two: A Comic About Grief" by Leah Spears
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We Belong to the Land: Ecology, Seeds, and Farming
• "To the Fields, Into the Soil!" by Taylor Hartson & Tristian Lee
• "Minneapolis, 2020-21" by Blue Delliquanti
• "Non-Binary Botany: Cultivating Pollinator Community" by Chris Keeve & K Greene
• "Farm/Sanctuary" by Nicole J. Georges

Continued from the previous slide, the table of contents from "Queers at the Table" continues as follows below, alongside stacked photos of the book's editors, Megan J. Elias (photographed by Petra Johnson) and Alex D. Ketchum (photographed by Pierre Faniel).
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Come to the Table!: Recipes
• "Homemade Chico's Tacos" by Joshua I. Lopez, with Hugo Loera & Julia C. Lopez
• "Paella a la Anabelle Ardid" by Marie-Louise Friedland
•" Maple Oat Scones" by Jennifer Park
• "Chocolate Banana Nut Bread" by Vanessa Parish
• "Sweet Potato Cake" by Kareem "Mr. Bake" Queeman
• "Kween/Quing Bread" by Corrine DaCosta
• "Earl Grey Lavender Menace Layer Cake" by Lauren McGowan
• "Bisteck with Tallarín Verde" by Pri Aguilar
• "Cilantro and Cashew Pesto Pizza" by Tobi Abdul
• "Brined, Spiced, and Roasted Cauliflower" by Salima Dhalla
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Acknowledgements
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About the Contributors
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Index

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