Brie
@briagne.bsky.social
Tech-services-adjacent health sciences librarian. She/they.
See also: https://mastodon.social/@briagne
See also: https://mastodon.social/@briagne
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the tendency of cis folks to do this — to sacrifice trans folks' rights and also say, 'oh we're not doing that!': it's added insult to injury. it's gaslighting. the point is: they don't CARE what we think or the truth of anything ... it's all just cover-your-ass style, spineless shameless cowardice.
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
the tendency of cis folks to do this — to sacrifice trans folks' rights and also say, 'oh we're not doing that!': it's added insult to injury. it's gaslighting. the point is: they don't CARE what we think or the truth of anything ... it's all just cover-your-ass style, spineless shameless cowardice.
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I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"
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1. Washington State University has credentialed an anti-trans, conversion therapy org SEGM to teach CMEs to medical providers.
The panel is filled with the most vitriolic of anti-trans activists.
Unsuspecting providers may be taught harmful practices.
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The panel is filled with the most vitriolic of anti-trans activists.
Unsuspecting providers may be taught harmful practices.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Washington State University Credentials Anti-Trans Hate Group SEGM to Teach Medical Providers
The Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine an anti-LGBTQ hate group for its role in proliferating pseudoscience and transphobic policies.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
1. Washington State University has credentialed an anti-trans, conversion therapy org SEGM to teach CMEs to medical providers.
The panel is filled with the most vitriolic of anti-trans activists.
Unsuspecting providers may be taught harmful practices.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
The panel is filled with the most vitriolic of anti-trans activists.
Unsuspecting providers may be taught harmful practices.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Of course the WaPo editors think this is dandy. What utter shit the paper has become.
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Of course the WaPo editors think this is dandy. What utter shit the paper has become.
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The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.
The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.
The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
* Backxwash
* Lingua Ignota
* underscores
* Saya Gray
* Khruangbin
* Massive Attack
* Lucinda Williams
* Judee Sill
* Backxwash
* Lingua Ignota
* underscores
* Saya Gray
* Khruangbin
* Massive Attack
* Lucinda Williams
* Judee Sill
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
• Pomme
• Chris aka Redcar aka Christine and the Queens
• LEJ
• Clara Luciani
• Georges Brassens
• Alex Montembault
• Zaho de Sagazan
• Youssoupha
(yes they’re all French sue me)
• Pomme
• Chris aka Redcar aka Christine and the Queens
• LEJ
• Clara Luciani
• Georges Brassens
• Alex Montembault
• Zaho de Sagazan
• Youssoupha
(yes they’re all French sue me)
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
• Queen
• David Bowie
• Charli XCX
• Janelle Monae
• MF Doom
• Within Temptation
• The Dead South
• Diablo Swing Orchestra
• Queen
• David Bowie
• Charli XCX
• Janelle Monae
• MF Doom
• Within Temptation
• The Dead South
• Diablo Swing Orchestra
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
* Backxwash
* Lingua Ignota
* underscores
* Saya Gray
* Khruangbin
* Massive Attack
* Lucinda Williams
* Judee Sill
* Backxwash
* Lingua Ignota
* underscores
* Saya Gray
* Khruangbin
* Massive Attack
* Lucinda Williams
* Judee Sill
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So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare.
I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.
I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.
What’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence
[last updated 15/10/25] Wednesday 10 April 2024 saw the long-awaited publication of the final report of the Cass Review. This report was commissioned by NHS England, and provides a review of eviden…
ruthpearce.net
October 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare.
I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.
I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.
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This. Absolutely this.
"While much has been written about the vulnerabilities of contingent faculty, there has been almost no discussion of the academic freedom needs of one of higher education’s most rapidly growing workforces: third-space professionals." #HigherEd #Staff #AcademicLibraries
"While much has been written about the vulnerabilities of contingent faculty, there has been almost no discussion of the academic freedom needs of one of higher education’s most rapidly growing workforces: third-space professionals." #HigherEd #Staff #AcademicLibraries
Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too (opinion)
Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.
www.insidehighered.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This. Absolutely this.
"While much has been written about the vulnerabilities of contingent faculty, there has been almost no discussion of the academic freedom needs of one of higher education’s most rapidly growing workforces: third-space professionals." #HigherEd #Staff #AcademicLibraries
"While much has been written about the vulnerabilities of contingent faculty, there has been almost no discussion of the academic freedom needs of one of higher education’s most rapidly growing workforces: third-space professionals." #HigherEd #Staff #AcademicLibraries
Big if true
No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.
September 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Big if true
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Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately, by Jackie Sabbagh
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
November 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately, by Jackie Sabbagh
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Any #medlibs (or others) have info on transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines going offline? Hoping it's a technical issue, but given the times I'm wary.
transcare.ucsf.edu
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Any #medlibs (or others) have info on transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines going offline? Hoping it's a technical issue, but given the times I'm wary.
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Equality Caucus Rep. Mark Takano calls on Speaker Johnson and GOP House leadership to reign in their party's extreme rhetoric in trans people per this statement that just hit my inbox:
September 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Equality Caucus Rep. Mark Takano calls on Speaker Johnson and GOP House leadership to reign in their party's extreme rhetoric in trans people per this statement that just hit my inbox:
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"Well I'm given to understand that for an extremely limited time, members of our nation's political violence party are shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame." www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...
Gambling In Casablanca
Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.
www.the-reframe.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"Well I'm given to understand that for an extremely limited time, members of our nation's political violence party are shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame." www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...
Every once in a while one of the names in the nonstop parade of creative folks showing their transphobic asses really hits me where it hurts. This is one of those.
Matt Berry has LITERALLY GIVEN INTERVIEWS ABOUT HIS SUPPORT OF TRANS PEOPLE AND HOW DISGUSTING HE THINKS TRANSPHOBES LIKE GLINNER ARE and he still took this fucking paycheck because "oh her work is so important to generations" and "I disagree with her"
Spineless.
Spineless.
September 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Every once in a while one of the names in the nonstop parade of creative folks showing their transphobic asses really hits me where it hurts. This is one of those.
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here we go again, folks. it’ll take a lot of pressure on dems again to get them to fight!
i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall.
contact: reps.fyi
i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall.
contact: reps.fyi
September 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
here we go again, folks. it’ll take a lot of pressure on dems again to get them to fight!
i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall.
contact: reps.fyi
i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall.
contact: reps.fyi
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.
edition.cnn.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
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For no real reason, thinking about this piece about the "headline news about famous guy saying transphobic thing" industrial complex I wrote for Paste two years ago. Just before everything got worse.
www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
Always The Topic, Rarely The Voice
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
For no real reason, thinking about this piece about the "headline news about famous guy saying transphobic thing" industrial complex I wrote for Paste two years ago. Just before everything got worse.
www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
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So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards
August 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards
Or they're still wasting decades to dissociation and depression because transition was unimaginable when they were younger and it can take ages to break free from that. I only moved from the missing 2% to the 1% after 10+ years of being pretty sure I should, but of course I *couldn't*
I promise there are already talking heads looking at these numbers and saying “1% of adults but 3% of kids? That means most of them detransitioning to on,” and not the real headline:
That until this new generation, abuse and transphobia have killed two thirds of each previous generation.
That until this new generation, abuse and transphobia have killed two thirds of each previous generation.
this analysis, the largest of its kind, released today.
the part that stood out: "among U.S. adults, 0.8% (over 2.1 million people) identify as trans. among youth aged 13 to 17 in the U.S., *3.3%* (about 724,000 youth) identify as trans.
our future quite literally depends protecting trans youth 🩵🩷
the part that stood out: "among U.S. adults, 0.8% (over 2.1 million people) identify as trans. among youth aged 13 to 17 in the U.S., *3.3%* (about 724,000 youth) identify as trans.
our future quite literally depends protecting trans youth 🩵🩷
August 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Or they're still wasting decades to dissociation and depression because transition was unimaginable when they were younger and it can take ages to break free from that. I only moved from the missing 2% to the 1% after 10+ years of being pretty sure I should, but of course I *couldn't*
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NEW:
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
NEW:
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
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I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/