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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️

@drshannak.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️they/them 🎓Social Work and WGS prof @ UM 💋Educator | Researcher | Activist 💜Disabled, AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, polyam Jewitchy fat femme ✊🏽Anti oppressive abolitionist 🖤💙❤️Mx. MI Leather Pride ‘22 Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇭🇹 https://linktr.ee/DrShannaK

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Feb 4

ALL of these topics are social work issues, and I hope that my fellow social work folks; students, faculty, staff, social workers, alumni, retirees, and others, will join me in this work. Let’s commit to creating the world we want to live in!

A canva post of different things Dr Kattari believes in, including masking for community care, free Palestine, land acknowledgement, BLM, trans kids becoming trans adults, queer liberation, disability justice

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 1d

I feel the same way about anti-Z queer leftists who won’t/don’t mask.

Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 1d

Sami is super badass and would be a dream to work with!

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...

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 1d

When having to click the “I am human” verification, does anyone else have a panic moment each time where your brain asks “but are you actually human?” Or is that just me?

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Sep 9

One benefit of being polyamorous is as a chronically ill disabled person who can’t drive much anymore, I have three delightful partners and one meta to take me to my plethora of medical appts. So thankful; I don’t know what I would do without this community care.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 4

This move by the Trump administration is an overtly discriminatory civil rights violation. Trans people have the same legal rights as other Americans — end of story. There are lots of good reasons to keep certain people from owning guns. Being trans isn't one of them. https://cnn.it/4niJnxG

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.

cnn.it

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Sep 5

Given how our county has historically treated Mad people, this is terrifying

ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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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

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Sep 5

So often. This happens so often. Solidarity.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Sep 2

And it’s back to school for me! Sabbatical from teaching this past year so far, but back to teach Sexuality & Social Work and Social Work Pedagogy. Let’s do this!

white nonbinary femme with tattoos and glasses stands out side with a sign that says “Dr K.’s 31st first day” and wears a dress made up of sexuality images

White nonbinary femme with purple glasses and a sex ed dress holds a small vulva puppet

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Sep 2

The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering

Euronews @euronews.com · Sep 1

About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it.

AI stethoscope can detect heart issues in 15 seconds, UK doctors find

About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it.

l.euronews.com

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ooooof. The number of important events/unmissable appointments, etc., scheduled on the high holy days throughout my life? Actual antisemitism.

Supporting Palestinians and crying for an end to that genocide? NOT antisemitism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 2

NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts”

That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like

Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Sep 2

Huge shout out to this site for the important work it does of centering autistic authors.

The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @autisticbooks.bsky.social · Sep 2

Looking for more books about or related to autism, written by autistic people? There’s over 2,200 books listed on the website!

You can also find links to the above books on the 2025 Book Releases page:

autismbooksbyautisticauthors.com/2025-book-re...

Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Sep 2

So so cute!

Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Sep 2

It’s been a minute. Reminders:

1) fuck generative AI
2) Genocide is happening in Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Tigray, Haiti, and more.
3) COVID isn’t over. Each infection is likely to infect more and more systems
4) Trans people belong (and are) everywhere)
5) Community is everything
6) Cats are the best

Photo of a very very large grey cat lying on his back in a patch of sunshine

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Jun 29

Accurate

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Jun 28

There are only three political positions in America today

1) I like the fascism

2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)

3) I oppose the fascism

The rest is details

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Noah Dahl @noahdahl.bsky.social · Jun 24

Courts in 1930s Germany built the scaffolding that made the Holocaust legal. Courts here did the same for slavery from the 1600s until the Civil War.

The courts can, will and are laying the groundwork for a different kind of atrocity. This is unlikely to stop here.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jun 23

#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:

www.supremecourt.gov

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Jun 24

This beautiful image by @transpainter.bsky.social is haunting.

Image of art of many poppy flowers and the text “I wish for you what you wish for Palestine” by TransPainter

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Jun 24

refusing to use alt text on bluesky has endorsed Cuomo

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Jun 24

I have no words.

The terror continues.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jun 24

"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"

Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice

Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.

www.lawdork.com

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · Jun 19

As we celebrate Juneteenth, let’s not forget that the 13th Amendment ended slavery “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted” & every layer of our justice system from legislation on down is built to target & incarcerate black & brown people disproportionately

Commemorating Juneteenth: Why We
Celebrated Then-and Why It Still Matters

June 19, 1865—a date that, until recently, many Americans didn't even realize had historic significance-marks one of the most consequential points in American history.
Known as Juneteenth, it commemorates the day Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, & informed the last remaining enslaved Black Americans that they
were no longer enslaved. Though the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed more than two years earlier, enforcement of the order depended heavily on the presence of Union forces. For many, true freedom wasn't declared until that day in June. But even then, freedom came with a
heavy asterisk.
Though Juneteenth signaled the end of institutional enslavement, it did not
usher in full equality. What followed was the Reconstruction era, a period full of hope that quickly gave way to systemic oppression under Jim Crow laws. Black Americans were denied full personhood, codified by the
Constitution's original Three-Fifths
Compromise (which stated that Black
people were 3/5 of a human being) and reinforced socially and legally for
generations. True rights wouldn't come until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and even now, they face ongoing challenges like police brutality-an extension of the slave patrols of the antebellum South—still prevalent today. Discrimination, whether overt or insidious, remains part of the Black experience in America. So, does this sound like freedom?
That's why Juneteenth matters-then and now. Celebrating it isn't just about honoring a historical moment; it's about acknowledging the journey, the struggle, and the resilience. It's how we remember the past and remind
others-especially those who may forget or ignore history-of the atrocities that shaped our nation.
Juneteenth is more than commemoration. It is a call to action, a space for reflection, and a testament to the enduring spirit of a people who continue to fight for the true meaning of freedom.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Jun 19

✨Treat your Black friends to dinner
✨Attend and support Black led events
✨Commit to ongoing anti racist work and dismantling anti Blackness in yourself and the spaces you live/love/play/work in.

Feel free to add your own!

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Jun 19

✨Support Black owned businesses (today but also every damn day!)
✨Educate yourself about the history of the holiday, and also how anti Blackness is still operationalized today
✨Cite Black researchers
✨Read Black authors
✨Center Black scholars on your syllabi
✨Follow Black content creators

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · Jun 19

Wishing a meaningful and celebratory Juneteenth to all my comrades.

Ways you can help celebrate as non-Black folks:

8 foot skeleton with a you are loved pride flag and a celebrate Juneteenth 1865 plaque

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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com · Jun 18

The SCOTUS ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti confirms what we know: this government is crooked and ignorant. Trans kids deserve care, safety, and bodily autonomy. We must remind them of their history, the sacredness of community, and that no government gave them their power—and no court can take it away.

Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist

Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and nonbinary youth.

www.teenvogue.com

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