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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 22h

idk if this would be helpful, but I usually preface by telling my students that 'gender' means something more like 'type/kind' rather than social gender

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 1d

Free speech is when I encourage people to send you death threats; hate speech is when you tell me to stop.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Can you hear the words coming out of your mouth, Megan?

Yes, the guy who received so many threats because of your own actions he had to flee to Europe isn’t the real victim. No. You are, because people called you out.

Megyn Doyle, a student at Rutgers and the treasurer for the Turning Point USA chapter who started the Change.org petition to remove Bray, told Fox News Digital in a statement that Di Filippo's petition is slanderous.
"The petition once again proves that Conservative students are always on the receiving end of hate when speaking about concerning issues," Doyle said.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“There is no degree of acquiescence to Trumpism that will satisfy this administration or MAGA at large. All there is is a choice between offering a faint echo of the false reality they’re selling and creating dissonance by speaking the reality of the situation to the public.”

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

yday, when an attorney said 'conversion therapy' falls below professional standards, Justice Alito was like 'but can we trust those standards? the medical consensus used to be pro-eugenics'

like....bruh that injustice is not a license for more injustice, actually
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The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4d

Half the Answer #38: Caitlin and Trent talk with journalist Jacqueline Sweet about how violence is framed in media as political, the rush to score points for one side or the other, inconsistent standards for freedom of the press, and the scammy nature of our president and his public statements.

Half the Answer #38: Mass Shootings, MedBeds, Media Mistakes and Misconceptions

Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist Jacqueline Sweet about how violence is framed in media as political, the rush to score points for one side or the other, inconsistent standards for free speech a...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 4d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 3d

fair point 😂

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 3d

can I look forward to your work on memetics and methodology 👀 👀

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 3d

my wife and I are watching old Captain Planet episodes and even though it's SUPER CORNY it almost brings me to tears thinking about how little has changed (and the many ways it's gotten worse)

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 3d

"viewpoint discrimination" 💀

She’s challenging the law in Colorado. The state says its measure simply regulates licensed therapists by barring a practice that’s been scientifically discredited and linked to serious harm.

But the court’s conservative majority didn’t seem convinced that states can restrict talk therapy aimed at changing feelings or behavior while allowing counseling that affirms kids identifying as gay or transgender. Justice Samuel Alito said the law “looks like blatant viewpoint discrimination.”

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 4d

won't anyone think of the 35 year old multimillionaires 🥺🥺

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AAUP @aaup.org · 4d

Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 4d

Big news! Starting in 2027, @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org will publish the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—a new LSA journal highlighting the richness of Black language & culture across the globe.
Learn more: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... @acharityhudley.bsky.social

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Birthing the Nation - Sawyer Seminar Series @birthingthenation.bsky.social · 4d

Join us for a public lecture with Julie Gottlieb
Monday, October 27
4:00–5:30 PM
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library

Co-sponsored by WGSS, Jewish Studies, and the Humanities Institute. Part of Birthing the Nation, a Mellon Foundation–supported Sawyer Seminar.

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 7d

🔥🔥🔥 I would love to collab!!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 8d

Can we stop calling an artificial representation of a person by a human-coded name? "She" does not exist. "She" is a reflection of someone's ingenue dreams, but "she" is pixels and code.

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 8d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 8d

liberals could learn a little bit from how effective sanewashing can be

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 9d

My article exploring the connections between language revitalization backlash and genocide is now out. Complimentary copies are available using the link below, or feel free to message me for a copy if the link doesn't work for you.

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Black text on a white background, showing the title and abstract of an academic article. The title is ‘Conquered Primitives Have No Written Language’: Language Revitalization, Reactionary Settler Colonialism, and Perpetual Genocide. For the abstract, please visit https://doi.org/10.3138/GSI-2024-0011.

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 8d

like, what's the point of writing about something that Judith Butler has already written about? am I capable of making any novel contributions to my field? do I actually know anything???

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 8d

how do you get over the feeling that for every thought you have has been already been stated better by other people?

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savithry @savithry.bsky.social · 8d

I so appreciate the framing here (in contrast to academic freedom arguments, which feel esoteric):

By forcing educators to say there are two genders, the federal government (via university admins, school
boards, etc) are requiring educators to lie to students.

It’s lies!

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 9d

This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

www.latimes.com

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 9d

Absolutely brilliant chat that @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I had with the marvelous @mattpolprof.bsky.social regarding the roots of the far-right, Charlie Kirk’s collected works, Socrates, de Maistre, the vanity of cats, and, somehow, much more; we stay boogying

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 10d

Half the Answer #36: Trent and Caitlin talk with political science professor Matt McManus about far-right thinkers and their journey through the past two decades, with some nuggets of wisdom from Charlie Kirk's books dropped along the way. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #36: Charlie Kirk and the Roots of the Far Right

Trent and Caitlin talk with political science professor Matt McManus about far-right thinkers and their journey through the past two decades. He regales the HTA audience with nuggets of wisdom from Ch...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 8d

I'm working on a paper on how reactionary discourse uses imagery of the throat to describe movement of ideology in ways that echo a violation of bodily autonomy ("force X down our throats", slop memes)

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voiced anal fricative, PhD @maureenkosse.bsky.social · 8d

is there a concept to describe how reactionary discourses refigure criticism as command? like how "lesbians can be trans and have a right to lesbian spaces" turns into "OH I'M NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE PREFERENCES OR BODILY AUTONOMY??"

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