Max Osborn
@maxosb.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 | he/they | queer/feminist/critical criminologist | assistant prof at villanova | studies queer and trans victimization, resilience, resource access, and community-building
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Max Osborn
@maxosb.bsky.social
· May 27
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New piece out in Punishment & Society: "Groomers, gays, and gender ideology: Why the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative backlash is a moral panic and why criminologists should care."
doi.org/10.1177/1462...
doi.org/10.1177/1462...
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i think it would be great if more people read this annotated indictment of the RICO case against folks involved with Stop Cop City created by @interruptcrim.bsky.social , just for a sense of how the state treats opposition in this country
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
An Annotated Version of the Indictment Filed Against #StopCopCity Organizers — Interrupting Criminalization
An annotated version of the indictment filed against #StopCopCity organizers, featuring critical information and context, questions for discussion, and more.
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
i think it would be great if more people read this annotated indictment of the RICO case against folks involved with Stop Cop City created by @interruptcrim.bsky.social , just for a sense of how the state treats opposition in this country
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
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Anyone can reverse an overdose, and we should all know how. Naloxone is a social intervention; while our public health systems are woefully inadequate, and the war on drugs continues unchecked, we can empower ourselves and one another to step up.
✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose
Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Anyone can reverse an overdose, and we should all know how. Naloxone is a social intervention; while our public health systems are woefully inadequate, and the war on drugs continues unchecked, we can empower ourselves and one another to step up.
✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
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the lost wages and disrupted employment, attorney fees, etc.. all lost and virtually unrecoverable in these cases if i'm not mistaken.. definitely a victory for prosecutions to end, but so much damage in the wake
Feels like every time you report on the feds announcing these kinds of charges you must immediately list all the similar ones they just drop after lying about defendants for months
Federal prosecutors dismiss charges against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Chicago
Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges they brought against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent last month amid a federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
the lost wages and disrupted employment, attorney fees, etc.. all lost and virtually unrecoverable in these cases if i'm not mistaken.. definitely a victory for prosecutions to end, but so much damage in the wake
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On Transgender Day of Remembrance, support media orgs like @transjournalists.org doing vital work to materially support queer & trans media workers, & check out this resource page by @fspnwu.bsky.social on pushing for better labor conditions freelancesolidarity.org/kyr-trans-me...
Know Your Rights: Trans Media Workers - Freelance Solidarity Project
Know Your Rights Resources for trans, non-binary &gender-nonconforming media workers Amid increasing threats to LGBTQIA+ rights, it’s crucial for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive media workers t...
freelancesolidarity.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, support media orgs like @transjournalists.org doing vital work to materially support queer & trans media workers, & check out this resource page by @fspnwu.bsky.social on pushing for better labor conditions freelancesolidarity.org/kyr-trans-me...
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NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven:
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics
plus over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis
juliaserano.medium.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven:
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
Putting out the same batsignal on all my platforms: Are you an artist/graphic designer? Do you know some whose work you’d recommend? Ideally queer or trans? Do said artists want to potentially talk about designing a book cover? Message me! 🙏
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Putting out the same batsignal on all my platforms: Are you an artist/graphic designer? Do you know some whose work you’d recommend? Ideally queer or trans? Do said artists want to potentially talk about designing a book cover? Message me! 🙏
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Tell @wearehighered.bsky.social about what's happening on YOUR campus with the attacks on higher ed.
We hear a lot about the elite campuses but what about the rest?
And we hear when schools do egregious things, but not so much about where things are better.
www.wearehighered.org/campus-tracker
We hear a lot about the elite campuses but what about the rest?
And we hear when schools do egregious things, but not so much about where things are better.
www.wearehighered.org/campus-tracker
Campus Tracker — We Are Higher Ed
www.wearehighered.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Tell @wearehighered.bsky.social about what's happening on YOUR campus with the attacks on higher ed.
We hear a lot about the elite campuses but what about the rest?
And we hear when schools do egregious things, but not so much about where things are better.
www.wearehighered.org/campus-tracker
We hear a lot about the elite campuses but what about the rest?
And we hear when schools do egregious things, but not so much about where things are better.
www.wearehighered.org/campus-tracker
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Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
...I mean, can we all finally stop pretending like the NYT is a remotely progressive outlet these days rather than a center-right mouthpiece for the very rich and out-of-touch?
I'm bummed too! I grew up reading the NYT! I enjoyed and respected it! But let's not kid ourselves.
I'm bummed too! I grew up reading the NYT! I enjoyed and respected it! But let's not kid ourselves.
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
...I mean, can we all finally stop pretending like the NYT is a remotely progressive outlet these days rather than a center-right mouthpiece for the very rich and out-of-touch?
I'm bummed too! I grew up reading the NYT! I enjoyed and respected it! But let's not kid ourselves.
I'm bummed too! I grew up reading the NYT! I enjoyed and respected it! But let's not kid ourselves.
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
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You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
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“With its hateful rhetoric, the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe… the end goal is the same: to wipe out transness itself.”
We need to disrupt anti-trans genocidal politics and work towards politics that nurture trans people.
We need to disrupt anti-trans genocidal politics and work towards politics that nurture trans people.
How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything
MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“With its hateful rhetoric, the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe… the end goal is the same: to wipe out transness itself.”
We need to disrupt anti-trans genocidal politics and work towards politics that nurture trans people.
We need to disrupt anti-trans genocidal politics and work towards politics that nurture trans people.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
This is a project Alice helped to organize - just made a donation in her honor, and I hope some of you will too.
November 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is a project Alice helped to organize - just made a donation in her honor, and I hope some of you will too.
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I am holding so much grief, but also so much gratitude that we lived in a world so shaped by her brilliance and creativity. Rest in power, Alice Wong. Your work changed us. Your vision will continue to lead us. Your memory is a blessing and a responsibility we must honor every day through action.
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I am holding so much grief, but also so much gratitude that we lived in a world so shaped by her brilliance and creativity. Rest in power, Alice Wong. Your work changed us. Your vision will continue to lead us. Your memory is a blessing and a responsibility we must honor every day through action.
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May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.
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Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life
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Alice was a master of calling out power without losing sight of community. She named the violence of austerity, medical rationing, eugenics & state abandonment with unflinching clarity. But she also paired critique with genuine belief that disabled futures are possible & already emerging everywhere
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice was a master of calling out power without losing sight of community. She named the violence of austerity, medical rationing, eugenics & state abandonment with unflinching clarity. But she also paired critique with genuine belief that disabled futures are possible & already emerging everywhere
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Alice was not only a brilliant disability justice activist—she was a cultural force, political strategist & builder of worlds. She showed how access is built through struggle, creative collaboration, interdependence, and principled refusal. She made the invisible labor of disabled life beautiful.
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Alice was not only a brilliant disability justice activist—she was a cultural force, political strategist & builder of worlds. She showed how access is built through struggle, creative collaboration, interdependence, and principled refusal. She made the invisible labor of disabled life beautiful.
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Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.
Really sad to hear of the passing of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social - a fierce, powerful voice for disability justice and by all accounts a lovely human being. Will be setting aside some time to revisit her work.
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Really sad to hear of the passing of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social - a fierce, powerful voice for disability justice and by all accounts a lovely human being. Will be setting aside some time to revisit her work.
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I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
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Cornell has become the latest "elite" university to agree to the DOJ memo banning trans students from bathrooms and sports and adopting a definition of sex that defines trans people of out of existence.
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Cornell has become the latest "elite" university to agree to the DOJ memo banning trans students from bathrooms and sports and adopting a definition of sex that defines trans people of out of existence.
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
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“Álvaro López, the electoral coordinator for the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, believes “we need to get away from a ‘holding them accountable’ framework toward a ‘building power’ framework.” hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...
Zohran Got New Yorkers to Hope. What’s the Plan to Deliver?
Organizers who brought him to the verge of victory are looking ahead to the challenges of democratic governance.
hammerandhope.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Álvaro López, the electoral coordinator for the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, believes “we need to get away from a ‘holding them accountable’ framework toward a ‘building power’ framework.” hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...
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The correct headline here is "Trump administration begs courts to let him keep starving children and elders"
BREAKING: The Trump administration asks a federal appeals court for an emergency pause on a federal judge's order to fully fund SNAP benefits this month.
Trump administration asks for emergency pause on judge's order to fully fund SNAP
The administration has said it cannot draw from money set aside for child nutrition programs, known as Section 32 funding, to pay for SNAP during the government shutdown.
nbcnews.to
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The correct headline here is "Trump administration begs courts to let him keep starving children and elders"