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Lilith Goddess of Rebellion @elo-cin.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa, short for Antifaschistische Aktion, was founded in 1932. It arose in response to the rapid growth of Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Its goal was to defend the working class from fascist violence & oppose the rise of Nazism. They saw the fight vs. fascism as part of a broader struggle vs. capitalism.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 5d

I truly do adore how teaching at a university forces you to reread and rereread it is a discipline and a blessing

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 9d

Lol

Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 14d

an article about a university president forcing faculty to pretend trans people don’t exist that also pretends trans people don’t exist in a newspaper that spent years publishing hundreds of articles by ignorant cis people musing about what they suppose trans people are or should be allowed to do

Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 14d

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 17d

it turns out that the reformist project to aspire into the citizen subjectivity of an implicitly heterosexual-masculinist liberal egalitarianism, i.e. the brotherhood, cannot exist without perpetual border-keeping, in particular [trans]misogyny

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 17d

im posting these screenshots right now in light of everything going on, but especially in light of wes streeting advocating "third spaces for trans women" and (cynically, misogynistically, homophobically) justifying it through appeals to "women's rights/spaces" and "him being a gay man"

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 14d

....2017.... 🙂

👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 17d

2018 !!!!

For Carpenter, the mixing of sex characteristics in female and feminized bodies is “monstrous.” The “effeminate chatterbox” is a pathological fringe that can be separated from the mass of a normal and healthy homogenic class and the masculine female helpmates of the class. While Carpenter’s expression of solidarity with women appears far from Wein-inger’s woman- hating, a focus on the historical origin of trans feminin-ity as a distinct social formation reveals the historical perseverance of misogyny in the very milieus that most dutifully advocated for women’s civic equality. In this nascent transmisogyny, the trans feminine becomes the negative of the “tom- boyish” liberated woman and the new object of the misogynist aggressions from which feminism increasingly shields cis women.9

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 17d

New Jordy Rosenberg coming in spring: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/689017...

Night Night Fawn by Jordy Rosenberg: 9780593448007 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed begins to look back at all her failures—including her child. “Jordy Rosenberg might be one of our most...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 18d

Finally something SENSIBLE said on the subject: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/mrs-mid...

Mrs Midas

It was late September. I’d just poured a glass of wine, begun / to unwind, while the vegetables cooked. The kitchen / filled with...

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk

Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 18d

Counterpoint: all genitals are pure gold (also, so says my new friend in the comments gregory the historian, european currency had been made paper by the medieval period and gold as legal tender was an early modern affair. oh brother these philosophers have disrespected historical fact again)

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 18d

Bless you gregory

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 18d

one hopes

Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 18d

Veritas.

Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

for the archive

Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 19d

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 18d

Friends of the court, commodity fetishists supreme

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 19d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 19d

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Disruption across Italy as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war

Schools and stations closed and ports blocked in one of Europe’s biggest demonstrations opposing Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 23d

A remarkable essay on, among other things, the personal toll of working at the consent factory. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Around four months into the war on Gaza, scholars of genocide were reaching a consensus that what was happening in Palestine was a genocide, the crime of crimes, and I waited for the magazine to say so, too. I tried to talk to the editor-in-chief about using the word in our coverage, but he said he didn’t think it was a genocide. The word’s conspicuous absence led me to suspect that he had prohibited its usage among the editors. This was a notable exception to the accepted epistemology; a few months into the job, I overheard another checker cold call an addiction scholar to confirm that gambling was, in fact, addictive. But I did not have it in me to keep fighting.

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 23d

This is not the Renaissance or even the 19th century or early 20th. it’s living memory. there was commercial air travel and microwaves

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 23d

I’ve been reading about Alice neels young brother and infant daughter both dying of diphtheria and how it drove her mad

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 23d

Like I see that guys repulsive face every day. Where are the narrative descriptions of what it does to you to watch a baby die of whooping cough

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 23d

I want to do a performance that conveys what it was like when one would gestate a child or love a sibling and then you would watch them die of diphtheria, pertussis, measles, polio, smallpox, rheumatic fever and then it would happen to another and another and that was called having a normal life

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 24d

oh creating a new list of categories for the most prized contemporary social virtues would be really good. sophistry is the peace analog

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Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 24d

♥️🧡💛💚💙💜🩵💗🖤💖

Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 25d

I was very pleased to review @riislover667.bsky.social's gorgeous volume _Feminism Against Cisness_ for @legacy1984.bsky.social . A great step toward trans studies as method and highly accessible for C19 practitioners!

Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 29d

muse.jhu.edu/article/968060