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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class

@thrasherxy.bsky.social

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Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. Fund for Investigative Journalism Fellow. Traveling the world writing on Palestine, HIV/AIDS & LGBTQ life. Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS (Celadon/Macmillan). Finishing THE OVERSEER CLASS (Amistad/HarperCollins)

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Jun 17

New from me and Afeef Nessouli in @theintercept: we report from inside the Yarmouk refugee camp, where Palestinian refugees see little hope in the new Syria theintercept.com/2025/06/17/p...

Palestinian Refugees in Syria See Little Hope — Even After Assad

“Even if they rebuild all of Syria, Yarmouk will remain destroyed,” said one Palestinian refugee.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26m

Just two Proud Marys for Palestine

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 3h

But they should be here to see it

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 3h

Very grateful to see our colleagues in Gaza smiling

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 5h

London friends! I'm sharing ideas from Rainbow Trap at Queer@King's @kingsartshums.bsky.social on 23 OCTOBER and it would be great to see you there! ✨

🗓️ Thurs 23 October
🕕 18:30-20:00
🌍 Strand campus, London
👋 All welcome

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/rainb...

An event poster for Kevin Guyan's Rainbow Trap talk at King's College London on 23 October 2025.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 22h

Sending love to journalist Motasem A Dalloul, on what should have been a celebratory day.

US-Israel had killed more than 270 journalists. But, importantly, the colonizer has stolen something important (home, career, loved ones) from each and every journalist in Gaza.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has killed the third son of Gaza journalist Motasem Dalloul.

Motasem A Dalloul
@AbujomaaGaza
Israeli occupation forces have just killed my third son, Ibraheem..
RIP my dear son.
6:06 AM • 10/9/25 • 186K Views

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Number Four is now composed of the Constitutional Court (Supreme Court), an apartheid museum and the Gender Equalitiy Commission (housed in the Women’s Ward, where we are)

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Happiness

Happiness stands in front of a hole in the wall

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

We ate lunch in the building across the yard from where Gandhi was imprisoned (Mandela was kept in the white area, but segregated into his own solitary confinement, so that he would mingle neither rally the nonwhites nor mix with the whites)

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from the Women’s Ward of Johannesburg’s notorious Old Fort “Number Four” prison. After teaching 50 doctors and scientists this morning in Pretoria, I am now spending the remainder of this glorious day at the Q20 queer & trans assembly

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Was Lindsay in the Free Speech Zone for HOOP, @dnbrgr.bsky.social @ajbauer.bsky.social ?

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_sp...

Free speech zone - Wikipedia

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

George W. Bush tried to convince us free speech only applied to certain “zones.” Pritzker is trying to convince us free speech can’t happen at night.

Free speech and protest are our right 24/7…the zone is the ENTIRE US!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_sp...

Free speech zone - Wikipedia

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Governor Pritzer is the same as George W. Bush

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

No protest from 6am to 9am in the Broadview free speech zone.

Just here with a handful of press waiting to see if we can catch the Texas National Guard arriving in Broadview tonight.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t take any columnist or writer seriously on ANYTHING if they’ve had nothing to say about Gaza

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

New rule: every professor is entitled to *one* job only. Even at a shitty school—everyone needs a job! But when tenured prof at School A is offered a Big Guest Lecture at School B that’s firing Negros & expelling Palestinians, they need to say “No I won’t come to your school.” The least they can do!

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Met @deerhoof.bsky.social !

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Jobs at the Village Voice, Guardian, Literary Hub and Scientific American

Gigs writing for Esquire, Rolling Stone, NYT, NY Mag, Atlantic

Winning a $75K Ford Foundation grant

Meeting Afeef & getting to write about HIV in Gaza

Meeting the greatest Palestine, BLM,
Occupy & LGBT justice advocates

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/emkqc3PIw8E?...
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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Proud of myself that I've only been in South Africa for two weeks, but I've already taken in enough gay gossip to be able to read the acknowledgments of books and to know who's fucking whom

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

I have mixed feelings about rainbow branding, but the sheer violence of this destruction of community history is appalling. That it is being done by a bulldozer, the vehicle of so much destruction in Palestine, does not portend well what is happening in the metropole.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 1d

Florida’s Department of Transportation has removed the iconic rainbow pride crosswalk on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, following a state directive to remove art form crosswalks and intersections deemed “political” or “ideological.”

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Also very significant: USAID funded HIV *prevention.* Untreated, HIV can take 10-15 years to kill someone after infection. USAID was being used to administer ART, PrEP and PEP as individual and community-wide prevention, as well as for condoms and sex-ed. The deaths will take (a) generations(s)

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

“New York is the Tiranë of America”

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

“CBS first raised the ire of modern conservatives in the early 1950s, when it stood up to Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the height of his anticommunist witch hunts.” Great history by @ajbauer.bsky.social time.com/7318570/cbs-...

CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades

It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is not fighting the police!!!

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