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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · 2d

they’ve just reminded me that they were also wearing their other Bills hat while doing this

Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · 2d

my spouse is walking around the house searching for their Bills hat chanting “Bills hat! Bills hat! Bills hat!”

(don’t worry, still gay)

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · 5d

absolutely, forever

Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · 5d

normal week, explained to the students in my grad seminar that the two wolves inside me are Didion and Babitz and that Babitz always wins

(yes, I am currently reading the Anolik)

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · 9d

Re-reading “on narcissism” for the first time in a very long time and my god is this funny

(also prescient, infuriating, illuminating…but mostly funny)

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 15d

The Supreme Court is considering three cases this term that could impact the national landscape of trans rights: one relating to conversion therapy and two related to trans student athletes. We’re offering guidance and key context for reporters and newsrooms preparing to cover these developments.

Tracking trans rights at the Supreme Court in 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering three cases this term that could impact the national landscape of trans rights. As part of our ongoing work to promote accurate, nuanced coverage of trans communi...

www.transjournalists.org

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · 19d

I know it never feels like the right time given *gestures wildly* but please keep posting about what you’re writing, the books and articles coming out, all the cool shit that keeps on happening amidst *gestures wildly once more*

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 27d

The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!

Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies (731) - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

www.higheredjobs.com

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · Sep 3

We won!!

“Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

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Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · Sep 2

Job in Disability Studies!

Assistant Professor, Disability Studies

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the humanities and qualitati...

www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · Aug 29

listen - Carrie is, as reported here, “the original working from home queen”

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Show hearings and trials are a key marker of a concentration-camp regime. Even in countries with existing detention crises, the conscious step to degrade due process for targeted groups further diminishes the larger legal system while shifting power to emerging quasi-legal and extralegal approaches.

Michael Rass @mikerass.bsky.social · Aug 28

After purging over 100 immigration judges, the Trump regime has announced that “temporary immigration judges“ will no longer need to have any experience in immigration law (!!)

To replenish their ranks, DOJ loosens requirements for temporary immigration judges

In a shift following the firing and departure of over 100 immigration judges, temporary immigration judges will no longer need to have experience in immigration law.

abcnews.go.com

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’ve been writing about Reed Erickson’s relationship with Harry Benjamin lately, and have found Alison Li’s recent biography of Benjamin indispensable. Highly recommend to any and all trans history nerds.

UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · Sep 20

“I hope this book will help people to see that people have been wrestling with these specific ideas for more than a century.”—Quill and Quire spoke to Alison Li about her new biography of transgender medical pioneer Harry Benjamin, WONDROUS TRANSFORMATIONS
quillandquire.com/authors/alis...

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · Aug 27

my president

Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · Aug 26

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

Medicine without Doctors @medicinewithoutdoctors.org · Aug 26

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨

We are recruiting five 5-year postdoctoral fellows to work with us. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project (Abortion Care, AI, Physician Associates and/or LGBTQ+ Health Activism).

At:University of Edinburgh
Starting: April 2026
Deadline: 2 October 2025

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · Aug 25

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights

JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you

Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Aug 25

The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · Aug 25

it’s the first day of the fall semester and i’m pleased to report that i already have the item “stuff from last week” lurking at the top of my agenda

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Miccosukee Tribe helped stop Alligator Alcatraz, being constructed on their land!

Late yesterday, a federal judge ruled Miccosukee citizens must be able to “access to the site consistent with the access they enjoyed before the erection of the detention camp.”

thehill.com/regulation/c...

thehill.com

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · Aug 19

I’m looking for developmental editor recs! Specifically for first monographs in the humanities. Who’s good?

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · Aug 16

i know it’s late summer in Appalachia when all my friends start pulling out their phones to compare this season’s timber rattler encounters

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI

against-a-i.com

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · Aug 14

once i was in an elevator in boston with three dudes and they said they were in town to see Run the Jewels

i said “uncle jules? I haven’t heard of them”

not to be outdone

the following year
a student told my partner they liked Harry Styles and my partner responded “oh! what kind of hairstyles?”

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · Jul 26

Beginning with enslaved Africans jumping off of slave ships, Sam C. Tenorio examines a Black "Politics of Refusal," through Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line, the Watts Riots of 1965 and the case of Assata Shakur. Tenorio joined me on Left of Black.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9a-...

Left of Black | Black Anarchism Against an Anti-Black World with Sam C. Tenorio

YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.

www.youtube.com

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Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · Jul 28

a concession stand, but it’s just some guy behind a counter arguing a point until you agree with him

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