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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review.

I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.

For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

UnCommon Sense

Peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review (In chronological order) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach t...

uncommon-scents.blogspot.com

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jkshields (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 7d

🎵🎶If the price is too steep for thee,
Request it from your librar-eeeee!🎵🎶

Listing for Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion from Gobi Library solutions shows that "orders are accepted" and the book can be purchased by libraries for $219.99 USD

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Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social · 7d

Check out this exciting new handbook, especially the fabulous looking essay by the inestimable Kori Pacyniak! @kpacyniak.bsky.social

Kori Pacyniak (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @kpacyniak.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to see the Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion come out today! I've got a co-authored chapter in it on trans ritual and so many of the other chapters look amazing! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion

This handbook offers a unique, high-quality resource for exploring queer and trans studies in religion, guiding readers through new insights

link.springer.com

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Kori Pacyniak (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @kpacyniak.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 7d

I’m very proud to have a chapter (on queer and trans Jewish theologies) in this volume, which looks stacked with excellent contributions.

Kori Pacyniak (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @kpacyniak.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to see the Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion come out today! I've got a co-authored chapter in it on trans ritual and so many of the other chapters look amazing! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Kori Pacyniak (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @kpacyniak.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to see the Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion come out today! I've got a co-authored chapter in it on trans ritual and so many of the other chapters look amazing! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion

This handbook offers a unique, high-quality resource for exploring queer and trans studies in religion, guiding readers through new insights

link.springer.com

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 20d

Your task is a big one. Maybe even sometimes a dangerous one. It's a difficult one. But it's a meaningful one. The tragedy is that meaning requires purpose and your purpose originates in difficulties to be overcome. But it's something that can be and needs to be done. You have to do it anyway.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 20d

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 20d

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms

Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high

edmontonjournal.com

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Kori Pacyniak (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @kpacyniak.bsky.social · 19d

Last week, IMSA and the theatre world lost an amazing person who I was once privileged to share a stage with.
Rest in peace and rise in power Lavina. <3
chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Remembering Lavina Jadhwani 1983–2025 - Chicago Reader

The director, writer, and advocate died September 10, leaving a rich legacy as a theatermaker, mentor, and friend at theaters across the U.S.

chicagoreader.com

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 21d

I love when I'm talking to people about the act of Paul and Thecla and I get to ask them if they've read the AO3 fanfic about Paul being a gender studies professor and when they inevitably say "What are you talking about?" I get to drop this gem on them.

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Nicole Danielle @koalabear2418.bsky.social · 27d

We👏mindmeld👏and👏we👏 don't👏judge👏

#StarTrek #SNW #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds

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TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · Sep 8

something something Star Trek Scouts

#StarTrek

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 28d

I love that the spirit of Star Trek zinemaking is alive and well

Adhora Pototry @orchiscribbles.bsky.social · 29d

It has arrived!! " They Were Bunkmates: A Marinler Fanzine, 2.0" is out now, available at: israeldrawsdaly.gumroad.com/l/theywerebu...
It's free but you can pay if you want, the proceeds go to Palestine Children's Relief Fund. If you find it hard to pay via gumroad, you can donate here! www.pcrf.net

Front and back covers for "They were bunkmates: A Marinler Fanzine 2.0"
Left: Front cover by Salty Duane: An illustration in which the characters are posed like the 1948 Bernard D'Andrea commercial painting "The Mating Call". Mariner and Boimler stand in front of their bunks in the lower decks sleeping quarters. Mariner in holding a TOS communicator, which is a reference to the original illustration where the woman is holding a phone. Boimler has his arms around her and they are looking at each other an smiling. In the background, Tendi and Rutherford's heads can be seen peaking out around a corner from the hallway. They are watching Mariner and Boimler.

Right: Back cover bt Foodcu-be: A vintage-stylized parody illustration of 1962 comic cover for “The Twist” by Dell. It features Beckett and Bradward together on a dancefloor filled with the silhouettes of other dancers. Brad has his eyes closed while smiling and Beckett is looking at the viewer. There’s a blue banner in the corner with a white delta on it. At the top of the illustration it reads, “They Were Bunkmates” with sparkles all around the piece.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 28d

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is the most important thing to read on Trump's higher ed war. It's not "Harvard vs. trade schools." It's the same ecosystem and all parts are essential. Research breakthroughs need skilled labor to manufacture/fix them. Jobs & communities are at risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · Aug 7

I'm going to echo Damien here and also say stop acting like "generative AI" provides you with anything resembling expert advice or guidance.

It doesn't. It can't. It can't because expert guidance requires understanding the context in which you are asking the question.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 7

Stop this. Just… Stop it. Stop using "generative AI" for anything that might actually matter, and especially things that, if it gets them wrong, *Might Fucking Kill You.*

Why does this need to be said? Why is this not obvious??? Why is this not the default way of fucking operating?! What the FUCK.

John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · Aug 7

Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · Jul 27

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · Jul 27

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.

(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Photo of a tv. Onscreen a woman holds an axe with a periodic table visible behind.

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Kori Pacyniak (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @kpacyniak.bsky.social · Jul 26

So cuteeeee

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jul 16

Trans people make up 1-3% of American society depending on definitions (nonbinary, trans, etc).

That is enough to swing multiple close swing state elections.

Democrats should not nominate an anti-trans Democrat.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jul 16

If there's one thing that getting yelled at all day for saying that I will not vote for Gavin Newsom in a hypothetical 2028 election has made me more sure of... it's that I will not be voting for Gavin Newsom (or any other politician who pushes anti-trans nonsense) in 2028 or any other year.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · Jul 16

This news coming out at the exact moment when a deluge of ravenous liberals are telling us to sacrifice trans children (which really means all trans people, ofc) proves not only how evil their intentions are, but the very crux of why we will never back down from defending them.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Jul 15

A transgender girl housed in a male unit of a Washington, D.C., juvenile detention center has been hospitalized after sustaining multiple injuries, including a broken jaw, officials say.

Trans girl housed in male unit has jaw broken at D.C. juvenile detention center

Officials said they've launched a "full review" after the Youth Services Center resident was transported to the hospital following the incident.

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TransEpiscopal @transepiscopal.bsky.social · Jul 1

Today the Episcopal Church commemorates the life of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, a remarkable scholar, activist, and priest who likely was also trans. We give thanks for Dr. Murray’s life, work and witness in the civil rights and feminist movements both within and beyond the borders of the church. ⚓️

Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · Jul 1

Continuing Juneteenth & Pride: today is Pauli Murray’s feast day in the Episcopal Church! ⚓️

“When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all humankind.”

The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, scholar, activist, priest, sits smiling at their desk surrounded by a library of books, holding a pencil and absorbed in writing. They wear a clerical collar and a bright blue jacket.

Pauli was a longtime and tireless civil rights scholar who kept up yearslong correspondence with Eleanor Roosevelt; whose legal theories on sex discrimination deeply influenced Ruth Bader Ginsburg; who was a founder of NOW; and who later in life became the first Black person understood to be a woman to be ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. Pauli had a woman partner and was also very likely transgender, although they lived ahead of times when the reality of being gay and transgender could be lived out publicly.

July 1 is the feast day of Pauli Murray in the Episcopal Church’s calendar of saints, Lesser Feasts and Fasts — continuing a celebration of what some folks call Liberation Month in June as we have been celebrating Juneteenth and Pride.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 18

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex
and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled
precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate
scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say
otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so
long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might
justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law
that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial
review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons
transgender children and their families to political whims.
In sadness, I dissent.

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TransEpiscopal @transepiscopal.bsky.social · Jun 19

Our response to the Supreme Court Skrmetti ruling today.

Stand with us.

⚓️🏳️‍⚧️

📸 credit: @jackjenkins.me, @RNS

www.transepiscopal.org/blog/in-resp...

Episcopal priest the Rev. M. E. Eccles stands in front of the Supreme Court on the day of oral argument on the Skrmetti caseñ, December 4, 2024. He is wearing a hat, a clerical color, a colorful stole, and white t-shirt with black lettering: This is What a Trans Priest Looks Like. He is standing in a crowd with placards and flags. Behind him is the Supreme Court building. Photo credit: Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service

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TransEpiscopal @transepiscopal.bsky.social · Jun 13

This is a ‘Kairos moment’ for faith communities that affirm the dignity & rights of LGBTQ+ people—especially trans & nonbinary people. Christian nationalism’s attacks on LGBTQ+ people are also an attack on our deep belief in God’s inclusive love. ⚓️

read it all:
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We Have a Lot to Learn From the Fight for Trans Rights

It’s long past time we foregrounded trans people in the fight for dignity and democracy.

www.thenation.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · Jun 10

For some additional context on the broader conservative Christian effort to overturn Obergefell, see here: religionnews.com/2025/03/26/s...

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