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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · May 20

anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · May 19

Read this!!!!

Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · May 19

Excited to share our edited volume out today free/open access! Sex & Gender:Toward transforming scientific practice brings together perspectives from 40 interdisciplinary scholars on pressing issues including the weaponization of gender & sex impacting us all today. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Queer BioAnth @queerbioanth.bsky.social · May 12

our trans and non-binary colleagues are an important part of our scientific community and global communities - we support this important @bioanth.org statement by Archer, @zacharydubois.bsky.social, Kralick, and Smith

AABA Statement in Support of Trans Lives - AABA

The American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, the Dental Anthropology Association, the Paleopathology Association, The PaleoAnthropology...

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Cindi SturtzSreetharan @clsturtz.bsky.social · May 19

So excited to share this OA book Sex and Gender: Toward Transforming Scientific Practice edited by @zacharydubois.bsky.social and colleagues (includes chapters by @awutich.bsky.social and Alex Brewis and many others you won’t want to miss! : link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · May 19

Excited to share our edited volume out today free/open access! Sex & Gender:Toward transforming scientific practice brings together perspectives from 40 interdisciplinary scholars on pressing issues including the weaponization of gender & sex impacting us all today. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Libby Ware @libloverly.bsky.social · May 19

My chapter with @dunsworth.bsky.social is officially available online. I am so grateful to have contributed to this wonderful project as my first publication. Chapter 4 “How Can Gender/Sex Entanglement Inform Our Understanding of Human Evolutionary Biology?
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Sex and Gender

This open access book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of sex and gender and suggests directions for future research in this field.

link.springer.com

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Holly Dunsworth @dunsworth.bsky.social · May 19

New book out today! It's free/open access!
It was written during the Biden years but it's a very beautiful and TREMENDOUS collection of ideas that demolish Donald Trump's executive order and the UK's court order.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Sex and Gender

This open access book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of sex and gender and suggests directions for future research in this field.

link.springer.com

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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · May 19

Thank you so much for your time at the Forum and your contributions to our timely volume! I am so glad it’s finally out!

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · Apr 29

The rights of all women - trans or not - rise and fall together.

My latest piece for @glamouruk.bsky.social outlines how an attack on trans women harms us all.

MP Nadia Whittome: "The attack on trans women harms all women”

The UK's Supreme Court ruling is a dangerous step in a global campaign to divide marginalised groups and roll back hard-won rights, argues the Labour MP.

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · Apr 29

More anti-science action by this administration: Trump administration dismisses all authors of major climate report, throwing US assessment into limbo www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/c...

Trump administration dismisses all authors of major climate report, throwing US assessment into limbo | CNN

The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists and other authors working on the next authoritative look at how climate change is affecting the United States, according to an email sent to a...

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · Apr 29

Academic senate of the University of Illinois resolves to join the Big 10 mutual defense compact! Proud to have been a co-signer of a great resolution put forward by @gipperfish.bsky.social

UI Senate approves resolution to join Big Ten Defense Compact

The University Senate approved a resolution to join a Big Ten Academic Defense Compact with universities in the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · Mar 19

qualitative data is incredibly important and incredibly informative - check out @awutich.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social et al. for the many ways qualitative data is essential in biological anthropological studies!

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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · Apr 30

Sadly, this statement of support is now even more important than it was at the time it was drafted.

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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · Feb 7

This is very useful…

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jan 29

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation.

We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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@alli.gay
@erininthemorning.com
@evanurquhart.bsky.social
@miralazine.bsky.social
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A screenshot of a multi‐column table listing several U.S. presidential Executive Orders relating to LGBTQ+ rights and antidiscrimination policies. Each row has columns for “Origin” (POTUS), “Number/Identifier” (e.g., EO 13988), “Title” (such as Preventing and Combating Discrimination…), “Action Type” (e.g., Broad Nondiscrimination, Military Nondiscrimination), “Summary” (key points of each order), and “Date Signed.” The listed orders span from early 2021 through early 2025, covering topics like preventing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, banning conversion therapy, rescinding prior harmful EOs, and restricting or expanding DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives.

A spreadsheet at the top shows columns tracking anti‐LGBTQ bills by status and year: total bills (334), 2025 bills (327), 2024 rollovers (7), how many passed committees (3), passed one chamber (5), passed both chambers (0), enacted (1), vetoed (0), failed (3), and carried forward (0). Below that, another header row lists different types of anti‐LGBTQ legislation (e.g., gender‐affirming care bans, pronoun bans, “Don’t Say Gay,” drag bans, bathroom bans) with the total count of each category (e.g., 55 for gender‐affirming care bans, 20 for pronoun bans, 14 for “Don’t Say Gay,” etc.). A color‐coded U.S. map spans the lower half, with states shaded from light orange to deep red according to how many anti‐LGBTQ bills they contain. Texas appears in the darkest red (46 bills), with lighter shades indicating fewer bills in other states. A note at the bottom right explains that the map shows total tracked bills per state, which does not necessarily reflect each bill’s likelihood of passage.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 5

Wonder if people will be silent as hospitals comply with that too.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 5

Just wait until Trump uses the same mechanism he is using to attempt a national trans ban to do the same with a national abortion ban, mifepristone ban, etc.

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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · Feb 7

Lots of people reaching out asking what they can do- here’s a link to a script - call your reps about these EOs.

Cat Winters / C. E. Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social · Feb 6

The @5calls.org app and website now has a script we can all use for calling our reps about the multiple, vicious anti-trans executive orders.
5calls.org/issue/transg...

Oppose Efforts to Dehumanize Transgender and LGBTQ+ People ⭑ 5 Calls

On the first day of his administration, Trump signed Executive Order 14168, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring …

5calls.org

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Feb 1

“A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear.”

Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites

Journalists have long relied on federal health data for their reporting. We include several tips that they can use to help researchers preserve the data.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Jan 27

The Maryland Department of Education has instructed all its districts to begin training teachers and school administrators what to do when ICE shows up

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...

How Maryland schools should handle ICE at their doors

Schools should be consulting with their lawyers first, protecting students’ privacy and keeping families in the loop, new guidance from the state education department says.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Jan 20

ID is supposed to allow officials to quickly and easily identify the person presenting ID, and this will make it harder for officials to do so.

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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · Jan 20

Same

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · Jan 20

Trump is reportedly going to sign a piece of paper later today declaring that the federal government of the United States defines me as a woman.

If there's a better encapsulation of how stupid the whole "define woman" thing is and has always been I'd love to see it.

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · Jan 19

Let's close with a picture. This is me, full body, no filters, no tricks.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jan 20

Cass Review.

New article in the New England Journal of Medicine, founded in 1812 and amongst the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. Its 2023 impact factor was 96.2, ranking it 2nd out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".

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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · Jan 19

So Montana’s about to start checking people’s gametes when they go to the bathroom, huh? Too bad they opted for that random definition of sex instead of others they could have picked. And now many trans MEN gotta use the women’s room = backfire. Criminalize behavior not people.

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · Dec 4

As the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Tennessee’s ban on transgender healthcare, more families are leaving the state

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Listen: As the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Tennessee’s ban on transgender healthcare, more families are leaving the state

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care is constitutional. Some families of transgender kids have left the state.

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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · Nov 26

I’d love to connect or hear from folks teaching in red state to learn more about strategies and approaches so amplifying this message below.

Alison @fourbees.bsky.social · Nov 21

Can I hear strategies from red state social justice teachers/profs who are anti-racist and LGBTQIA -affirming teachers even when policies in their school/district/state forbid it? I’m a blue state social justice prof working with other social justice profs who want to remain social justice profs.

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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · Nov 21

A fast-growing petition for U.S. cis women to sign.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Nov 21

okay, we're starting with this

Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!

Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)

Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up

actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

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