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teaching feminist political theory at Oxford University & writing a history of manhood democracy through the lens sodomy

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05.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Look, it's me!

26.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Where can i find the intimacy of strangers on the internet that is wider than a group chat but smaller than blueksy. Are my only choices reddit and discord have chit chats?

17.02.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I haven’t heard people saying this yet: it is highly unlikely that Jeffrey Epstein was running the only billionaire pedophile ring in the world. The documents have revealed whole global elite networks that include access to young girls. Who’s running the current rings for all these men?

10.02.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

I dislike the language of transition. I'm not transitioning to a healthier body when I'm mindful of what I eat, I'm not transitioning into retirement when I go to work, I'm not transitioning to death when I celebrate my birthday, and I'm not transitioning gender when I take hormones. Im just living.

06.02.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We're going to win because their side has no good art and they know it.

28.01.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 1366 πŸ” 261 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 0
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Femmunist Intimations - Journal #159 McKenzie Wark describes four types of masculinity and how to overcome them.

up early after the party reading @mckenziewark.bsky.social

happy 2026 out there

01.01.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yes, which is a political status of being "out of combat" - the moment any one waves their arms, they are civilians is the implication i read from the law

29.12.2025 18:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Raising both hands is a universal sign of surrender for isolated members of armed forces. Under international law, those who surrender are considered hors de combat, the French term for those out of combat, and may not be attacked."

27.12.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

more evidence of trump's favourite little phrase to critique the left: "open borders, men in women's sports, transgender for everyone"

25.12.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

17.11.2025 06:37 πŸ‘ 9757 πŸ” 3316 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 167
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.

To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

07.11.2025 20:10 πŸ‘ 5381 πŸ” 1353 πŸ’¬ 165 πŸ“Œ 113
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Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...

Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of β€œcivil war” and β€œfailed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.

www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

28.10.2025 21:19 πŸ‘ 235 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Why does the Trump administration blame trans people together with migrants? As Paul Preciado argues in Can the Monster Speak? (2020), the history of homosexuality/transsexuality shows us that "migration" has always been a central issue for political regimes of sex, gender, and sexual difference

27.10.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

blaming trans people and migrants, which is to say bodies that cross binaries and borders

27.10.2025 14:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

From the website of the USDA: more evidence of how the US authoritarian regime is constantly obsessed with the bodies of migrants and trans people.

27.10.2025 14:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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So this happened. At at open call for "new models," someone was reading CAPITAL IS DEAD while waiting in line. Telfar himself asked the aspiring model to read it out loud. They then hired me to appear in this video to talk about it. Video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Io1...

18.10.2025 13:18 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop using the word genealogy when you really just mean history

15.10.2025 13:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

politicians posting AI slop to make their opponents say and do stupid things is really just another turn in the downward spiral of the absolute stupidity of our present moment.

04.10.2025 17:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm ready for this Y2K fashion trend to make a comeback

29.09.2025 13:07 πŸ‘ 562 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 21

I saw an interview of Trump talking about how economy is doing well when he suddenly pivots and says "the radical left democrats, these people are crazy, they want open borders, they want to have men in women sports, they want to have transgender everybody" it's like a tagline for him now

28.09.2025 21:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline - Volume 58 Issue 3

Do you find it bizarre that Trump would invoke trans people on an issue that seems to have nothing to do with them?

@srgalloway.bsky.social and I believe this isn't just the ravings of a lunatic but a central strategy of rightwing fascism we call grooming authoritarianism

doi.org/10.1017/S104...

12.09.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In response to the Kirk shooting, Trump once again invokes the danger of trans people, saying: "Radicals on the left are the problem... They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country."

Why does he talk about trans people?

12.09.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

biggggg issue of queer political science. I'm gagged to see this area of research exploding.

26.08.2025 10:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It was a wonderful scene, all of us sharing space. The gays' heavy breathing and thwacking providing a background for us three nerds to talk about feminist theory. It reminded me how public sex can sometimes be such an ordinary and non-disruptive activity. A little slice of a beautiful queer world.

22.07.2025 12:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I went to a queer music festival over the weekend called Whole. At about 1am on Sunday, I was talking to some friends about what turned us onto feminism when we were young. We were sitting on a platform painted to mimic a large twister board while three gays were fucking a few feet away from us

22.07.2025 12:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's a provocation for queer political scientists not to seek assimilation into the discipline and a call/demand/shout for straight political science to queer its disciplinary practices if it wants to stay relevant in the study of democracy

06.07.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline

Im happy to finally see this thing @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote together out in the world. It's called "Grooming Authoritarianism" and it's about how social and political panic around trans/queer lives can teach us about the decline in democracy.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

06.07.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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🧡 Last week, Robin White, a barrister and trans woman, was harassed for using the women’s toilets in the Parliament.

Today, Parliament has implemented a trans bathroom ban, telling trans people that they are no longer be allowed to use toilets which align with their lived gender.

23.06.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 248 πŸ” 95 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 15

There's much more interesting things to be said about how patriarchal sex is actually bound up in men's imagined sexual prowess to produce female pleasure and how straight porn isn't really concerned with male pleasure at all - for that you gotta go to gay porn.

23.06.2025 16:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0