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Callan Hummel

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Political scientist, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. LGBTQ+ politics, labor, public health, policy. Dr./e/em/eirs 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jul 24

As anti-trans legislation ramped up in Florida, trans Floridians sought legal, health, and employment help from advocacy groups.

Check out our collaborative project with trans advocates in Florida in the American Journal of Public Health: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

Antitransgender Legislation and Needs of Transgender Floridians, 2018–2024 | AJPH | Vol. Issue

Objectives. To document transgender Floridians’ service needs before and after antitransgender state legislation. Methods. We conducted descriptive and change point analyses of intake survey data coll...

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Oct 2

If you want federal funding judged by a committee of your peers with high success rates, UBC Political Science is hiring an endowed chair in democracy and SFU is hiring in political psychology

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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Sep 5

I moved here a year ago from Florida and I am grateful I live here every single day.

Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Sep 5

Dear US-based democracy scholars: We (UBC political science) are hiring an endowed chair in democracy — come to Canada: politics.ubc.ca/faculty-hiri...

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Aug 21

Our article on gender-affirming IDs in Bolivia is out and open access!

Gender-affirming IDs are associated with positive outcomes, using interview and survey data that we designed and collected with the largest trans advocacy group in Bolivia:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gender-Affirming identification documents are associated with positive health-related outcomes for transgender people in Bolivia

Legislation has improved access to gender-affirming identification documents (IDs) in many countries but few studies address the laws’ effects. We document the relationship between gender-affirming...

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jul 24

Antitransgender Legislation and Needs of Transgender Floridians, 2018–2024 | AJPH | Vol. Issue

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 16

Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.

Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jul 14

A UMiami reunion in Seoul!

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ban Ki Moon plenary address at IPSA 2025!

Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jul 4

I brushed my teeth with dental prosthesis fixer last night because that’s what I bought instead of toothpaste at an airport pharmacy:

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jul 1

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Tamara Keel @tamslick.bsky.social · Jun 30

Indianapolis lost federal matching funds for replanting trees in the city because of the word “diversity” in biodiversity.

www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 30

Bukele made corrupt pacts with gangs like MS-13 that the US investigated. Trump is dismantling the investigation and releasing gang members to Bukele.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

We’re celebrating our most cited authors of 2024 by making their articles free to access 🥳
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/EJPG...
See the thread below for our top 5 most cited authors

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 30

Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?

The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 29

Just to be clear, the accident was walking into a Bolsonaro rally. I always look like a big ol queer on purpose.

Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 29

Whoops! Accidentally walked into a Bolsonaro rally looking like a big ol dyke

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 28

Spending Pride Saturday at the first meeting of LGBTI+ politicians of São Paulo in the State Assembly building

Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 28

Erika for president! I’m floored by the organizing going on in Brazil

Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 28

I got there at 6pm and left at 10pm and the event was still going strong

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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 28

And capoeira vogue from Capoeira para Todes!

Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 28

It was also a packed crowd of young Black, queer, and trans people in a very traditional room of the São Paulo city council on a Friday night

Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 28

The event had a long table of speakers and there was a big emphasis on bringing all communities along. The table included City Council rep Amanda Paschual and State rep Carolina Iara, as well as the legendary Neon Cunha

Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · Jun 28

I went to a political rally of Black trans politicians in São Paulo, led by Deputada Erika Hilton, and it was a master class in transforming political space. It started with ballroom:

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Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · Jun 25

I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people"

Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · Jun 25

Zohran Mamdani is the only democrat in the mayoral race that released an LGBTQ platform and the only democrat in the country (that I know of) to commit to safeguarding gender affirming care for youth + adults with $$.

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ODI Global @odi.global · Jun 23

The US pulling back from global leadership on LGBTQI+ rights is further emboldening autocrats to take "anti-LGBTQI+ measures without diplomatic consequence."

@williamsinstitute.bsky.social's @arimshaw.bsky.social joined us to unpack how threats to LGBTQI rights mean threats to all our rights.

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