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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D.

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Director, Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI). Qual Research. Edu Policy. Soc of Ed. AAAS Congressional Fellow, 22-23. NYC/DC. New book 2025: Queer Kids & Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying, UMinn Press. @queeringedu.bsky.social

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 15d

Just received in the mail! Our new volume on queer kids and bullying is out now! Thank you to all the outstanding contributors! @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 1d

Term limits. One justice per presidential term. Senate can’t stall to get to next president (Obama should have had an appointment). No gifts. Penalty for lying in confirmation. Basically, there should be rules!!!!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 1d

US girls feeling less and less comfortable expressing themselves.

As boys shift to the right, we are seeing the rise of the ‘new chill girl’ | Naomi Beinart

Even in comparatively liberal spaces, such as my high school, girls who wince at locker room talk risk exclusion

www.theguardian.com

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 4d

🤣🤣🤣

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 15d

Just received in the mail! Our new volume on queer kids and bullying is out now! Thank you to all the outstanding contributors! @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 6d

Take a minute to comment on the federal white washing of American History curriculum. Deadline: Oct 17 → Comment at Regulations dot gov (docket ED-2025-OS-0745). The more comments they receive, the longer it will take to enact this particular nightmare. They are required to read every comment.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 6d

So according to SCOTUS it would seem that states have the right to ban gender affirmative care that professional organizations support but do not have the right to ban conversion therapy that professional organizations condemn. Professional expertise literally has no legitimacy anymore.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 7d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 7d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 6d

That biblical log in your own eye thing…

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Colorado’s ban on mental health professionals providing conversion therapy to children. The practice, aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people, is banned in over 20 other states. Follow updates.

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Hear Conversion Therapy Case

Colorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people.

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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 7d

The Teen Activist Project (TAP) at NYCLU seeks students enrolled in NY state public high schools to share their experiences with bullying, harassment, & discrimination. For more info, visit www.nyclu.org/tap-survey to complete an anonymous, 1–3-minute survey. Deadline November 30th.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 7d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 7d

Teachers in Scotland say trans pupils are 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/02/trans-scotland-schools-guidance-eis/?utm_content=1759814400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Teachers say trans pupils are 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets

Teachers in Scotland have reported that some trans pupils are limiting the food and drink they consume to avoid going to the toilet.

www.thepinknews.com

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 8d

Heartbreaking for fans of Paulson.

Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 10d

Cats. Cats are good too.

Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 10d

Idea for dark times: Form groups of compassionate dog owners willing to bring dogs to parks for the benefit of those without.

Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 12d

Hearts?

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 12d

Jeffries must step down. We need a fighter.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 13d

Restrictions on books in public schools have become “rampant and common,” according to a new report by the free speech organization PEN America, so frequent in some states that they are now considered “routine and expected part of school operations"... Read free: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Being Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 12d

U.S. Faces ‘Expanded and Escalated’ Book Censorship, PEN America Reports www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... via @publisherswkly.bsky.social

U.S. Faces ‘Expanded and Escalated’ Book Censorship, PEN America Reports

PEN America has released its annual report on the book banning crisis in K–12 public schools, naming the top five most banned titles and authors. PEN found censorship increasingly routine; Florida, Te...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 14d

@thisone0verhere.bsky.social Reading Rainbow 🌈 !!!!!

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Mollie McQuillan @drmcquillan.bsky.social · 14d

So glad to see this book out! Check out the multi-faceted perspectives included in this edited book on queer youth and bullying, including a conceptual chapter on administrative bullying written by Dr. Cris Mayo and yours truly!

Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 15d

Just received in the mail! Our new volume on queer kids and bullying is out now! Thank you to all the outstanding contributors! @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks to @drjackieullman.bsky.social @ejrenold.bsky.social @bwozolek.bsky.social @cristyndavies.bsky.social @cristownley.bsky.social @jessicaringrose.bsky.social @drmcquillan.bsky.social @cjpascoe.bsky.social @dortemarie.bsky.social @jengilbert.bsky.social and the many others not on this app.

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