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Leah Tigers

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"Queer theory running riot," according to my detractors. www.trickymothernature.com

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · Feb 23

Over a year ago I began research on why many trans women love fashion and (more important) why the industry only sometimes loves us back. On the way I uncovered lost images, unknown models, and got sent way back to the French Revolution. Hope you enjoy

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Postrevolutionary Modes

An essay about trans women and fashion

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 1d

forcemasc'd by getting the right to vote

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 1d

these quotes are from the 1880s!

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 2d

This is the result of the Rufo experiment at New College of Florida: more spending for worse results. Extrapolating to how this will work more broadly across the country isn’t difficult.

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 5d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 16d

techbros and their nonexistent inventions being "on the horizon" name a more famous duo

Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 19d

you should play...

Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 19d

do you play evelyn. do you wanna play

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21d

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

The Right’s Baseless Project to Link Trans People With Extremism

A campaign for the FBI to adopt a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism” is less about law enforcement than politics.

newrepublic.com

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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 24d

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

Who Really Runs DHS?

Kristi Noem is the face of Trump’s police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle.

nymag.com

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 24d

Sorry to hear that Bluestockings is closing. www.bluestockings.com

Bluestockings Cooperative

Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's only queer, trans, sex-worker run bookstores.

www.bluestockings.com

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 24d

in fairness "antifascism for disney adults" is a good description of Snyder's life and work so i dont know what i was expecting

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 24d

julie its driving me crazy. us antifascism is so bleak

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 25d

My current read of Richard Hofstadter's *Anti-Intellectualism in American Life* (1963) is genuinely disarming me in how quintessentially transphobic this genre of conservative rhetoric already was in the 1940s. This example is just one of many, from the first 50 pages alone

Testimony before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, 79th Congress, 2nd session, May 28 and 29, 1946, cited by Hofstadter. The quote reads:

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One Congressman objected in these words to including the social sciences in the National Science Foundation:

'Outside of myself, I think everyone else thinks he is a social scientist. I am sure that I am not, but I think everyone else seems to believe that he has some particular God-given right to decide what other people ought to do. . . . The average American does not want some expert running around prying into his life and his personal affairs and deciding for him how he should live, and if the impression becomes prevalent in the Congress that this legislation is going to establish some sort of an organization in which there would be a lot of short-haired women and long-haired men messing into everybody’s personal affairs and lives, inquiring whether they love their wives or do not love them and so forth,
you are not going to get your legislation.'

The fragment "legislation is going to establish some sort of an organization in which there would be a lot of short-haired women and long-haired men messing into everybody’s personal affairs and lives" is highlighted.

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Julia Gavarrete @petizagavarrete.bsky.social · Sep 8

In Bukele’s #ElSalvador, he is the only person who is above the law. The road ahead is long. Even the first step—telling the truth—is officially considered a crime.
My contribution for the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, a powerful issue that comes out today.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...

A Permanent State of Exception in El Salvador - Dissent Magazine

In cooperation with gangs and with massive popular support, Nayib Bukele is cracking down on dissidents and massively expanding the state’s carceral apparatus.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 27d

Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.

"Not taking dance lessons is a common mistake
among men. They fail to realize that dancing is one of the few things
a man can learn when he’s young that will come in handy later. Men
who know how to dance—even a few basic steps—will never end up
sad and alone, with nobody to play with, because women will always
be looking for that rare man who can dance. They’ll take him to night
clubs and parties and on cruises, and they’ll go all mushy after a
simple waltz." from "Gotta Dance," Collected in I Used to Be Charming

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 27d

opsec period is over now im assuming

Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 27d

this is literally how i found out what im doing jail support for lmaoooo

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 28d

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 28d

Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women (1991)

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 28d

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water.

These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested.

They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 28d

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 28d

i actually tried to get a day job where i gallivant around evangelical churches generating youtube clips of "communist transsexual DESTROYS rightwing chud" but unfortunately no billionaire investment managers at the Republican National Convention would fund the project

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 29d

one of the nice things about being an adjunct in an era of overt academic repression by fascists is that i still say whatever i want to students... like what are they going to do, continue not giving me health insurance? take away the job no one wants?

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 29d

like the way he signed all his texts "my love" really reminds me of how John would sign all his letters to Liz "deep tongue kiss" even as she became dour and had moved on. anyway this remains worldshatteringly historic for trans women in culture despite all precedent

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 29d

if the evidence is real (legitimately big if) this case really does feel strikingly similar to John Wojtowicz -- a mostly uneducated white guy bungles an act of egoistic passion (which he has mistaken for love) after a downtrodden woman offers him a modicum of affection. or whatever, who knows

Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · Sep 16

not a Doge Day Afternoon

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 16

The FULL text message exchange. Confirms the memes were just memes. Says he would have a stroke if he hears them say "notices bulge uwu" on camera.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 16

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active
opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · Sep 16

Bertrand Russell Writes an Artful Letter, Stating His Refusal to Debate British Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley (1962)

Image by National Portrait Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons Changing the minds of others has never counted among humanity's easiest tasks, and it seems only to have become an ever-stiffer challenge as h...

www.openculture.com

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · Sep 16

on old twitter this would do numbers