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Assistant Professor of Film, University of Amsterdam. Author of GENDER DYSPHORIA: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY (coming soon) & ANIMATED FILM & DISABILITY (2023). Coeditor of TSQ Issue TOWARD A TRANS[]CRIP THEORY (2025).

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Friends, colleagues, comrades, I hope to share more about the journey of working with the dysphoria archive for the past 6 years, but for now, I am overjoyed to announce that
GENDER DYSPHORIA: AN UNATHORIZED BIOGRAPHY
is now under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social
@lpennywark.bsky.social!

🪬🏳️‍⚧️🧿🩼

BOOK PUBLICATION AGREEMENT
Memorandum of Agreement
This Agreement made this nineteenth day of August, 2025
by and between: Slava Greenberg
(hereinafter the "Proprietor") and

the Regents of the University of Minnesota (hereinafter the "University")

regarding (tentatively titled):
(hereinafter the "Work")
Gender Dysphoria: An Unauthorized Biography

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1m

Exactly!

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 20m

Judith Butler just walked past me as I was leaving my office, why doesn’t anyone tell me anything in this university??

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 5h

Thirst trap

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 7h

This is really sad to read

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 20h

Santa Cruz?

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 20h

100%

Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not endorsing Janet Mills because i don't go there and she's like 80 and i have a hard rule but she's at least better than my governor and i hope whoever that white military guy you all like whose name i don't know defends trans people as much

jaker @jaker.fightins.online · Apr 11

cooked his ass

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 20h

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

I felt the same way

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

A Miss Major doc to screen in class for your grieving students

Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 1d

it is disorienting when you lose someone who you navigate your life to, like a star blinking out of the night sky.
a life lived in fearlessness, she carved out space for so many of us.
an amazing woman.
check out this doc by some of my pals.

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Throw some 💸 to support her family, if you can

fundly.com/missmajor

Click here to support Miss Major's Monthly Fundraising Circle by Friends of Miss Major

After Miss Major's 2019 stroke, donations go to continuing her rehab + her retirement fund, in addition to helping care for Asiah, the baby she and Beck ...

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Forever

TransLash Media @translash.org · 1d

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

I asked y’all to pray 😔

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major’s memory is a trans revolution.

Girl, I Guess @mikellestreet.bsky.social · 1d

Very sad to have published this obituary tonight, but tried to do her legacy justice

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.

www.them.us

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

The next race and media class will enroll 1200

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 1d

They canceled my work on race and media.

So I built a @resistanceschool.bsky.social instead.

Now we are teaching over 600 students.

Week 2 of Race, Media and International Affairs starts today.

We move ✊🏾💪🏾

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Yay! Congrats!

the letter t is glowing in the dark with a blue background

Alt: the letter t is glowing in the dark with a blue background

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 2d

Need everybody to bring the same fire they had for Jimmy Kimmel to this

ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 3d

✅ He fired a U.S. Attorney who refused to bring charges against her
✅ He replaced them with someone with NO prosecutorial experience

This isn't justice. This is retaliation.

When Black women do their jobs with excellence, they face attacks. But AG James isn't backing down, and neither should we.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

And thank you for spreading hope

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 3d

This one?

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Sep 15

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

A photo from Jamie Keller Davis for the NYT: a color photo of a Chicago skyline showing three buildings photographed from street level. The one in the center has brown brick-like walls, and a very large poster advertising ChatGPT. The poster shows a conversation between a hypothetical student and ChatGPT: "Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?" "Can you build me a first time marathon training plan?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads: "ChatGPT Plus is free during finals.

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never felt more seen by a politician

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

This is heartbreaking to witness, but please don’t look away.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

A show to be missed and important background history to be read and share:

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 4d

This weekend:

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 15d

People in the Seattle/Tacoma area: I'll be reprising my talk on animal research films for the Tacoma Film Festival on October 12th and then introducing Ted Kennedy's experimental doc B.F. Skinner Plays Himself afterwards. Swing by and say "hi!"

grandcinema.com/movie/free-f...

Free Film Talk: Through the Image of an Animal

Join us for a free film talk in The Grand Cinema Lounge presented by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, associate professor in film studies at Seattle University. Comparisons between humans and animals are f...

grandcinema.com

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 4d

SAG-AFTRA is continuing negotiations re: AI and I wish we‘d think about this more in academia but then we‘d also need functioning unions 🙃 Or more scholars who actually consider this a threat. If you agree and haven‘t signed this…

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 6d

A moment of relief

IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 6d

Every life is a universe. Any deal that stops the bombs from falling and saves lives is cause for relief and celebration.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 6d

“Genspect is a group whose primary policy goal is to end access to medical transition, though they have also advocated against the acceptance & inclusion of trans ppl in society, particularly in school settings. In 2024 the Southern Poverty Law Center officially designated it as a hate group”

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 6d

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

www.assignedmedia.org

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