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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 · 1h

And thank you for spreading hope

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 9h

This one?

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27d

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 · 10h

I’ve never felt more seen by a politician

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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

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

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

This weekend:

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 13d

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!"

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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...

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 2d

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…

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

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

A moment of relief

IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 3d

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 · 3d

“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 · 3d

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

Wow, ty!!!

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

Absolutely

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Mickey 17 was a masterpiece and you guys fucked up by not watching it

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

I’ve resorted to prayer these past few days, idk if I like it, but it kinda forces me to be hopeful

Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 3d

We said this morning:
הַמַּתִּיר אֲסוּרִים.
וְהַסּוֹמֵךְ נוֹפְלִים.
וְהַזּוֹקֵף כְּפוּפִים.
Releases the imprisoned.
Supports those who have fallen.
Lifts up the bent.

We have been fighting for a ceasefire for 2 years. Now, let's also lift the siege, end the occupation.
Finally, get liberation.

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

Pray for Miss Major like you prayed for Dolly

The DC Homos @dchomos.com · 4d

Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Entered Hospice Care

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Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Entered Hospice Care

The transgender rights activist had previously been hospitalized for more than 10 days.

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

She’s fine, thanks to our prayers obv

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

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The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! The winning essay will be published in New Review of Film and Television Studies in 2026. One of the leading media studies journals, New Review of Film and Television Studies publishes peer-reviewed research on the theory, history, aesthetics, and politics of expressive screen culture. The QTC Caucus thanks the journal's editor, Matt Connolly, for sustaining publication space for this prize!
Criteria for submission:
- Essay must be authored by a graduate student who is a current member of the Queer and Trans Caucus of SCMS
- Essay must be in the fields of queer or trans cinema/ media studies
- Essay should be at least 6,500 words in draft form, with potential to meet the journal's publication requirement of 8,000-10,000 words
- Essay must be submitted to scmsqueer@gmail.com by November 15, 2025
Graduate student members who are a part of the Alex Doty Queer and Trans Caucus Mentorship Program are encouraged to contact their mentors about potential essay submissions.
Using feedback from the prize committee, the winning graduate student will prepare a full article in line with New Review of Film and Television Studies' Instructions for Authors, which can be found here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rfts20
The prize committee will identify a winner and begin the mentoring process by December 15, 2025, with the final essay due to the journal by March 15, 2026.
The prize committee consists of the editor of New Review of Film and Television Studies, the current senior co-chair of the Queer and Trans Caucus, and the previous senior co-chair of the Queer and Trans Caucus. The prize committee may elect two additional members to address workload and to ensure that a wide spectrum of perspectives are represented, if necessary (either by meeting vote or board decision).
Timeline:
November 15, 2025 - Al…

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

Please read:

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

Hi, I'm a trans Californian who reported on the CA bills. This headline is misleading at best. You haven't noted that he has until the 12th to sign the other bills, leaving that out is irresponsible and fearmongers.

People can and should still pressure him on those bills.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

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

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

Never really thought of myself as a prayer warrior, more of a thinker lover, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

a picture of dolly parton with the words we trust in pain

Alt: a picture of dolly parton with the words in Dolly we trust

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

Same old Dem's Trump

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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

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

We pause to sit and mourn the dead, so that we can get up and resume fighting for the living.

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 5d

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

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

She’s v cool, altho it’s for Rosh Hashanah. She has a speech impairment and once told a story about her rabbi dad teaching her pronunciation through the letters of the Torah and letting her taste each with honey.

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

Amsterdam today

Round stickers says boycot [sic] USA with an image of an orange with blond hair in the middle.

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

😍

a cartoon character holding a bouquet of flowers

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