Ava Ayers
@avaayers.bsky.social
Law prof. State and local immigration law, trans rights, legal discourse. Proud to be trans. Personal page, views my own. https://linktr.ee/avaayers Move slowly and put things together.
I suppose I'll make these a chain. Another great book: "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams," by Jonathan Ned Katz." Bio of a queer activist in the 1920s, with heartbreaking excerpts from her deportation proceedings, and the sweetly beautiful text of her short book "Lesbian Love."
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I suppose I'll make these a chain. Another great book: "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams," by Jonathan Ned Katz." Bio of a queer activist in the 1920s, with heartbreaking excerpts from her deportation proceedings, and the sweetly beautiful text of her short book "Lesbian Love."
Brilliant book: Camille Walsh, "Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973." Fantastic exploration of the history of rhetoric about "citizens who pay taxes" and its role in protecting white supremacy. Will change the way you hear arguments about what government owes "the taxpayers."
September 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Brilliant book: Camille Walsh, "Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973." Fantastic exploration of the history of rhetoric about "citizens who pay taxes" and its role in protecting white supremacy. Will change the way you hear arguments about what government owes "the taxpayers."
Brilliant book: "Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics" by Kim Phillips-Fein. How the mid-70s crisis let financial elites use their status as debt-holders to force NYC to end social services. Explains a lot about inequality in today's NYC and austerity everywhere.
September 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Brilliant book: "Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics" by Kim Phillips-Fein. How the mid-70s crisis let financial elites use their status as debt-holders to force NYC to end social services. Explains a lot about inequality in today's NYC and austerity everywhere.
Highly recommended: Linda Bosniak's "The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership." Probably if you're interested in citizenship you've already read this, but if not: no matter how you think about citizenship, the first two chapters will likely make you think differently.
September 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Highly recommended: Linda Bosniak's "The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership." Probably if you're interested in citizenship you've already read this, but if not: no matter how you think about citizenship, the first two chapters will likely make you think differently.
Highly recommended: "On Community" by @caseyplett.com. Works both as an essay, carrying you through thoughts and experiences, and as a work of political philosophy that should be important to people studying things like membership, citizenship, and, obviously, community.
September 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Highly recommended: "On Community" by @caseyplett.com. Works both as an essay, carrying you through thoughts and experiences, and as a work of political philosophy that should be important to people studying things like membership, citizenship, and, obviously, community.
Highly recommended: "The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship," ed. Shachar, Bauböck, Bloemraad, and Vink. Amazing job of covering a huge number of perspectives in concise, accessible articles. An excellent place to start.
September 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Highly recommended: "The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship," ed. Shachar, Bauböck, Bloemraad, and Vink. Amazing job of covering a huge number of perspectives in concise, accessible articles. An excellent place to start.
Because it’s Star Something Day, an observation:
Nobody but Atlas has ever carried anything the way that Kate Mulgrew carries “Star Trek: Voyager.”
Nobody but Atlas has ever carried anything the way that Kate Mulgrew carries “Star Trek: Voyager.”
May 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Because it’s Star Something Day, an observation:
Nobody but Atlas has ever carried anything the way that Kate Mulgrew carries “Star Trek: Voyager.”
Nobody but Atlas has ever carried anything the way that Kate Mulgrew carries “Star Trek: Voyager.”
Also the best album cover.
May 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Also the best album cover.
I’m very excited to see penguins emerging as the new symbol of the resistance
April 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I’m very excited to see penguins emerging as the new symbol of the resistance
March 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The poems AI wrote are online here osf.io/53qcr and they are . . . not good. The Whitman and Ginsberg ones rhyme. No wonder they're not printed in the study: everyone would just laugh at the title and throw the study in the garbage.
March 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The poems AI wrote are online here osf.io/53qcr and they are . . . not good. The Whitman and Ginsberg ones rhyme. No wonder they're not printed in the study: everyone would just laugh at the title and throw the study in the garbage.
Their Eyes Were Watching Gad
March 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Their Eyes Were Watching Gad
And if anyone’s counting, the four anti-trans bubble heads are Douthat, French, and two guest freaks.
March 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
And if anyone’s counting, the four anti-trans bubble heads are Douthat, French, and two guest freaks.
This is so bizarre. In the NYT op-Ed survey on Trump actions, the blurb over the section on trans issues mentions only the attempt to ban trans people playing student sports, not the military ban or the staff purges or the visa exclusion. What is NYT doing?
March 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is so bizarre. In the NYT op-Ed survey on Trump actions, the blurb over the section on trans issues mentions only the attempt to ban trans people playing student sports, not the military ban or the staff purges or the visa exclusion. What is NYT doing?
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
February 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
He’s not my favorite philosopher but I’d still like to see this:
February 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
He’s not my favorite philosopher but I’d still like to see this:
In the midst of all this awfulness it’s nice to learn something new:
January 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In the midst of all this awfulness it’s nice to learn something new:
Every review of Rings of Power season 2 is basically "it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that Celebrimbor is at it again"
January 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Every review of Rings of Power season 2 is basically "it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that Celebrimbor is at it again"
Roberts recognizes that "federal courts must do their part" to preserve judicial legitimacy--but not that the biggest threat to judicial legitimacy is simply courts taking away rights from people who've learned to depend on them.
December 31, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Roberts recognizes that "federal courts must do their part" to preserve judicial legitimacy--but not that the biggest threat to judicial legitimacy is simply courts taking away rights from people who've learned to depend on them.
Not sure how to feel about the fact that Amazon lets you rent "Gender Trouble" for more time if you pay two cents a day, like a love hotel
December 21, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Not sure how to feel about the fact that Amazon lets you rent "Gender Trouble" for more time if you pay two cents a day, like a love hotel