aylon cohen
@ayloncohen.bsky.social
teaching feminist political theory at Oxford University & writing a history of manhood democracy through the lens sodomy
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aylon cohen
@ayloncohen.bsky.social
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Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline
www.cambridge.org
Im happy to finally see this thing @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote together out in the world. It's called "Grooming Authoritarianism" and it's about how social and political panic around trans/queer lives can teach us about the decline in democracy.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
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Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...
www.weavingourworlds.ca
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
Why does the Trump administration blame trans people together with migrants? As Paul Preciado argues in Can the Monster Speak? (2020), the history of homosexuality/transsexuality shows us that "migration" has always been a central issue for political regimes of sex, gender, and sexual difference
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Why does the Trump administration blame trans people together with migrants? As Paul Preciado argues in Can the Monster Speak? (2020), the history of homosexuality/transsexuality shows us that "migration" has always been a central issue for political regimes of sex, gender, and sexual difference
From the website of the USDA: more evidence of how the US authoritarian regime is constantly obsessed with the bodies of migrants and trans people.
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
From the website of the USDA: more evidence of how the US authoritarian regime is constantly obsessed with the bodies of migrants and trans people.
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So this happened. At at open call for "new models," someone was reading CAPITAL IS DEAD while waiting in line. Telfar himself asked the aspiring model to read it out loud. They then hired me to appear in this video to talk about it. Video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Io1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Io1...
October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
So this happened. At at open call for "new models," someone was reading CAPITAL IS DEAD while waiting in line. Telfar himself asked the aspiring model to read it out loud. They then hired me to appear in this video to talk about it. Video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Io1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Io1...
Stop using the word genealogy when you really just mean history
October 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Stop using the word genealogy when you really just mean history
politicians posting AI slop to make their opponents say and do stupid things is really just another turn in the downward spiral of the absolute stupidity of our present moment.
October 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
politicians posting AI slop to make their opponents say and do stupid things is really just another turn in the downward spiral of the absolute stupidity of our present moment.
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I'm ready for this Y2K fashion trend to make a comeback
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'm ready for this Y2K fashion trend to make a comeback
I saw an interview of Trump talking about how economy is doing well when he suddenly pivots and says "the radical left democrats, these people are crazy, they want open borders, they want to have men in women sports, they want to have transgender everybody" it's like a tagline for him now
In response to the Kirk shooting, Trump once again invokes the danger of trans people, saying: "Radicals on the left are the problem... They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country."
Why does he talk about trans people?
Why does he talk about trans people?
September 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I saw an interview of Trump talking about how economy is doing well when he suddenly pivots and says "the radical left democrats, these people are crazy, they want open borders, they want to have men in women sports, they want to have transgender everybody" it's like a tagline for him now
In response to the Kirk shooting, Trump once again invokes the danger of trans people, saying: "Radicals on the left are the problem... They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country."
Why does he talk about trans people?
Why does he talk about trans people?
September 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In response to the Kirk shooting, Trump once again invokes the danger of trans people, saying: "Radicals on the left are the problem... They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country."
Why does he talk about trans people?
Why does he talk about trans people?
biggggg issue of queer political science. I'm gagged to see this area of research exploding.
NEW ISSUE from @pspolisci.bsky.social -
PS: Political Science & Politics - Contemporary and Future LGBTQ+ Scholarship in Political Science - Volume 58 - Issue 3 - July 2025 - cup.org/45ivMQC
cc @apsa.bsky.social
PS: Political Science & Politics - Contemporary and Future LGBTQ+ Scholarship in Political Science - Volume 58 - Issue 3 - July 2025 - cup.org/45ivMQC
cc @apsa.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
biggggg issue of queer political science. I'm gagged to see this area of research exploding.
I went to a queer music festival over the weekend called Whole. At about 1am on Sunday, I was talking to some friends about what turned us onto feminism when we were young. We were sitting on a platform painted to mimic a large twister board while three gays were fucking a few feet away from us
July 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I went to a queer music festival over the weekend called Whole. At about 1am on Sunday, I was talking to some friends about what turned us onto feminism when we were young. We were sitting on a platform painted to mimic a large twister board while three gays were fucking a few feet away from us
it's a provocation for queer political scientists not to seek assimilation into the discipline and a call/demand/shout for straight political science to queer its disciplinary practices if it wants to stay relevant in the study of democracy
Im happy to finally see this thing @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote together out in the world. It's called "Grooming Authoritarianism" and it's about how social and political panic around trans/queer lives can teach us about the decline in democracy.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline
www.cambridge.org
July 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
it's a provocation for queer political scientists not to seek assimilation into the discipline and a call/demand/shout for straight political science to queer its disciplinary practices if it wants to stay relevant in the study of democracy
Im happy to finally see this thing @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote together out in the world. It's called "Grooming Authoritarianism" and it's about how social and political panic around trans/queer lives can teach us about the decline in democracy.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline
www.cambridge.org
July 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Im happy to finally see this thing @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote together out in the world. It's called "Grooming Authoritarianism" and it's about how social and political panic around trans/queer lives can teach us about the decline in democracy.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🧵 Last week, Robin White, a barrister and trans woman, was harassed for using the women’s toilets in the Parliament.
Today, Parliament has implemented a trans bathroom ban, telling trans people that they are no longer be allowed to use toilets which align with their lived gender.
Today, Parliament has implemented a trans bathroom ban, telling trans people that they are no longer be allowed to use toilets which align with their lived gender.
June 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🧵 Last week, Robin White, a barrister and trans woman, was harassed for using the women’s toilets in the Parliament.
Today, Parliament has implemented a trans bathroom ban, telling trans people that they are no longer be allowed to use toilets which align with their lived gender.
Today, Parliament has implemented a trans bathroom ban, telling trans people that they are no longer be allowed to use toilets which align with their lived gender.
It's weird when I hear people repeat this tired idea that patriarchal sex centers the male orgasm to the exclusion of female pleasure. If you've watched straight porn, then you know that the majority of screen time is centered not on male pleasure at all but men's ability and skill to make women cum
June 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It's weird when I hear people repeat this tired idea that patriarchal sex centers the male orgasm to the exclusion of female pleasure. If you've watched straight porn, then you know that the majority of screen time is centered not on male pleasure at all but men's ability and skill to make women cum
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#OtD 16 Jun 1836 Black trans US sex worker and army veteran Mary Jones was put on trial for pickpocketing a client who solicited her for sex. Found guilty, she was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Learn more in our new book, Be Gay Do Crime: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...
June 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#OtD 16 Jun 1836 Black trans US sex worker and army veteran Mary Jones was put on trial for pickpocketing a client who solicited her for sex. Found guilty, she was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Learn more in our new book, Be Gay Do Crime: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...
In an endless state of surprise seeing so many of my liberal friends posting and sharing the kind of protest security tactics and tips that were common in anarchist spaces over a decade ago but were considered tin foil hat crazy at the time. One important lesson I learned in all these opsec talks
June 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
In an endless state of surprise seeing so many of my liberal friends posting and sharing the kind of protest security tactics and tips that were common in anarchist spaces over a decade ago but were considered tin foil hat crazy at the time. One important lesson I learned in all these opsec talks
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I am so excited to announce Love in a F*cked Up World, the podcast! The first episode is out today — a conversation with adrienne maree brown — and I'll be releasing new episodes every two weeks for the next few months.
youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...
youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...
Introducing: Love in a F*cked Up World | Podcast with Dean Spade
YouTube video by Dean Spade
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I am so excited to announce Love in a F*cked Up World, the podcast! The first episode is out today — a conversation with adrienne maree brown — and I'll be releasing new episodes every two weeks for the next few months.
youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...
youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...
Woohoo! Finally got the proofs for this text @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote on why political scientists need to 'queer' the discipline to properly study authoritarianism today. This isn't a call for inclusion, assimilation, but for undoing the cis-heteronormativity of the discipline's analytics
June 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Woohoo! Finally got the proofs for this text @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote on why political scientists need to 'queer' the discipline to properly study authoritarianism today. This isn't a call for inclusion, assimilation, but for undoing the cis-heteronormativity of the discipline's analytics
The fact that early 20 year olds have adopted queer aesthetics as their dominant fashion has really thrown off my gayday. My younger friends are constantly telling me that the attractive twink over there is not a twink at all but just a straight lad because that's what they look like these days
June 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The fact that early 20 year olds have adopted queer aesthetics as their dominant fashion has really thrown off my gayday. My younger friends are constantly telling me that the attractive twink over there is not a twink at all but just a straight lad because that's what they look like these days
i learned today that it's very common for cops to use steroids and you know, it totally makes sense that cops would take testosterone. theres a good joke about gender affirming state care in there.
May 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
i learned today that it's very common for cops to use steroids and you know, it totally makes sense that cops would take testosterone. theres a good joke about gender affirming state care in there.
Today is Bank Holiday in the UK. I don't celebrate it, though, because I am not a bank and I also do not approve of their way of life.
May 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today is Bank Holiday in the UK. I don't celebrate it, though, because I am not a bank and I also do not approve of their way of life.
reactionary: women's toilets should only be for biological women
liberal: trans women should be able to use the women's toilets
me: abolish gender segregated toilets, all toilets should be gender neutral
liberal: trans women should be able to use the women's toilets
me: abolish gender segregated toilets, all toilets should be gender neutral
May 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
reactionary: women's toilets should only be for biological women
liberal: trans women should be able to use the women's toilets
me: abolish gender segregated toilets, all toilets should be gender neutral
liberal: trans women should be able to use the women's toilets
me: abolish gender segregated toilets, all toilets should be gender neutral
I'm grading undergraduate theses and family abolition is the hot topic of the year - glad to see it! But it's making me realize that students have little historical knowledge on the formation of the 'nuclear family' and especially the role that homo/heterosexuality has played in it's development.
May 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'm grading undergraduate theses and family abolition is the hot topic of the year - glad to see it! But it's making me realize that students have little historical knowledge on the formation of the 'nuclear family' and especially the role that homo/heterosexuality has played in it's development.