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.

Stop using the word genealogy when you really just mean history

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

Seeing this picture of Norwegian painter Ida Bjerkeskaug circulating the internet. This should go without saying but this is homophobic as shit. Representing degradation and subordination by using homosexual sex is bad aesthetic politics. Weaponizing homophobia against the right is still homophobic.

Guy Hocquenghem on what it meant for him, a militant faggot, to get a job working as an academic

I came across this photo of a young Judith Butler at the 1982 Barnard Sexuality Conference and its soooo cute omg

J.D. Vance's says that elite men today are "soy boys" who lack the masculinity necessary to defend the nation against foreign invaders. Such populist appeals to masculinity recycle earlier conservatives like Norman Podhoretz who blamed homosexual pacifism for America's inability to fight Communists.