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Christopher Wolff
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PhD Candidate researching trans media histories. Hier ist's richtig! https://concordia.academia.edu/ChristopherWolff
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Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social · Jun 21
First #beachread of the season! #ponyboy #queerbooks
Cover of Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan against a green towel on a gravel ground
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akurjata.ca
The thing about the Thomas King news is that even based on his existing bio it seemed pretty obvious his claims to being Indigenous were pretty tenuous, especially once you learn more about community and citizenship beyond DNA
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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sheerspite.bsky.social
I started a US satellite store for Sheer Spite, shipping from Everett, WA! Folks in the US can benefit from affordable shipping and no tariffs. Launching with just these 6 items but more to come.
sheerspite.bigcartel.com
A screenshot of the US store, showing the zines Clipart Crypt, PALS, and Surprisingly OK, the book Crossdresser/Accept Yourself or Die, and pink stickers reading "DIY" and "I Heart Zines and Gay Sex"
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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invisiblehistories.bsky.social
Early registration for the 100% virtual Queer History South Conference on February 20-21, 2026 is now open! Visit invsiblehistory.org/qhs or the link in our bio to learn more, see the full schedule, and register. Early registration will be open until December 31.
Queer History South 2026 Early Registration Now Open Thru Dec 31 Register now for the virtual 2026 Queer History South Conference. The conference will be held online Feb 20-21, 2026. Visit the webpage below for full conference line up and more information. Queer History South is a conference that focuses on Southern LGBTQ archiving, history, education, and related topics. Register: https://invisiblehistory.org/qhs/
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
respectthecows.bsky.social
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
Shot of the Searcher starship from the 70s TV show Buck Rogers in the 25th century
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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melwoods.me
A sobering reflection Kai Cheng Thom today for #TransDayofRemembrance

"We grieve. And we keep going. And maybe 15 years from now, or 50, or 500, we will live in a different world."

xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
A relentless desire to keep dreaming
4 frame comic. in the first frame, we see a candle; in the second, a trans flag ; in the third, birds flying off a tree near a house; in the fourth, someone blowing on a fire. text reads : november 20th is trans day of remembrance, during which we remember trans people who died in the past year due to transphobic violence. When I was younger, t.d.o.r. always galvanized me into working even harder towards dignity and justice for trans people. may each of the 281 names on this year's list - and the many more names that we don't know - ignite in our heart a relentless desire to keep dreaming.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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petermagulski.bsky.social
Schlappe 7.327.521 Euro haben #CDU und #CSU alleine dieses Jahr durch anzeigepflichtige(!) Partei"spenden" erhalten.

These: Partei-Großspenden gehören im Sinne der Korruptionsbekämpfung verboten.
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
respectthecows.bsky.social
Not me but nonetheless I use it…
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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cihancelik.bsky.social
Das Bild einer Entfremdung: Die Stipendiaten der Deutschlandstiftung Integration verlassen bei der Rede des Bundeskanzlers den Saal.
Viele wollen es nicht verstehen oder wahr haben, aber die Äußerungen des Kanzlers haben enorme Kränkungen verursacht.
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
Look at this 4th cen BC Greek antefix, proof that our ancestors also appreciated A Very Good Boy. 13/10 would pet
A terracotta sculpture of a the head and neck of a herding/shepherd type dog, seen from the front, with his head tilted and one ear up as of he has just been asked, “who’s a good boy then?!” and he’s thinking, “is it me?! could it be me?!!” The same sculpture as described in previous, but seen from the side. The dog is very good and I would like to pet him, 13/10 ancient fella
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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syrusmarcusware.bsky.social
gofund.me/ce2a5bc7a
Donate to TRANS PIZZA DAY 2025!!!, organized by Syrus Ware
Hello everyone! IT'S PIZZA TIME! ABOUT TRANS PIZZA DAY: I've been connecting trans folks wi… Syrus Ware needs your support for TRANS PIZZA DAY 2025!!!
gofund.me
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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emath.bsky.social
For insight into Canadians’s spending, we go now to the head of a cartel that was found responsible for illegally fixing the price of bread from 2001 to 2021.
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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oralhistoryie.bsky.social
📣 CALL FOR CHAPTERS 📣

Co-editors Amy Tooth Murphy & @georgesevers.bsky.social invite expressions of interest to contribute chapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory Handbook.

Visit: oralhistory.org/wp-content/u...

#OralHistory #OralHistoryTheory #Routledge #OralHistorian
oralhistory.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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xtramagazine.com
"Smith and her government are weaponizing a little-used piece of the Charter and a pile of debunked science and outright lies about trans people to make the case that their laws are actually about protecting kids," writes @melwoods.me
The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine
The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts
xtramagazine.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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annerabe.bsky.social
Symptom dieser Regierung, die von unerfahrenen und beratungsresistenten Männern geführt wird, die keine zuverlässigen Mehrheiten in ihrer Partei haben und deren Vorstellungen von Zukunft eine Erinnerung sind an Deutschland 1993 irgendwo in einer mittelgroßen westdeutschen Stadt. 15/15
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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annerabe.bsky.social
Der eigentliche Skandal bei Weimer ist doch, dass alle das wussten. Es war bekannt, was von seinem ,Medienimperium‘ zu halten war, woher das Geld dafür kam und dass seine Schriften im besten Fall noch per Googlesuche zusammengesammelte Zitatlisten sind, aus denen fragwürdige Schlüsse gezogen 1/15
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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nontheatricalscms.bsky.social
CFP — “The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics”
Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)

Essay submissions due December 1, 2025.

See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/
Spectator Special Issue: The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026) The category of the “amateur” has long been marked by instability. Etymologically linked to love (amator), the amateur historically signified passion and connoisseurship, yet in modern usage it has oscillated between devotion and dilettantism. This semantic tension has shaped how amateur practice has been positioned within aesthetic discourse, labor history, and the formation of the public sphere. Cinema and media studies has repeatedly returned to amateurism to both dismiss it and laud its critical and creative possibilities. Accounts of home movies and small-gauge film cultures once considered them part of the marginalia of personal or domestic life, but scholarship has since demonstrated their aesthetic, social, and historical significance. Scholarship, including Patricia Zimmermann’s foundational work, has situated amateur media within broader institutional and discursive frameworks, from the formation of aesthetic norms in clubs and contests to the intersections of labor history, expertise, and the public/private divide. Simultaneously, amateur practice has been examined as a counter-aesthetic and an alternative mode of production, as in Maya Deren’s “Amateur Versus Professional” (1959), which framed amateur film as resistant to the industrial logics of Hollywood. Yet amateurism has also been understood as politically mobilized: Soviet avant-garde circles and interwar Japanese movements such as Prokino envisioned the amateur as a figure of collectivism, workers’ culture, and social transformation. These diverse trajectories indicate that amateurism has never been a singular phenomenon, but rather a contested and heterogeneous category that both reflects and unsettles the boundaries of cultural production and consumption. At a moment when digital platforms both amplify non-professional production and intensify regimes of credentialization, amateurism demands renewed critical scrutiny. How might the consideration of amateur practice illuminate shifting conceptions of authorship, expertise, and creativity? In what ways does amateurism negotiate or contest the professionalization of cultural life? And how might the figure of the amateur reframe our understandings of mediation, publicness, and the politics of work and play? This special issue of Spectator seeks contributions that interrogate amateurism as a theoretical and historical category across media forms and cultural contexts. We welcome essays that draw from diverse archives and methodologies, including studies of amateur film and video, domestic and vernacular media, digital platforms, and transnational amateur practices. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Histories and theories of amateur media Digital platforms and amateur media Amateur media in a transnational/global context The politics of amateurism The aesthetics of amateur media Leisure, hobbies, audienceship, and labor Home movies Fandom Preservation and archival practices regarding amateur media Pedagogical approaches to amateur media Book reviews of recent scholarship examining amateur media Deadline for Submission: December 1, 2025 Spectator is a biannual publication by the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, Division of Cinema & Media Studies. Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to: Issue Editor: Wakae Nakane USC School of Cinematic Arts 900 W. 34th St. Suite 320 Los Angeles, CA-90089 wnakane@usc.edu
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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lobbycontrol.bsky.social
Es ist an sich schon kritisch, wenn privilegierte Zugänge zu hochrangigen Politikerinnen und Politikern gegen Geld angeboten werden.

Wenn das Geld dann aber in das Unternehmen eines amtierenden Ministers fließt, erschüttert dies das Vertrauen in die Integrität der Bundesregierung. 5/
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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rabble.ca
As trillions shift from boomers to their heirs, the real story is how Canada’s tax system keeps inequality growing.

rabble.ca/economy/mone...
Money is changing hands, not the system
Over the last ten years, about $1 trillion has transferred from Canadian baby boomers to their Gen X and Millennial heirs.
rabble.ca
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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owenexiehurcum.bsky.social
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨

I'm pleased to say my article 'Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality' has been published today with International Public History and it is fully open access!

Check it out here:

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality
This paper uses Cal Horton’s theory of Cis-Supremacy to demonstrate the interplay of trans exclusionist histories and contemporary cis power structures. The paper, through this preliminary discussion,...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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divamag.bsky.social
“The majority of women do not want to see the trans community scapegoated” 

Over 60,000 women have signed an open letter in support of the trans community 🌈
“The majority of women do not want to see the trans community scapegoated”
Over 60,000 women have signed an open letter in support of the trans community
diva-magazine.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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dukepress.bsky.social
In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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adamxmcneil.bsky.social
The Women’s, Gender, and Queer Studies (WGQS) Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization in feminist and/or queer science and technology studies.

jobs.calpoly.edu/sl/en-us/job...
Cal Poly - Details - Assistant Professor in Feminist/ Queer Science & Technology Studies (STS) (26/27)
jobs.calpoly.edu
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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sojajunge.bsky.social
wir lernten uns in der besprechungs-lounge der weimer media group auf dem ludwig-erhard-gipfel kennen
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM