I made a short film called “The Global Terror of Homeless Sweeps,” about my surprise discovery that while I was in Uganda, the G20 had enacted major sweeps in the Joburg neighborhood I’ve called home off-and-on since September ( w shoutouts to @brian-goldstone.bsky.social @samtlevin.bsky.social)

5/ And in the concluding Part 5, I explain as we leave the shelter how and why trans residents behave like spies, switching between modes of transit 2 or 3 times to get to work (which can take 2 hours each way)

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4/ In Part 4, a shelter manager (who also was once kicked out of home) tearfully says that they’re running out of hope: they owe 2 months back rent, they have no food for the residents & when they ask private donors for help, they say Trump won’t let them help

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3/ In Part 3, a shelter manager tells me that the United States, Netherlands, UK *and private donors* are forbidding these terms:

🛑 GBV (Gender Based Violence)

🛑 Trans

🛑 DEI (which was their code-term for “LGBTQ” in a coutry where being LGBTQ is illegal)

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2/ In Part 2, I speak to John Grace of the Uganda Minority Shelters Consortium about coming up in queer shelters themself and their hope for what a queer shelter might be (yes, that’s a pig being slaughtered by a neighbor you’re hearing in the background)

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🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.

In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.

(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)

Friday night with the amazing Nouduzo Makhatini, a jazz man who took time during his set to ask: Why would someone write a book? To be remembered, or to provoke questions a reader might take up which can never be answered?

Releasing voicemails I’ve received over the years as Renberg Chair. I think it’s important for ppl to hear what happens when you’re on the lists of Charlie Cook, TPUSA, Canary Mission & Campus Reform

# 1: “You better hope there’s not a Civil War…have a good time at the bathhouse!” (Summer 2020)

1/ NEW: I found out who sent me that vile voicemail. His name is James Catalano, 62, of Fresno, California. I break the whole thing down in this video

“What a fucking effeminate, impotent, incompetent clown…Go find your fucking funding somewhere besides the American tax paper [sic], you stupid ass dumb bitch. BITCH!” A voicemail I got at Northwestern (which won’t give a shit). The level of homophobic, misogynist rage is alarming.

“This is an immediate crisis of LGBTQ employment.” I talked to THE Amy Goodman abt Afeef & my @theintercept.com series. Proud I was reporting internationally on TV for the 1st time, conducted an on-camera interview & shot all the video & photos for the segment www.democracynow.org/2025/12/2/st...