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Historian of the United States, Germany, and the Atlantic world. Writing about Conjure and Communism in the U.S. Civil War. Essays and articles here: https://gwu.academia.edu/AngelaZimmerman.

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Hey world: don’t worry, he’ll be satisfied with Sudetenland. We’ll have peace in our time.

08.03.2026 10:51 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."

05.11.2025 04:47 👍 2877 🔁 602 💬 12 📌 42

I am a Jewish woman (who happens also to be trans) and I wonder if i could similarly be charged with sexual assault if i did not reveal my Jewishness to an anti-Semite prior to a hookup.

22.08.2025 12:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New Air Force Policy Denies Transgender Troops Hearings Before They're Discharged It is the second policy change the Air Force has taken in recent weeks to crack down on transgender service members.

Three active-duty Marines who were part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were retained. But the Air Force will not allow transgender servicemembers to have hearings before it discharges them.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...

18.08.2025 18:30 👍 2463 🔁 1167 💬 162 📌 89
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Anti-Trans National Risk Assessment Map: March Edition At the two-month mark of Donald Trump's presidency, the risk for transgender people has deteriorated nationwide. The United States now carries a "Do Not Travel" rating for transgender people.

Just turned down another great invitation to speak at a conference because it is being held in a state whose anti-trans laws makes it unsafe for me. Conference organizers who wish to include trans voices might consult this map: www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans...

22.06.2025 14:04 👍 33 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

DM me for the slate of candidates.

09.06.2025 21:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I left the AHA when its council vetoed the scholasticide resolution supported by an overwhelming majority of the membership. I just rejoined to support candidates to democratize the AHA.

09.06.2025 20:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Blues Film: “Sinners” I contend Sinners is a blues movie. I mean, the film is itself a blues. It envelops and expresses us like the blues, grieving with us and…

I loved this amazing essay by my colleague Erin Chapman about the amazing film “Sinners.”

medium.com/@erin.d.chap...

28.05.2025 14:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I like! Where is it from? (Curious to see other stories like this).

20.05.2025 07:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Me too. As much to preserve my morale as anything.

08.05.2025 01:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me too!❤️🏳️‍⚧️✊

30.04.2025 03:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This was a great article. And: Hiiii!

07.04.2025 02:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh true.

30.03.2025 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can you tell me anything about the likelihood of success in DoJ appeal? (I ask as trans partner of trans service member.)

27.03.2025 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Just posted this image on my door and I'm now wondering if maybe it's too obviously anti-Trump?

26.03.2025 15:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot from Newsweek opinion piece, "Ex-Navy Secretary: Trump's Trans Military Purge Is Rushed, Brutal" by Carlos Del Toro, Former United States Secretary of the Navy. The first paragraph of the article reads, “On January 27, 2025, with the stroke of a pen, thousands of military careers
were slated for termination. That was the day President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender individuals from serving in the military. This order was not only severe in its scope but alarmingly rushed in its execution and callous in its treatment of service members who have devoted their lives to protecting our nation.”

Screenshot from Newsweek opinion piece, "Ex-Navy Secretary: Trump's Trans Military Purge Is Rushed, Brutal" by Carlos Del Toro, Former United States Secretary of the Navy. The first paragraph of the article reads, “On January 27, 2025, with the stroke of a pen, thousands of military careers were slated for termination. That was the day President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender individuals from serving in the military. This order was not only severe in its scope but alarmingly rushed in its execution and callous in its treatment of service members who have devoted their lives to protecting our nation.”

In his op-ed for @newsweek.com, Former Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro details how the Trump administration's ban on transgender service members isn't just discriminatory—it's reckless.

Read the piece: www.newsweek.com/ex-navy-secr...

17.03.2025 15:06 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

In which I try to put it all together.
The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attack on Trans People www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

17.03.2025 13:25 👍 228 🔁 72 💬 22 📌 31
Trans Day of Visibility Rally
Washington DC
National Mall between 3rd St and 4th St
March 31 - 4 PM
transdayofvisibility.com

Trans Day of Visibility Rally Washington DC National Mall between 3rd St and 4th St March 31 - 4 PM transdayofvisibility.com

After relentless attacks from the Trump administration on the transgender community, trans Americans and allies from across the country will convene in Washington DC to show we’re not going anywhere.

Join us at transdayofvisibility.com.

13.03.2025 13:08 👍 1081 🔁 401 💬 8 📌 12

UPDATE: Reyes now walking through every finding of the studies Hegseth relied on for transgender ban. Virtually every finding cuts against Hegseth's conclusion that it supports the ban. She wants to know why she should defer to his "cherrypicking" and "misleading" analysis.

12.03.2025 16:41 👍 1145 🔁 200 💬 22 📌 20

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...

But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

10.03.2025 22:52 👍 11154 🔁 3448 💬 91 📌 42
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CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports.

He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.

It's so much worse than being reported.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

06.03.2025 16:58 👍 5928 🔁 1865 💬 363 📌 911

My wife, Rep. Zooey Zephyr, is working her ass off in the Montana legislature, railing against bill after bill, day after day. This is just one of many speeches I've watched her give... but it's one of the most powerful.

This on a bill that criminalizes us for being trans.

Watch her speak.

03.03.2025 02:12 👍 4889 🔁 800 💬 48 📌 11

I got my first HRT at Whitman Walker. 😭.

22.02.2025 00:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slain trans man faced ‘prolonged’ violence and torture, police say Five people have been charged with second degree murder over the death of Sam Nordquist, 24, who police say was tortured for more than a month in a case that investigators described as “beyond deprave...

Their id, bathroom, and other policies make it easier to identify us and their dehumanizing rhetoric makes it easier to do this to us. RIP Sam Nordquist. Know that you are loved. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

15.02.2025 15:22 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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I went for subtle:

14.02.2025 11:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

The federal government has been changing LGBT to LGB as part of its attempt to erase trans people. All of it is quite painful but particularly awful is seeing this change in the NPS Stonewall site, esp bc we played a famously large role in the Stonewall rebellion. www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

13.02.2025 23:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just gave the “Gulf of America” its first one-star review on google “maps”

11.02.2025 11:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Banned Together: Protecting LGBTQ+ Military Rights By Minority Veterans of America

Fight the ban on transgender service members! These are are organizations leading the charge: givebutter.com/BannedTogeth...

10.02.2025 20:28 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students.

This is how you refuse to comply.

30.01.2025 23:39 👍 14510 🔁 3424 💬 178 📌 282

Thank you for assigning it!

30.01.2025 17:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0