🟥 Red Lines 🟥
"Sexual violence and sexual fear are means by which life, death and living-death are organised to support accumulation"
Alison Phipps on The coloniality of sexual violence, based on her forthcoming book
reacpol.net/why-red-line...
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
Forty years ago, disability advocates abandoned the LGBTQ+ community in exchange for legal protections. Decades later, they are fighting a Trump administration rule to roll-back more safeguards for trans people. https://bit.ly/4a4HjEi
Image of Shirley Raines. Below the image text reads: "Beauty 2 The Streetz founder Shirley Raines dies at 58 Raines used her social media platform to highlight her work bringing food, beauty and hygiene products to LA’s Skid Row."
She was known as “Ms. Shirley” to her more than 5 million TikTok followers, and would share videos of herself delivering food and hygiene products from her car on Skid Row and other homeless communities in California and Nevada. https://bit.ly/4bVquhK
The far right and the media book cover
So pleased to have received my copy of The far right and the media, edited by @imogenrichards.bsky.social!
You can order the book here:
www.routledge.com/The-Far-Righ...
NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
getting a copy of a book I got to contribute to is the best! Thanks @joanbraune.bsky.social and David Gides for including me!
📣New interview📣
'Terms like “detransitioner,” like “transitioner,” reduce people to the act of transitioning and frame transitioning as an extremist act or impulsive decision'
@katfuller.bsky.social discusses transphobic moral panics on the far right.
reacpol.net/moral-panic-...
📄 Pub alert! ✨
My piece with @madzbrutal.bsky.social is out in the Bulletin of Applied Trans Studies @transstudies.bsky.social 🦇
We analyze how gender critical forum users on Ovarit and Mumsnet were radicalized through anti-trans media literacy and storytelling practices.
doi.org/10.57814/wjd...
Our piece is partof a fantastic special issue on the dynamics of anti-trans content and disinformation, edited by Quinnehtukqut McLamore and @katfuller.bsky.social.
The whole issue is open access and very much worth your time! 🏳️⚧️💖
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Over the years IRMS has become a trusted source for ground-breaking research on male supremacism. We offer five recommendations for scholars, journalists, and organizations on addressing male supremacist violence.
Read more at our latest impact report:
Text on a purple background reads: "The 19th Join us for a Reddit AMA with LGBTQ+ reporter Orion Rummler November 19, 2025 1 p.m. et r/asktransgender"
Detransitioning has been used as part of an anti-trans agenda in politics. But what is it really like? We explored that question in a new reporting series.
Join us for a Reddit AMA with @oriion.bsky.social where he’ll answer questions about his reporting and the series. https://bit.ly/4pnAV1e
Finally got a chance to watch this excellent, short documentary by @willcarless.bsky.social on manosphere influencers with an interview by the always on point @milleridriss.bsky.social. Definitely recommend checking it out.
The book chapter that I co-authored with @ghawinriver.bsky.social "Moral Panic, Transphobia, and Cultural Marxism" is officially out!
www.bloomsbury.com/us/conspirac...
Without federal funding, public media — and the truth-telling, community-connecting role it plays — is at risk.
Local stations may vanish. Millions could lose trusted news and vital information. If you are ready to join the fight for journalism, donate now: n.pr/458sOhq
Federal immigration agents in riot gear squared off with hundreds of protesters for a second consecutive day on Saturday in Los Angeles County, filling streets with tear gas and smoke. nyti.ms/4kUON0y
I wrote about putting Poilievre's "biological clock" talk in context with right-wing trends which emphasize baby makin'.
For instance, he's appeared on Jordan Peterson's show, talking about "traditional values" alongside a pretty extreme anti-abortion ad. #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Inside their salons, they’ve reshaped what community work looks like, creating spaces for political organizing, economic independence and healing.
The US has cut back its prison populations by thousands and thousand over the past 15 years.
There is massive amounts of unused prison capacity in the US. There are (deep red) US prison towns DESPERATE for Fed contracts.
There is NO legit reason for this. None.
Absolutely none.
Medical experts say that while the health secretary is showing more direct support for the measles vaccine following the death of a second unvaccinated child, he’s also sharing information about debunked remedies.
My presentation at the SSSA!
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: IRMS 2025 IS HERE! Mark your calendars: April 24-26, 2025
🌍 A fully virtual, globally accessible conference
💡 Tackling male supremacist ideology, gender-based violence, authoritarianism, extremism & MORE!
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#IRMS2025 #IRMSConf
David Skrbina, a former University of Michigan-Dearborn professor, has been unmasked as Thomas Dalton, Ph.D., a prolific antisemitic author and Holocaust denier.
No, they're not.
Not even close.
The picture on the left are actual ex-gay people who claimed that status. Who were victims of conversion therapy. The people on the right are cisgender hate group leaders. Who are conversion therapists.
Way to victim blame.
The upshot of the Trump admin choosing the anti-trans group SEGM to be their medical authorities on trans folks is that it will increasingly be obvious that SEGM is a hate group. 1/
Mississippi’s education system has consistently ranked low due to ⬇️
❌Chronic underfunding
❌Systemic poverty
❌Racial injustice
Our #LearningGap report analyzes the state’s challenges with public school funding & provides recommendations for addressing the issue: www.splcenter.org/resources/re...
Screenshot of the first page of an article titled “Gatekeeping gender-affirming care is detrimental to detrans people” in the International Journal of Transgender Health
Gatekeeping does NOT benefit detrans people.
Our paper on gatekeeping and detransition is now out! I’m immensely hyped for this paper, written in collaboration with wondrous scholars and including co-authors who have lived experience with detransition.
Official link: doi.org/10.1080/1553...
Digital book burnings
