Xine Yao PhD (she/they)

@xineyaophd.bsky.social

We can't wait to be there

Reasons a cis women might have Y chromosomes:

- Twin brother
- Gestating a child with a Y chromosome
- Bone marrow transfusion from someone with a Y chromosome
- Being intersex (we know of XY women who have naturally conceived and given birth)

9:00 PM: Mary Celeste: Solving the Mystery | Channel 5 | 3/6 2026 Channel 5 | 2026-03-06 9:00 PM | Modern science unlocks the truth behind this most enigmatic historical case.

The doc I contributed to is airing on Channel 5 March 6 on Channel 5!

I talk about Arthur Conan Doyle's short story 'J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement' -- which is anti-abolitionist, racist --

and responsible for mythologizing the Mary Celeste as the Marie Celeste

www.zaptv.co.uk/programs/cha...

Many thanks to one of my PhD students for making me aware of @peoplesletters.bsky.social

esp Jack Parker's Hooker Mentality

Just made a decent-sized order! 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️

I had the absolute honour of having @saranahmed.bsky.social on Books Up Close! We talk about her new book, No is Not a Lonely Utterance. Listen wherever you get your shows! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

A queer phenomenology How I came to write a sequel 20 years later

I am offline next week. I didn't quite manage to write a newsletter this week. Here's something from last week. Or maybe it was this week. Time is as surreal as the times we are in. With killjoy solidarity to everyone surviving and fighting imperial war machines. FKJ xx substack.com/@feministkil...

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of simple dignity: treat people as the gender they present.

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

Extraordinary online exhibition on the Nazi persecution of trans and gender non-conforming people. With lessons for us all, today. Curated by the fabulous Kai* Brust, trans historian in Berlin and member of the www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor... project.

exhibition-qi.educat-kollektiv.org/en/

Sex Workers Versus the Algorithm No seriously, fuck the algorithm.

"No seriously, fuck the algorithm."

@sesmith.lol dives into the morass of content moderation in porn and @sophieladder.com infamous Spreadsheet that helps a lot of us navigate it 💖

www.theflytrapmedia.com/sex-wor/

Call for Editors: Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press - British Association for American Studies Co-Editor of the Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press                                                                                          […]

Call for Editors!

The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor.

Apply before 18:00, 13th March.

@edinburghup.bsky.social @emilysharp.bsky.social

Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree

Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.”

#californiacondor

AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM | Reading List The U.S. and Israel continued their deadly imperial spiral this last weekend with a joint operation in Iran that resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties and the assassination of Iran's supreme lea...

We must stand against U.S. imperialism.

For a deeper analysis of imperialism, war, extractivism, and a left internationalism that could organize against these forces, consider the titles on this list.

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

If you want this argument in true depth, can I recommend pre-ordering The Extended Universe, where I spend 300 deeply researched pages talking about how movies i overwhelmingly enjoy, often love to watch and always love to talk about are extremely evil

PinkNews launches survey on impacts of the Supreme Court's gender ruling LGBTQ+ news publisher PinkNews has launched a survey focused on the impacts of the UK Supreme Court's gender ruling.

"The online survey will run from Monday, 2 March to Monday, 30 March 2026 and aims to gain an insight into demographic data, the single-sex spaces people have been questioned for using and the wider effects of the ruling on people’s day-to-day lives."

qUCL Annual Lecture: Anarchitecture After Everything qUCL are delighted to welcome Professor Jack Halberstam to give their annual lecture, exploring the meaning of trans embodiment now, using a vocabulary borrowed from a 1970’s art collective called “an...

🚨Extra tickets now released. Grab them fast! 🤩
Anarchitecture After Everything
10 March 6pm
We're delighted Prof Jack Halberstam will give our annual lecture, exploring the meaning of trans embodiment now, with vocab borrowed from a 70’s art collective, “anarchitecture”
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Still not a peep on the things Mamdani can do for trans youth after hospital closures.

No activation of H+H to take patients. Trans patients are a rounding error for the $10B program.

No movement on human rights complaints.

No promise to restore care.

Rarely have I been so disappointed.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

'So, what do you call a university that claims it cares about diversity but refuses to publicly measure or promote diversity among its faculty?

Trick question: it’s not a university.'

We're recruiting for four new roles. 👇

Deviant Matter Winner, 2025 Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, given by the American Studies Association's Q/T Caucus and the Modern Language Association's GLQ CaucusHow devian...

I found out last night that Deviant Matter got honorable mention for monograph at the American Comparative Literature Association. The Rene Wellek was a dream of mine because Lauren Berlant won it in 2013 for Cruel Optimism and it is the scaffolding for DM. I miss her.

nyupress.org/978147981922...

Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032 | Other at Yale University Apply for Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library job with Yale University in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032. Other at Yale University

JOB ALERT 📜📚

Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)

•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light

careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...

We‘re delighted to announce our GPS student Mahnoor Omer has been recognized in TIME magazine’s Women of the Year list!

Congratulations from everyone at the department! 👏

LSE Gender students change the world!

‘The battle lines are drawn’: How readers responded to the Greens’ historic win Our community has reacted strongly to the Green Party’s historic Gorton and Denton by-election win, prompting criticism of Labour’s leadership, and reflection on shifting political allegiances

The Indie are saying that Hannah Spencer's win for the Green Party is a new era for UK politics and quotes her as saying @zackpolanski.bsky.social should have his eyes on Downing Street...!

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Wishing the best for this beautiful lady!

www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...

The Disabled Legacies Festival begins tonight!

‘Misfits: Disability as Method through Objects' Private View & Talk on the Life and Work of Donald Rodney’, w Keith Piper and Virginia Marano.

Tix & access info at link above. #CripArt #DisabilityJustice

DISABLED LEGACIES: BEYOND ACCESS AND INCLUSION

Day 1 (FRI, Feb 27 Registration)

Day 2 (SAT, Feb 28 Registration)

& more, inc tix to Resting Museum’s FUNNY BONES AND GIGGLY GROANS: A CRIP HUMOUR WORKSHOP

Everything free and hybrid ✨

www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...

It seems impossible to appease campaign group Sex Matters In April 2025, Sex Matters – the UK’s most prominent gender-critical campaign group – declared a win, but the fight seems far from over

A very well written, but worrying, article on the hole the government has put itself in by its attempts to appease the sex matters fanatics.

Please read.

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/what...