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Moms Are Risking Arrest to Protect Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth The government wants to ban care nationwide, and hospitals are shutting down treatment. Parents just want it all to stop.

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My future congresswoman! 🥰

NY 13 aka Harlem & Washington Heights: Don't you want this to be our congresswoman?

VOLUNTEER! FOLLOW! DONATE!

DM me to talk about her!!

🇩🇴 Dominicans rise up! 🇩🇴

10-1 Dominican Republic v Israel in baseball

Mi gente

And folks have his face on posters.
This is no one’s savior. Doesn’t even like all of his own kids!

Their data? Anyway….

Oh so locking the Q tips up wasn’t enough?

How long before this too is sold to palantir et al? Guaranteed there’s a profit motive and it isn’t theft. Walgreens WILL sell your data.

No, effeminate boys aren’t being ‘transed’ | Xtra Magazine Hiding my transness nearly killed me. Let’s work to build a world where trans people’s lives aren’t quite so hard

A recent Atlantic column claimed society is allegedly "transing" effeminate boys. For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote a rebuttal using my own experience as a young, closeted trans girl. xtramagazine.com/power/identi...

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

Lol I just looked at your CV to see how we list these!

Very excited to share that our article with @hebagowayed.bsky.social
is forthcoming in Iowa Law Review. It highlights how the T-visa process for immigrant survivors of human trafficking imposes significant burdens on survivors, especially as other legal avenues are narrowed. Will be up on SSRN soon!

So… mission accomplished then ?

The article is written on the 25th anniversary of the T-Visa, to fill in the gaps on how the program functions, explain its historic underutilization, and imagine a future where the program actually lives up to its humanitarian objectives.

This risk heightens as the legal environment becomes more hostile for immigrants — as application processes lengthen and costs rise. The most marginalized immigrants, who are more likely to be criminalized, experience these shifts more harshly. 4/

Instead of alleviating fears of deportation, arrest, and reprisal, we show that the program, by requiring that applicants interact with law enforcement and immigration officials, exposes them to the risks posed by these actors. 3/

This article draws on a trove of data: interviews with survivors & lawyers, a survey of lawyers and advocates, and data FOIA’d from the Department of Homeland Security regarding removals, to tell a story of how instead of alleviating fears the program exacerbates unnecessary risks. 2/

In 2000, the U.S. Congress passed landmark legislation to establish human trafficking crimes and create the T visa, an immigration benefit designed to protect immigrant survivors from deportation. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the T visa, surprisingly little is known about how it functions and disparities in legal protection. This is especially concerning given the program's historic under-utilization, the relative lack of other avenues to legal status for survivors of human trafficking, and the program's more recent politicization. This Article presents the results of the first mixed method empirical study exploring how survivors of human trafficking and their lawyers experience the T visa process. Our findings suggest that, despite congressional intent, the T visa imposes unnecessary burdens on immigrant survivors, including learning, compliance, and psychological costs. Instead of alleviating fears of deportation, arrest, and reprisal, the program, by requiring that applicants interact with law enforcement and immigration officials, exposes them to the risks posed by these actors. Additionally, interviews with attorneys shed light on how, under the first Trump administration, immigration officials exploited the administrative application process impermissibly to raise the standard of proof, impose greater costs on applicants, and make it harder to access the T visa program, contributing to the program's underutilization. Finally, our findings reveal how these features create disparities in who can access T visas, making it more difficult for marginalized survivors, including those criminalized, in detention, or along the U.S.-Mexico border. Overall, the Article examines how, especially in a more hostile legal environment for immigrants, the T visa program is at risk of additional politicization and weaponization that undermines its goals. The Article suggests ways to enhance access to the T visa and help the program better achieve its humanitarian objectives

Excited to announce that our article @jdahlstrom765.bsky.social “Underinclusion by Design
In Human Trafficking Protection” is forthcoming in Iowa Law Review. In it we center the precarity & fear the T-visa process imposes on survivors, especially as the protection is politicized.1/

The Racial Economics of Mass Incarceration – Spectre Journal Despite presenting their case as a hard-nosed examination of “facts,” Clegg and Usmani commit multiple empirical errors.

Also you should subscribe to @journalspectre.bsky.social where these conversations are going down, including bangers like this one from my dear friend & colleague Calvin whose not on here:

You know you made right choices in life when you're down a rabbit hole re: colonialism & origins of capitalism & read something by Famous Person™ that you think is absurd but rather than waste + hrs of your life you can text @grundrza.bsky.social to give you the play-by-play intellectual history 🥰

No one deserves to lose their child. But if you're allowing your grief to be weaponized towards other people's children then you must be a topic of conversation. It IS political.

Yes any normal person would. Truly turned my stomach to watch her say it

I don’t think we can count on people changing their minds, or coming off of these ideas.

I think that we need to give everyone else a reason to vote FOR.

And that has to be a populist, socialist candidate who authentically stands for social justice.

Anything else won’t cut it.

ICE shot Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen, in cold blood.

In an interview his mother says she remains a Trump supporter, that this isn’t political, just about the death of her son.

It’s a cult & cults get stronger with violence: to no longer believe is to admit she voted for her child’s murder.

Of course he’s buying them cheap shoes.

And you can just imagine how he’s negging with smaller shoes for men and bigger ones for women.

VIC YOURE A PROFESSOR ITS NOT AN EXPERIMENT VIC

At this point I’m questioning the moon landing

Honestly 10/10 no notes. This IS the difference in the parties. And this is exactly the difference between voters.

Except some of us won’t vote for murders period, and refuse for those to be our choices.

IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot

THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him

THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me

YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care

BECAUSE my position is immutable

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living