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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

3 months

I wrote about how two new books in gender studies help make sense of the anti-trans backlash for The Yale Review.

Paisley Currah: "On Judith Butler and Jules Gill-Peterson"

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

6 years

For those of you secretly planning to vote for Cuomo because you think he can govern—don’t believe the hype. He can’t. Beyond his decimation of the subway, he bungles even his own pet projects. Story from last October

Cuomo's upstate 'Hollywood' is his latest development failure

The governor’s plan to bring “Hollywood to Onondaga” is hardly the first, or even the most absurdly wasteful Andrew Cuomo initiative to develop upstate New York through subsidies and...

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Paisley Currah

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3 months

So much brilliance in this must-read piece by @andrealongchu

wife of the mind

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3 months

i wrote about what justice looks like for trans kids

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4 years

CUNY STUDENTS—Somebody please submit, or else the NY Times will publish yet another higher ed piece from the one percent’s perspective.

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3 years

Book cover!

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2 years

My book arrived!

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2 months

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be a fellow at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study next year.

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1 year

This is perfect example of @nytimes “reporting.” The anti-trans story is all worked out, prior to any reporting.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

5 months

My Texas writing retreat.

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This is how Baby Ralph makes friends

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Paisley Currah

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5 years

I can’t even begin to imagine what his mind is conjuring up here.

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Paisley Currah

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1 year

A thorough debunking of the New York Times anti-trans inaccurate reporting from @IfBooksPod and @RottenInDenmark . 28 minutes

‎If Books Could Kill: The New York Times's War On Trans Kids [TEASER] on Apple Podcasts

‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep The New York Times's War On Trans Kids [TEASER] - Feb 28, 2023

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Paisley Currah

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1 year

You can't turn to science to justify anti-trans legislation. When it comes to sex, there just is no there there. Powerful panel last night at @PioneerWorks_ with @Fausto_Sterling , and Sarah Richardson of the @genderscilab , and Rebecca Jordan-Young ( @brainstormbook ).

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@paisleycurrah

5 years

Justice Neil Gorsuch fears “massive social upheaval" if the Court decides that sex discrimination laws cover non-straight and non-cis people.

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Paisley Currah

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3 months

Excellent piece: “the more scientists have studied sex, the more contradictions the category has come to contain.”

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

8 months

Trans studies job! The Gender & Sexuality Studies (GSS) Program at Northwestern University seeks a full-time, tenure-line Assistant Professor with research and teaching interests strongly rooted in transgender studies, to begin September 1, 2024.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

1 year

It really matters when cis journalists come out swinging against the transphobic journalistic malpractice that’s been going on. And those of you sitting this one out in the hopes of a byline, take a stand before history passes you by.

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Paisley Currah

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6 months

This collection radically rewires our thinking, making visible the work that cisness has been doing all along. I’d buy it just for Emma Heaney’s introduction, which gifts us ‘a theory of sexual difference without cisness.’

Emma Heaney

@riislover667

6 months

The edited collection Feminism Against Cisness is available for pre-order. Until the end of tomorrow, the code CYBER23 gets you 50% off. The book is then 14 bucks.

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Paisley Currah

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2 years

A small part of my book has been adapted for the New York Review of Books, online. It's just out this second. And the ending has some new material (not in the book) linking the abortion disaster to transgender politics.

What Sex Does | Paisley Currah

In the mid-1960s, a woman asked New York City’s Bureau of Records and Statistics to change the M on her birth certificate to an F. “Anonymous” had done

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

2 years

. @adamconover is a fantastic interviewer. Really appreciate his podcast (and not just because I was on it!) because he’s interested in deep dives, thinking beyond the headlines.

Adam Conover

@adamconover

2 years

On this week's Factually, @paisleycurrah joins me to discuss how government institutions regulate and control sex and gender, and the real barriers that trans folks face daily as a result. Take a listen!

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2 years

Kid has to interview a gender expert for their school project. I did not make the shortlist.

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11 months

@badinfinity2 The 1990s are calling…when queer theorists, feminists, and the right all agreed that transsexuals were victims of false consciousness. (Prob delete this later because it’s not the Official History)

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Paisley Currah

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Maybe it's time for trans people and gender non-conforming people to stop searching for legitimacy in history, in biology, in "other" cultures. From my book:

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

2 years

This NYT retrospective about the closeted Ed Koch fails to mention the epic homophobia at the Times, led by Abe Rosenthal, during Koch's time as mayor.

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Paisley Currah

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1 year

A lovely story about my dear friend @shannonminter5 — about his animal rescue work, and a little bit about his decades of lgbtq rights advocacy. Even after his house got blown down by a tornado, he never stopped working (& had another victory today!).

The village comes through for Minter family

Sometimes, it really does take a village.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

3 years

Good for Hannah Gadsby who would rather possibly kill any chance of future Netflix deals than be used as cover. Otherwise, it’s crickets from Hollywood types.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

2 years

Re bad PhD advisors, my pet peeve, a lesser crime but still not great: committee members who've had the diss for months and have had opportunities to comment, read it for the first time the morning of the defense & announce they have major problems with some part of it.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

20 days

Got my copy of Feminism Against Cisness in the mail. The best collection of essays I’ve seen in a long while. Edited by @riislover667 . Her intro rocks.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

1 year

It’s my book's first anniversary this month. I write about how sex classification policies are tools of governing. In this moment, the politicization has reached new heights. But, as always, it’s not "what sex is,” it’s "what sex does” that really determines the policy.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

1 year

Here we go. Using “biological sex” as a cudgel against trans people was always just the pre-game. For the right, it’s not just “men in dresses” that’s the problem. It’s also women in pants.

Erin Reed

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1 year

In a clearly unconstitutional move, the Texas Department of Agriculture has sent out a directive that "all employees must dress in a matter consistent with their biological gender." They are trying to bring back 3 articles of clothing laws and trying to overturn Bostock.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

2 years

My book, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, is out on May 31. You can buy it now at (use Currah 30 for 30% off);

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@paisleycurrah

5 months

Highlight of my trip @shannonminter5

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

3 years

Who would have thought I'd grow up to be a political scientist? My talk--"What Would a Transgender Political Science Look Like?"--for a conference in Germany is happening on Wednesday, October 27 at noon US Eastern Time. DM for the link.

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Paisley Currah

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2 years

@amyhsin One time I had all five NYC mayoral candidates calling for me to be fired as chair. Funny that they think that would be some sort of punishment. Sadly, it didn't happen.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

11 months

@badinfinity2 And isn’t it interesting that this new anti-surgery discourse is coinciding with the Republican attack on gender affirming care.

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@paisleycurrah

5 months

Mr Darcy, aka Porky

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Paisley Currah

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2 years

Friends who are putting all syllabi together: if you're teaching something related to gender and the law, transgender politics/policy, I'd be happy to Zoom into your class to talk about my book, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (2022), my schedule permitting.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

9 months

One of the people I admire most in the world. Not just one of the smartest people but one of the kindest. And you’ll never know how much he does for LGBTQ people because he doesn’t care about fame or clicks—unless it’s recognition for his animals… @shannonminter5

NCLR – National Center for Lesbian Rights

@NCLRights

9 months

(1/4) NCLR’s Legal Director Shannon Minter celebrates his 30th year with NCLR today! He started his role at NCLR as a staff attorney in 1993, and ever since, he has seemed to do it all.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

1 year

I can't believe it, except I can because she's so brilliant: @andrealongchu just won the Pulitzer for criticism!

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@paisleycurrah

1 year

"Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions."

The Onion

@TheOnion

1 year

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

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Paisley Currah

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2 years

Advance copies of my book are making their way to the people who provided endorsements, including the brilliant thinker/activist @deanspade .

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Paisley Currah

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2 years

My book is coming out in May--and I'd love ideas for where to place short pieces, from excerpts to op-eds.

Sex Is as Sex Does — Paisley Currah

In Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, Paisley Currah examines sex reclassification policies in the United States and explains how and why it fails transgender and non-binary people....

www.paisleycurrah.com

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

2 years

So sad to hear about Urvashi Vaid's passing. She was a tremendous gift to the LGBTQ movement. A long time ago, well before it was a thing for LGB orgs to take on trans rights, Urvashi asked @shannonminter5 and me to do a report, Transgender Equality, for the Policy Institute.

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Paisley Currah

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If the Times had any reporters who'd gone to CUNY they'd know that a CUNY ID gets you on to any campus, that students move between campuses for classes--the central admin even encourages it in the name of efficiency.

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Paisley Currah

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4 years

For all if you swooning over the Starbucks trans positive ad:

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1 year

So happy that the book was listed as a finalist in the Politics and Government category!

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1 year

Teaching @gp_jls ’ Histories of the Transgender Child today and reminded what an important book it is, especially for this moment. Brilliant.

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6 years

@florabotanics @YaleLawSch @JeffFlake *her

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3 months

You are probably right--they floated that balloon in November 2016 a bit. Also, followers-- @ettingermentum is the only mainstream (well, not exactly mainstream, but not us) political analyst who pays close attention to trans electoral issues and writes about them well.

ettingermentum🥥🌴

@ettingermentum

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If Biden loses, a lot of people in very high positions are going to have to answer as to why they facilitated his nomination. To avoid this, they will engage an all-out push to say it was the left’s fault instead of Biden’s. Trans people will be their biggest target.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

5 years

Only manly men with Atlantic cover stories get cited in government briefs opposing trans rights.

Andrea James

@jokestress

5 years

Cool! Jesse Singal's cited by Attorneys General of several states as an authority on #transgender children! His hard work misrepresenting scientific consensus could soon be setting our rights back a few decades! Congrats to @JeffreyGoldberg & everyone involved!

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Paisley Currah

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6 years

The letter also said that any finding against AR would be unjust, that she is too famous to be found to have violated Title IX. When that kind of force comes down on a graduate student, it’s incumbent on those of us who have protection from it (e.g. tenure) to speak out 2/4

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Paisley Currah

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3 years

Necessary reading for anyone who wants to understand this Stock situation. (Defaming students is not a matter of academic freedom.) Also British journalism, esp. the BBC, allergic to fact-based reporting on trans issues, sadly.

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I urge everyone who cares about universities, media, feminism, LGBT politics, and free speech to read my deep-dive essay on Kathleen Stock and the British media.

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Paisley Currah

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4 months

New study: “Evidence suggests that less than 1% of trans people who undergo gender-affirming surgery report regret. That proportion is even more striking when compared to the fact that 14.4% of the broader population reports regret after similar surgeries.

Transgender regret? Research challenges narratives about gender-affirming surgeries

The findings push back against the notion that many transgender people end up wishing they hadn’t gone through with gender-affirming surgeries.

theconversation.com

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1 year

A little nervous to tweet this parody from @TheOnion , what if it gives a @nytimes editor a story idea?

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At...

STOCKTON, CA—Cackling as the steps of the dastardly plan crystallized in her mind, local trans teen Brie Chandler told reporters Tuesday that she had hatched a nefarious plot to undergo years of...

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@paisleycurrah

6 years

Marx refutes Douthat. Read the thread

Lorna Bracewell

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Raising the specter of "sexual redistribution" to discredit leftist arguments for economic redistribution is old conservative schtick. Marx and Engels even address it directly in The Communist Manifesto (1848). Their response then stands the test of time:

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A week for amazing reviews. The latest issue of TSQ has a review of Sex Is as Sex Does, by El Friedman. So gratifying to get such a thoughtful & smart engagement with my work.

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2 years

Important reporting on the problem with the culture war frame. “To call this a culture war is significantly to understate its scope and its damage, though the framing is persistent.”

Melissa Gira Grant

@melissagira

2 years

I wrote about the escalating campaign against trans kids, with more than a dozen states in 2022 introducing bills directly targeting them—and how the right wins when liberals see these attacks (if they do at all) as a culture war

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@badinfinity2 Also, can I say, as an um, older person with a long memory...the number of cis (esp cis LGB) folks who were definitely NOT into trans stuff years ago, even actively transphobic, now taking every opportunity to get bylines writing about trans this, trans that.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

3 years

@shannonminter5 @BmoreObservant Pigeon tolerates, maybe even likes, when Panda gives her a massage

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Trans studies hivemind--A student of mine is looking for scholarship on trans joy in literary criticism. It's NOT hard to scholarship on ye olde abject trans subject, looking for accounts of joy, excess, happy disruptions, etc.

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2 years

And he got good results because other mayors tended to respond to him, rather than to queer CUNY assistant professors seeking the same information. And he passed all that information on to me.

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@paisleycurrah

9 months

A very clear dismantling of bad faith (or just plain dumb?) spins from the dudes who think the attempt to eradicate us from public life is something Dems should “compromise” on. Grateful to @chrisgeidner for reading Yglesias so I don’t have to.

Chris “Law Dork” Geidner

@chrisgeidner

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I don’t often give attention to these folks’ arguments, but, in the midst of the 11th Circuit’s anti-trans ruling and with the 6th Circuit minors’ gender-affirming medical care ban arguments next week, it seemed both necessary and important to do so.

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It’s raining books! Today’s arrival—The Other Olympians by @michaelwwaters . A beautifully told story of an earlier gender panic.

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@paisleycurrah

3 years

Study published two days ago in the Journal of Pediatrics: "Do Clinical Data From Transgender Adolescents Support the Phenomenon of 'Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria'?" If you're a tldr person--answer is no.

Do Clinical Data from Transgender Adolescents Support the Phenomenon of “Rapid Onset Gender...

Although emergence of gender dysphoria at puberty is long established, a distinct pathway of rapid onset gender dysphoria was recently hypothesized based on parental data. Using adolescent clinical...

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@theorygurl does a brilliant--and incredibly funny--take down of Jill Soloway's new memoir. You won't see many honest reviews of the book, since everybody and their uncle is trying to be the next trans Hollywood consultant.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

11 months

Wow, this is huge. This is the sixth decision blocking health care bans. Congratulations to @NCLRights , and all the other groups.

Shannon Minter

@shannonminter5

11 months

Federal Court Blocks Kentucky's Unconstitutional Bans on Necessary Medical Care for Trans Youth - National Center for Lesbian Rights

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3 years

I am deeply appreciative of all the labor Grace Lavery has put into explaining this Stock situation. So much misinformation—about trans of course, but also about things like free speech, defamation, and so on. You’d think university admins would know all this, but they don’t.

Prof. Grace Lavery

@graceelavery

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I’m stunned by the legal illiteracy of my profession. But I guess i only know any of this bc I’m trans and I’m always getting yelled at. But we should all be able to differentiate: 1. fact from opinion 2. libel from defamation from opinion 3. academic freedom from free speech

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3 years

Just sent the corrections to the book proofs in. I wanted to rewrite every sentence (but of course was not allowed).

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3 years

Just saw MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY at the Angelica. So many visual treats, Murray’s own voice throughout, an archive of private memories & public thought, poetry. And this Post story handles the pronoun issue artfully. #paulimurray ⁦ @FilmmakerJulie ⁩

Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray’s moment has finally come.

The lawyer, activist, writer and poet inspired no less than RBG.

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6 years

That new generation—they are not just nipping at our heels, they are biting our butts. Read this profile of Andrea Long Chu. Trigger warning: piety busting.

Andrea Long Chu on Gender, Avital Ronell, and Trashy TV

"Heterosexuality is bad," and other thoughts from a rising-star writer poking holes in how we talk about power, transgender identity, and what to do after you tell the truth.

www.vice.com

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6 years

Two bathrooms in a student center that is open to the public. One bathroom requires a student ID to enter, the other does not. The lesson: university admins will use reasonable requests--i.e. for a gender neutral bathroom--to increase security/surveillance, and to limit access.

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1 year

Important read— @ShannonMinter5 puts Paxton’s attempt to use driver’s license info to identify trans Texans in historical perspective

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4 years

Took two mandatory sexual harassment training courses this morning—one from Columbia, where I occasionally adjunct, and one from CUNY. Columbia makes it very clear that intentionally misgendering someone is a form of sexual harassment

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2 years

Panda retreated after this shot, put me between her and the swans (though still barking)

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2 years

Face-off at the pond

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That student evals still count for promotion and tenure is just....incredibly wrong. I transitioned after tenure and my evals then would include things like "she-male" (could even get their transphobia right). And this anecdote doesn't include more subtle racial and gender bias.

Troy Heffernan

@troyheff

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New paper out about student evaluations and the law. The paper finds that: - Most universities operate outside the law in how they use evaluations. - If you've been denied promotion/employment because of your evaluations, you potentially have a legal case.

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“the anti-trans bills have targeted minors, using the framework of ‘parental rights,’ or claims about protecting children, just as anti-abortion activists did with parental consent laws for abortion beginning decades ago.” Analysis from Amy Littlefield and @herong

The Nation

@thenation

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The right makes the connections between attacks on reproductive right and on trans rights. On the left, we need to recognize the links, too:

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Thankfully I blocked lots of liberal proceduralist “don’t-worry-Roe-will-stand” bros in the lead up to Dobbs, so at least I’ll be spared similar lectures about this bill. The Republicans play the long game and this bill is frightening.

Erin Reed

@ErinInTheMorn

1 year

The United States House of Representatives has just passed the "Parents Bill Of Rights" 213-208. It is the first national bill that targets transgender youth. It contains provisions that forcibly out them to their parents, forces teachers to misgender them.

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5 years

Just in— @theorygurl and @trans_historic dissing the elders, including moi. Glad to have commissioned this for my last issue of TSQ as co-editor. Still searching for my pasture.

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2 years

Colleagues--if you're teaching something related to gender and the law, transgender politics/policy, I'd be happy to Zoom into your class to talk about my book, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (2022), my schedule permitting.

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2 years

So thrilled to be in conversation with the brilliant @andrealongchu on July 5th (in-person) at Greenlight Bookstore, @greenlightbklyn @andrealongchu

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6 years

Those arguing that Reitman’s privilege undermines his case have it completely backward. Yes, it’s easier for people with privilege to take advantage of legal mechanisms like Title IX. *So* his complaint more likely signals the ghosts of lawsuits that never came to be 1/4

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2 years

We can do more than say "gay": we can talk about sex, & gender & sexual justice. Thrilled to be part of this discussion on sexual justice with Shatema Threadcraft, @cruisingatopia , and @dr_tey at @yale on April 14. Organized by @fischermyn & WGSS staff & faculty.

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6 years

Everything you need to know about the science of transgender in 22 tweets. Read and retweet!

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4 years

Fed court says public university professor does NOT have a constitutional right to refer to a transgender woman as "Mr." and "he." Another win for @NCLRights and @AOrrEsq

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2 years

Making herself small so I won't notice she's on the couch.

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2 years

Panda in Brooklyn

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6 years

“Transgender” is now banned at the CDC, and affirmed at Brooklyn College

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

5 years

Powerful testimony today at the NYC Hall. Four CUNY faculty just testified, including Red Washburn, whose description of the extreme transphobia KIngsborough Community College unleashed on them after they transitioned left Committee Chair Helen Rosenthal almost speechless..

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

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Indeed. “Why are the City College protesters being charged with felonies that could land them up to nine years in jail—while Columbia students are facing much lighter sentences?”

CUNY and Columbia: A Tale of Two Campuses

Why are the City College protesters being charged with felonies that could land them up to nine years in jail—while Columbia students are facing much lighter sentences?

www.thenation.com

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

6 years

An essay by @SaraNAhmed that deserves a read or re-read: "Challenges to sexual harassment within universities can be...swept away, as if the challenges are themselves the products of managerialism or neoliberalism." Also-"a moral panic about moral panics."

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

1 year

A much-needed story but it leaves out the Times’ own central role in justifying bans on gender affirming care. Its “reporting” has been cited by the transphobic right in legislation and litigation on care bans. via @NYTimes

How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care (Published 2023)

In the campaign to ban gender therapies for minors, Republicans have amplified a group of activists who no longer identify as transgender, overriding objections from transgender people and medical...

www.nytimes.com

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

1 year

The newspaper of record…

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

6 years

The New Yorker just has to add “transgender” to modify woman to this piece, when it’s completely irrelevant. What a jerkish move on the part of the New Yorker. Where is their famed editorial carefulness? @mashagessen

wife of the mind

@andrealongchu

6 years

how could this possibly be relevant? am i less trustworthy? is it an attempt to clarify that this person with woman's name is in fact not a real one? why then is avital not identified as a cisgender woman? and if you HAD to say it, why not just say trans like a regular human??

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

3 years

I was delighted to be part of the first event ever for the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, @transstudies So much excitement among the many audience members...I really believe in this new generation of scholar/advocates.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

1 year

Just talked with a grad student about @badinfinity2 's not yet out book (Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature), and I can't wait to read it.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

5 months

Last walk

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

1 year

A well-curated window at Left Bank Books in Seattle.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

3 years

Forgive this brief interruption to your Cuomo scrolling. Colleagues--Don't ask adjuncts to work for free: that includes "informally" supervising theses, preparing curriculum documents, doing departmental assessment. There is no justification for this. This should be a no-brainer.

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

4 years

Why Cuomo shouldn’t slash CUNY’s budget anymore—Brooklyn College ranks 9th nationwide among all four-year colleges for lifting low-income students into the middle class. Seven other CUNY senior colleges were ranked in the top 25.

Brooklyn College Ranks in Top Ten For Helping Students Up the Socioeconomic Ladder - Brooklyn...

Brookings Institute report places college ninth in moving lower income students in the middle class.

www.brooklyn.edu

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

2 years

My dog and her mini-me.

Shannon Minter

@shannonminter5

2 years

Panda on a play date with Ziggy

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Paisley Currah

@paisleycurrah

6 years

This is a far cry from the talking points we all parrot. And if anyone is gong to take the risks and push beyond the neat and clean lines that Trans Inc. countenances, it's going to be @theorygurl

wife of the mind

@andrealongchu

6 years

i wrote about my vagina for @nytopinion

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