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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Where can i find the intimacy of strangers on the internet that is wider than a group chat but smaller than blueksy. Are my only choices reddit and discord have chit chats?

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I haven’t heard people saying this yet: it is highly unlikely that Jeffrey Epstein was running the only billionaire pedophile ring in the world. The documents have revealed whole global elite networks that include access to young girls. Who’s running the current rings for all these men?

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I dislike the language of transition. I'm not transitioning to a healthier body when I'm mindful of what I eat, I'm not transitioning into retirement when I go to work, I'm not transitioning to death when I celebrate my birthday, and I'm not transitioning gender when I take hormones. Im just living.

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

"Raising both hands is a universal sign of surrender for isolated members of armed forces. Under international law, those who surrender are considered hors de combat, the French term for those out of combat, and may not be attacked."

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

more evidence of trump's favourite little phrase to critique the left: "open borders, men in women's sports, transgender for everyone"

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

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Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan

Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Why does the Trump administration blame trans people together with migrants? As Paul Preciado argues in Can the Monster Speak? (2020), the history of homosexuality/transsexuality shows us that "migration" has always been a central issue for political regimes of sex, gender, and sexual difference

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

From the website of the USDA: more evidence of how the US authoritarian regime is constantly obsessed with the bodies of migrants and trans people.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

So this happened. At at open call for "new models," someone was reading CAPITAL IS DEAD while waiting in line. Telfar himself asked the aspiring model to read it out loud. They then hired me to appear in this video to talk about it. Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Io1...

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Stop using the word genealogy when you really just mean history

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

politicians posting AI slop to make their opponents say and do stupid things is really just another turn in the downward spiral of the absolute stupidity of our present moment.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I'm ready for this Y2K fashion trend to make a comeback

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I saw an interview of Trump talking about how economy is doing well when he suddenly pivots and says "the radical left democrats, these people are crazy, they want open borders, they want to have men in women sports, they want to have transgender everybody" it's like a tagline for him now

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In response to the Kirk shooting, Trump once again invokes the danger of trans people, saying: "Radicals on the left are the problem... They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country." Why does he talk about trans people?

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

biggggg issue of queer political science. I'm gagged to see this area of research exploding.

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I went to a queer music festival over the weekend called Whole. At about 1am on Sunday, I was talking to some friends about what turned us onto feminism when we were young. We were sitting on a platform painted to mimic a large twister board while three gays were fucking a few feet away from us

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

it's a provocation for queer political scientists not to seek assimilation into the discipline and a call/demand/shout for straight political science to queer its disciplinary practices if it wants to stay relevant in the study of democracy

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Im happy to finally see this thing @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote together out in the world. It's called "Grooming Authoritarianism" and it's about how social and political panic around trans/queer lives can teach us about the decline in democracy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 23/06/2025

🧵 Last week, Robin White, a barrister and trans woman, was harassed for using the women’s toilets in the Parliament. Today, Parliament has implemented a trans bathroom ban, telling trans people that they are no longer be allowed to use toilets which align with their lived gender.

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It's weird when I hear people repeat this tired idea that patriarchal sex centers the male orgasm to the exclusion of female pleasure. If you've watched straight porn, then you know that the majority of screen time is centered not on male pleasure at all but men's ability and skill to make women cum

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

In an endless state of surprise seeing so many of my liberal friends posting and sharing the kind of protest security tactics and tips that were common in anarchist spaces over a decade ago but were considered tin foil hat crazy at the time. One important lesson I learned in all these opsec talks

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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I am so excited to announce Love in a F*cked Up World, the podcast! The first episode is out today — a conversation with adrienne maree brown — and I'll be releasing new episodes every two weeks for the next few months. youtu.be/m-a1yDmReGQ?...

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Introducing: Love in a F*cked Up World | Podcast with Dean Spade

YouTube video by Dean Spade

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Woohoo! Finally got the proofs for this text @srgalloway.bsky.social and I wrote on why political scientists need to 'queer' the discipline to properly study authoritarianism today. This isn't a call for inclusion, assimilation, but for undoing the cis-heteronormativity of the discipline's analytics

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The fact that early 20 year olds have adopted queer aesthetics as their dominant fashion has really thrown off my gayday. My younger friends are constantly telling me that the attractive twink over there is not a twink at all but just a straight lad because that's what they look like these days

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

i learned today that it's very common for cops to use steroids and you know, it totally makes sense that cops would take testosterone. theres a good joke about gender affirming state care in there.

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Today is Bank Holiday in the UK. I don't celebrate it, though, because I am not a bank and I also do not approve of their way of life.

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

reactionary: women's toilets should only be for biological women liberal: trans women should be able to use the women's toilets me: abolish gender segregated toilets, all toilets should be gender neutral

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I'm grading undergraduate theses and family abolition is the hot topic of the year - glad to see it! But it's making me realize that students have little historical knowledge on the formation of the 'nuclear family' and especially the role that homo/heterosexuality has played in it's development.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of author, poet, and anti-capitalist theorist Joshua Clover. We were lucky enough to speak with Clover in 2017 on our podcast. May his work continue to be an inspiration. itsgoingdown.org/make-world-s...

Joshua Clover speaking to group on microphone.

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Leigh Downes (they/them) @leighdownes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"I would like to ask for people to focus less on the question of trying to define sex more accurately to include us, and more on the importance of ending gender based violence in all its forms no matter who it happens to."

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hats off to @elotroalex.bsky.social for creating this map of abductions of students by ICE. www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...

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Campus Abductions — We Are Higher Ed

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

the violence/non-violence is a stupid and boring debate. Say what you want online. Just don't say anything in public that you wouldn't be proud of hearing repeated back to you in a court room.

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Property destruction targetting consumers might be frowned upon (go sabotage the sites of production they say) but not only is it easier for people to do than go to the factory but it also still has real material effects, playing a role in tesla's sinking stocks www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/t...

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Potential Tesla buyers may think twice if 'people's cars are in jeopardy of being keyed,' says analyst

There have been reports of vandalism across the country, including repeated fires set at a Tesla dealership in Colorado, according to NBC News.

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Fun Fact: Suffragettes were the original innovators of the letter bomb, which they used on a wide scale to maim or assassinate politicians.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 11/02/2025

a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

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A Year Without Nex Benedict

"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

there's been an interesting lag in street mobilizations compared to Trump's 2017 inaugruation - maybe some sort of collective shock and paralysis - but i'm glad to see the upswing in the last week

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm happy to say that my article on the role of sodomy in Europe's first democratic revolution against absolutism is now out in Vol. 21 of Modern Intellectual History. It's open access, so check it out if you wanna learn how sodomy helped give rise to the moden nation-state. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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From the Body of the King to the Body of the Nation: Sovereignty, Sodomy, and the English Revolution of 1688 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

From the Body of the King to the Body of the Nation: Sovereignty, Sodomy, and the English Revolution of 1688 - Volume 21 Issue 3

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

academics, i have a question. I'm doing admission applications for the first time and i'm curious how you think about accepting proposals. Abstractly, what would you rank higher? A proposal that's well written, analytically rigorous, conceptually precise but is boring, uninteresting and leaves you

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

In Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love, @lidamaxwell.bsky.social explores the letters of Rachel Carson & Dorothy Freeman to reveal how Carson's masterpiece, Silent Spring, grew from the love these women shared for their wild surroundings and for each other #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/litera...

Book cover of Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
by Lida Maxwell

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I'm writing a chapter for a volume on Lauren Berlant in which many of the authors seem to be former students or colleagues. I'm trying to work in the fact that I didn't really like Lauren personally and had an ambivalent relationship to them. Annoyingly, though, that is a very Berlant thing to say.

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Seeing this picture of Norwegian painter Ida Bjerkeskaug circulating the internet. This should go without saying but this is homophobic as shit. Representing degradation and subordination by using homosexual sex is bad aesthetic politics. Weaponizing homophobia against the right is still homophobic.

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aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

turns out people have been less surprised about this recently....

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