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(Queer academic and performer who needs to update their bio l8r)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas. This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people. This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.
A screenshot of a mobile Google search results page in dark mode for the query "Kansas trans". Under the heading "News about Kansas," there is a list of four news articles:
​An article from the Kansas City Star, published 13 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday". The thumbnail shows a sample Kansas driver's license.
​An article from The Independent, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas sends letters to trans drivers demanding the immediate surrender of their licenses over birthright law". The thumbnail shows small pride flags on desks inside a legislative chamber.
​An article from The Topeka Capital-Journal, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas invalidates IDs and birth certificates of transgender people". The thumbnail features a close-up of colorful pride flag stickers.
​An article from Erin In The Morning, published 16 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses". The thumbnail is a nighttime photo of a state capitol building illuminated in pink and red lights.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/01/2026
Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/12/2025
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/12/2025
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
cnbc.com
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
From czech.hunter.schafer on IG
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 05/11/2025
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
A rain-slick backalley containing two men, both tall and dressed predominantly in black, each walking a cat on a leash
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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Ole Miss professor James Thomas, who appeared on TPUSA’s "professor watchlist," accused the conservative group of "promoting fascist propaganda" and said its event was "a gross affront to the very principles upon which our university rests." www.foxnews.com/media/tpusa-...
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TPUSA counter-event speakers rip 'fascist' Republicans, claim Kirk program 'manipulates' students
Democratic rep Gloria Johnson clashes with TPUSA at Ole Miss, claiming students receive 'false information' while defending protest rights and political "fascist" claims.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/10/2025
Report Confirms No Need To Make New Chairs For The Time Being theonion.com/report-confirms-no-nee…
Report Confirms No Need To Make New Chairs For The Time Being
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/09/2025
Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
as far as any ongoing investigation is concerned, there is nothing newsworthy in reporting on any potential affiliations the alleged shooter had to a trans person unless you wish to paint said trans person as equally violent, whether or not this is even remotely the case.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2025
The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.
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Holl🌞 @willows-song.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This explains it better than I can
Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
theatlantic.com
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/08/2025
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Alt text: A tweet from Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) dated August 27, 2025. The tweet calls for Health and Human Services to violate HIPAA laws and forward information about every transgender and transgender-questioning person to law enforcement for immediate detainment, claiming they are killing children in schools. It describes this as a matter of national security, says transgender people should be locked away and studied, calls for medical professionals who enable transitions to be expelled from the profession, and demands that the federal government treat transgender people as if they were terrorist organizations. The tweet shows it was last edited at 1:11 PM and has 5,049 views.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/08/2025
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
Screenshot of two tweets from Matt Walsh’s verified Twitter account (@MattWalshBlog).

First tweet (17 hours ago): “It’s time to have a national conversation about common sense restrictions on transgenders.” The tweet has 1.3K comments, 3.8K retweets, 42K likes, and 1M views.

Second tweet (18 hours ago): “It wasn’t all that long ago that anyone who identified as the opposite sex would be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. Does anyone at this point seriously think that our current approach is an improvement?” The tweet has 666 comments, 1.9K retweets, 21K likes, and 362K views.First tweet is by Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles), reposted by Christopher F. Rufo. It reads: “For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this delusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” The tweet has 816 comments, 2.4K retweets, 17K likes, and 379K views.

Second tweet is by Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo), 20 hours ago: “The trans cult hatched such an enormous propaganda campaign, that, for a number of years, they were able to obscure an obvious truth: pumping kids full of synthetic hormones, while telling them they can change from boy to girl, will only end in tragedy or disaster.” The tweet has 878 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.2K likes, and 120K views.

Third tweet is also by Christopher F. Rufo, 20 hours ago: “We should now put to rest the libertarian delusion that transgenderism is a matter of ‘personal choice,’ or ‘live and let live.’ It’s an ideology that has done grave damage to millions of Americans, and has unleashed a nihilistic wave of violence on our society. Enough.” The tweet has 921 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.6K likes, and 293K views.
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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 26/08/2025
Drive the care out of large hospitals and then laden small providers with increasingly expensive and unnecessary equipment regulations. Welcome to the anti abortion playbook.
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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Brenna @brynn-nah.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Gender is a performance, and starting at dress rehearsals, there are only two things we can say about costumes: "I love my costume" and "I love your costume."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/08/2025
1. Florida has subpoenaed a drag bar for a list of attendees to a drag show, in what could be a new first for anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Their goal is to end drag in the state. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Florida AG Subpoenas Venue For A List Of Guests Who Attended A Drag Show
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wants to intimidate drag queens and gay bars. It’s not going as planned.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/06/2025
"These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality." "And that's why we are passing draconian laws just to enforce this."
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Goreville Shriek 😱 @amcnal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani rode a wave of progressive politics and earnest messaging to the top of a surprise primary. But it did not come without some controversy. We interviewed ten Evangelical Protestants in a Tennessee diner about how Mamdani's blatant antisemitism affects them. by the NYT Editorial Staff
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2025
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/06/2025
NEW: The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a 2021 censorship law can't be used to ban teaching about race and gender in Oklahoma's higher education institutions. This is a win for academic freedom and the First Amendment.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/05/2025
When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/05/2025
1. The organization TGEU (Transgender Europe) has just released their annual transgender rights map. “For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people now clearly outweigh progress" The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Europe’s Latest Trans Rights Map Shows Unprecedented Regression
“For the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people across Europe and Central Asia now clearly outweigh progress.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/05/2025
RFK Jr. Claims Measles Can Be Cured With A Good Concealer
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RFK Jr. Claims Measles Can Be Cured With A Good Concealer
WASHINGTON—In the wake of a growing outbreak that has sickened hundreds and killed two in West Texas and New Mexico, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Friday that measl...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12/05/2025
Welcome to the public domain, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), the surrealist short from Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí that shocked cinema with dream logic, stark imagery & one gruesome eyeball. More. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w... #PublicDomain #InternetArchive
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I don’t think the conclave passed the bechdel test :/
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Burnt Bleghk 🎃 @brentalfloss.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2025
92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/05/2025
In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/05/2025
1. The Arizona legislature passed three anti-trans bills... but they did not become law. That is because Governor Katie Hobbs has just vetoed all of them. They would have barred birth certificate updates and banned colleges from mentioning gender identity. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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"Focus On Real Issues That Matter," AZ Governor Hobbs Vetoes Anti-Trans Bills
Governor Hobbs vetoes a birth certificate update ban as well as two DEI bans that explicitly included transgender people.
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other. This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.
NBC News: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize itReuters: US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
April 17, 2025
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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
gender essentialism is a trap... it is pathetic... it is embarrassing that you believe this and it is your responsibility to move out of that belief and impose it as little as possible on the people around you...
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/04/2025
It's not just bathrooms. They use the same rationales to explain banning trans people from sports. Trans women must be excluded based on sex while trans men must be excluded based on gender reassignment. Taken together, this is a legal regime of societal segregation of trans people from society.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/04/2025
For instance, a company could say employees must use the bathroom of their sex assigned at birth but trans men can't use the women's bathroom because their deep voice and facial hair may upset women. There's no bathroom for trans people to use. And the UK banned gender neutral bathrooms.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/04/2025
The UK Supreme Court endorsed segregating trans people entirely out of public life. They can exclude trans women from single sex spaces on the basis of sex and then exclude trans men on the basis of gender reassignment. Effectively, it allows the legal exclusion of trans people from public life.
This image contains text discussing the implications of legal definitions of sex on trans individuals. It criticizes how anti-trans activists can use such definitions to exclude trans people from public life. The example given involves a court ruling on a counseling session for female victims of sexual assault, where defining sex as "biological sex" would exclude trans women and potentially trans men, based on appearance or objections from others.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This bitch
The Panic
Defense: How Trans Misogyny
Fueled The Rise of


BROWN
Pembroke Center


embroke Center Publics Lecture Series


Trump


Gillian Branstetter
Writer and Media Strategist
Communications Strategist, ACLU


Monday, April 14,2025
4:00 p.m.
Pembroke Hall 305


Accessiblity: To bypass stairs, visitors may enter via the automatic
doors at the rear of the building, where there is a


wheclchair-accessible elevator.
co-sponsored by the LGBTQIA+ Thinking nitiative.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/04/2025
Hungary has just passed a constitutional amendment banning all public gatherings of LGBTQ people. This is a carbon copy of Russia's criminalization of LGBTQ people. apnews.com/article/hung...
apnews.com
Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events, seen as a major blow to rights
Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities.
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