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Callan Hummel

@callahummel.bsky.social
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Political scientist, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. LGBTQ+ politics, labor, public health, policy. Dr./e/em/eirs 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
When you buy your SCIF from Temu:
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New publication from our trans advocacy research collaboration! We find that trans people seeking to change their names contend with heavy intersecting administrative burdens that push justice-involved and unhoused people out. healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If you want federal funding judged by a committee of your peers with high success rates, UBC Political Science is hiring an endowed chair in democracy and SFU is hiring in political psychology www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Dear US-based democracy scholars: We (UBC political science) are hiring an endowed chair in democracy — come to Canada: politics.ubc.ca/faculty-hiri...
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Our article on gender-affirming IDs in Bolivia is out and open access! Gender-affirming IDs are associated with positive outcomes, using interview and survey data that we designed and collected with the largest trans advocacy group in Bolivia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Gender-Affirming identification documents are associated with positive health-related outcomes for transgender people in Bolivia
Legislation has improved access to gender-affirming identification documents (IDs) in many countries but few studies address the laws’ effects. We document the relationship between gender-affirming...
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
As anti-trans legislation ramped up in Florida, trans Floridians sought legal, health, and employment help from advocacy groups. Check out our collaborative project with trans advocates in Florida in the American Journal of Public Health: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
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Antitransgender Legislation and Needs of Transgender Floridians, 2018–2024 | AJPH | Vol. Issue
Objectives. To document transgender Floridians’ service needs before and after antitransgender state legislation. Methods. We conducted descriptive and change point analyses of intake survey data coll...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/07/2025
Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.
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Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49
A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A UMiami reunion in Seoul!
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Ban Ki Moon plenary address at IPSA 2025!
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I brushed my teeth with dental prosthesis fixer last night because that’s what I bought instead of toothpaste at an airport pharmacy:
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Indianapolis lost federal matching funds for replanting trees in the city because of the word “diversity” in biodiversity. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
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Indianapolis program killed by federal government sought diversity ... among trees
A planting program including the words 'biodiversity' and tree 'equity' may have prompted grant revocation, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful leader fears
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Bukele made corrupt pacts with gangs like MS-13 that the US investigated. Trump is dismantling the investigation and releasing gang members to Bukele. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
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Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.
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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We’re celebrating our most cited authors of 2024 by making their articles free to access 🥳 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/EJPG... See the thread below for our top 5 most cited authors
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?  The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Whoops! Accidentally walked into a Bolsonaro rally looking like a big ol dyke
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Spending Pride Saturday at the first meeting of LGBTI+ politicians of São Paulo in the State Assembly building
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I went to a political rally of Black trans politicians in São Paulo, led by Deputada Erika Hilton, and it was a master class in transforming political space. It started with ballroom:
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Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · 25/06/2025
I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people"
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ODI Global @odi.global · 23/06/2025
The US pulling back from global leadership on LGBTQI+ rights is further emboldening autocrats to take "anti-LGBTQI+ measures without diplomatic consequence." @williamsinstitute.bsky.social's @arimshaw.bsky.social joined us to unpack how threats to LGBTQI rights mean threats to all our rights.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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Michael Flynn @flynnpolsci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I think about this figure a lot.
Figures showing Iranian enrichment before and after the JCPOA.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure" It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started. today.yougov.com/politics/art...
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Trump approval falls, Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and vaccines: June 13-16, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov
This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers Trump approval numbers, the Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his actions
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
For fuck’s sake
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 21/06/2025
“I just find it fascinating that this student can write [a racist] article, a series of [racist] articles that are essentially manifestoes, and that’s free speech,” Ms. Chatman said, “but my class can’t be called ‘Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality.’”
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A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Political scientists: Has anyone pitched JoD recently?
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I started reading this story and folks, do you really need to ponder if activists are going too far by bringing civil rights cases to the courts?
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I don’t have a take on the Supreme Court decision. I’m just really angry.
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Dr. Teddy Davenport @tsdav.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I wrote an article adapting some of my archival research on trans care for Teen Vogue! With the US v. Skrmetti decision coming out today, the publication of this piece hits a lot harder than I expected. Trans youth: you deserve so much better.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...
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Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Are you in SP? Do you want to come to a trans baile funk esquenta pre parada comigo?
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Kudos to the BBC which (at least in broadcast I heard this morning) had this ahead of the latest Israel-Iran War news.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This photo is going to appear in 7th-grade history books someday. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...
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BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork
City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I have tickets to a trans baile funk party for São Paulo pride and I’m texting my friends from college to try to get them to pretend we’re 19 again but we’re all sober and have bedtimes before doors open
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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 15/06/2025
Don't just vote. Run for office. We need county clerks, sheriffs, and district attorneys of integrity that will uphold the constitution. Local parties need help linking to voters and demonstrating that together we can make democracy work.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I had a fantastic time presenting our work with trans activists to scholars at the Universidad de San Martín and REDINSEX Argentina! Here is the link to our conversation (in Spanish): youtu.be/TEm0FIGePZY?...
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De acá y de allá | Segundo encuentro del ciclo PISEX + REDINSEX
YouTube video by PISEX EIDAES
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Can someone send me a gift article of the NYMag “Pete Hegseth playing secretary” article? Thank you!
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A lot of people are cringe and the most "edgy" political thing they've encountered is Hamilton and you're just going to have to live with that and be glad they're not at home OD'ing on white nationalist propaganda. They will be cringe and you can be like, jesus christ that's cringe. It's all fine.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
So important. This is America. Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.
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Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I am enjoying everyone’s protest posts. Thank you for participating!
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
i've seen bigger crowds for free samples at trader joe's
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/06/2025
I don’t really have words to explain how it feels to see Kristi Noem standing on a street in East LA that looks like the street I grew up on in East LA with an invading military force trying to kidnap people who look like the neighbors I grew up with. It stays with you, spiritually.
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