Reposted by Callan HummelTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I 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. 493612486
Reposted by Callan HummelConnor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 03/01/2026When you buy your SCIF from Temu: 2185
Reposted by Callan HummelAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events 641904270
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025New 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.... 070
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025If 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...nytimes.comTrump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference 051
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Dear US-based democracy scholars: We (UBC political science) are hiring an endowed chair in democracy — come to Canada: politics.ubc.ca/faculty-hiri...politics.ubc.caUBC 1107
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Our 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....tandfonline.comGender-Affirming identification documents are associated with positive health-related outcomes for transgender people in BoliviaLegislation 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... 080
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025As 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...ajph.aphapublications.orgAntitransgender Legislation and Needs of Transgender Floridians, 2018–2024 | AJPH | Vol. IssueObjectives. 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... 031
Reposted by Callan HummelThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/07/2025Andrea 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.trib.alAndrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act. 1021636
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I brushed my teeth with dental prosthesis fixer last night because that’s what I bought instead of toothpaste at an airport pharmacy: 040
Reposted by Callan HummelAtul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025STAGGERING: 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... 9437352372
Reposted by Callan HummelTamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Indianapolis lost federal matching funds for replanting trees in the city because of the word “diversity” in biodiversity. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...indystar.comIndianapolis program killed by federal government sought diversity ... among treesA planting program including the words 'biodiversity' and tree 'equity' may have prompted grant revocation, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful leader fears 521210585
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Bukele 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...nytimes.comTrump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort. 040
Reposted by Callan Hummel European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 30/06/2025We’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 authorsbristoluniversitypressdigital.com 1116
Reposted by Callan HummelAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Warnock: 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…. 651230385936
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Whoops! Accidentally walked into a Bolsonaro rally looking like a big ol dyke 140
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Spending Pride Saturday at the first meeting of LGBTI+ politicians of São Paulo in the State Assembly building 050
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I 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: 120
Reposted by Callan HummelEliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · 25/06/2025I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people" 273873629
Reposted by Callan HummelODI Global @odi.global · 23/06/2025The 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. 064
Reposted by Callan HummelAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time 390364477701
Reposted by Callan HummelMichael Flynn @flynnpolsci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I think about this figure a lot. 618884
Reposted by Callan HummelRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/06/2025So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them. 822653384
Reposted by Callan HummelBethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 22/06/2025You 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...today.yougov.comTrump approval falls, Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and vaccines: June 13-16, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGovThis 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 412125628
Reposted by Callan HummelMike 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.’”nytimes.comA White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award. 16806237
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Political scientists: Has anyone pitched JoD recently? 010
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 19/06/2025I 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? 061
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025I don’t have a take on the Supreme Court decision. I’m just really angry. 020
Reposted by Callan HummelDr. Teddy Davenport @tsdav.bsky.social · 18/06/2025I 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. 24622
Reposted by Callan HummelNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/06/2025TW: 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...tandfonline.comHarming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker banThis 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... 471703808
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Are you in SP? Do you want to come to a trans baile funk esquenta pre parada comigo? 010
Reposted by Callan HummelElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Kudos to the BBC which (at least in broadcast I heard this morning) had this ahead of the latest Israel-Iran War news. 12818
Reposted by Callan HummelCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025This photo is going to appear in 7th-grade history books someday. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...amny.comBREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYorkCity Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan. 591023268
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I 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 010
Reposted by Callan HummelPaolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Springer-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...the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.ioSpringer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific PublishingHome page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro 11251183
Reposted by Callan Hummel🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 15/06/2025Don'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. 937871
Reposted by Callan HummelKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/06/2025The 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? 27291192807
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 15/06/2025I 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?...youtu.beDe acá y de allá | Segundo encuentro del ciclo PISEX + REDINSEXYouTube video by PISEX EIDAES 000
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Can someone send me a gift article of the NYMag “Pete Hegseth playing secretary” article? Thank you! 101
Reposted by Callan HummelEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/06/2025A 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. 614186524
Reposted by Callan HummelSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/06/2025So important. This is America. Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval. 151402406
Callan Hummel @callahummel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I am enjoying everyone’s protest posts. Thank you for participating! 050
Reposted by Callan Hummelburn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025i've seen bigger crowds for free samples at trader joe's 712385318
Reposted by Callan HummelChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/06/2025I 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. 17190041385