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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13/02/2026

hi, cis folks! if you’re in kansas, please call & tell your state senator & representative that revoking trans people’s documents & setting bounties on trans folks using the bathroom is fucked. tell them to support a veto—yes, even republicans. contact info: reps.fyi find talking points in the QP

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It’s AI all the way down 😭😭😭

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

AI generated first draft = more quickly generated publication = higher publication rate = higher citation rate = more clout It genuinely scares me that people are prioritizing quantity over quality to this extent

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Shireen Ahmed @shireenahmed.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Rules created by an elite are insufficient to work with the compexities of the real world because sports ARE political.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/02/2026

found a stack of these cleaning up my studio the other day. as ever!!!

a protestor holding up a smartphone with a cop’s arm around his shoulder. text reads PICS OF FACES GO TO DATABASES! CAREFUL WHAT YOU POST!

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BLUF HQ @bluf.social · 27/01/2026

Today marks 81 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Alongside Jews, many Roma, political opponents, and gay men were imprisoned in Nazi camps. This Holocaust Memorial Day, remember that “Never Again” means Never Again, for anyone.

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The field of sexualities exists because of scholars who built it. Noms open for the Soc of Sexualities Simon & Gagnon Lifetime Career Award, honoring a career of groundbreaking research & impact. 🗓 Deadline: Feb 1 Tag someone whose work changed how you think about sex, relationships, and power.

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monique @thejournalista.com · 15/01/2026

I'm looking for someone who can write and/or speak on camera (knowledgeably!) about the criminalization of immigration THROUGH A BLACK LENS. If this is you, please respond. Please share.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Happy Anniversary to all who observe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-se...

From Wikipedia: In 1999, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in M v H that same-sex couples in Canada were entitled to receive many of the financial and legal benefits commonly associated with marriage. However, this decision stopped short of giving them the right to full legal marriage. Most laws which affect couples are within provincial rather than federal jurisdiction. As a result, rights varied somewhat from province to province.

On January 14, 2001, Reverend Brent Hawkes forced the issue by performing two same-sex marriages, taking advantage of the fact that Ontario law authorizes him to perform marriages without a previous license, via the issuance of banns of marriage. The registrar refused to accept the records of marriage, and a lawsuit was commenced over whether the marriages were legally performed. In other provinces, lawsuits were launched seeking permission to marry.

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I’m not from Ottawa but my confidence in that ice just increased exponentially

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

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Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Curiousity is such a valuable tool! I love asking questions when I'm having an ideological disagreement with someone. It's often the first time they've thought about the why.

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

What I'm reading today: "Family and consensual non-monogamy: Parents' perceptions of benefits and challenges" by Milaine Alarie in @jmfncfr.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

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McMaster Anthropology @anthromac.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The lastest from post-doctoral fellow, Loa Gordon: AI Can Code… But Can It Care? Exploring Automation in Qualitative Research

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What I'm reading today: "Swedish poly utopia: Dreams, revolutions, and crushed hopes" (Andersson and Carlström 2023). #polyamory doi.org/10.1177/1363...

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Gayle Kaufman @gaylekaufman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Did you publish a sociological book about families in 2024 or 2025? You should nominate it for the ASA Goode Book Award! I'm on the committee and looking forward to reading nominated books 🤓

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 05/01/2026

vouch for Orion

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm so proud of this article, based on my MA thesis research. This article looks at the uneven implementation of nonbinary gender identity recognition in Ontario. #anthropology #onpoli #ontario #nonbinary #queer

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Thank you!! 🥰 I’m so so glad it’s finally out in the world

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

My latest article is now out in @anthropologica.bsky.social! In 2017, the Ontario govt added "X" to the available gender marker options on ID cards. However, nonbinary people continue to encounter institutions that misrecognize them or recategorize them within the binary. #anthropology

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“I have to do so much more work… to let them know I’m different” | Anthropologica

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This article builds off of interviews with nonbinary people in Ontario to discuss the limits of gender marker reforms. Binary logics are deeply intertwined in institutions. Nonbinary people are constantly reassigned to binary categories in institutional contexts. #anthropology #nonbinary #onpoli

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“I have to do so much more work… to let them know I’m different” | Anthropologica

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Are the "serious concerns" the poor educational standards in Oklahoma? Because that is one poorly written essay.

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This explains so much about my asexual friends. First and foremost, are they everywhere at once??

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home

Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Inb4 - I know asexuality is a thing - it’s the whole misuse of the term “evolution” alongside it that I think makes his statement a nonsense salad

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Victoria Clowater @clowater.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I don't want to even read this but... how would we evolve into asexuals? Like are the asexuals having more reproductive success?? Or are we reproducing asexually?? Like, words mean things.

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