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|| phd student and discursive footnote enthusiast || lived experience and memory culture of queer people under german and italian fascisms @ university of southern california

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 11h
next up!
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 12h
you know it's a good read when the final flags look like this and you had to pull out some arts and crafts to get all your notes on one page
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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 18h
This week for NC our author explores the rise of “Keeper” an illustrates how this app’s AI algorithms perpetuate eugenic love. nursingclio.org/2026/10/01/t...
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The “Keeper” of Modern US Eugenics: How AI Matchmaking Perpetuates Eugenic Love
In 2022, tech entrepreneurs Jake Kozloski and Cody Zervas launched a new dating website. Unlike Bumble or Hinge, this site is powered by artificial intelligence and promises its users “love at fir…
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 15h
just paused reading about Hirschfeld's queer eugenics and this is like the first thing i see... i'm so 🫩🫠
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
update: was able to ask her son and the verdict is that she and stan hated foucault and felt he was the death of art and ruining college campuses
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.
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William @meche-hokie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Scenes from 5th century Rome
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 03/10/2026
"oh well she had comorbidities" yeah we're supposed to protect vulnerable people
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's 92 degrees at 10am and i'm voluntarily going to a hotter part of town to see an anne rice celebration that is dedication
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Carolina hurricanes are testing me in the same way that Ferrari does… 
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
today's book and annotation flag color matching brought to you by la metro transit
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy LGBTQ+ History month from all of us at the LGBTQ+ History Association!
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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I know lots of libs have had a field day making “closeted gay” jokes about Hegseth, and not only are they homophobic, they’re also wrong. It’s simpler than that, as Jazz points out. Hegseth is obsessed with penises because he honestly believes his is the only thing special about him, and thus men.
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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*thoughtfully* at least two
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
student in my office hours: so how many books do you read over your whole phd?
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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026
End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
happy "flip a cybertruck off wednesday" to all those who celebrate!
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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Brady knew how to read, he would be so mad.
"Brady Tkachuk"
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hopecore for today
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i swear to god if students put in the same effort they do emailing me about trivial aspects of a non-graded thesis check in as they did writing the actual paper they would get a better result and i'd be way less annoyed
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am lucky to have not been sexually assaulted or raped by a colleague but cis men in academia behave like cis men in power everywhere & the Cornell case makes me so angry we’re not doing shit about the rape culture at universities still. It’s not just frat parties. It’s the institutions, too.
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
capped the night off with a good one!
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lookin' at ur department website, noticin' that 80% are men over 60, knowin' that you just denied tenure to four young non-white scholars. Meanwhile, you're *all* burning out your mid-career women.
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sleeping on the clock yet again
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Only rich people are allowed to do social work, art, study religion, educate others, and create music is the uptick.
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Richard E Frankel @refrankel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nazi Germany? Stalin’s Russia? Pussycats compared to Canada!!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
happy monday! finally got to open up all the books that arrived while i was at the GSA!
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i can never chose just one, so i'll choose three: the new fascist body by dagmar herzog, i will not abandon you by samuel huneke, or people without history are dust by anna hájková
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
man in front of me has already put his seat back.... we are still at the gate and boarded hasn't closed
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
shoutout the southwest gate agent giving a little improvised song as she started the boarding process the whimsy doesn't go unnoticed
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
constantly suprised by the attempts at "southern" foods outside the south but i still order it everytime because i never learn
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 25/09/2026
I’m telling you right now, I would rather stick a fork in my eye than watch this new movie about a PhD student falling in love with her professor
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Why is the U.S. public so much more negative on AI than almost anyone else? Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.
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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau [ . . . ] The initiators of the Heidenau ban argue that, while remembering Holocaust victims is an essential task, the placement of stones leads to 'passersby walking over or even stepping onto the names of the victims.'" My thoughts below.
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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau
Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the easter...
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NHL (Bot) @notnhl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THE CANES WERE DOWN 5-1 AND SCORED WITH THREE SECONDS LEFT TO WIN IT 6-5! 🔥 Electric stuff in the preseason.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks! Full article here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Historian here: this argument is not working the way you think it is
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
finally packed for the gsa! so excited!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
Equality PAC, the campaigning arm of the Congressional Equality Caucus, announced its endorsement of Marcy Kaptur and other anti-trans Dems days after political ads targeting trans people. Even the LGBTQ+ congressional caucus is throwing trans people aside. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Equality PAC, Political Arm Of Congressional LGBTQ Caucus, Endorses Marcy Kaptur Days After Her Anti-Trans Ad
“Do we need to endorse people in order to support them? Do we need to support them in order to have power in Congress?”
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You ever see a post that, for professional reasons, you want to print out and laminate
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
watching my train leave the station while i'm across the street with the heaviest bags ever
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is literally the way that republicans would joke about it veiled (thinly) in online speech patterns/hello fellow kids type phrasing btw
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Like this is deeply bad and fucked up actually??? Making disabled, chronically ill, and marginalized people a national laughing stock?? Cause we don’t have enough trouble existing already?? Y’all already forced us out of your communities how about now just leave us alone? bsky.app/profile/yash...
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can y’all PLEASE start recognizing how hard you’re being propagandized against disabled people & maybe stop contributing to the hate?
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