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Jack of Our Dyke Histories

@jgieseking.bsky.social
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Environmental psychologist, geographer, and a gregarious good time about all things queer trans dyke queergeographies.com linktr.ee/ourdykehistories

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
The Tennessee AG is launching a massive investigation into an abortion fund. The investigation follows the same playbook used on gender affirming care providers by utilizing baseless unfair and deceptive trade practices claims. wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tennessee AG Launches Investigation into State's Abortion Fund
Abortion Care Tennessee's attorney says the investigation is retaliation for a free speech case the state lost.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What a great take on the #LastDitch #lesbianbar article gone viral.
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
While I wander the #archives of #NYC, please also enjoy the way she looks at him and he looks at her because it makes my heart explode every time. Jessica Tarbox Beals taking photos in 1917 #GreenwichVillage. "La Paris, France, Lunch Al Fresco" collections.mcny.org/asset-manage... #Village
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What comes around on the guitar: before "Wars" on Crime, Poverty, and Drugs, aka #antiBlack, govt-funded initiatives, I woke up way too early to discover heinous #JEdgarHoover launched an #antiqueer, #antitrans "War on Sex Criminals" in 1937. #lgbt #trans #queer #lgbtq
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/08/2026
Enes is being weird again. Again, There. Are. No. Trans. Women. In. The. WNBA. What there are, is a lot of Black women. And weirdos that hate Black women, invent reasons to try to bring their weird issues to Black women. Leave Black women alone.
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We are back in the saddle of #OurDykeHistories episodes on all things #lesbianbars, #queerparties, and #transgender hangouts. We know AIDS has forever changed queer life, but I'm still reeling at Lucas' insights about how it also forever changed the entire #spacetime of queer nightlife.
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Editing #LucasHildebrand's interview for @ourdykehistories.bsky.social:: " One of my favorite things I found in any archive: there was a box that I opened it up and it had tissue paper. I open up the tissue paper, and it's a pair of clear vinyl disco shoes that were rhinestoned." #queerarchives
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
That really nerdy reason you spend a Saturday texting a bunch of #GIS/#mapping geographers about the state of the world. So many existing #OSM, #GoogleMaps, etc., lessons for #guardrails -- as they're called -- to prevent #misinformation. Lez slow down and not break things, y'all. #critGIS #slowGIS
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Finally got to take the Gender Census and it felt so good. This is important, smart work. Please contribute, transes, nbs, queeros, and all of our people! #trans #transgender
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Same-sex pool Traer, IA
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind. Second Enlightenment level.
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
A happy thing in the midst of the poo: my eldest wanted to see the @ourdykehistories.bsky.social podcast "being so real" in Spotify. So if you see comments that say YAY JACK or similar 11yo sentiments, pls know these comments are the coolest to me and I'm keeping them forever.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 15/01/2026
The Minnesota Department of Human Services delayed all payments to providers of 14 Medicaid services in the first weeks of a new system designed to prevent fraud. Providers said the delay caught them by surprise and interrupted payrolls, leaving older and disabled Minnesotans without care.
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DHS abruptly delayed all payments to providers of 14 Medicaid services in fraud prevention effort • Minnesota Reformer
Melissa Berg is a paid personal care assistant for her friend, a disabled person who needs 24/7 care. In December, Berg received a memo from AM Home Healthcare, the St. Paul-based agency she works und...
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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I was really delighted to talk with Jack Gieseking for the @ourdykehistories.bsky.social episode about the '40s - 60s! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...
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Queer Pulp, Dark Bars & the Police State, 1940s-1960s
Podcast Episode · Our Dyke Histories · 12/15/2025 · 56m
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
My entire Massachusetts family is bawling at the beauty of watching Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social be sworn in. Mazels and thank goodness for this hope. We are with you.
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Is 1928's Café Dorian Gray Actually Cubbyhole 2025?! www.queergeographies.com/cafe-dorian-... Wander through Weimar Berlin's CDG, which hosted a 600-member lesbian club -- and looks *just* like #NYC #GreenwichVillage's famed Cubbyhole. #lesbianbar #lgbtqbar #lesbian #queer #trans #dykebar
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Is 1928's Café Dorian Gray Actually Cubbyhole 2025?!
I'm enamored with Café Dorian Gray in 1928 Berlin – maybe because I've been to its twin(!), none other than the renowned Cubbyhole in 2025. Yes, really.
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Did you know the only published and printed #lesbianbar guide in history is from Berlin in 1928? Every other lezbiqueertrans tour guide includes many spaces beyond nightlife. Check it out here: www.queergeographies.com/the-only-les... #lesbian #bar #queer #trans #bisexual #dyke
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The Only Lesbian Bar Guide in the World Is from 1928
Since the first episodes of the Our Dyke Histories podcast on the 1920s and 1930s will begin (in nine days!) in Berlin dyke bars*, it's only fair to bring the magic and visuals to you. What Berlin joy...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025
this is genuinely wild
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 05/11/2025
A text box in the lower right states: "After a campaign that promised high taxes, free stuff, hating Israel and vibes, socialist Zohran Mamdani romped to victory last night and will become the 111th mayor of New York City." Democrats, take notes and romp to victory!
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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
#Taipei marches in support of trans rights tonight 🏳️‍⚧️
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Hooper @hooperhooper.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Announcing SEQC50, a conference and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1st Southeastern Gay Conference, held at UNC in 1976. Join us April 10-11, 2026. We invite community members, activists, and academics to propose a panel, performance, or discussion! carolinapride.unc.edu/event/seqc50/
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SEQC50 - Carolina Pride Alum Network
FIFTY YEARS OF QUEER ACTIVISM AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL APRIL 10-11, 2026 | CHAPEL HILL, NC SIGN UP FOR UPDATES ON SEQC50
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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
NEW: With the great Nina Martin, I wrote about bombshell allegations about a Planned Parenthood chapter in the South that has been taken over by new leaders with conservative connections. One new leader has even described herself as "pro-life." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Scoop: Staffers fear a southern Planned Parenthood faces a “dangerous threat from within”
One new leader called herself “pro-life” and another asked about partnering with anti-abortion groups.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22/10/2025
after “it can happen here,” there is the work of recognizing people know it’s happening here
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Financially Burdened: A Rapid Review of the Impact of Financial Stress on University Students and Their Coping Strategies Guided by Lazarus and Folkman’s stress and coping theory, this review synthesizes findings from 19 studies published 2014-2024 and focuses on coping strategies.
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
See y'all there!!
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, & desire that built it. 🤌 > Counting down the hrs for #OurDykeHistories release tomorrow, my #podcast I've produced with my phenomenal collaborator, #SinisterWisdom!! Preview us here: rss.com/podcasts/our... #lesbian #queer #dyke #trans #bi
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Our Dyke Histories | Podcast on RSS.com
Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, and desire that built it. 🤌**About UsDecade by decade, Our Dyke Histories dives deep into the living, breathing past and present of lesbian, quee...
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Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 30/05/2025
@praeyesright.bsky.social's Hialy Gutierrez on why "school choice" is billionaires' way of dismantling democracy religiondispatches.org/the-billiona...
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The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
A federal school voucher program, or “universal school choice” as supporters call it, is a key piece of the Right’s agenda to dramatically change education as we’ve known it. A central element in the ...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/08/2025
Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.
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Asad L. Asad @asadasad.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Immigration enforcement *is* a public health crisis, and a longstanding one at that. It harms both physical and mental health, and its effects burden immigrants and the U.S. born alike.
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Jack of Our Dyke Histories @jgieseking.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Utterly delighted to find A Queer New York: Geographies of #Lesbians, #Dykes, and #Queers fully free, #openaccess, and downloadable at library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... -- thanks so much, @oapenbooks.bsky.social! #lgbt #lgbtq #bisexual #trans
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A Queer New York
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 12/05/2025
I was wondering who’s responsible for the ongoing demolition of NSF. Aside from Chief Management Officer Cheatham, whose resignation the staff union seeks, it appears to be 3 DOGE agents: Farritor (23), Terrell (25), and Riley (33). None appear to have any familiarity with scientific research.
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 12/05/2025
NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch. One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.
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Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/04/2025
8. Trans women in prisons have recently reported having their hair shorn and their feminine clothing confiscated; being deprived of medication; and being subjected to mandatory, invasive body inspections by doctors and prison staff, including breast examinations. www.madycast.com/p/i-cannot-i...
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“I Cannot Imagine Surviving”: Read the Stories of the Trans Women Facing Forced Head Shaving and Medical Detransition in Florida Prisons
Legal documents filed by trans women reveal that trans inmates have endured widescale persecution, humiliation, suffering, trauma, and brushes with death for many years in Florida prisons.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
what the actual fuck
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
Full of people down 5th avenue, view from 39th Street.
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Longmont Kathy @longmontkathy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#handsoff Paris
Place de Republique, April 5
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Sarah Dohl ❌👑 @sarahdohl.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Two new *very exciting* #handsoff events came in today: American Samoa and Puerto Rico. Send them some love tonight, y'all. And in case you hadn't zoomed out on the map, let me do it for you, because multiple cities in Portugal, France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany are showing up.
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lakerat61.bsky.social @lakerat61.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#HandsOff in a small town in ruby red Alabama
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices. "The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."
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New York City Voters Support Municipal Grocery Stores - Climate and Community Institute
Read our Substack piece on why municipal grocery stores can bring down costs and repair food supply chains.  The rising cost of groceries has driven nearly 50 …
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Behind this astonishingly impressive £30k. / month savings (amazing for a health system in crisis) is also an increase in people leading healthier lives, experiencing fewer episodes of poor health, and material steps to closing wide gaps in health inequalities.
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Precarity is a relational condition: people aren't simply 'precarious' but they are *made* precarious e.g. by marginalisation due to gender, bullying and harassment or disability. Above all, institutions make us precarious, and that condition has now been more widely generalised
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025
the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 24/01/2025
“You’re under arrest.” “I’m a reporter.” “I don’t care.” Read more from Mohawk journalist Isaac White about his arrest and prosecution for covering a land claim demonstration in northern New York in May 2024: freedom.press/issues/mohaw...
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