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K Allison

@kallison.bsky.social
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Film nerd, non-binary scholar, professor, cultural critic, wordsmith, artist. New book MASCULINITY IN TRANSITION, tracks the history of white toxic masculinity in the US. Looking for unruly alliances: educators, activists, creators, journalists.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
this is going to sound crass but my main opinion on the recent vile, bigoted, deliberately anti-medical supreme court decision on trans care is that in the immediate term blue states have to rapidly build more housing and help people get here
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/06/2025
Bodily autonomy is a human right. Transness isn't a disease that needs to be cured. We're a normal part of the spectrum that is the human condition. And we deserve to have the final say over our own bodies - not just because of the harm if we don't, but because they belong to us and not the state.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/06/2025
1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 18/01/2025
This is a pinnable post for the Book Bans & Libraries feed. See this Info Page to see if you can post to feed. If not (check first, thx), reply w/ "I agree with the terms" & I'll add you to the list. Feed looks for hashtags like #BannedBooks & #Freadom bsky.app/profile/debb... #BookSky
Illustration of books on fire. Text on cover reads "Book Banning & Libraries" while book below reads "Feed". Image includes two QR codes and a blue butterly logo.
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Yesss
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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Photo of a blond woman in car with the following caption: Crazy how it's considered normal to drop your kids off at daycare 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, just to drive to a job that pays for daycare, the car, and a home you're barely in. We're literally working to afford a life we hardly get to live. 

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/04/2025
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine, has been captive to the hard-line immigration policies of the Trump administration for nearly eight weeks. She fears arrest if she is deported.
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She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
👇Spot on
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
There is no limit to their cruelty.
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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is hiring a University Archives and Special Collections librarian. This is a great chance to work at a student-centered academic library and with a collection that has some incredible hidden gems. 🗃️ www.siue.edu/employment/l...
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Mary Beth Campbell @mbcampbell360.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
"If people like Mahmoud and me cannot express dissent on campus about matters of life and death without fear of reprisal, then university campuses are less than useless; they are the front lines of fascism."
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Christopher Street Project @christopherstreet.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
After relentless attacks from the Trump administration on the transgender community, trans Americans and allies from across the country will convene in Washington DC to show we’re not going anywhere. Join us at transdayofvisibility.com.
Trans Day of Visibility Rally
Washington DC
National Mall between 3rd St and 4th St
March 31 - 4 PM
transdayofvisibility.com
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Moving a detainee around to evade judicial review is classic authoritarian behavior.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/03/2025
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper... But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"When Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectionality framework is banned, when Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project is deemed dangerous, when Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and other literary masterpieces are labeled “inappropriate,” the message is clear: our full humanity threatens the established order."
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First Person: 'They ban books by Black authors. Then they tell us to celebrate Black History Month.' - Open Campus
As state legislatures and boards of regents debate whose histories deserve telling, those of us behind bars have long faced explicit bans on texts that challenge dominant narratives or examine racial ...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Elon Musk runs DOGE but also doesn't run DOGE. Schrödinger's bureaucrat
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Karen Weingarten @kweingarten.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Amazing starred review for Abortion Stories from @libraryjournal.bsky.social! They write: "It’s hard to imagine a public library that shouldn’t have a copy." I couldn't imagine a better endorsement! Read their blurb here: www.libraryjournal.com/review/abort...
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Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/03/2025
It's not subtle. It's not dog whistles. It's pure blood and soil ethnonationalism will multiple calls for wars of expansion and extermination of undesirables.
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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Donald Trump wants all trans people dead.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/03/2025
Trump: "A few years ago, January Littlejohn discovered their school had secretly transitioned their little girl" January Littlejohn is responsible for most "Don't Say Gay" laws around the country and book bans.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/03/2025
Trump just called for criminalizing transness and called transness "a big lie." This is really bad.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/03/2025
It's really a shame we never got to see the radical socialist open borders trans friendly US that Trump keeps saying Biden was creating. It really sounds lovely.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/03/2025
"Our country will be woke no longer" says Donald Trump about literally the United States of America, a country that has never been woke ever
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Folks in blue states who think you’re safe 👇
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
How many times last year were we lectured by pundits not to call Trump a fascist? The “very serious people” said it was a categorical error & a tactical mistake. They are still doing it. It’s not “the economy, stupid”—this is straight-up evil. How many people will die before they change their tune?
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Jaye @jaybird54.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited Good morning, beautiful BlueSky friends. Self-care is so important. Do what you need to do to get through these challenging times.
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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.
Email sent to FFSP.
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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I am pretty tired of this argument. Journal articles and books are sometimes not widely accessible (although some are), but academics speak much more often to the public now, through the media, op eds, trade books, and public lectures, than in the past and anti-intellectualism has grown.
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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There are many reasons for anti-intellectualism, but in the current moment, much of it is political. We’re in a rightwing, segregationist backlash & colleges are viewed as bastions of progressiveness and integration AND sources of an alternative form of authority, making them dangerous to fascists.
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I relate. It also brought up for me some family trauma. big abusive daddy telling me I should be grateful for everything he’s done for me. “Say thank you”- that just unraveled me.
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Hope this is not the future of entertainment- the domination of white-washed, insipid “family-friendly” entertainment designed to rewrite and erase the crimes of westward expansion, at the same time glorifying the white, patriarchal family as the so-called holy ideal. #project2025iscomingforyoutoo
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
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Utopian Studies(Journal) @utopianstudpsu.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
UTOPIAN STUDIES is the primary academic journal covering any and all aspects of things utopian and dystopian. And now we are on bluesky! We are in our 35th year, and soon have a massive double-issue coming out. More on that ... but meanwhile, please follow us!
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Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor @jaws525.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
@utopianstudpsu.bsky.social to all Utopianists: the double issue of Utopian Studies—vol.35.2-3—will be out on line in several days!
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025
It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Proud to be a Saluki! A bright moment in an otherwise brutal time.
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Luke Butler @lucaspbutler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Just in case this isn't already clear . . .
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts
The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“This is what’s really happening”. Yes.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13/02/2025
The Kennedy Center presents Sister Act, starring James Woods and the J6 Prison Choir
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The time is now.
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What could go wrong?
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K Allison @kallison.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“if a cohort of armed men with odd symbols had stormed government buildings, Americans would have recognized that as a coup attempt.” Or…if files, data were going up in flames in front of said buildings, for all to see, instead of quietly “deleted.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Obviously illegal, immoral, and just plain disgusting for a handful of young people to seize the personal and financial data of millions of others and hand it to a centibillionaire.
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Not a drill - "What Musk appears to be attempting is using the payments system to decide what congressionally approved spending will actually occur. If that happens, it will take our unfolding constitutional crisis to a whole new level."
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE
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