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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Intro to my new project at George Washington University. Excited!

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I have a friend who is a prominent feminist sociologist who is looking for a book coach/developmental editor who can help her shape her book project to reach a somewhat broader audience. She is writing n the field of feminist medical sociology. Any recommendations?

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Anna McCarthy’s latest hilarious,slightly demented and deeply insightful short story. Read at your own risk! 🤯

quarterlywest.com

Prose: Shitty Utopia — Quarterly West

Anna McCarthy

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

At 3am at the vet ER in Chelsea, I said goodbye to Kitty Gaga 🐈‍⬛ … Known in her younger years as Rocket Butt for her vigorous cookie action, She was 20 years old. She consoled me through 2 bouts of cancer and Covid. RIP 😭

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is such a good explainer on the US party system! If you have any interest in left electoral politics, you should read it. A guest post by Michael Kinnucan

jwmason.org

Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I wrote this blog post in 2017, disgusted with the Democratic Party—a roach motel for leftists. I feel similarly today! It’s still an open question whether the Dem party can be transformed from the left. I wish it could, and Mamdani gives me hope in NYC!, but I also seriously doubt it.

bullybloggers.wordpress.com

Exiting the Roach Motel

or What’s the Matter with the Democratic Party? By Lisa Duggan Tags: Dexit, Demexit, Dem-olish, Demogrets What’s a commie pinko queer feminist to do? Trump is in the White House, the far right is g…

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thanks to the CLAGS Board for selecting me to give the 2026 David R. Kessler Lecture. I am the 34th winner of the Kessler Award, which honors sustained achievement in LGBTQ Studies. Save the date: Friday, Nov 13, 2026, 6:30PM at CUNY Grad Center. Intros by Janet Jakobsen, Eng-Beng Lim, Tav Nyong'o.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I wish these men would get the memo that denial (this is false!) of a credible accusation is a damning response. A better one is “I don’t remember it that way.” In Platner’s case the accuser says that he was blackout drunk and did not remember. His flat out denial confirms he is a prick.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I have great medical news. When I stop olaparib in Sept my energy level will rebound. During the 3 yrs after I stop my chances of recurrence are 25%. After then my odds drop off a cliff—I am considered a long term survivor. I have a 70% chance of being a post-apocalyptic cockroach like Cher!

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I think the best book on the cancer industrial complex is Lochlan Jain’s Malignant. It argues that corporate interests cause cancer with little incentive to cure it—they make so much money treating it.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Scan results are in. One more year down, cancer free! On the current maintenance drug, 67% chance of getting through 5 more years. But who knows ? For now though I’m still not dead….💃

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

At the Wanda Events Pride dance with Janet Jakobsen. 💃🪩

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Democratic establishment crash-out is a wonderous thing to see. A bunch of people, their organization named after democracy, unable to handle the results of just a few popular elections, appealing to the unspoken rules of a club they thought belonged exclusively to them. Let's do it everywhere.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

An important takeaway from Mamdani’s success—men should smile more! 😁It sure works for the mayor….

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Celebrating Gemini birthdays with Eng-Beng Lim and Janet Jakobsen. 🎉🍾🥳

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

As the genocide in Gaza is more widely acknowledged & the Israeli state becomes more reviled, why is Israeli influence on freedom of speech & dissent still so effective? Why do universities, publications, govts continue to crack down on efforts to Free Palestine? Why have those efforts not eroded?

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Why is there almost no sense of humor on this app ? The only thing I miss about X/Twitter is the hilarious tweets appearing immediately in response to current events. Threads, meanwhile seems like a fake place full of crossposts from Instagram.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Phenomenal World publishes some incisive and important political essays. Here is one. Other significant left periodicals to watch: Equator, The Funambulist, Hammer & Hope, Lux. And always The Dig podcast. What have I missed? Link in comments.

phenomenalworld.org

Empire Suicide Watch | Herman Mark Schwartz

Examining the anatomy of US power

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Asbury Park trip for my birthday with Nan D Hunter of the Mounties. Idyllic. 🤩☀️🌊

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

7 years ago, the book launch party for Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed. A world ago. The political economy was already shifting from peak neoliberalism to some formation of neoliberal authoritarianism. But that moment has now passed as well. The Fire 🔥 next time is here.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

One of the best things about living in a queer world—the emphasis on staying close to ex’s. I have two that I’m still close to, one is my next of kin. She stayed in the hospital with me after cancer surgery, she is taking me to the beach for my birthday. We are an army of ex’s and I’m so grateful.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Alina Troyana, aka Carmelita Tropicana, was awarded the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award this year! Yesterday we had a little party to honor her legendary fabulosity.🤩🥳🌈🍾🎉

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Help the the independent left queer mag Pinko fund its next issue. Pinko is a crucial political and cultural resource publishing the provocative writers and artists in our community. See fundraising link in comments.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I can’t believe I get to live in Mamdani’s NYC! In the middle of a rising fascist tide, I live in a city governed by a competent, humane, and yes, adorable mayor.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Nearly all my friends have been called “crazy” when they were too direct, too angry or non compliant. Kate Manne elaborates. So do I, writing about the term “diffucult”—see the link in comments.

open.substack.com

When You’re Called Crazy

Reflecting on one of the most powerful weapons of misogyny

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I have a guilty pleasure, more embarrassing than the usual bad TV and doom scrolling. I’m reading fan fiction. I love the amateur energy, the effort and love that goes into writing for free, and the warm validation that suffuses the comments. And the main site, Archives of Our Own, is very queer.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is an amazing lineup at the New School! Despite the horrendous firing of tenured faculty and the general malfeasance of the admin, the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry is doing great programming. Link to register in comments.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

How Trump will steal the midterms. And what are Dems doing? Nothing of course….link in comments.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I don’t think of sexuality as an identity, but as a historically and culturally embedded life strategy. See my latest post, Escape Velocity, for elaboration. Link in comments.

open.substack.com

Escape Velocity or,

There Must Be 50 Ways to Leave the Family

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Repost of my original Welcone post, for new subscribers. It’s a mini-memoir to introduce myself to you.

open.substack.com

Escape Velocity or,

There Must Be 50 Ways to Leave the Family

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If the response from Democrats to family members and neighbors being thrown into concentration camps is to mobilize the police to attack people trying to stop these atrocities - then they are on the side of the concentration camps. www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...

inquirer.com

Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace | Will Bunch

New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Rerelease of this classic trans-butch buddy film with Silas Howard and Harry Dodge. At Anthology Film Archives in NYC June 12-18.

alteredinnocence.net

By Hook or By Crook | Altered Innocence

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yet a new category of “domestic terrorism” to be investigated by the Trump administration—“Anti-Tech Extremism,” including opposition to data centers. Can we call this tech-fascism? www.wired.com/story/us-law...

wired.com

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 28/05/2026

When We Win: Dispatches from Revolutionary Futures (Haymarket, 2027) will include stories by @jordyrosenberg.bsky.social, Mimi Lok, Anand Gopal, @reproutopia.bsky.social, @vickyacab.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, myself, @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social and @amajosephine.bsky.social

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Whether it's Kamala Harris spending $300 of her own money on Le Creuset cookware enameled with porcelain or Donald Trump spending $100 million of taxpayer money on shrines to himself plated with gold, both candidates made some puzzling expenditures.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This online school, founded by Liz Howard (Liz the Developer on Instagram), is the people’s coding college. Liz is a punk feminist anarchist techie devoted to democratizing knowledge and access to tech. Check out The Multiverse School. Link in comments.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I’ve had cancer twice—not a recurrence, but two separate cancers. Why? How? There is no cancer in my family. I don’t have the BRCA gene. I blame Donald Trump and NYU. They each tanked my immune system I’m sure.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The newest volume in my series with Curtis Marez for University of California Press, American Studies Now—Marisol LeBrón’s terrific new book! 🎉😍

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If you are interested in critical AI research look into the Distributed AI Research Institute that Timnit Gebru founded. And check out her paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

After 2 years on medical hiatus I just restarted my substack, Commie Pinko Queer. If you are a subscriber and didn’t get the recent post “Begin Again…”, it probably went to spam because of the 2 year dormancy. Fish it out of spam and reply to it, and you will be white listed again!

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