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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻

@mtrist2.bsky.social
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director of cultural studies & associate professor @ Towson|radical queerness, brownness, & performance|generally a curmudgeon|he/him/his|Baltimore

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 12h
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why do the gay men on this season of the traitors keep referring to themselves as dolls? Is this latest co-opt from trans women? It is genuinely difficult to watch them.
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
People that refer to me as Tristan on an email chain.....😤
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A monograph on the queer performance of dancing around and picking vegetables from my home garden in the rain with temperatures under 60. Is that anything?!
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“When Ramparts broke the story in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, describing the CIA as “liberal, nonviolent and honorable” and stating she would do it again.” medium.com/collapsenews...
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Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing…
Declassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminism’s Focus On Gender Over Class.
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minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What if defending study didn’t mean defending the university as it currently exists? Abolitionist University Studies asks us to put the institution itself back into question – and to separate study from the university’s claim to own it. Build the impossible. abolition.university/invitation/
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Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation - Abolition University
Abolition offers the occasion for thinking about the university in ways that the institution itself might otherwise render impossible.
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the hot dog guy @quesoquesoqueso.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
iceland's prison population is even smaller by comparison. 140 people or so, about 36 per 100k in iceland vs.. maryland at 475 per 100k and some parts of baltimore at over 3k per 100k they replaced prisons with social prorgrams and this is the effect
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
U.S. military power has poisoned Guam’s waters, controlled its politics, and prevented its people from determining their own future. www.currentaffairs.org/news/america...
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American Colonialism Lives on in Guam
U.S. military power has poisoned Guam’s waters, controlled its politics, and prevented its people from determining their own future.
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I read this thread verbatim to each of my classes this week when going over the syllabus and our relationship to generative AI and technofascism in the classroom. It sparked wonderful conversation. Making the mundane visible is a great tool for helping folks to think about this more critically!!
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the queer melancholia of autumn
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
happy first day of school! teaching college does not get easier. below are some resources for solidarity, courage, inspiration, collaboration first: assignment ideas, syllabus language, memes and more for the pro-learning classroom against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sharing a toolkit on jury nullification for no reason except it’s beautifully illustrated beyondcourts.org/en/act/votin...
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Voting "Not Guilty": A Toolkit on Jury Nullification
Jury nullification is a term used to describe a situation when jurors decide to acquit a person of criminal charges even though the person on trial could technically be convicted based on the evidence...
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Starting a new term tomorrow? Don't forget your ethos: teach to dismantle the institution rather than promote it, use the classroom as a space to organize, deconstruct fascist ideologies--don't let them dictate what you teach, complying in advance will not save you/students/us.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As I’ve been saying for almost two decades now, a majority of academics are either conservative or solidly centrist. The myth of the Marxist professors is one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in modern history.
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Gay Shame @gay-shame.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Queers hate techies
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What is so hellish about this is how mundane it all is. Sigh. It also provides mundane opportunities to de-tech yourself. Literally start by asking yourself, what can I do differently each day. And then keep asking.
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
To say I have the academic calendar equivalent to the sunday scaries is both accurate and understated.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Billy Fleming
@JooBilly
I too had an extremely alienating experience upon landing at an Ivy, fresh out of a PhD, after growing up poor in the rural south.
I was shocked to find a campus rumored to be replete with Marxists and liberal indoctrination trainings was instead...

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A fiefdom for the private equity, real estate, and trust fund folks of NYC to impose their views on every aspect of campus life. I found a beleaguered campus, w/well meaning faculty and staff cohort who knew they could no longer push on the ocean of conservatism that governed it.Billy Fleming @JooBilly • 6h
I saw Deans and Chairs hired bc of their fealty to these interests (or willingness to bend their schools/depts to them, censorship in overt and covert ways on faculty, and resources given/cut based on a willingness to serve folks who, for instance, funded Trump Super PACs.

I saw faculty careers detonated because of minor conflicts with these ideas/ personalities, surveillance of all forms of electronic communication used to tank T/P cases, and students disillusioned by a campus so obviously beholden to conservative forces.

No one wants to publish stories like this, because they don't serve the interests of those same conservative forces who make pubs like the Atlantic possible.
Always a lane for laundering cruelty and evil unfortunately.
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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Rod Ferguson on the dangers of the Vanderbilt report and its collaborators.
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Tragedy at Vanderbilt – History of the Present
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I've returned from vacation with the following question: is anyone writing around the very niche intersection of race, masculinity, and swimwear with or without underwear usage?
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Unidentified sunny beach with umbrellas and people in the ocean
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 31/07/2026
Some days running a radical space is just unnecessarily hard. Help us keep it going by becoming a monthly sustainer: donorbox.org/red-emmas-2026
a bathroom sink, fallen off the wall and shattered. the walls are a nice shade of orange, at least!
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Headline of another article from the Crimson earlier this year that reads, "Harvard College Adds Required AI Module to Expository Writing Curriculum"
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This week's post is about how the Red Scare is a big enough tent for all of us. With an explainer about socialism vs anarchism vs communism, complete with a diagram. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-red-scar...
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A Red Scare Big Enough For All of Us
or: you don't even have to be a red to scare the fascists
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/07/2026
Just like this. Refuse to comply. Our organizations are made of us. If we don't participate when they choose hate? They adjust or they are replaced.
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ok but who is going to take me clubbing in Berlin during the winter of 1990 this summer???
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We have reached the point in July where I have to listen to wintery music to remind myself that, one day, I will feel cold again 😭
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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Artwork with lines saying every American flag is a warning sign, by Demian DinéYazhi’
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
What is so important about this image is it opens transparency of the norm here. Nazis may not always dress like this but the image captures the material and affective reality of living in the US.
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 04/07/2026
July 4th is nothing to celebrate. 20% of all book sales today, in the store and online, will be donated to the legal support funds for the Prairieland defendants and the Minneapolis 15. Bookstore and cafe open until 4pm today, come through if you are feeling unpatriotic!
Post text over a picture of the algae filled dc reflecting pool
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I know therapy works because is over 100 today and my body hasn’t reverted back to desiring to die like everyday of the 5 years I spent in Phoenix.
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 02/07/2026
Here's our list of 250 books on why America's 250th birthday is nothing to celebrate: bookshop.org/lists/250-bo...
A mosaic of book covers, with the text "250 Books on Why America is a Problem"
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today we are all Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 And if for some reason you needed more rationale to root for them, this masterpiece released right before the world cup is 🤌
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Dubioza Kolektiv - I Am from Bosnia - Take Me to America (Official video)
YouTube video by Dubioza kolektiv
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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans women are women, trans women will always be women, end of story
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Once again screaming for the dc metro to connect to Baltimore city 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Apparently I have lost all my ability to flirt with femmes and I feel very strongly that I gotta get it back.
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
just logged in today and a bunch of bots followed me???
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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/06/2026
Queer New Yorkers are fighting for Riis Beach as a developer with Israeli government ties plans a private beach club.
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New York’s Iconic Queer Beach Faces Looming Privatization Scheme
Queer New Yorkers are fighting for Riis Beach as a developer with Israeli government ties plans a private beach club.
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
10. To the ones we loved in Orlando and to the ones still dancing.
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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Good morning. Your periodic reminder that this city is queer af and it’s free to read all about it.
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🐷🙅‍♀️🤝🫂
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Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 04/06/2026
MD’s public pension system divested ~85% of the Israeli sovereign bonds it held last year. That's >$62 MILLION divested from Israeli bonds. But the work is not over. Join our rally on 6/13 at McKeldin Plaza to demand FULL divestment and read the full press release here: www.cair.com/press_releas...
Event flyer for "Divest the Rest!", a MD Break the Bonds Rally at McKeldin Plaza on June 17, 3-6pm. Details in caption.
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Image description: Event flyer for MD Break the Bonds Rally called "Divest the Rest!" at McKeldin Plaza, 101 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21202 on June 17, 3-6pm. There is a QR code to the center right of the image that links to bit.ly/mdbtb617. The background of the image is a MD flag and there is a graphic of a chain breaking, followed by the logos of all the organizations that have signed onto the rally. Top row, left to right: JVP Baltimore, JVP DC Metro, Our Revolution: Montgomery County, Christians for a Free Palestine, MCPSN, Baltimore Teachers Union, CAIR, World Beyond War. Middle row, left to right: MD Neighbors Against Genocide, Montgomery County DSA, Metro DC DSA, Baltimore DSA, Hinenu Baltimore, Palestinian Youth Movement, Montgomery County Jewish Collective, PG County DSA. Bottom row, left to right: SJP UMD, HCMA, Howard County for a Free Palestine, Baltimore 2 Palestine Vigil, [logo with Palestine flag, missing org name], MD 2 Palestine, Howard County for Human Dignity, Frederick for Justice in Palestine, Annapolis Friends Meeting.

Transcription: Maryland has offloaded $63 million of the $74 million of investment in Israeli bonds. Join us for a celebratory rally and to demand the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System divest the rest!
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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
America 250 events have officially kicked off in DC. We’ve put together a guide on what it is, how it will impact folks in DC — especially our unhoused neighbors — & what you can do to help them! 🧵1/9
A slide deck of graphics with a yellow background, text in white, yellow, purple, and orange boxes, and small line drawing graphics of megaphones. In the bottom corner of this graphic is the logo for Remora House. The text in bold and all caps reads: “America 250 in DC. What it is… How it will impact residents of DC… and how you can help your unhoused neighbors.”
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Anyway, free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A tattoo artist whose books I've tried to get on for a decade (???) responded positively to my latest submission. And Pokemon go has released new showcases in my neighborhood. Best Tuesday ever!?!
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