Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 28/09/2026Today Cornell tells us that suspension, expulsion, writing an essay, and/or attending a workshop are adequate punishments for SA. Saying these "consequences" are adequate is itself evidence of the problem. They can't be bothered to disguise their misogyny. 181
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 26/09/2026The author, Toby Buckle, is not wrong—though I would say restrictions in ELITE competition. Once you cave to the right, as Labor did, you end up where Labor is now: viciously going after trans people, cutting health care for children & adults, denying trans people access to ANY bathroom. 070
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 16/07/2026Some of us try to parse the transphobia, see an underlying logic or rationality--attacking trans people is a way to undermine feminism, or to prop up a masculinity that the economy no longer does. But sometimes it's just batshit crazy. 4102
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 15/07/2026When the real news is so much more nuts than The Onion. 0104
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 30/06/2026Justice Thomas: “Sex is an immutable ‘biological’ characteristic…To use language to obscure reality—to show ‘indifference regarding truth’—is to lie to the public.” By Thomas's logic—not mine—I should still play on women's teams, have an ID with an F on it, use the women's room. Who's lying? 3182
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 15/06/2026Tomorrow is Lou Sullivan's birthday and we all need some inspiration in this time of anti-trans insanity. This quote never fails to inspire me. Here he is at 13, writing in his diary. (Sullivan grew up to be a gay trans man & a pioneer of FTM community organizing, dying died of AIDS in 1991. 23314
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 01/06/2026He didn’t need to go here to make his point. But he did. You can make a case for Platner without relying on this tired misogyny. (Picture from his Substack.) 13529
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 22/05/2026Trying to get Claude to help me understand the geometry of edging a kayak in wind. Didn’t go well. 130
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 14/04/2026NYT today: Magyar won because he distanced himself from pesky LGBTQ community. 2025: Budapest Pride turned into a major pro-democracy event after Orban banned it, over a hundred thousand show up in support, not just LGBTQ people. NYT eds should read their own paper www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o... 160
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 26/02/2026@adamconover.net has a terrific podcast, and I don't say that just because I'm on it this week. Adam is the polymath of comedians. It's a pleasure to talk to him about trans issues. He's so well informed, one doesn't have to retread the usual talking points, so the conversation goes further. 05711
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 25/02/2026 I always enjoy talking to @adamconover.net, the polymath of comedians. headgum.com/factually-wi... 0506
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 25/02/2026@judith-levine.bsky.social watched Melania so we don't have to. Techbros, Fuentes, Epstein and Musk: On women in Trumpland. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the... 092
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 20/02/2026DOGE comes to higher ed: Proud of my friend @lisalmoore.bsky.social, of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UT Austin, who does not pull her punches, on demoting WGS and other "woke" departments. www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head... 1/ 22710
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 15/02/2026Read Melinda Cooper on Epstein and the tech bros: primal fathers, the backlash against #MeTo, and the return of master-servant relationship. (One has to create a free account to read) www.equator.org/articles/eps... 0105
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 13/02/2026Guardian piece by the redoubtable Joan Scott explaining the connections between Trump’s Defending Women EO and shutting down women’s and gender studies prograns. archive.is/2026.02.13-1... 0125
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 11/02/2026CFP for a special issue on the global politics of anti-trans moral panics from transfeminist perspectives. Timely and necessary. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg... 01410
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 19/01/2026We become the people capable of changing the world by acting as if we already are. Seems like Minnesotans are doing this. From an essay by Amia Srinivasan. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 0279
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 15/01/2026Just saw the exciting news that Robin Dembroff's eagerly anticipated book will be coming out in April. global.oup.com/academic/pro... 3173
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 09/11/2025And is a short piece condensing the argument: static1.squarespace.com/static/6160c... 073
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 06/11/2025Headline change from this morning, I see. Probably meant what they said the first time. Liberal feminism doesn't really work as a euphemism for women. 091
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 16/10/2025Or, as @lornab.bsky.social put it, don't let UT Austin succeed in its bid to become the University of Austin 053
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 16/10/2025This decision by UT’s administration is not driven by any educational reasons--UT administrators are bowing to a national political attack on the freedom to learn by censoring subjects and silencing departments. The state should not be telling administrators what their students can study. 021
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 18/06/2025Didn’t realize someone on Bluesky could get ratioed so badly so quickly. 0211
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 17/06/2025Today, I'm on a Zoom panel about the Trump 2.0. English and Spanish translation available. Short presentations and group discussions. bit.ly/dialogos-pendientes-emergentes-1706 151
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 09/06/2025This book will make you see the debate over women's sports in a very different light--it unlocks the history of sex testing in Olympic sports, and it's not what you thought. For NYC people, I'm doing an event with Michael Waters to mark the paperback release of this fabulous book--Wed. June 11th 0101
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 02/06/2025New York friends--I am doing at event with Jamie Lauren Keiles, Whit Washington, and Joanna Wuest on Wednesday at 6:30 at the McNally Jackson store at South Street Seaport. The event is sold out but I have a few free tickets, if anyone is interested--DM me. 0142
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 14/05/2025The times, they are a changing. Found this blast from the past going through old files. 2329
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 12/05/2025What's happening is even worse than you realize. @naomiaklein.bsky.social explains the rage of the tech-bro oligarchs: science supports regulation on business, therefore science (and universities) must be dismantled; culling humans is good. Also AI will solve everything. archive.ph/oRn3z 173
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 07/05/2025Just arrived. So excited to read @talia-mae.bsky.social’s book. We really need new good ideas, and I can’t wait to dig in. @uminnpress.bsky.social 0407
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 21/04/2025Todays news--No NIH grants to universities that have DEI programs or boycott Israel. 3246
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 19/04/2025This is very bad news for me because I love em dashes, have one or a set in every paragraph. But I’m not AI (as far as I know). 6213
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 18/04/2025Could this bad news be good? Is it possible for trans people to NOT be outed in our medical records? I fear the big systems I'm part of (NYU Langone, Mt. Sinai) would just hand over lists of trans patients if Trump asked. A year ago, if I'd had this thought I'd accuse myself of paranoia, but not now 2191
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 03/04/2025Turns out April 3 WAS liberation day--not from tariffs, but from Pamela Paul. Her reactionary liberalism paved the way for the authoritarianism we're hurtling toward. Andrea Long Chu's essay on Paul's contributions is not to be missed. nymag.com/intelligence... 4439
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 03/03/2025This is a book I've been waiting for. From Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Dallas Denny, Jamison Green, and Kyan Linch. (Facebook wouldn't a bookstore advertise this book. If you're on FB, only use it with your computer and only with an ad blocker). sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi... 1243
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 25/02/2025In December, during oral arguments in Skrmetti, Justice Coney Barrett opined, "we don't have a history of de jure discrimination against transgender people." I was flabbergasted. So I chronicled some of the most egregious examples for @law360.bsky.social static1.squarespace.com/static/6160c... . 39041
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 25/02/2025Hot off the press. (This is published in @law360.bsky.social , which is paywalled, hence the PDF). static1.squarespace.com/static/6160c... 1223
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 03/02/2025Um, no. (Seriously, though, a reminder to exercise care in responding to random emails.) 130
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 03/02/2025Some more information, from 2015. (Corrected 9/, picture added) transequality.org/sites/defaul... 060
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 03/02/2025The Wall Street Journal described the EO on sex definition as creating “headaches” for trans people: “individuals could end up with conflicting government identification documents that use different gender markers, a headache when completing tasks such as opening a new bank account.” 1/ 158618