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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I sincerely want to thank everyone who has shared the campaign or donated to it. Asking for help is not something I've ever been comfortable with, but the response to my doing so is showing me that I'm not alone out here. Thank you. gofund.me/9dfd8f133

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Donate to Help Christy-Lynne Get on Her Feet, organized by Christy-Lynne Lapine

I’m Christy-Lynne, and I started this fundraiser after moving to Binghamton to… Christy-Lynne Lapine needs your support for Help Christy-Lynne Get on Her Feet

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm tired from throwing everything else at the wall to see what might stick, so now I'm down to asking for help. Any assistance or sharing would help immensely! gofundme/71e2ed548

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/04/2026

Here's everything this bill targets.

A screenshot of a document section titled "Bathroom restrictions:" with four bullet points.
Designate all public and government-owned multi-occupancy restrooms and changing rooms as single-sex, with exceptions for those accompanying someone under 10 or someone with a disability.
Allow individuals to take legal action against whoever maintains the restrooms and changing rooms if they encounter someone who they perceive to be of the opposite sex.
Allow students and employees in both K-12 and higher education to take legal action against school districts if the student encounters someone who they perceive to be of the opposite sex in a restroom or locker room.
Allow the attorney general to take action against any proprietor of a public space for allowing violations of a single sex restroom facility, up to and including civil penalties.

A screenshot of a document section titled "Name and pronoun restrictions:" with two bullet points.
Ban school and higher education employees from addressing a minor by a name other than their legal name (or a derivative) or using pronouns that don't correspond to the minor's "biological sex."
Prevent school, higher education and government employees and students from being disciplined for not identifying their pronouns or for misgendering or deadnaming trans students or employees.

A screenshot of a document section titled "Restrictions on sex markers on documentation:" with five bullet points.
Mandate that all Ohio birth and death certificates have a sex marker listed on the documentation.
Ban changing a sex marker on all marriage and divorce documents.
Ban changing a sex marker on all birth certificates.
Ban changing a sex marker on all death certificates.
Language about "biological sex" was inserted twice into sections of the law pertaining to driver's licenses. Although there is not explicitly a restriction, ban or change to sex markers on these licenses, the insertion of language on "biological sex" into this particular section should be noted.

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The stress is real when you weren't in the top tier of grad applicants chosen for funding! (Final decisions haven't been made yet, so hope is not entirely lost yet)

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I was grading midterms this morning, blue booked essay questions, and I had the weirdest non sequitur in recent memory. While cringing at some students' lack of intentional writing as I read the meandering mess I started to think about the lost art of the love letter. 1/

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I had fully expected to have to wait to hear back from PhD History programs that I applied to. This morning I was informed that I have been accepted to the program I really wanted at SUNY Binghamton! One less thing to stress over in my final MA semester.

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

February is going to be tense. Not only do I have course requirements and TA requirements and end of program requirements to fulfill - I also have to sit in the silence of not yet knowing if I'm accepted to any of the PhD programs I applied for.

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Running amok at the AHA conference, celebrating my birthday, and meeting both up-and-coming scholars and big names in my field! Tired, but I can sleep through tomorrow!

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I had a wonderful Zoom meeting yesterday with a potential PhD advisor. My current advisor was the person who recommended this one, and I really hope that I get to work with this person!

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The Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Join me tomorrow at 3pm PST for one helluva livestream, where I will be covering the what history MAGA demands to be censored and label "woke," as well as the ways historians are fighting back. Gonna be interesting: youtube.com/live/mZQgZww...

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What is “woke history” according to MAGA? Finding a pattern and how to fight back, live

The current administration has continued its attacks on education, something I covered here: https://youtu.be/B6g8z1Z7Lt4 . Now that we have a more compreh...

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I'm currently in the weeds of the end of term. Grading papers, writing papers, and just trying to not explode! I also had to submit PhD program applications to Yale, Princeton, University of Minnesota, Binghamton, and UW Madison. Thank goodness the next deadline isn't until the 15th!

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I don't know what's worse- applying to ten different PhD programs or doing so while also finishing the semester and grading papers as a TA. Eek!

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I've meant to be a lot more active on here, but between research, applying for PhD programs, personal issues, and the expected rigors of grad school I just haven't had the spoons. I think that I have a finished list of 8 schools to apply to now. We'll see!

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It’s really important that people understand this isn’t just a matter of markers. There is no record. Without recognition, not only is there no healthcare, gender-concordant housing, or basic protections against discrimination, for many people they will simply cease to officially exist.

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Trans People Have Disappeared From ICE Records, Against Congressional Orders

The Trump administration has made efforts to "erase" transgender people, who face violence and medical neglect behind bars.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/06/2025

Today, senator Ron Wyden will raise a point of order to remove the Medicaid and CHIP ban on gender affirming care. The Republicans need 60 votes to keep it in but they only have 53. Call your Dem senator today and urge them to vote to strip the ban from the bill. Senate switchboard 202-224-3121.

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Republicans vote to kill

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/06/2025

JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms. This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.

Screenshot of a tweet by J.K. Rowling replying to Mark Adam Harold. Mark's tweet asks, "How are you planning to police public toilets?" J.K. Rowling responds: "Quite easily, really. Decent men will stay out, as they always have, so we can assume all who don't are a threat, given their disregard for women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. Photographing, reporting and disseminating such men's images online will be a piece of cake." The tweet was posted at 10:51 PM on June 21, 2025, and has 216.9K views, 298 comments, 1.2K retweets, 10K likes, and 152 bookmarks.

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

A conservative federal appeals court banned the Louisiana law which call ms for displaying the Ten Commandments in all classrooms since it violates the 1st Amendment which bars the government from endorsing any religion. Oklahoma you’re next. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news/AnsZE-RXqRZG...

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Federal appellate court rejects Louisiana's Ten Commandments display law — Louisiana Illuminator

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court blocked a Louisiana law Friday that requires public K-12 schools, colleges and universities to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/06/2025

I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

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Anatomy of a Hit Piece: Deconstructing The New York Times' Attack on Transgender Rights in U.S. v. Skrmetti

Seemingly not content with the US v. Skrmetti decision issued by the court siding with Tenessee to ban gender affirming care for trans youth, the New York Times was ready to pour salt on the fresh wou...

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Sexual Harassment Panda @cockmagic.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Watch it!

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Mainely Mandy @mainelymandy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Reminder that there's an organization called Black Owned Maine which has an entire directory of black owned businesses in Maine you can support today (and really every day, doesn’t have to just be on Juneteenth). www.blackownedmaine.com

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Homepage - Black Owned Maine

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Madz @madz123.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

ICE has to go now

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? American newspapers in the 1950s and 60s were more affirming of transgender people (if they were white and feminine) than papers in the 1990s.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/06/2025

No Kings Day is here. Today is going to be one of the biggest and most widespread days of peaceful protest in American history, with millions of Americans taking to the streets in every state. This land is our land and we don’t do kings here. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #nokings

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JohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Cop kneeling on a woman's neck while other cops use bikes to shield him from cameras. Philadelphia, PA 6/10/25 #ICEprotests #ACAB

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Netanyahu and others funded and supported Hamas now they move on to supporting the next militarised group - whose actions can be used to justify the continued brutal occupation, division of Palestinians and genocide by Israel.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Stop the ICE raids. Free SEIU California President David Huerta now!

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Last day in the archives, with four boxes on reserve and six hours to work. I love doing this kind of work, being in this city, and I'm going to hate leaving tomorrow. Still, I have weeks of digital research and reading secondary sources ahead of me before outline and writing. Let's go!

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I'm still new at this, but I now have an archival pet peeve; when you get a box, pull out each folder in turn and discover that whoever had them last was a careless bafoon who haphazardly stacked the sheets before closing and returning the folder. 1/

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I've been diving through the Dick Leitsch papers as part of my research, and I haven't seen this much onion skin paper in my life!

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

After a holiday weekend in which no one was open, we're back in the archives today!

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I'm only minutes away from where it all went down, the Stonewall Inn! I can't describe just how many butterflies are dancing in my stomach right now!

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I'm really coming alive in this city, and my first day of research at the NYPL went fabulously! While I can appreciate the quiet charms of my little college town and my cozy campus, it often feels stifling and insufficient for my needs. This place feels more like home.

The stone lions flanking the front steps to the Stephen A. Schwarzman building of the New York Public Library.

The three masted tall ship Wavertree, near the Seaport Museum in New York City.

A view of the New York skyline from the street, showing a colorful, cloudy evening sky.

Another view of the New York City skyline from street level, with a colorfully cloudy evening sky hanging above.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The House just passed a massive attack on trans people and literally NO MEDIA OUTLET is covering it Transition care literally saves lives. This is an effective ban on transition care. It will literally kill people.

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

On the train to Chicago, and by dinner time tomorrow I'll be in NYC! I've really needed this trip, to get out of my tiny college town and back into the thick of it in a major city! The fact that I'm heading into the hunting grounds of the +5 Vorpal Blonde Woman from Jersey is only mildly daunting.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/05/2025

Absolutely insane filing. The Trump government is arguing that a law firm is a national security threat because it was part of the lawsuit against the transgender military ban. We are just STEPS away from Russia-style designating LGBTQ+ orgs "extremist and terrorist organizations"

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DOJ Says Susman Godfrey Is National Security Threat... For Giving Money To GLAD - Above the Law

Stupid, but also disturbing.

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Looking forward to my first research trip coming up in the next few days. NYC has always fascinated me, and not only will I have the opportunity to enjoy being there - I'll be digging into the city's queer and trans past at a number of archives. Wednesday won't come fast enough!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/05/2025

Last week, I launched a new publication called The Dissident. It's an anti-fascist publication focused on the intersection of tech, privacy, and LGBTQ rights in the current authoritarian moment. Check it out! www.thedissident.news

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The Dissident

Independent newsletter challenging the current authoritarian moment

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Christy of History 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤓 @studybunny.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I survived the semester, if barely, and now is the time to go to NYC and do that truly important thesis research! I'll be there for 2 weeks, and while I'm obviously prioritizing archive time if any of my friends want to meet for coffee or something, reach out!

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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

many of the prominent transphobes (& some MPs) went to bat for this one after she received a police visit in 2022. they wrote articles defending her and sent her supportive messages. they won't bother speaking up now, though

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