Christopher Wolff

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I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been

A sobering reflection Kai Cheng Thom today for #TransDayofRemembrance

"We grieve. And we keep going. And maybe 15 years from now, or 50, or 500, we will live in a different world."

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4 frame comic. in the first frame, we see a candle; in the second, a trans flag ; in the third, birds flying off a tree near a house; in the fourth, someone blowing on a fire. text reads : november 20th is trans day of remembrance, during which we remember trans people who died in the past year due to transphobic violence. When I was younger, t.d.o.r. always galvanized me into working even harder towards dignity and justice for trans people. may each of the 281 names on this year's list - and the many more names that we don't know - ignite in our heart a relentless desire to keep dreaming.

A relentless desire to keep dreaming

Schlappe 7.327.521 Euro haben #CDU und #CSU alleine dieses Jahr durch anzeigepflichtige(!) Partei"spenden" erhalten.

These: Partei-Großspenden gehören im Sinne der Korruptionsbekämpfung verboten.

Not me but nonetheless I use it…

Das Bild einer Entfremdung: Die Stipendiaten der Deutschlandstiftung Integration verlassen bei der Rede des Bundeskanzlers den Saal.
Viele wollen es nicht verstehen oder wahr haben, aber die Äußerungen des Kanzlers haben enorme Kränkungen verursacht.

A terracotta sculpture of a the head and neck of a herding/shepherd type dog, seen from the front, with his head tilted and one ear up as of he has just been asked, “who’s a good boy then?!” and he’s thinking, “is it me?! could it be me?!!”

The same sculpture as described in previous, but seen from the side. The dog is very good and I would like to pet him, 13/10 ancient fella

Look at this 4th cen BC Greek antefix, proof that our ancestors also appreciated A Very Good Boy. 13/10 would pet

Donate to TRANS PIZZA DAY 2025!!!, organized by Syrus Ware Hello everyone! IT'S PIZZA TIME! ABOUT TRANS PIZZA DAY: I've been connecting trans folks wi… Syrus Ware needs your support for TRANS PIZZA DAY 2025!!!

gofund.me/ce2a5bc7a

For insight into Canadians’s spending, we go now to the head of a cartel that was found responsible for illegally fixing the price of bread from 2001 to 2021.

📣 CALL FOR CHAPTERS 📣

Co-editors Amy Tooth Murphy & @georgesevers.bsky.social invite expressions of interest to contribute chapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory Handbook.

Visit: oralhistory.org/wp-content/u...

#OralHistory #OralHistoryTheory #Routledge #OralHistorian

The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts

"Smith and her government are weaponizing a little-used piece of the Charter and a pile of debunked science and outright lies about trans people to make the case that their laws are actually about protecting kids," writes @melwoods.me

Symptom dieser Regierung, die von unerfahrenen und beratungsresistenten Männern geführt wird, die keine zuverlässigen Mehrheiten in ihrer Partei haben und deren Vorstellungen von Zukunft eine Erinnerung sind an Deutschland 1993 irgendwo in einer mittelgroßen westdeutschen Stadt. 15/15

Der eigentliche Skandal bei Weimer ist doch, dass alle das wussten. Es war bekannt, was von seinem ,Medienimperium‘ zu halten war, woher das Geld dafür kam und dass seine Schriften im besten Fall noch per Googlesuche zusammengesammelte Zitatlisten sind, aus denen fragwürdige Schlüsse gezogen 1/15

Spectator Special Issue: The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026) The category of the “amateur” has long been marked by instability. Etymologically linked to love (amator), the amateur historically signified passion and connoisseurship, yet in modern usage it has oscillated between devotion and dilettantism. This semantic tension has shaped how amateur practice has been positioned within aesthetic discourse, labor history, and the formation of the public sphere. Cinema and media studies has repeatedly returned to amateurism to both dismiss it and laud its critical and creative possibilities. Accounts of home movies and small-gauge film cultures once considered them part of the marginalia of personal or domestic life, but scholarship has since demonstrated their aesthetic, social, and historical significance. Scholarship, including Patricia Zimmermann’s foundational work, has situated amateur media within broader institutional and discursive frameworks, from the formation of aesthetic norms in clubs and contests to the intersections of labor history, expertise, and the public/private divide. Simultaneously, amateur practice has been examined as a counter-aesthetic and an alternative mode of production, as in Maya Deren’s “Amateur Versus Professional” (1959), which framed amateur film as resistant to the industrial logics of Hollywood. Yet amateurism has also been understood as politically mobilized: Soviet avant-garde circles and interwar Japanese movements such as Prokino envisioned the amateur as a figure of collectivism, workers’ culture, and social transformation. These diverse trajectories indicate that amateurism has never been a singular phenomenon, but rather a contested and heterogeneous category that both reflects and unsettles the boundaries of cultural production and consumption.

At a moment when digital platforms both amplify non-professional production and intensify regimes of credentialization, amateurism demands renewed critical scrutiny. How might the consideration of amateur practice illuminate shifting conceptions of authorship, expertise, and creativity? In what ways does amateurism negotiate or contest the professionalization of cultural life? And how might the figure of the amateur reframe our understandings of mediation, publicness, and the politics of work and play? This special issue of Spectator seeks contributions that interrogate amateurism as a theoretical and historical category across media forms and cultural contexts. We welcome essays that draw from diverse archives and methodologies, including studies of amateur film and video, domestic and vernacular media, digital platforms, and transnational amateur practices. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Histories and theories of amateur media Digital platforms and amateur media Amateur media in a transnational/global context The politics of amateurism The aesthetics of amateur media Leisure, hobbies, audienceship, and labor Home movies Fandom Preservation and archival practices regarding amateur media Pedagogical approaches to amateur media Book reviews of recent scholarship examining amateur media Deadline for Submission: December 1, 2025 Spectator is a biannual publication by the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, Division of Cinema & Media Studies. Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to: Issue Editor: Wakae Nakane USC School of Cinematic Arts 900 W. 34th St. Suite 320 Los Angeles, CA-90089 wnakane@usc.edu

CFP — “The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics”
Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)

Essay submissions due December 1, 2025.

See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/

Absolutely. Community archives often manage to provide this access without any fees. Granted, audiovisual material is more labor-intensive, but the CBC is a public broadcaster (last I checked...). These fees should be much lower.

Es ist an sich schon kritisch, wenn privilegierte Zugänge zu hochrangigen Politikerinnen und Politikern gegen Geld angeboten werden.

Wenn das Geld dann aber in das Unternehmen eines amtierenden Ministers fließt, erschüttert dies das Vertrauen in die Integrität der Bundesregierung. 5/

I tried to get one-time (!) access to a CBC news clip from the 1970s for research. They told me I'd have to pay $300 plus taxes. Insane.

Money is changing hands, not the system Over the last ten years, about $1 trillion has transferred from Canadian baby boomers to their Gen X and Millennial heirs.

As trillions shift from boomers to their heirs, the real story is how Canada’s tax system keeps inequality growing.

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Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality This paper uses Cal Horton’s theory of Cis-Supremacy to demonstrate the interplay of trans exclusionist histories and contemporary cis power structures. The paper, through this preliminary discussion,...

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨

I'm pleased to say my article 'Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality' has been published today with International Public History and it is fully open access!

Check it out here:

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

“The majority of women do not want to see the trans community scapegoated” Over 60,000 women have signed an open letter in support of the trans community

“The majority of women do not want to see the trans community scapegoated” 

Over 60,000 women have signed an open letter in support of the trans community 🌈

Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.

In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg

The Women’s, Gender, and Queer Studies (WGQS) Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization in feminist and/or queer science and technology studies.

jobs.calpoly.edu/sl/en-us/job...

wir lernten uns in der besprechungs-lounge der weimer media group auf dem ludwig-erhard-gipfel kennen

Kontext: die Recherche kommt von einer rechten News-Website, leider aber trotzdem wichtig

The front landing page of the trans pizza day go fund me page. There is a picture of pizza and the text in this caption

See caption for text about trans pizza day! IT'S PIZZA TIME! ABOUT TRANS PIZZA DAY: l've been connecting trans folks with free yummy pizza every year on Trans Day of Remembrance since 2017. I started doing this after I was gifted a pizza from a stranger for TDOR during a particularly hard year in 2016. It really helped me. Over the years, YOU have helped so many others. Together, we have sent hundreds and hundreds of pizzas (thousands?) over 8 years.... pizzas that have helped so many others! Community is incredible and together we have kept us/trans folks safe(r) and fed and connected during a day that can be so isolating and hard. WE KEEP US SAFE: With Wendy, and through feedback and brilliant suggestions from many of you, we are continuing to figure out safety again this year. Due to increased threats to trans folks' safety this year, it doesn't feel safe to be gathering data on trans people using Google/Meta platforms, though I'm happy to say we've had such gentleness and kindness over the years and never had an issue. Regardless, this year we will be doing things differently to ensure that we KEEP EVERYONE SAFE!

See caption for text about trans pizza day! Here's how it will go this year: TAG/DM YOUR FAVE PIZZA PLACE NAMES*- Help us crowd source your favourite, trusted, and QT friendly pizza place and we will reach out and arrange pizza day. We will send pizza money in advance to the safe(r) pizza places we've crowd sourced who have agreed to participate. They will each have a certain number of pizzas they can give out. I WANT TO EAT PIZZA: Heres what to do GET YOUR PIZZA PASSWORD - On Trans Pizza Day on November 20, you can email us at our new Trans Pizza Day email address and get a pizza password to give to your local pizzeria to get your free pizza. Just call/order from the trust list of places and give them the pizza password. Voila! Up to $40 CAD of pizza on its way to you! Please do not share this password publicly in order to keep community safe.

See caption for text about trans pizza day! I WANT TO SEND PIZZA: Heres what to do If you are a non-trans or cis person wanting to send some pizza love: DONATE TO AND PROMOTE THE GOFUNDME - We have a gofundme and are raising $14,000 like last year, which is $40 CAD per person x 350 pizzas. DONATE: Send enough for a pizza or two, or for some dipping sauce or soda! Let's send send some Za ! Share the gofundme and help us get the word out!!! NOTE: IN CASE THE PIZZA PLACES WHERE YOU LIVE ARE NOT SAFE - If you live somewhere without a safe or trusted pizza place in your town, we've been thinking how to get you pizza too. We have 50 spaces available for people to claim pizza funds and we will send you an etransfer to get food in a safe way that you know how to in your community. We will send out pizza funds in $40 CAD per person to 50 trans folks who sign up via an anonymous email form on a secure server. This form will be posted on Thursday. THANK YOU for donating to send some pizza love, this year especially.

TRANS PIZZA DAY!!! gofund.me/ef6323e0b

Let’s send some pizza!!!! TAG/DM YOUR FAVE PIZZA PLACE- Help us crowd source your favourite, trusted, and QT friendly pizza place and we will reach out and arrange pizza day.

DONATE TO /PROMOTE GOFUNDME: Send enough for a pizza or two, dipping sauce/soda!

Vorschau Jennifer Evans, EIne queere Art der Geschichte

Noch ein absolutes Highlight aus der Suhrkamp Vorschau, deutsche ausgabe von @jennifervevans.bsky.social "Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism" 😍

Ostdeutschlands neue Junker sind unsichtbar In Ostdeutschland sind die Agrarflächenpreise seit der Finanzkrise um 400 Prozent gestiegen, nur noch Großinvestoren können sie sich leisten. Diese bilden nun eine neue Junkerklasse, die Agrarsubventionen kassiert und auf einen Boom bei Erneuerbaren setzt.

In Ostdeutschland sind die Agrarflächenpreise seit der Finanzkrise um 400 Prozent gestiegen, nur noch Großinvestoren können sie sich leisten. Diese bilden nun eine neue Junkerklasse, die Agrarsubventionen kassiert und auf einen Boom bei Erneuerbaren setzt.

Wie Jugoslawiens Partisanen eine neue Gesellschaft schufen Am 11. November 1945 fanden die ersten Wahlen in Jugoslawien nach der Befreiung vom deutschen Faschismus statt. Sie ebneten den Weg für ein einzigartiges Experiment von Marktsozialismus, Arbeiterselbstverwaltung und Blockfreiheit, das bis heute inspiriert.

»Die jugoslawischen Partisanen praktizierten eine Form revolutionärer Demokratie, die demokratische Aktivitäten von unten mit einer straffen Parteiorganisation von oben verband«, sagt der Kulturhistoriker Gal Kirn im Interview mit Jacobin.

Cover art for Amplitudes, over a pastel rainbow heart Canva background

Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity "The Republic of Ecstatic Consent" by Sam J. Miller "Trans World Takeover" by Nat X Ray "The Orgasm Doula" by Colin Dean "The Shabbos Bride" by Esther Alter "MoonWife" by Sarah Gailey "Forever Won't End Like This" by Dominique Dickey "They Will Give Us a Home" by Wen-yi Lee "There Used to Be Peace" by Margaret Killjoy "Fettle & Sunder" by Ramez Yoakeim "Six Days" by Bendi Barrett "The They Whom We Remember" by Sunny Moraine "When the Devil Comes From Babylon" by Maya Deane "Copper Boys" by Jamie McGhee "A Few Degrees" by Ash Huang "Where the World Goes Sharp and Quiet" by Ewen Ma "Circular Universe" by Ta-wei Chi, trans. Ariel Chu "Blueprint for the Destruction of Solitude" by Paul Evanby "The Garden of Collective Memory" by Neon Yang "Sugar, Shadows" by Aysha U. Farah "A Step into Emptiness" by Aiki Mira, trans. CD Covington "pocket futures in the present past" by Katharine Duckett "Bang Bang" by Meg Elison

For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!

Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤

There should be a newspaper that is good.