Joseph A Marchal

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.

“…the Epstein files highlight issues that women in academe have mostly discussed in whisper networks: Who is unsafe to be alone with? Which advisers are to be avoided? Whose connections may come with a price?” www.chronicle.com/article/unma...

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

We should never forget that these "studies" programs -- Women and Gender; African Diaspora; Latinx; Asian and Pacific -- emerged from the demands of politicized students, and that therefore administrators _as a class_ have always resented them and their successes.

Dishonesty is at the center of the anti-trans hate campaign. Though much bigotry is blatant, an astonishing amount is laundered by the nyt, which routinely manipulates and falsifies information to foist on unsuspecting readers

Take its small but important role in legitimizing this extremist group🧵

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

They’re scared of children with crayons.

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

Breaking: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

BREAKING: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order.

Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

May you never experience finding out you lost your basic human rights on a social media app.

It has been a JOY to email back and forth with @theradr.bsky.social (thank you, @brownsmith.bsky.social!), and Rabbi included a little snippet of my forthcoming book in her recent House of Study!

Why the fuck does a driver's license need a sex marker on it in the first place

I really hate anti-trans politicians, and I especially hate it because it was a culture war issue where we were clearly winning and then a bunch of nominally liberal people at the Times and the Atlantic decided to reverse that and they did.

This is a very common switcheroo, which comes from (some) logic: split tuition dollars for a course between the unit providing instruction (the class) & the unit providing advising (the major).

By enrollments my dept is among the top $$$ so they shifted to majors (& only 1st major) to “correct.”

Kansas is doing Nazi stuff to transgender people. This is not about minors having surgery. This is about adults having the most basic civil rights.

UI African American, Gender Studies faculty prepare for program closures University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of "low-enrollment" degrees and majors ...

The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

grrrrr. what?!?!

any day in which I get to talk and strategize with and learn from more than one Lynn/Lynne is a really good day
IYKYK

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Opinion | Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 23
The NY Times turns again to anti-care provactuer Jesse Singal rather than the AMA, AAP or Endocrine Society to make the case that there's not enough science behind GAC which has been provided successfully to minors for decades.

Seriously, though: fuck @nytimes.com

it's been a minute, and trying to help a colleague, so wondering:

what are you favorite, recent works on the gender of Jesus in the gospels (say, post, Colleen Conway's incredible Behold the Man) or perhaps more specifically in receptions beyond (say, post Kent Brintnall's fabulous Ecce Homo)?

Maybe like two years ago, when this shit started picking up, I went on a date with a woman who was an architect, and she started talking about how people wanted AI to replace most of her industry, and we both just got so depressed we stopped making conversation and never went out again

Huge congratulations to Heather White on their Mollenkott Award!
You can read, assign, cite, recommend their award winning article on churches as spaces of gay liberation organizing on QTR’s completely fee free and open access site here!
@dukepress.bsky.social

read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...

Obsessed with this reading, save it and check it out

Ordinary Notes. Paperback cover. Condensation.

Paperback coming soon. Canada, May 2026

Conservatives spent years complaining about ”safe-spaces” and “liberal snowflakes” only to turn around and show they are absolutely terrified of ideas they don’t like (“racism is bad” “gender is fluid”) and willing to use state power to avoid the slightest discomfort.

The snowiest of flakes.

Re-reading @hystericalblkns.bsky.social’s Ordinary Notes to teach in my grad seminar next week & the concept & practice of regard it enacts formally & politically is an antidote in these dark times. “Regard is a habit of care. It is appreciation & esteem. It is the right of repair.”

Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts Library advocates called the mayor’s proposed budget “terrible.”

Mamdani makes cuts to library funding :( as reported in the gothamist

“If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson”

gothamist.com/news/taking-...