Ava Ayers

I suppose I'll make these a chain. Another great book: "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams," by Jonathan Ned Katz." Bio of a queer activist in the 1920s, with heartbreaking excerpts from her deportation proceedings, and the sweetly beautiful text of her short book "Lesbian Love."

What's a book by a transfemme author that you've NEVER seen anyone discuss?

And I do mean never. Nobody. I want the books that you're convinced you are the only person who's ever read it.

I'm delighted to report that the scifi writer James Blish (whose game I was not familiar with) pluralized "footnote" as "feetnote."

"Assume the artist knew what they were doing" seems like a good starting place for appreciating anything.

A copy of Camille Walsh's book "Racial Taxation" being sniffed by two rabbits as if it was an irresistible vegetable.

Brilliant book: Camille Walsh, "Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973." Fantastic exploration of the history of rhetoric about "citizens who pay taxes" and its role in protecting white supremacy. Will change the way you hear arguments about what government owes "the taxpayers."

Does anyone know the source for this picture? I'd like to use it in my Immigration class, but not if I can't credit anyone

A hand holding up the book "Fear City" by Kim Phillips-Fein. In the background there are two rabbits in a little wooden tower.

Brilliant book: "Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics" by Kim Phillips-Fein. How the mid-70s crisis let financial elites use their status as debt-holders to force NYC to end social services. Explains a lot about inequality in today's NYC and austerity everywhere.

I just saw a message in my spam filter whose subject line ended with "I want employed clothed attorneys!" and I feel like someone should try aiming a little higher

I can

I can

Oh that's an excellent idea! Good lord.

A hand holding up Linda Bosniak's book "The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership." Next to it are two rabbits snuggled together in a two-story wooden tower. They're very pretty and they're good rabbits although Misty is a bit of an escape artist.

Highly recommended: Linda Bosniak's "The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership." Probably if you're interested in citizenship you've already read this, but if not: no matter how you think about citizenship, the first two chapters will likely make you think differently.

Thank you! I'm on an academic sabbatical and it seemed like a good use of social media to share what me and the rabbits have been studying.

It's 2025 and Microsoft Windows still can't change the name of a file while it's open

A hand holding up Casey Plett's book "On Community." Under it you can see one rabbit, and, if you look very carefully, a second, barely-visible black rabbit behind it.

Highly recommended: "On Community" by ‪@caseyplett.com‬. Works both as an essay, carrying you through thoughts and experiences, and as a work of political philosophy that should be important to people studying things like membership, citizenship, and, obviously, community.

CIS kicks voter registration groups out of naturalization ceremonies For decades, the League of Women Voters and similar civic groups have welcomed new citizens with a voter registration table. No longer.

Here's my new post on how CIS, the federal agency, has ousted the League of Women Voters and other nonprofit civic groups from their longstanding role in offering voter registration to new Americans at naturalization ceremonies.

Two rabbits sniffing at "The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship." They are beautiful bunnies.

Highly recommended: "The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship," ed. Shachar, Bauböck, Bloemraad, and Vink. Amazing job of covering a huge number of perspectives in concise, accessible articles. An excellent place to start.

And "Matrix Resurrections" is a breathtaking masterpiece, I will die on this hill.

"Jupiter Ascending" and "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." Just absolute neon space nonsense in both cases. Not "good," not even "coherent," but magnificent in the way that the movie "Purple Rain" is magnificent.

The plaque, at the park at Swann St & New Hampshire in DC.

The plaque, at the park at Swann St & New Hampshire in DC.

I’m happy to have played a small part in renaming DC’s Swann St after William Dorsey Swann, a former slave, arguably 1st drag queen, & early fighter for queer liberation.

Check out new plaque @ Swann St & New Hampshire.

Read Channing Joseph’s history of Swann: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

Places to get killed in Fargo, North Dakota, a thread.

#1: The Hotel Graver. "If you're staying there, your situation can't get any graver!" (A favorite joke of Fargo wits.)

Genuinely confused about "passenger attendants." That's like flight attendants, right? How is ChatGPT supposed to do that job?

It's also jarring how easily one imagines a Breitbart headline like "Snowflakes Say It's Racist to Ask Their Zip Code"

Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?

I aspire to be the MC Frontalot of legal academia.

"Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison, five months of home confinement, and two years' probation." Really not very important which judge sentenced her.

What a relief! I was starting to worry.

What this means is that every time I use a bathroom I'm braced for a confrontation, even when 98% of the time it never happens. And I'm pretty sure every other marginally gender-noncomforming person will tell you the same story. It's gotten worse in the last few years than when I was in college.

It is 2025 and you are the former mayor of San Francisco. If you think the "trans issue" is "so novel," possibly some alien species has abducted you and wiped your brain?

New Yorkers walk and bike more than almost anyone, says study Four boroughs lead the U.S. in ditching cars

Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O’Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York

www.timeout.com/newyork/news...