Pagan Kennedy

Boycotts and protests work! This is how we do it, people!

Have you noticed that when you're dreaming, your phone ALWAYS breaks? You're late to an exam, have no pants on, and then you discover that your phone won't work because it's partially made out of cheese!
People, we need to invent a DREAM-PROOF phone!

Activism works! vtdigger.org/2025/10/01/a...

I've been SCRAPED. I just typed my name into LibGen and found that AI companies have stolen so much of my IP -- there are 15 entries, including the Chinese translation of my book Inventology. I don't want their fuckin' blood money. I want them to respect my copyrights.

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

Essential reading for our time: Ed Zitron's "A Hater's Guide To the AI Bubble." He lays out a convincing case that AI is basically the WeWork of the 2020s, and he does it with a barrage of facts in a blistering, hilarious rant.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

Forget love triangles. Meet the ‘polycule’ with 80 people in it Polyamory is on the rise — especially in one US city where romantic partners have organised themselves into ever expanding networks

The Times of London just declared Somerville (my former home) to be "the most polyamous city" in America!
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Yes-- why aren't we all descending on Washington to protest this immediately? I'm thinking about when ACT-UP held a die-in in front of the White House. Why aren't millions of people doing something like that now?

The Fox news guy in charge of NASA just said he's going to build a nuclear reactor on the moon -- and it's inspiring some super-weird news graphics.

Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

THE WORLD'S POPULATION IS STILL RISING, even as the Far Right tries to stoke fear of a "low-birth-rate apocalypse" This article does an excellent job of debunking the BS
theconversation.com/fears-that-f...

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

This is serious. Very serious.

Here I am generating power, Gilligan's Island-style, on a bike hooked up to a battery: A scene from our imaginary hippie future! All human exercise will be turned into electricity!
Check it out at the Museum of Reclaimed Space on the Lower East Side.

Donate to The President told America #GoFundYourself! So here we are., organized by Americans who have bodies that sometimes get sick and who prefer not to die Hi, we're America. And we need your help. The President &… Americans who have bodies that sometimes get sick and who prefer not to die needs your support for The President told America #GoFundYour...

This just in... the lastest political prank from two of my favorite agit-prop groups, The Yes Men and Trillionaires for Trumpe
www.gofundme.com/f/support-un...

OMG! TOO CUTE??? ❤️ Scientists taught rats to drive tiny cars and found that even when they didn't give them treats, they would still intentionally get into car crashes for the purpose of sexual gratification

Yo, Western MA -- let's do this!

The National Association of Black Journalists has spoken out against recent violence targeting journalists covering protests.

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

Tomorrow! www.cooperhewitt.org/event/redesi...

Redesigning the Sexual Assault Kit | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Redesigning the Sexual Assault Kit Please be advised this program contains content related to sexual assault. In 2021, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the National Museum of American Hist...

Please get your (free) ticket now so you can join us on Zoom for this edgy, mind-blowing discussion of feminist design and the rape kit.

www.cooperhewitt.org/event/redesi...

Oh Canada! Thanks for listening, Dan!

ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.

What is the most horrifyingly dystopian tech in develop now? I nominate Palantir's new "operating system" that will identify immigrants and speed up their “removal” from the United States, with the goal of making "deportation logistics” more efficient.

www.wired.com/story/ice-pa...

Hey New Yorkers - Looking for something to do on Thursday night? Please come join us at the McNally Jackson ideas festival for talk, drinks and mingling. www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/051525

Thank you for this thoughtful piece about the book! I'm so grateful to reviewers like you who take the time to delve deep and illuminate the book for readers...

thanks for alerting me to this post -- it def made my day!

Thank you so much... I really appreciate this shout-out and am so glad the book moved you

A book, The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story by Pagan Kennedy, with a red/orange cover and a photo of Marty Goddard. The book lies on top of an open notebook with written notes and a pen.

The Secret History of the Rape Kit by Pagan Kennedy is a must read for everyone. It is a difficult topic which Kennedy presents masterfully. I read it in a few hours. Couldn’t put it down. #BookSky 📚💙

Hey New York -
On May 15th, I'll be discussing the rape kit, forensic science, and the future of evidence with Ilse Knecht (director, End the Backlog project) and Sarah Weinman (author of The Real Lolita). www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/051525

Trump has ordered the NIH to produce bullshit studies showing that trans people "regret" receiving gender-affirming care. Here's a helpful guide to ACTUAL STUDIES of best practices in Europe -- and the science you can (and can't) trust.
www.pagankennedy.space/trans-science

Thank you, Alex!!