Alicia Spencer-Hall

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes" "You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger" "Everybody's so punk on the internet" "So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire" "Got me drеaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop - Boss up, settle down, got a wish list" "Please, God, bring me a best friend who I think is hot" "He dick-matized me and opened my еyes - Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see - His love was thе key that opened my thighs" "Good thing I like my friends cancelled - I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal" "Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?" "Who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? - You could be my forever night stand" "They ripped me off like false lashes - And then threw me away" "Her name was Kitty - Made her money being pretty and witty - They gave her the keys to this city - Then they said she didn't do it legitly"

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Roberta Cowell (1918 - 2011) was a fighter pilot during the Second World War.

She was the first known British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1951.

TRANS WILL WIN.

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

“We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context,” said Solomon Cyr, spokesperson for Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation.” — Love it when people take advantage of political opportunities.

French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare QNews LGBTIQA+ News

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

i'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about how funny it is to write a song called "the fate of ophelia" and have it be an upbeat pop song about your quarterback boyfriend. thank god I found a man so I don't have to kill myself

Cass Review full of 'stigma' and should not guide trans youth care, say experts A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.

“The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, does not give credible evidence‐based guidance. We are gravely concerned about its impact on the well-being of trans and gender‐diverse people.” #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/c...

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Alicia Spencer-Hall Chapter 5 Stopping the Clock(s): Precarious Times in the AcademyKeywords: bereavement, crip time, Douceline of Digne, precarity, medieval hagi-ography, temporalityI don’t remember what time it was when I got the news. It was a bad time, though, I remember that sure enough. I was elbow-deep in writing a chapter for an edited collection, steeling myself for one final push to bring my scholarly baby into the world.1The deadline was tight—it’s always tight—but I could make it, if I could just keep going. I was tired and I hurt; I had slogged away for long hours this past week or so of writing. I had shifted time usually reserved for self- care—for having breaks, eating lunch, taking exercise—into the work column of my schedule. The irony of the situation was not lost on me. I was writing a chap-ter on chronic pain and illness in the Middle Ages, underscoring the political ur-gency of recognizing ourselves, as members of the crip community, in historical

Probably the most personal thing I've ever written, about living in crip time, about precarity, and how crip scholars grinding in precarity are further marginalized by academia's timezones (and rhetoric of timeliness)

#MedievalSky #CripSky #DisabilitySky

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*gasp*

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

Yes. Digital creatures are incorporeal and thus closer in resemblance to the Divine Ideas than humanity, clothed as we are in sinful flesh. More angel than ape, Clippy does not merely have a soul: he has more of a soul than you or I

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

It’d be nice to have a single place on the internet where black people or trans people or indigenous people or any queer people can simply exist free from tech doofuses and power-mad Karens with nothing on the ball but heads full of air but thats too much like right, I guess

just found out if you tell the staff at PDX you have autism they will let you borrow a nice laminated plane spotting guide unique to our airport with comprehensive charts and diagrams. that's fuckin service

Not to be *that* obnoxious academic, but the term "moron" was invented by eugenicists to classify high-functioning "feebleminded" people, and most often targeted at women who were sexually promiscuous.

Transphobes in our comments are frequently like "This MAN doesn't even know who he is!"
And I'm like...
Y'know, chances are I've put a lot more thought into who I am than you, friend.

About 125,000 transgender people are assaulted in the restroom every year.

No transgender woman has ever been convicted of assaulting a woman in a public restroom.

It’s always interesting to see when in a megastar’s career the people around them stop offering helpful guardrails and saying no, that isn’t good, go back to the drawing board.

call me an asshole if you want, but there's people working very hard to de-humanize a whole swath of real human beings in the US and around the world, I do not have time for your insulting defense of chatgpt as a person

"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too.

Sorry, but fuck that.

FUCK DESPAIR

This unfortunately is not exaggeration.

Look nobody ever had autism before we were aware of and capable of diagnosing autism, you merely had a second son who was “touched” and he joined the monastery where he was known for communing with the birds.