@jslayyyer.bsky.social
Publishing Editor, Social Science Journals @ Sage Publishing. All posts/opinions are mine. Art, AuDHD, baking, data, decolonization, drag, ethical publishing, history, theatre, and truth-seeking. Unapologetically queer.
im still laughing because we all looked at that article about Target and collectively said NO
Want to Stop Mindlessly Doomscrolling? Pick Up a Book.
(Published October 2024, but the advice is evergreen...)
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Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME
Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day.
Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.
Pay gaps, misogyny and homophobia: How queer women and non-binary staff are pushing back at work
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/06/lgbtq-women-work-equality-pay-gap-iwd-2026/?utm_content=1772815203&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Congress is taking up an alarming bill that would empower the government to decide what content is deemed dangerous to young people, encouraging censorship of content it doesn’t like.
Tell your members to support free speech and vote no on censorship.
What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
Actually yes I am saying that you shouldn’t dehumanize anyone
No exceptions to the rule
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Happy Women's History Month! I wrote a book about how expensive womanhood is, especially for Black women, and what we should do about it.
Get your copy of #TheDoubleTax at your local library or (Black woman-owned) bookstore!
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Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.
Jeffrey Epstein’s young victims weren’t “barely legal” or “underage women.” Read @martha-kempner.bsky.social about how teenage victims of abuse are still children. “We should stop talking about the age of Epstein’s victims and start talking about their sexual agency.”
1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e
It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT.
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Once you see this disinformation playbook in practice, the "just asking questions," the new age speak, the purposeful undermining of medical authority, you start to see it everywhere. It's not just trans people, it's people with autism, birth control, disability accommodations in schools etc.
Important insight. ALSO, I have no patience (and I mean ZERO) with people who say "they won't ban birth control." They will eventually try BECAUSE WHAT THEY WANT IS TO CONTROL YOUR BODILY AUTONOMY. We need to be proactive about BODILY AUTONOMY IN GENERAL.
When I said birth control was in danger people said I was catastrophizing. But here we are, wait until they come for the right to own property. It's a fantasy where only wealthy white men have rights. No one else
BAFTA and BBC really are emerging as the villains in this, aren't they.
1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people.
This time, it comes from Jesse Singal.
I fact check it in my latest piece.
End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue.
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This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.
Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.
The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community.
But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz
“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe
Meanwhile, meta analyses of generations of anthropological research on hunter-gatherer societies show that Darwin was deeply wrong in his conclusions about sex and gender. Showing clear and consistent evidence of women in prominent hunting roles.
stories.spu.edu/articles/pro...
I'm following the lead of the most impacted by this when I say this: Black people should not have to endure having racial slurs screamed at them on an international stage.
With an intersectional lens toward disability justice, it is important to recognize the impact that outburst has on those men.
I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.
Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.
Someone told me that they don’t see enough of the big wins against this administration so it always feels like we are losing even though we aren’t by a long shot.
So I started a newsletter that does just that.
Last week, far-right streamer Nick Fuentes openly called for the mass criminalization of women and girls. “Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists — all of his political rivals — we have to do the same thing with women … They go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”
Benjamin Shepard’s book, “On Activism, Friendships, and Fighting,” documents four decades of wisdom about the importance of friendship in political movements.
"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."