Teddy Davenport

This could likely be replicated with embroidery and punch needle!

I. Factual Background The facts presented below are drawn from the testimonies of four survivors: Mario, Monica, Kenia, and Jane Doe. These facts demonstrate systemic abuse at SLIPC. Forced Labor Targeting Transgender and LGBTQ+ People Assistant Warden Mr. Manuel Reyes ("AW Reyes") ran an unsanctioned 'night shift cleaning crew' between 8:00 pm and 6:00 am. This program was not reported in official records and targeted transgender and LGBTQ+ detained people. Mario, Monica, and Kenia were forced into hard manual labor without protective equipment. Tasks included stripping floors, painting, and exposure to industrial-strength chemicals, causing burns, respiratory distress, and lasting injuries. Sexual Assault, Harassment and Exploitation AW Reyes stalked, harassed, and assaulted detained people in camera 'blind spots.' Mario and Monica witnessed AW Reyes coercing sexual acts from others. Monica was groped and assaulted multiple times. AW Reyes also told him that he watched him shower on cameras. Kenia was harassed and threatened with retaliation when refusing to cooperate. Jane Doe was repeatedly stalked, groped, and coerced into performing oral sex under threat to her and her family.

The survivors' individual stories are detailed below: Monica (he/him); Transgender Man; Detained Since May 9, 2023 Monica has been detained by ICE continuously since on or about May 9, 2023. In late September 2023, AW Reyes approached Monica about joining a "cleaning crew" to work an "off the books night shift program," alongside another transgender man detained at SLIPC. That month, Monica began to perform hard manual labor at the instruction of AW Reyes. The "shifts" occurred late at night, between the hours of 8:00 pm and 6:00 am. Unlike the other work programs at SLIPC, these work shifts were not recorded in a formal log book or shift schedule. AW Reyes approached transgender people and masculine-presenting LGBTQ+ people to participate in this "program." Each person targeted by AW Reyes identified as transgender or LGBTQ+. AW Reyes would enter the housing units and wake up Monica and the others and bring them to do hard manual labor in various locations inside SLIPC. The "shifts" were randomized and Monica and the others did not have a designated schedule. AW Reyes would compensate them for their labor at times by adding $1/day into their commissary accounts. Other times, he would bring a trash bag full of commissary items and give them to Monica and the others. AW Reyes routinely entered the housing unit late at night, between two and three o'clock in the morning, while detained people were sleeping. He would walk around the unit while people were sleeping and take people's used underwear and sanitary pads from the housing unit. Monica witnessed him say to a detained woman walking to her bunk in her nightshirt, "Is that how your breasts bounce when you are fucking?" AW Reyes required Monica and others to perform hard manual labor without any personal protective equipment, resulting in significant health risks and physical injuries. Despite repeated requests, Monica and others were denied access to gloves, face shields, and steel-toed boots. In response to these…

A new complaint from ACLU and other human rights groups details how the warden at a Lousiana ICE facility created an unofficial “work program” of manual labor and sexual humiliation for trans men at the facility. This is very hard to read.

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Reject Trans Doom-Posting This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…

New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.

It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.

It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.

@averyeverhart.bsky.social and I are SO excited to share "How to lose a culture war: Social media, trans disinformation and the authoritarian right," a paper we co-wrote on disinformation, digital authoritarianism, and anti-trans politics! Now available open access with Dialogues on Digital Society.

an unhinged part of me wonders if we could get everyone in the US on board with universal healthcare if we started with coverage for pets

Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers warn Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.

This matters a lot more than his tweets.

I'm a little confused about the visual - is this saying that only 1% of the US trans population has access to gender-affirming care?

Here's a fun fact: most professors only get paid for 9 months of the year, and if you want to get paid for the rest, you have to get grants and fund it out of those yourself. So the functional ban on trans people getting grants is also functionally a huge pay cut for all trans academics! Fun!

Tacoma’s Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital Axes Gender Clinic Waitlist Citing “changing federal expectations,” the gender clinic at MultiCare’s Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network in Tacoma has cut  its waitlist for trans youth, a...

I broke this last week! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...

From Famine in Gaza to Trump Cutting SNAP, Child Hunger is An American Pastime "At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy."

today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American.

"The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."

I saw Leah present this project at the last AAG and am so delighted that the game is finally public!

It is absolutely ridiculous that Adrienne Villa's death has basically gone unreported in local & national media

An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!

It’s a common complaint to spend an afternoon reading papers in search of something that turns into half a sentence (that you delete next week) – I’d argue that the “foraging” benefits are real, only pay off if you’re engaging with the actual material, & worth the “inefficiency” to learn more.

He graduated early to get gender-affirming surgery before college. Then his hospital cut him off. Months before his first class at Carlow University, Lee, a 17-year-old in Pennsylvania, found himself without a provider.

UPMC’s move to cut gender-affirming care mirrors a broader trend. Major health systems — from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to Penn State Health — have also ended gender-affirming care for minors.

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Park ranger fired after helping drape a transgender pride flag on Yosemite's El Capitan The ex-ranger said they plan to fight the decision, citing an executive order issued by President Trump that protects Americans’ free speech rights.

NEW: I spoke to SJ Joslin, a park ranger and wildlife biologist who was fired by Yosemite National Park last week for helping to raise a transgender pride flag on the park's iconic El Capitan rock face.

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A tattooed knee, I think, featuring Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm in an apple car. Text reads: You got a fast car. I got a plan to get us out of here.

This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.

California school board votes to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports The Kern County Board of Education voted to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports that align with their gender identity.

While Newsom pals around with Nazis and has his staffers write like just totally epic tweets mocking Trump, trans bans are spreading through California like wildfire, ignited by his willing segregation of trans girls just over a month ago.
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Totally feel this. I got kicked out of the men's room as late as 1.5 years on T 🫠

Tennessee town approves deals to turn closed prison into immigration detention facility Officials in a rural Tennessee town have voted to approve agreements to turn a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company, despite loud objections from upset re...

I've been saying this for a while now, but anti-immigration fascism is providing a spatial fix for the slow decay of the traditional carceral state.
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Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they're suing. A class action lawsuit representing nearly 300 incarcerated people says the state's refusal to allow gender-affirming care constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison.

if you’re cis you should read this.

trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.

songs that have been living rent-free in my head for the last 10 months

not quite what you're looking for, but I'm working on a book proposal on trans virality that would include a lot of this, and I've got a related journal manuscript in the revision pipeline that I'd be glad to send. I can also point you to recent journal articles that would likely be of use!

🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF

Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

The hyperfixation is and will always be on detransitioners because cis "mistakes" are infinitely more valuable to cis people than trans pain.

What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.

The feds invested ~$140k into my graduate training as a social scientist, only to ban federal funding from supporting any of my future work two months after I defended my dissertation. My academic job and funding prospects are not looking great, to say the least.

There is a concerted effort by this administration to forcibly remove the notion of trans people existing in public life. That’s why it’s so frustrating when democrats insist on meeting anti-trans crusaders on talking points like sports where they are. This is where they’re at. They want us gone.

Around 1 in 5 trans Americans are active service/veterans, which is almost twice the rate of the general population of the US.

Well, they are literally, not figuratively, collaborating with Republicans to pass legislation that will give Trump's FTC more power over the Internet at the expense of LGBT people, accurate information about abortion...

(#KOSA currently has 17 D cosponsors in the Senate, including Schumer.)