Mariel Garcia-Montes

For anyone who uses archival methods, we’ve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

Fall 2025 teaching update: I feel sad for the loss of the writing product as a means of evaluation. Not because I'll miss reading bad papers, lol, but because of the people who will never get the beautiful challenge (and therapy!) of expressing their thoughts with depth.

Like the time Twitter TERFs were criticizing Angela Carini because they thought she was the trans boxing competitor.

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Warm Hearts, Warm Meals: MWC Stove Fund Raising money to provide warm meals for Malden Warming Center guests

If you're in or near #BostonMA #CambridgeMA #SomervilleMA and looking to do some #mutualaid on the coldest night of the season so far, the Malden Warming Center is fundraising for a stove to keep serving hot meals: givebutter.com/MWCStove

Exactly, the more time passes, the more mind boggling it feels to me!!!!

All my love to you and to their memory. Until there is a cure that everyone can access ❤️

Of course, this year I think of all the people around the world whose access to antiretrovirals got cut off…

It's #WorldAIDSDay. Every year, I learn more and more about a topic that touched my life as a '90s kid who lost 'uncles' back then. This year I finally watched 'How to Survive a Plague' and I am infinitely moved by the advocacy that happened to get antiretrovirals in the market.

Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987.

Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay

Newly Unveiled Photos of MLK Jr. Show Depth of NYPD’s Surveillance After J. Edgar Hoover cast civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as a “liar,” the New York City Police Department’s spy unit heeded the call.

This great piece by @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social (as well has his excellent new book) gets at something I'm always exploring: While we think of surveillance as an issue of the latest technology, and it is, it's also a historical constant about states forcing vulnerability onto political targets.

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Thankful for all of your coverage and reflections always, but especially this year. <3

meanwhile, nonprofits are asked “what is your plan to sustain this food bank after the term of this one month emergency grant to replace SNAP?”

Holy shit.

Name Unknown Age 45-50 Tamaulipas (Mexico) beaten. 10 Oct 2024

[10] An unidentified #trans woman was reportedly beaten to death in Tamaulipas (Mexico) on or before 10 Oct 2024.

No other information is known other than her approximate age of 45-50. #SayHerName #TransLivesMatter #TDoR

tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/2024...

MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE THIS IS WHY WE'RE SO FUCKING ANGRY

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance

#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames

*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

Equal opportunity dehumanization

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Thank You Alice Wong Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.

Alice Wong helped me accept my disabilities.

She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice.

She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor.

She won’t be forgotten.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down:

www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...

Ethiopia reports first outbreak of Marburg, Ebola cousin with no vaccine At least nine cases of the rare viral hemorrhagic fever have been confirmed, the World Health Organization said Friday.

At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, a clinically similar cousin to Ebola, according to the WHO.

There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat the virus.

Screenshot reads, "A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep This newly-discovered species is being called the “death-ball sponge” for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered in micro-hooks meant to capture prey."

Not now, carnivorous death ball

We have a great event coming up on Nov. 12 to discuss possibilities for and examples of Feminist AI —join us! bit.ly/DCFNOV2025
#DataAgainstFeminicide #FAIR @kanarinka.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social

Take note, NSO Group.

Very Lisa Parks’ vertical mediation!

Amigues en CDMX y más allá:
El 5 de noviembre a las 10am voy a charlar con David Pruneda sobre Binding Media para el CISAN, UNAM.
Yo estaré virtualmente pero la sede oficial es la Torre de Humanidades II en CU. También se va a transmitir en vivo vía el YouTube de CISAN www.youtube.com/cisanunamweb

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company Senator Ron Wyden says AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

Mass surveillance makes us less safe.

www.404media.co/flock-logins...

Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data - Nikko Stevens, Amelia Lee Doğan, 2025 Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, transgender activists are using data and data activism to advocate for and to protect trans communities. This tran...

Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We watched How to Survive a Plague in class, and I cried from beginning to end. I thought I was moved because I was a '90s kid who lost 'uncles' to HIV, but many students were moved, too. A story of people who, as they were dying, found it in their heart to fight for their right to live, saving many

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...