nika 🪷

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Everyday it’s something else

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proposals for the queer & trans negativity symposium, which i'm co-organizing with @petalledheart.bsky.social, are due tonight at 11:59pm. this is basically the capstone for the working group we've been running at @jhievents.bsky.social and we're very excited! damon young is the keynote speaker.

Today is the deadline!

This has the potential to be so much dumber, dangerous, and more deadly than Iraq ever was.

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

Giving a talk based off of one of my diss chapters today that is about the 2020 Central Park birdwatching incident through Afropessmism, ontological emergency, and what I am broadly considering to be a working theory on the Karen

The revanchists in the Iowa legislature are gleefully destroying education, which used to be Iowa's crown jewel. From k-12 through higher ed, one of the country's best educational systems is being gutted by small, scared white men, who don't even comprehend this is no more than a murder-suicide (1/)

I really hate anti-trans politicians, and I especially hate it because it was a culture war issue where we were clearly winning and then a bunch of nominally liberal people at the Times and the Atlantic decided to reverse that and they did.

What Kansas is doing to trans people is very rapidly approaching the UN definition of genocide. It has criminalized an entire group of people purely for being out and trans.

Me and @avneetsays.bsky.social have been running a working group on queer and trans negativity at @jhievents.bsky.social and now we're hosting a symposium! Below is the CFP or find it here: www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/queer...

Please share and apply!

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

what even is the fucking point

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Fascism winning I actually hate it here

Seeing my country's team losing to this might be a bit too on the nose

Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.

“…the disjunction between mass media’s conjuring of a college cancel-culture epidemic and the all-too-real impact of one wealthy predator’s billions in specialized funding is glaring…” www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

Lots going on here obviously but why is understanding in quotations marks

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Gonna take the Jaws of Life to take them off

All things considered working out in JEANS in a SAUNA sounds like a very bad idea

I’m so excited I love mess

Me because I’m seeing it w/ my SO and bestie tonight

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

@okbutstill: Trump: The whole time I'm saying, what is this? There's two Jake Gyllenhaals. Then at the end you see this spider, maybe the biggest you've ever seen, huge, and then it goes to black. That's it. Ingraham: And just to be clear, this is a movie you saw. Trump: Well, I don't know.

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

"An entire community is mourning a horrific loss in Tumbler Ridge this week ... And the dangerous links being made to trans people at large will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come," writes @melwoods.me

I used to student teach in a kindergarten and a student asked me why people couldn’t get young if they could get old and I said because time only ran in one direction and then he said why

this was way more prevalent when i was still on tiktok but it feels like people are getting really weird about alcohol, coffee, anything that might make you happy--even in innocuous amounts! feels like we're re-engineering puritanism as a method of maintaining control (over ourselves, each other)

Also not to repeat "joy is resistance" platitudes or anything but thinking that displays of joy cannot also be defiant in the face of deep and ongoing injustice...sounds about white