Paisley Currah

In this piece for the New York Review of Books, I explain how today’s anti-trans agenda doesn’t just target trans people—it quietly (mostly quietly) dismantles the legal foundations that protect cis women from discrimination. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Celeste Davis explains why fraternity reform won't stop rape and hazing. Secrecy and breaking rules (OF COURSE frat boys understand consent) is the whole point of them. They teach that masculinity requires domination, and so prepare them for a life exploiting others. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Congratulations to Ido Katri & Maayan Sudai for winning the prestigious Dukeminier award from @williamsinstitute.bsky.social for exposing the injustice of states that both ban gender-affirming care AND endorse coercive medical interventions on intersex infants. yalelawjournal.org/article/inte...

Elite women athletes, "femtech companies," influencers have been pushing digital menstrual trackers. @profrichardson.bsky.social & @genderscilab.bsky.social debunk the health claims and lay out the risks--loss of data privacy, surveillance, criminalization. www.genderscilab.org/blog/the-ris...

Reframing bullying has been key in our scholarship & public policy work for over 15 yrs. These ideas anchor our new book "Queer Kids & Social Violence" @uminnpress.bsky.social. Book talk w @paisleycurrah.com and @ecpayne.bsky.social at @bgsqd.bsky.social Oct7th. Bullying is political.

Well, there’s always Bluesky! Seriously, I think I will go to an actual theater to this when it’s released October 9. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Please amplify: As the report from the @aclu.org and @amnesty.org documented, universities like @cuny.edu are punishing students and faculty for pro-Palestine politics. We’re out today saying no to blacklisting at @cuny.edu and @brooklyncollege.bsky.social! Rehire the Fired Fourth!

Musk is going all out this election cycle on anti-trans propaganda: popular.info/p/the-lie-do...

Join us for a Book Talk in conversation with Paisley Currah. The work of anti-bullying is not exclusive to educational contexts but is part of the broader address of social inequalities experienced by gender & sexual minority people. @paisleycurrah.com @uminnpress.bsky.social @ecpayne.bsky.social

A pleasure to rediscover Mapquest…90s chic avatars and all. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

thinking about this past episode of the show today. one of my favorites. recording what i expect to be another favorite tomorrow, with @quillkukla.bsky.social. love that i get to do this job sometimes

Especially at this juncture we don’t need any more ontological debates about gender, but a politics. “Trans Rights Without a Theory of Gender” from 2017. digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The thing about that Heritage Center paper against women's sports is not just the hypocrisy, or even the blatant sexism. A real argument is building in the courts to toss the longstanding rules that have caused schools to expand girls' sports. The story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Some of us try to parse the transphobia, see an underlying logic or rationality--attacking trans people is a way to undermine feminism, or to prop up a masculinity that the economy no longer does. But sometimes it's just batshit crazy.

Some of us try to parse the transphobia, see an underlying logic or rationality--attacking trans is a way to undermine feminism, or to prop up a masculinity that the economy no longer does. But sometimes it's just batshit crazy.

When the real news is so much more nuts than The Onion.

Glad to see that Texas Tech's Draconian censoring of what can be taught about race and gender has now been challenged.

Every outlet in our news tracker covered the recent trans sports ban decision at SCOTUS, but when I looked at the coverage I found one clear outlier - the New York Times had the most stories (5 in all) but not one included a quote from a trans person or representative of a trans rights organization.

“The Times stands out as the only news outlet to run more than three stories on the court decision without quoting a person identified in the copy as transgender or as the representative of a transgender rights organization.”🧵

Justice Thomas: “Sex is an immutable ‘biological’ characteristic…To use language to obscure reality—to show ‘indifference regarding truth’—is to lie to the public.” By Thomas's logic—not mine—I should still play on women's teams, have an ID with an F on it, use the women's room. Who's lying?

Breaking: Supreme Court issues decision in transgender student athlete case.  Thanks to our partner @gladlaw.bsky.social.

Clarence Thomas citing MIT philosopher Alex Byrne to support his ultra-transphobic opinion. I hope all the analytic philosophers who defended Byrne as a serious, apolitical scholar see this and learn something, but I'm not hopeful.

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds West Virginia and Idaho's laws banning trans girls and women from women's sports. Justice Kavanaugh has the opinion for the court, holding that states "may" make sports eligibility based on "biological sex." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Read this. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Had a lively conversation about Trump, sex classification, and the administrative state on @laurieessig.bsky.social's podcast, Feminism, Fascism, and the Future. sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfasc...

A new crop of state laws are “leveraging criminalization as a tactic against trans people,” Kae Petrin reports. At least 10 states have imposed new misdemeanor or felony penalties since 2022—a stark increase in the use of criminal law to target trans people & their support networks.

1. In a stunning example of restricting students from talking about LGBTQ+ people, Pensacola State College as violated decades of Supreme Court precedent and blocked a student journalism magazine from publishing 3 stories because they included LGBTQ+ topics. Subscribe to support our journalism.

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Join us on Thursday, April 30th, to find out how the "War on DEI" is reshaping the contemporary university and what is at stake for higher education as a site of knowledge production, professional training, and democratic engagement.

This is exactly why I no longer use the platforms my college provides for distributing my course content.