⚠️Damnit folks--📌DEATHS DOUBLED, 📌HOSPITAL TRIPLED, 📌EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS QUADRUPLED--we are in a sharp surge in ER visits (4x), hospital admissions (3x), and even deaths (2x) due to #COVID19. It's in the damn published data--but NOBODY in the media is talking about this

I'm so honored to be the 2023-24 Stephen O. Murray Scholar in Residence at MSU. This award supports scholars in LGBTQ studies, and I'm thrilled to see research on asexuality recognized this way. Looking forward to visiting MSU! jmc.msu.edu/news/murray-sc…

for many disabled people, there comes a realization that you would be left during an emergency. fires, school shootings, pandemics, war...it's dehumanizing and terrifying, but it's based in reality. to see the events over the last month play out, to be able to witness the endless

Two photos side by side. On the left is someone pushing a person in a wheelchair as they are fleeing from their homeland. On the right a similar picture w/ a gray sky clouded by smoke w/ the person in the wheelchair looking back #FreePalestine #AltTextPalestine #CripTheVote

For #TransDayOfRemembrance I wrote a poem so some of you can get a better understanding of the breadth of what violence really is. It might also give you some parallels as to why we fight for liberation, not just "ceasefires" 👀

some perspective: Gaza is a little bigger (139 sq. miles) than Queens (109 sq. miles) with roughly same population (abt 2.2 million) so imagine over 25k tons of explosives dropped on Queens, killing 16,000 people, 6100 of whom are kids, with half of all homes damaged/destroyed

I am thinking about my Jewish comrades who are having their holy days associated with support for genocide when nobody ever criticises a Christian for celebrating Christmas, even when the US/UK/EUetc. commit their own war crimes. The only people winning this war are the Empires.

Not excited about the prospect of watching academics who have remained silent during the last two months of atrocities move into administrative roles in the years ahead

the most unfortunate part about life is that there is no reward for never putting yourself first. and if it is it’s always smthg insignificant compared to the years you sacrificed your own needs for the sake of others. so I hope this year you finally stop.

Asexuality is queer. It’s one of the ‘A’s in LGBTQIA+. But *why* is asexuality queer? Because queerness is defined by opposition to normativity. In a society that assumes everyone does—and should—experience sexual attraction, it’s queer to say you don’t.

If you're watching Olympians, who are in the shape of their lives & who often have access to immediate treatment, collapse from COVID or LongCovid: Please recognize that COVID does not care what shape you're in. If it's doing that to Olympians, it'll do it to anyone.