In 1966, the NY Mattachine Society walked into Julius Bar and announced they were gay — a deliberate civil rights action to challenge laws that criminalized serving alcohol to queer people. They won. Our visibility has always been an act of courage. #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory
Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.
Student was correct.
The article is also online (behind a paywall I am afraid): www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/n...
A newspaper article in the Belfast telegraph, titled ‘Before the 1960s, this idea of comingohtdid not really exist in Northern Ireland’.
If you’re based in Northern Ireland, I have a piece about my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book in the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk today!
Cancel Disney+✅
Cancel HBO✅
Between Ellison's taint and AI slop, guess we're just watching public access television and the DVDs we bought from the Blockbuster bargain bin like it's 2003.
Tom definitely didn't tell me to revise this to say "GENEROUS honorarium". Obviously that's what I meant 🙃
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If you're very nice and visiting Belfast with students and have a modest honorarium, @tomhulme.bsky.social might even give you a walking tour of the city that includes stops like these & his characteristic storytelling! (But barring all that, just read the book 😀)
I just got my emailed receipt that pre-order is on the way!!!! Can't wait to read, and what a beaut it is too
I had the great pleasure and honor to be interviewed by Fin Dwyer for the Irish History Podcast. Listen here: shows.acast.com/9190bee0-95f...
They want to police our genitalia and run tests on our bodies to “prove” we are women, at which point they will still deny it. This is why the only feminism is trans-inclusive and why transphobia and anti-trans discrimination should be a top political priority.
officially out 15 April, but I expect it might arrive a little earlier www.waterstones.com/book/belfast...
A man holding a copy of his book, Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation
look what just arrived 😍
In capitalist terms: the only market the predator class couldn’t completely corner was the knowledge market. AI made that possible.
Learning is like putting money in a high-yield savings account. Using AI is you giving your money to the rich and powerful and keeping none for yourself
Remembering a time when we laughed while recording podcast episodes
Orange Slices, Simmer Pots, and Naked Dancing: A Brief and Incomplete History of Modern Witchcraft
Yule logs, dried orange slices strung across your windows, decorated trees and simmer pots - all the marks of a neopagan holiday season! Wait, that's Christmas, you say? Well, can't it be both? A…
This was a hard one to write/record/edit.
Gwich’in, Food Sovereignty, and Environmental Justice in the Arctic Coastal Plain
Since the 1970s, oil and gas companies have been trying to stick their drills in the Arctic coastal plain. Resistance has been persistent and multi-faceted. Environmental conservationist organizations like Sierra…
I think we need a tea trolley at the ILT offices. Maybe if I embraced AI, I could divert some of the staff from our Accounts department to operate it. I'm thinking about a tiered tray of cakes and pastries too, but the people from accounts might find that an unnecessary expense. They can be tight.
The devil is going to be in the detail with Ireland's disregard scheme. Past queer scenes were clandestine, which means arrests for sex in semi-public places (i.e. toilets). In UK legislation these cannot be pardoned, because they remain crimes (if under different laws than those originally used).
Even so, there's no doubt the rate of arrests in Ireland for consensual sex went up significantly in the postwar period and remained high until the mid 1970s, due to increased policing (including stings). There were a couple of flare ups in Northern Ireland but the rate was nowhere near as high.
Featuring research by @aearls.bsky.social, whose book - "Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972" - was published last year
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
May everyone involved burn in hell
Firefox update allows you to turn off AI.
FINALLY.
Yes, we’re looking at you, Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins & Thom Tillis, you absolute oath-violating cowards.
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
This is the most important thing to understand about AI.
Publish or perish
The "innovative learning AI chat bot" seems evil to me. Yes, yes, I'm looking for guidance on writing learning outcomes, but I think I should use my DOZENS OF YEARS OF EDUCATION to do that.