wrote about the desire politics of trans healthcare in our current healthcare hellscape for Bitch Media (big thanks to Chris Barcelos and all the lovely people I talked to for this!) bitchmedia.org/article/crowdf…

Please join us for the virtual launch of Distributing Condoms and Hope! University of California Press Natalie Lira Krystale Littlejohn eventbrite.com/e/distributing…

Great new article by Nora Kenworthy, one of the first to take an ethnographic approach to crowdfunding inequalities: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33711178/

The new Ms. Frizzle looks like she has a Blacks Live Matter yard sign but opposes affordable housing in her neighborhood

Someone with more followers than me should retweet this part-time, remote job opportunity--qtpoc applicants to the front of the line.

Understand that police violence is a #reproductivejustice issue. It is a #birthjustice issue. It is a #humanrights issue. Mothering a Black child under the constant threat of state sanctioned violence means that when I see #DaunteWright I see my child. Why don’t you? #BMHW21

The picture of Daunte Wright with his baby is the only citation you need to argue that abolishing the police is reproductive justice.

One week from today!! Click here to register: tinyurl.com/DCHlaunch

RT if you are grateful for abortion providers!! ❤️ We wanna see something 👀

This ezine "Harm Reduction is Not a Metaphor" from Visual AIDS and the What Would an HIV Doula DO Collective is a must read. I really appreciated the essay "Don't Yuck My Covid Yum" for thinking about risk, intimacy, and collective care. visualaids.org/uploads/projec…

🗞 EXTRA! EXTRA 🗞 CATS Senior Fellow Chris Barcelos spoke with The Verge about transgender-focused health & wellness apps and the ways they reinforce social inequalities. Read the full story here: theverge.com/2021/5/19/2243…

I am always overwhelmed with the brilliance of my students and they make academia worth it. Check out this important work from Devon Betts about the racial politics of who gets to be a #truvadaWhore read.dukeupress.edu/radical-histor…

Cats4CATS at Center for Applied Transgender Studies launch event

When I started teaching at UT the majority of my Mexican/Mexican American/ Chicano students, many who were from the RGV and 1st gen used Latinx and *I* (an academic) had to adapt to *them*. So, please spare me that the term doesn’t resonate with working class or non-academics.

🚨new article alert🚨 First article on the Trans Youth Justice Project just came out!! The open source curriculum with art by shiriendamra.com will be released soon. Please lmk if you need access to this journal article! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NEW: Chris Barcelos provides a framework of "gendered racial project" to draw connections between bills that criminalize #abortion, gender affirming care, and anti-racist education ow.ly/ongB50JWayF

🧵 Might take me a minute to build this, but here's the lede: our Africana Studies Department has been the object of a hostile takeover by administration at UMB. What does a hostile takeover cost these days? Short answer: more than $150,000

Please share the call for the **Abortion. Now.** panel I'm co-organizing at ASA 23 ! Deadline 2/22. convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa23/

Los Angeles Dodgers Surely you're not referring to one of the first organizations to promote safe sex in the earliest days HIV/AIDS epidemic? The joyful Sisters and their long history of health activism are what Pride Night is (or should be) all about. x.com/chrisabarcelos…