Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Given the incessant attack on trans rights by a broad swathe of the press and political machines, it’s understandable that a lot of trans people might want to be less conspicuous right now. But no one should be coerced into the shadows. 1/ This year, with some luck, the advance version of my article on the irrepressible Liddy Bacroff will come out. In two weeks I start teaching Queer Microhistories, where trans lives play a vital part. There’s a book project being planned, and another secret one in the works. 2/

A good and important short thread from @Herstory_pod. On this Holocaust Memorial Day, the Bundestag is highlighting queer experiences and victimhood. This is a long, long overdue corrective, but there is still much more work that needs to be done. 1/

https://twitter.com/Herstory_pod/status/1618859254022311940?s=20&t=rG-u4YRphqU5q2RpcrIESQ

Many people, both in Germany and elsewhere, hold its Remembrance Culture (Erinnerungskultur) to be a vital, praiseworthy thing, a salient central point to what it is to be German today. They're not necessarily wrong. But the Erinnerungskultur has always been conditional. 2/

Alright then.

International colleagues, I want you to see exactly what is happening over here—an anatomy of atrocity denial as part of a broader campaign of bigotry.

The account below is run by Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, at the Humboldt University in Berlin. 1/ Vollbrecht became infamous recently when, at her university’s “Night of Science”, she planned to give an anti-transgender paper—a topic not actually connected to her research profile. Facing criticism, her uni postponed her talk. 2/