I love these 1936 newsreel clips of Zdeněk Koubek, a Czech track star who publicly transitioned gender . after his transition, he came to New York to perform on Broadway. this seems to be the only surviving video. Koubek is the center of my book, THE OTHER OLYMPIANS — out June 4!

RT @mamoun_linda: This should be on every major news site.

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RT @ZohranKMamdani: beautiful. http://t.co/e1sw26Y.

RT @brianonhere: DSA chapters across the nation need to instantly be reviewing their core cadre and sorting by hotness in advance of an all….

RT @chrisrosecas: election day 🤝 E•MO•TION anniversary

RT @NerdeenKiswani: Time to make sure he actually delivers on this promise.

RT @krystalball: Already back out protesting for Palestine. What a legend.

RT @chrisgeidner: NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?". On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medic….

RT @profitratedown: scooters deployed

RT @PomTerkins: I wrote abt u-mich hiring undercover investigators to spy on pro-Palestinian campus groups. Investigators drove a car at a….

archivists are all waiting for the really big challenge—what happens when they're tasked with processing a person's entire cellphone?

i will always love Edmund White for being such an iconic gossip throughout CITY BOY but the thing I will never forget is his description of the perfect day job in the early 1970s

I wrote for @TheAtlantic about how archivists are contending with our digital detritus — whether we'll be able to save emails, texts, Discord chats, etc and what that means for how we tell history:.

RT @prem_thakker: Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:

in one week: to celebrate the paperback of The Other Olympians, @9BillionTigers, @Hugh_Ryan, Sabrina Imbler, and I are presenting on our research obsessions. hear about historical love affairs, sexually active popes, and much more. June 3 @ 7 pm!

you unfortunately just know the party is going to be filled with gay boys the moment you walk in and see this

RT @NewYorker: Noor Abdalla was eight months pregnant when her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested, in March. She hasn’t seen him since,….

it will be a fun ride i promise

The Other Olympians is coming out in paperback on June 3! to celebrate, @9BillionTigers, @Hugh_Ryan, Sabrina Imbler, and I are presenting on research obsessions that never made it to print. come for wine and light debauchery, and maybe a photo op. RSVP:

RT @zellieimani: Things have escalated in NJ. They just arrested Mayor Ras J. Baraka at ICE detention center Delaney Hall in Newark. He’….

RT @bat020: this is pretty strong stuff from the FT, and signed by the editorial board.