Max Osborn

🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 | he/they | Asst Prof @VillanovaU | PhD from @GC_CUNY @JohnJayCJPhD | Queer/feminist/critical criminologist

[Max Osborn @max_osb]

finally escaped to the new place, trying to reassemble my list of contacts! anyway I’m maxosb on there

[Max Osborn @max_osb]

@aliciaandrz I have my share of complaints about CUNY (as anyone who's spoken to me in the last decade can attest), but I will also throw down for it. It's kind of the same way I feel about people picking on one of my siblings, or on NJ where I grew up: *I* can talk shit, but don't you dare.

[Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin]

21-y/o Brandon Teena was murdered in 1993 (fictionalized in 1999's "Boys Don't Cry"); coverage at the time misgendered/deadnamed him

@TeenVogue Shahamat Uddin talked to @gp_jls @max_osb about the "queer/trans panic defense" coming up again w/ Nex Benedict
https://t.co/70xT2OEc3o

[Max Osborn @max_osb]

I'd be interested to know whether this book is any good, but I can't find any conclusive statement about it from the review, just invasive speculation about the author's personal life and gender transition

[Max Osborn @max_osb]

feels like the consequence of an unfortunate current trend toward conflating an author's writing about harm/abuse with personally endorsing that behavior in real life -- googling writers to find evidence of whether it's morally "acceptable" for them to write about certain topics

[Daniel M. Lavery @daniel_m_lavery]

back in April Bookforum published a review of Lucas Rijneveld's "My Heavenly Favorite" where the reviewer discussed the trans author's birth assignment at great length, as though it provided moral/artistic justification for the subject. I disliked this!

https://t.co/ONWP6hCQNX

[Max Osborn @max_osb]

that would be absurd even by itself (I thought we were all familiar with "death of the author" at this point?), but the implication that it's only ethically permissible for a man to write about sexual abuse if he's trans (read: "really" a girl and/or a victim) is really gross

[Infield Fly Girl @infieldflygrl]

Linda Tirado was shot in the eye with "nonlethal ammunition" while working as a journalist during the Floyd protests. The resulting traumatic brain injury to her left frontal lobe has caused her body to forget how to operate her organs. She's dying, and that cop killed her.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. The New York Times just published a diary entry about the moment a liberal realized he was a fascist. It's very very weird.

[Sociologists for Palestine @Soc4Pal]

The results are in, the members of the American Sociological Association have spoken:

THE ASA MEMBER RESOLUTION FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE HAS PASSED!!! 🇵🇸❤️

We are so deeply grateful for you all. Onwards to a free Palestine!

[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill]

So far, 6 Clayton County Jail detainees have died this year, more than in all of 2023. One man, Eric Lee, was held on a $1500 bond on a shoplifting charge. He only had 25 cents for a $3.29 coffee. A report from the sheriff's office states he was homeless.

[Niko Stratis @nikostratis]

Committing myself to voice work again and dying at this example of a masculine perceived phrase

[Max Osborn @max_osb]

@drkalyncoghill It is absolutely WILD that PhD programs are all assuming you’ll be applying for teaching positions, but do very little to prepare you for that aspect of the work

[john teufel @JohnTeufelNYC]

I can confirm from speaking with defense lawyers that arrested CUNY students have been charged with burglary in the 3d degree while Columbia students are getting misdemeanors. For the exact same behavior. From the same DA's office.

Pretty glaring example of disparate treatment.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

If they took like 1/10th of the money being used to pay police officers to arrest 60 year-old professors and department chairs, and used that to help students pay for college, that would radically change the lives of an entire generation.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Sure, it sucks to miss a graduation ceremony. I missed my PhD graduation ceremony because of COVID. But you know what sucks way more? Not being able to go to college and graduate at all because the government couldn’t even do the bare minimum to help students.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

As the media breathlessly reports on every graduation ceremony disrupted by protesters, just a reminder that FAFSA was botched so badly this year that experts are predicting a “catastrophic” decline in college enrollment.

Pay attention to who is actually being “disruptive.”

[nick glastonbury @nsglastonbury]

don’t really see anyone talking about this but: arrestees at CUNY were charged with *felonies* while arrestees at Columbia were charged with misdemeanors. nobody should be charged with anything but it is a travesty that poorer & racialized students bear the brunt of this struggle

[Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @HellGateNY]

NEW:

A frontline account, minute by minute, from two journalists inside Columbia, during the NYPD’s ‘dystopian’ nighttime raid on Columbia student protesters.

https://t.co/cYZfrUZVmT