Ryan Thoreson
@ryanthoreson
Law prof teaching human rights, law and sexuality, con law & torts. 26.2 x 25. ⚖️ 🏳️🌈 🏃
Bluesky coming in with the hottest news of the day.* *January 1, 2026.
Hacks should win a special Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in Casting Outstanding Guest Actresses In A Comedy Series.
“I am furious, but I am sailing” - how I will now describe being a con law professor
I just wrote to @amyactonoh.bsky.social expressing my *profound* disappointment with this. Setting aside that OHSAA had a policy that let trans kids play that worked just fine, calling transgender girls boys is just gratuitously cruel and offensive to kids who are struggling through a lot.
Compare this passage to Masterpiece Cakeshop, where the Court said the *slightest* affront to Jack Phillips' religious beliefs tainted the impartial review of his claims.
Okay fine, there is one drag queen who should not be reading to children.
I treasure the moments when a Yale Law classmate is in the news and I feel hope instead of abject horror. Congrats, @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social!
I'm a bit belated in sharing this, but Dignitary Crimes and Human Rights is now out in the Tulane Law Review. Grateful to everyone who's engaged with the project and this part of my research agenda, and especially to the student editors for their fantastic work! lnkd.in/grwEzmpB
As an example, this conflates three *very* different groups and doesn’t at all acknowledge federal and state laws that might make faculty doubt their administrators would or could support them.
Just a reminder that TPUSA promotes one of these as family-friendly patriotism and considers the other obscene.
Looks like Nancy Mace and Riley Gaines will have something else to bond over.
Unfortunately, as a gay feminist sleeping with the enemy is my whole personality.
I know one person who didn’t get a single boo at Madison Square Garden.
Looks like Canvas isn’t the only thing abruptly shutting down and abandoning my students during finals
For good reason, I had never been told my monograph on LGBT activism “provides a compelling and insightful exploration of American literature and the myths that shape cultural identity.”
My Gender, Sexuality and the Law students surprised me with an inscribed book on the last day of class and they really knocked it out of the park.