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organizer, educator, researcher, PhD Sociology author: Thinking Cis | Sexuality Social Justice 📖 Free🇵🇸Viva🇨🇺Hands Off🇻🇪 member @PSLNational 🫱🏼🫲🏿
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🚨 scholars, intellectuals, organizers: submit to this
@humanity_andSoc
special issue: Palestine, Self-Determination, & Liberation 🇵🇸
✍️🏽Pieces welcome: empirical research, theoretical & pedagogical pieces, political analyses from organizers, media reviews
📅Deadline: 10/18/24
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just signed the contract for my first book based on my dissertation which will come out late 2023/early 2024 😍😍😍😍😍😍
#socAF
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watching
@lizzo
’s
#WatchOutForTheBigGrrls
is soooo healing for me & my
#anorexia
, body dysmorphia, & internalized trans/fatphobia. Especially after watching Jayla do a whole nude shoot with all those cis girls.
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My book, "Thinking Cis," published with
@RLPGBooks
is officially set to come out December of this year 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
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I don’t understand how someone can call themselves a health equity scholar if their research is focused on ending, decreasing, etc. “obesity”. Have you not read Fearing the Black Body, Belly of the Beast, or even Unbearable Weight 🤨🧐
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“Your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else”
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I spoke on
@cbschicago
today about
#TransDayOfVisibility
and the necessity of gender affirming care for transgender youth. Gender affirming care is life saving. It increases trans kids' ability to survive& thrive & no one has the right to take that away
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Advanced copies of my first book arrived this weekend 😍 come out to the book launch Wednesday to hear me talk about the book, violence against trans women, & also what I wish I had done differently (and how I’ll do that in the next 📕) 🏳️⚧️
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Presenting on community based orgs’ approaches to recruiting and retaining participants for an eHealth HIV prevention intervention at
#spr2023
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"A 2021 review of 27 studies...found only 1% regret having the procedure. Zamantakis notes this number is lower compared to regret of many other types of medical care, including cosmetic procedures."
#ProtectTransKids
#ProtectTransHealthcare
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Presenting on a mixed methods analysis of CBO readiness for eHealth interventions at
#DIScience2022
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Returning to Miami, one of us was detained & CBP sarcastically told me “he’s lucky & gets to skip immigration” only for them to detain him and seize his phone. They’ve now detained others & unlawfully seized their phones. The US is a government of threats and intimidation.
URGENT! Today multiple members of our youth delegation to Cuba were detained & held for hours by the U.S. Customs & Border Patrol after returning. Despite having travelled legally, we’ve been harassed & held in Secondary Questioning on arrival to airports in MIA & EWR. 1/2
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Dr Mutulu Shakur was incarcerated for decades as a political prisoner because of his role as a revolutionary Black Panther. Show out, support him now that he’s released, and stand with all held in cages across the US!
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@DeniceRoss46
This decision to ask gender as "male, female, or transgender/nonbinary/other" is extremely disappointing. This is not only scientifically problematic, as it prevents disaggregation of gender differences, but it also further reifies cissexism within scientific "best practices."
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Available for preorder now and includes a book chapter by my student (
@rawbellpepper
) and I on Gender Labor, Racework, and Trans pleasure and other amazing chapters
@sgbuggs
,
@drjonessoc
, and
@KatieLAcosta
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Neither the democrats nor the republicans care about working people. The reality is both will do whatever they have to to preserve the riches & power of the ruling class.
#VoteSocialist2024
#EndCapitalismBeforeItEndsUs
🚨Socialist presidential campaign launches!🚨
Vote Claudia De la Cruz for President and Karina Garcia for Vice-President!
We need to end capitalism before it ends us! Get involved & sign up for updates:
#VoteSocialist2024
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Waking up for a panel at 8 is very hard for me but so worth it to be part of a panel on building a transfeminist sociology organized by
@mpnanney
in which I talked about what I call “thinking cis”
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Day 3 of
#LGBTHealthConf
: Plenary on
#impsci
and our ISCI tools w/
@artur_queiroz42
,
@Mustanski
, &
@denhli
, and
@JaePoet
presenting on our review of structural interventions for ending the
#HIV
epidemic
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@GovPritzker
You may stand with Israel but Illinois stands with Palestine against apartheid and genocide. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
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📢 New article out now online with
@Mustanski
,
@NanetteBenbow
,
@denhli
, & JD Smith. Want to know more about what
#impsci
literature has found on determinants or
#PrEP
implementation in
#transgender
populations? Learn more here 👇🏼👇🏼
@ISGMH
@THRIVECenterNU
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🇵🇸 A heartfelt message to the students of
@SJPDePaul
&
@SJPUChicago
from Palestinian filmmaker
@wizardbisan
.
From Gaza to the Little Gazas popping up all around the world -- international solidarity is prevailing!
Posted
@withregram
• pslchicago
#palestine
#chicago
#gaza
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PSL Chicago vehemently condemns the cowardly and brutal police assault on students at the UChicago Popular University for Gaza, a clear crackdown on free speech and peaceful assembly.
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My friend, an undocumented Black trans woman, has struggled for months to find work, currently has no power bc it has been shut off due to inability to pay & has little food to eat. If you have any extra $ to help she $ I would be grateful 🙏🏼
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This is what
@POTUS
and his democratic and republican colleagues support with their ongoing aid to Israel.
Εωνια η μνήμη. May their memories be eternal. May their memories live within the millions across the world resisting genocide.
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if y'all's work is only about cis people you need to say it. researchers are quick to say a participant is trans but never have the word cis anywhere in the title, methods, abstract for their 99-100% cisgender samples
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“If the logical outcome of some shit you’re trying to organize around is to vote democrat or call the cops then you’re probably going down the wrong f*cking path.”
Beautiful Revolutionary Wildness and Counterinsurgency with Dylan Rodríguez (
@dylanrodriguez
)
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So thankful for the
@PeoplesForumNYC
for organizing this course and providing the opportunity for thousands of us across the world to study Pan Africanism not simply to know more but to act on this knowledge and bring about a radical transformation of the world order together.
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@DrLMRobinson
Def understand the differentiation you’re making and the need to understand different conditions that different incomes afford. But most faculty are working class. Class isn’t about income. It’s about who owns the means of production. & this might seem like just about semantics..
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Extreme hail in CDMX, tornado in Chi, hazardous flooding in
@YellowstoneNPS
& MT,
#SheepFire
in CA, possible tropical depression in the Caribbean, heat waves across the US, India, & Pakistan. capitalism fueled climate change = the problem & socialism = the solution
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“The
@Teamsters
have delivered a powerful lesson for all workers: for organized labor to have real power, the most essential thing is to be prepared to strike — and that means full-timers and part-timers together.”
PSL STATEMENT: UPS Teamsters’ victory shows how workers can fight and win!
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✨1st time ever✨today that a provider paid attention to my anxiety when asked to step on a scale & told me right away that I didn’t have to. Living in
#EDRecovery
, knowing my weight’s more harmful than not knowing it, not to mention the fatphobia embedded in medicine re: weight
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Weekend in LA at
@SSSP1org
&
@ASAnews
in
#MedSoc
sessions, talking and learning in
#TransStudies
sessions, & snacking on 🍩 & 🧁 from
@hellocakegirl
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Proud to struggle in the streets with my comrades
@PSLchicago
❤️
#Abortion
may be legal in Chicago & IL rn, but anti-abortion forces like "Aid for Women" still gather to prey on pregnant people, so the fight continues on here & everywhere. Together, the people will always win ✊🏻
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officially submitted my first research grant proposal ever today 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
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"Once you are able to learn the skills that it takes to organize for the people and come together with people who are like-minded and aligned towards liberation...[and provided] political education" you can see ways forward, out of the abyss of despair
NEW: “I Started Thinking Of The United States As A Weapons Company” - Matt Deitsch (
@MattxRed
) On Violence And Critical Reflections And Lessons From Parkland
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I'm so happy to have presented alongside
@artur_queiroz42
,
@MadisonSheaSmit
,
@VWongsomboon
,
@JoshuaSchrock
,
@jackiebannonPhD
, Shahin Davoudpour, & Kathryn Risher for a symposium on SGM research
@ISGMH
. Check out our presentations and work here:
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👇🏽 New scoping review on PrEP among PWUD w/
@JuanPablo_Zap
,
@artur_queiroz42
,
@Mustanski
,
@OlutobiSanuade
, James Merle, and JD Smith
@ISGMH
@ThirdCoastCFAR
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While in Cuba, I asked Ivan how the US blockade on Cuba is effecting him & his people. The US blockade is an ongoing attack on the basic rights of Cuban people. In Cuba, we experienced power outages, saw empty grocery stores, watched people waiting for buses in long lines due 1/
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New pub coming out in the Handbook of
#TransgenderStudies
edited by
@JSumerau
@RLPGBooks
on race, gender, & intimacy for trans/enby people. Includes other chapters by
@CaryCostello
,
@DavidaSchiffer
,
@XanNowakowski
, &
@aasewell
. Link to buy in bio
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My article, "Queering Intimate Emotions," on trans emotionalities and trans intimacies was published today 😍
#phdchat
#AcademicTwitter
#sociology
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We all have a responsibility to demand the blockade end. Having been in Cuba recently, I saw how this blockade is hurting and killing everyday people. This blockade also hurts us. Cuba developed TX to stop Alzheimer’s, for diabetic foot ulcers, a lung cancer vaxx, which /1
🚨 CALL TO ACTION!
#OffTheList
Rally with us on June 25 to tell President Biden:
🇨🇺 CUBA IS NOT A TERRORIST STATE!
🇨🇺 END US ECONOMIC TERRORISM AGAINST CUBA!
Join us in DC for a weekend of action, organizational unity, and solidarity with Cuba:
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“If we can start pushing back on these oligarchs then we can start to rearrange how all industries are ordered.”—
@lilly_wachowski
Creator of The Matrix Lilly Wachowski speaks with the PSL on the writers strike picket line in Chicago!
She explains why it’s time to “start pushing back on these oligarchs”
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🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 congratulations
@NorthwesternU
graduate workers
@NorthwesternGW
🔥
The initial count is in...WE WON OUR UNION!!! 93.5% yes. 1644 yes votes to 114 no votes.
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my mom fell on ice, had to go to the hospital, & second to fearing a brain bleed, she was worried that she can't look at screens for a few days bc that's what her work is as a banker. no one's first or second worry when injured should be whether they can work.
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🇵🇸 Meet the Artists Against Apartheid in Chicago!
🗓️ Thurs, 12/14
⏰ 6pm
📍 Chicago Liberation Center
(2712 West Cermak)
The lineup is stacked w/ local artists who say no to the 🇺🇸-funded 🇮🇱 genocide against 🇵🇸!
#ArtistsAgainstApartheid
#FreePalestine
#ChicagoEvents
#Palestine
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Even if you don’t live in the 45th ward, come out on February 13th to honor Anthony Alvarez the night before his bday and to demand justice from
@chicagosmayor
and CPD
Join us Feb. 13 at 6:30 PM at 5150 N Milwaukee Ave on the eve of Anthony’s birthday. Anthony should still be here celebrating his special day with his family and friends.
Instead he was murdered by CPD cop Evan Solano. Anthony was only 22 years old and leaves behind a daughter.
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why do y'all include "transgender people/women/men" in your article title and then only have 2 trans people out of 200 study participants 🧐🧐🧐
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@pslweb
: "What is needed to save the planet is a complete overhaul of production & distribution in virtually all sectors of the economy...The resources simply need to be liberated from the clutches of the ultra-rich" 🌎🌍🌏
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I started reading
@JanelleMonae
’s
#TheMemoryLibrarian
this morning and gasped and held my breath as I read about Alethia, a caramel eyed woman who is trans(memory?), a recent transplant to the city, and hangs in a grungy dive bar filled with Black & Brown & queer & trans people
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It’s very interesting to me. I follow many people who support health equity, work in health equity, believe in equitable research and very few of whom have come out unabashedly in support of Palestine. This isn’t a grey issue. This is black & white.
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Loving the presentation of the No Data No More Manifesto & Scorecard of HIV Efficacy Research by Leigh-Ann van ser Merwe, Cindra Feuer, and Brian Minalga this morning put on by
@HIVpxresearch
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What unites us is not a common sexuality or experiences or identities or self-expression. It’s that we are up against a common enemy." Check out this new
@LiberationEDU
piece on
#TransLiberation
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@dereckapurnell
Join a revolutionary organization. Study to strategize how to move forward. Steel yourself in the struggle. And fight together to win. We’re only on our own if we spend our time learning skills to take care of ourselves out of fear instead of organizing in principled unity.
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I was interviewed by
@CrainsChicago
about Indiana's vote to ban gender affirming care and Illinois' status as a sanctuary state for abortion care and gender affirming care.
#ProtectTransKids
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Glad to have signed the letter 🇵🇸🇵🇸
I proudly signed and helped organized this letter from 163 Northwestern faculty to our president, Michael Schill, who is trying to silence critique of Israel and militarism + is trying to intimidate students & faculty (especially of color) from dissent
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We are in a moment pregnant with revolutionary potential. Do not let the imperialists, the liberals, the corporate politicians, the “nuanced” academics confuse you into complicity. Study, organize, and fight until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
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@DoctorJonPaul
@MauryDGaston
@Delta
looks like he was returning from a work trip with
@NewsatAMERICAN
and used that time to harass others.
Recruiting Manager Sara Higginbotham and ADIP/ASWP Marketing Services Manager
@MauryDGaston
presented to
@AuburnEngineers
Society of Women Engineers and 100+ Women Strong this week. The goal of these groups is to attract, support and retain female students in engineering.
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“In our world of idealism and not materialism, there is a tendency to look at the leaves and not the roots of the tree” 🔥🔥 —
@manolo_realengo
in the
@PeoplesForumNYC
’s revolutionary summer school on Pan-Africanism
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A better ward is possible!
We're thrilled to announce our socialist campaign for Chicago City Council in the 45th Ward! Join us at 6pm outside the 16th CPD precinct for the campaign launch press conference and protest of police terror.
It's time for real progress. A better ward is possible!
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I was interviewed by
@USATODAY
about growing anti-trans rhetoric. Despite the right consistently increasing attacks on trans communities & spending >$50m on anti trans ads in the midterms, the strategy didn’t pay off for them as the GOP has noted 1/
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Through unionizing, queer & trans workers can leverage their collective power to demand the rights & protections owed to them. Check out this
@wttw
clip I was part of & follow
@HBHWorkers
to support them in winning their demands!
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@PeoplesForumNYC
The people’s forum is home to the development of a United people across the nation for freedom from oppression and exploitation. It’s clear that unity and liberation strike fear in the hearts of people like Nancy pelosi.
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@HBHWorkers
HBH staff consistently make me feel welcomed, seen, and cared for, something that I’ve never experienced in other facilities where they rush you in and out. HBH staff also deserve to be seen, heard and cared for and I will no longer be a patient at HBH if staff are laid off.
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@JuanPablo_Zap
,
@the_blacademic
, & I were interviewed for a great article on coming out by
@NorthwesternMed
's comms dept. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Check it out here:
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🧣
#Chicago
: Help our community stay warm this winter!
🎁 We’re collecting donations of winter gear: coats, hats, scarves, sweaters, & more! Send us an email or you can DM me to schedule a pick-up or drop off.
#winter
#coatdrive
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@ComradeDoom1
Baby, trans people didn’t start to exist in the 2000s. Who you think fought for your right to exist? Who created gay culture? Who continues to struggle for all LGBT people? Trans people. I feel bad your editors let you publish this poorly written journal entry
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@JedMSP
I think it's important to note though that research isn't merely just misappropriated or misinterpreted. There is a wealth of genetics research that reproduces race as a construct and contribute to contemporary scientific racist practices
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#Sociology
folx who study sex/uality, consider submitting your article(s) published between 2022-24 for the
@SSSP1org
sexualities division outstanding article award! Deadline January 31st. Award includes $200 cash. More info below:
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Academic & intellectual workers regardless of discipline or institutional affiliation, sign on to this open letter demanding an end to the 🇮🇱 genocide of the Palestinian people.
#Phdchat
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
#HigherEd
#educators
#researchers
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"Science is a billion-dollar enterprise operating through governments, universities, and industries. But like every other productive activity under capitalism, it would not exist without scientists’ labor." So excited for this 🧪❤️
🧫Do you or someone you know (tag them!) work in labs? Are you committed to building a more equitable future for the sciences?
🔬We are excited to present with
@sftpmag
Science for the People a booktalk on ORGANIZE THE LAB.
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Today, I’m honored to be in Cuba, on the
#MayDay2023
brigade with
@peoplesassembl_
as a member of
@pslnational
. The people of Cuba need us in the belly of the beast to demand an end to the genocidal blockade of the US. As we chanted with
@DiazCanelB
, Cuba Sí, Bloqueo No!
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I didn't get time to say one final thing, which is that legislators in KA, OK, SC & TX are already seeking to ban gender affirming care for people as old as 26 & they won't stop there. They'll continue to roll back our rights unless we organize and fight
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Reading Kwame Nkrumah's speech to the OAU in 1963 and getting excited for the 2nd week of Revolutionary Summer School on Pan-Africanism with the
@PeoplesForumNYC
❤️❤️❤️
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@DrLMRobinson
But the more faculty members realize they too are part of the working class the more we can understand our need to fight together with the rest of our class to end the system causing the housing crises, etc you mention
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“Thinking cis” = an ideology and discourse that relies upon a white, Western ideology of what Oyěwùmí terms body reasoning or making sense of the social world through the “biological” body and is perpetuated by TERFs but institutionalized through microaggressive transmisogyny
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@garaymariaa
I don't know what kind of research you do but my institute (SGM public health) is hiring:
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i already know i'm going to be crying the whole time ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
First Look: Billy Porter Makes Directorial Debut With Trans Coming-of-Age Dramedy 'Anything's Possible' (EXCLUSIVE)
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#PaulVallas
is a clear threat to Chicagos working class & oppressed.
#Brandon4Chicago
’s objectively better but not particularly progressive. Elections don’t transform society but who’s in power shapes the conditions we struggle in. come out Friday to talk about what’s to be done
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#AcademicTwitter
@tristenkade
& I are co-organizing the
@ASAnews
regular
#TransStudies
session & would love to see and hear about the amazing work y’all are doing, submissions due 2/9 ❤️
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As a trans woman, I myself have found it incredibly difficult to figure out what preventive healthcare is needed for girls like us and this article is super helpful
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I used to think I didn’t like stand up comedy, but I’ve realized i just hate cis-het men.
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FL, AZ, NE, SC, TN, & TX ban
#TransHealthcare
for adults on Medicaid, continue to rollback our democratic rights while targeting poor & working-class trans people across the country. I spoke w/ the
@21stShow
program on barriers to trans care for adults
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We charge Boeing with genocide!
RIGHT NOW: Protesters confront genocide profiteer Boeing at its Chicago headquarters!
#ShutItDown4Palestine
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¡Viva México! Watch this interview to learn more about la primera presidenta de Mexico, her vision for the country, and how she plans to continue la
#4taTransformaci
ón. 1/
Claudia Sheinbaum made history this weekend, becoming Mexico’s first female president.
What’s her story? What’s her vision?
Watch her exclusive English-language interview with BT and
@PeoplesDispatch
last year
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CW: EDs
Me: "I'm a recovering anorexic"
Him: "Well, it paid off 🥵"
🤦🏽♀️y'all...never be this man.
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Over the past days in Cuba on the
#MayDay2023
Brigade organized by the
@peoples
.assembly and
@peoplesforumnyc
, we've had the opportunity to hear from the Cuban people about the effects of the blockade. Cuban people having free healthcare, free education, & free elections 1/
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💲Don’t have any extra winter clothes, but still want to help out? You can send a donation via CashApp to $liberationillinois
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why’s it gotta be a good or a long time? i’m here for a real good, long time
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“You can’t make kids trans, you can’t make them nonbinary, you can’t make them gender nonconforming,” Zamantakis said. “But you can make sure that they know that they have support and that they’re not alone.” --
@washingtonpost
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🏳️⚧️Check out🏳️⚧️ this conversation on
#TransHealthCare
for kids on the
@21stShow
with
@sumanasjordan
, a local gender affirming psychologist, two young trans men, a mom of a trans kid and myself at the link below 👇🏼
@THRIVECenterNU
@ISGMH
@ReACH_SGM
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“Revolutionary suicide doesnt mean I & my comrades have a death wish. We have such a strong desire to live w/ hope & human dignity that existence w/o them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death.” Rest in power
#PeoplesHistory
| Today, if he hadn't been assassinated at age 49, Black revolutionary and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, would be celebrating his 81st birthday.
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great talk on the racialization of disease & addressing anti-Asian racism in health/medical scholarship by Drs.
@AnnaRGuevarra
& Gayatri Reddy & I had to screenshot this beautiful slide detailing African-Asian-Latinx-Socialist Solidarity
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