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multi-lingual, multidisciplinary • migration, law, gender, religion • personal acct • cite yr sources • move with care • they/iel • alt @balcony_herbs
Tio'tia:ke/Mooninyaang (MTL)
Joined November 2014
Small note that I'm going to be less around for the next weeks. I'm on other platforms (same @) and my email is in my website. On top of the hate getting louder, I'm seeing folks who could be working together increasingly. things are bad, everyone's on edge, people are hurting.
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@LouBegaVEVO I got "walk breaks" at one job I worked because I pointed out that others got smoking breaks and I also wanted to stand outside for a few minutes.
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Breaking my no-dunk rule: I very much do not generally think people should be fired for things they do out of work that is unrelated to their work, and at the same time, fascinated that this person did seem to call for hiring committees to target a grad student based on speech.
I am not tenured. I could be fired for this.
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I am feeling sad and a bit angry that a local lefty queer fest advertised masks required, only to just…not require them, and actually turn down KN95s (free!!) for surgicals. If it is “masks required,” it should be masks required, or change the language. Don’t lie about safety.
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I think it's worth reflecting on Aaron Swartz for a minute.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
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Guess whose gotcha day is also today? Willow! . Adopted at around 10 years old, she has become more kitten-like by the year, including knocking her kibble on the floor tonight.
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Reminder to cis folks who support trans liberation:. You do not need to use the language of anti-trans activists! I've seen way too many cis women in the last month call themselves "biological women" or "biological females," and you can/should refuse that language altogether!.
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US academics pulling this while higher ed collapses across the country, mass uni layoffs, heightened adjunctification, depts shut down…we need labour solidarity around the world, but if one cannot see its importance when one’s backyard is on fire, makes me nervous.
Ah, thanks Browne Center for this one simple trick to avoid crossing a picket line!
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So, this thread by the UK Health Secretary is terrible—and those who voted Labour should calling for Streeting’s resignation—but I am continually taken aback by how little policymakers know, or how easily “this is okay for cîs kids but not trans” rolls off their tongues.
Puberty blockers have been used to delay puberty in children and young people who start puberty much too early. Use in those cases has been extensively tested (a very different indication from use in gender dysphoria) and has met strict safety requirements. 5/9.
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If you want to read the story, read the archive link, don't give the Cut the clicks. But seriously—it's not "I have a new focus in life!", it's animal cruelty.
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It is hard to express—to those who haven't been watching, studying, anxiously avoiding, etc bad corners of the internet that push anti-trans/anti-gender hate—how deeply anti-trans/anti-gender activism is tied with antisemitism and racism.
At the same time as predicting an imminent "orgy of blood" above, Nina Power was running secret 'Groyper' accounts as well as the anonymous 'gorsedd6' account that she used to target me with what the judge ruled was aggressive bullying with the “whiff of threat and antisemitism".
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Also putting aside that Ryan is bad at numbers, I am of the opinion that trying things out with gender is fine—someone can bounce around, opt for some clinical stuff, change their mind, it is ok!. Being trans is not a certification process that takes 5-10 years! That is a PhD!.
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@unMaskedRogue @KindaHagi It is totally possible to work to minimize the impacts of COVID and not say wild stuff about someone's dead spouse. I know this bc I am someone who's been doing COVID mitigation work since it started, I have LC, and, well, I am not saying wild stuff about someone's dead spouse.
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The Montréal police union wants to bring back a ban on wearing a mask at protests. This is a serious issue of both the right to expression/assembly and public health.
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@RottenInDenmark I went back to the piece, and it is (again) fascinating how "activists" include people who are both experts and people who are not activists, while "experts" includes people who have advocated for hate crimes and also have a poor understanding of categories and biology.
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Today, as I have finished the PhD (on migration bureaucracy!) I got my Canadian postgrad work permit at the Can/US border. It cost $255, took 15 minutes, gives me the right to live/work in Canada for 3 years (as I await PR), and gives me access to govt healthcare. 1/3.
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Question for folks wearing N95s/KN95s/etc and who prefer earloop masks over headband ones: Why?. (Honest question, because they irritate me so much by pressing on my ears, and I find headband-style ones initially a little more annoying but SO much more comfortable!).
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Seeing a Liberal minister share a video that is 1) edited down to not show homophobic hate, 2) targeting a student, and 3) does not clearly show what the Minister accused the student of. this is incredibly worrying. Misinfo like this will get someone physically hurt.
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If you cannot make it to a protest, you can: write/call (often) to those who represent you in govt (and get others to do this), organize a teach-in, coordinate a fundraiser, educate people online/offline, share resources with others, donate, make signs for those protesting, more!.
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Sometimes, translating Canadian news for a US audience is tough. Sometimes, the first sentence highlights the militarization of both the US and Canada to such an extent you find yourself shouting "Oh, no!!!" at your phone (at least, I did). (Brilliant again, @ricochet_en)
"Those in attendance sat in shock at what they were hearing and seeing."
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Cat is now out of the bag: I've been offered a @FRQSC postdoc to join the Dépt de Sciences politique @universitelaval, w/the incredible @sule_tomkinson. Not only will I stay in Canada (au QC!), I get to hop over to the UK, studying anti-gender mobilization + migration. (1/2)
Crying and drinking sparkling juice with a friend and Willow, this is such a big win for something I put my whole heart into, doing the meaningful work I want to do. More details soon, but for now, taking a minute to celebrate. Just lost for words, it's been a hard last bit.
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@MistressSnowPhD That info about him honestly made me weepy, as someone who was in HS in the early '00s in the Midwest.
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@christapeterso @EthelCardew3 I'm wondering if it's because in EN we think about the Hague as a place with courts vs a city? I will have to ask some linguist pals, this is fascinating.
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Québec banning classroom air purifiers and people wearing hijab during a pandemic and teacher shortage is certainly a choice--we could have safer schools with cleaner air and less anti-Muslim, racist hate, and yet. .
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In MTL, a mom is protesting in front of the Minister for Immigration's office. Her daughter had cerebral palsy and died in Gaza before she could be evacuated. **ZERO** people have been relocated from Gaza to Canada through the Minister's plan from Jan.
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I would read the hell out of a piece on how "political war on someone's wife" applies here to Dr. Neri Oxman and not Dr. Claudine Gay--both are indeed married!--because oooof the weaponization of white femininity
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@TOPublicHealth It is worth celebrating the healthcare workers who have vaccinated so many. It is NOT worth celebrating making vaccines less accessible during a COVID surge, especially when we know wastewater levels have been higher/higher for longer than last year.
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@christapeterso That's not how libel works, but he wants to be British so bad, I guess?. (He could also settle his tantrum by actually finding the supposed large numbers of people who transitioned clinically and hated it, who he gestures to but who don't seem to exist, hmmm 👀).
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I object to some claiming laïcité as "neutral" in QC not just because of academic understandings of secularisms, but also because this is what I see when I walk in the front door of the hospital where my cardiologist is based. I'm not against a multi-faith prayer room, but uhhh
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@tranz_schubert I think it is vital to refuse this as a final end point—as in, I am also surprised, but I can't get nihilistic, because I want this to change, and I think it's important it does.
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Over the moon my chapter "Gender, sexuality, and asylum assessment" on LGBTQ+ asylum-seeking in the UK is out in Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective!. Ebook forthcoming mid Aug, hmu then if you want a PDF copy (esp if you are in UK asylum work).
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If you want to know how to do research better, read this thread—I teach Boolean search stuff to my students, I am absolutely not kidding that this is a thread both about research (which I deeply love) and sweaters (which I also deeply love).
I want to show you how to get some deals on eBay. Since I write about menswear, this thread will be focused on men's clothing and accessories. But my guess is that you can apply these tricks to other categories. 🧵
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The harassment and threats Florence--a brilliant transfeminine jurist and professor--has received is horrifying. Their work is groundbreaking, rigorous, and world-class. Academic research, expert consulting, and just being trans should not result in death threats!.
“If you’re not receiving death threats, are you truly living?”. -Things I Tell Myself To Feel Better About Receiving Death Threats.
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Checked my email, got three more permanent job/postdoc rejections, and while I know things are absurdly competitive right now--so statistically, stuff is hard to get!--it is exhausting and demoralizing to get rejections in a wave. Blargh.
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Infuriating that people weaponize homophobia and transphobia to argue for violence in Gaza. In my corner of the world, trans and queer people are raising money for medical care/aid, running teach-ins, bailing folks, organizing for a ceasefire, showing up for peace and solidarity.
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Crying and drinking sparkling juice with a friend and Willow, this is such a big win for something I put my whole heart into, doing the meaningful work I want to do. More details soon, but for now, taking a minute to celebrate. Just lost for words, it's been a hard last bit.
I really wish that other countries would do what EU granting agencies do, and email the PDF of grant results to applicants on a deadline, instead of all of us crashing a website at 9 am on April 30.
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@eLife A journal called eLife firing someone for very much being into the preservation of life and naming it as a "cohesion" issue is both ironic and antithetical to academic freedom and freedom of expression. I worry about what "community" is being built here, given others resigning.
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I am grateful for those who are continuing to mask, make safer choices, and isolate when testing positive, but feeling real grumpy today with “post-pandemic” and “individual responsibility” rhetoric (as well as the anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers in my dept…sigh).
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Sent one of the hardest emails to send of my life, please clap as I try to not just lay on the floor.
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As a socio-legal researcher, this is a bizarre--rules are not enforced, selectively enforced, violently enforced, etc all the time. As an educator, I am baffled by a dean saying this, in response to a violent uni reaction: it is a dereliction of duty to not care for students.
My point is simply that the rules must be enforced and it is a dereliction of duty not to enforce them.
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@Moon_Synth_Bio @ScienceMagazine Disconcerting to see you pressuring someone you have authority over to drop an equity complaint treated this way in the article and replies. I don't know what your situation was, but as someone who as grad student took "risks" against my own mistreatment. unsettling.
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This was published two days after the Pride event at the White House, I am just so so angry.
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@amandalhu The framing of that piece confused me and made me so sad, especially when I think about folks around me navigating conversations about risk with nuance, curiosity, care, data, chats about needs, etc etc. I hope for a reframe/rework.
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@melnickjeffrey1 I realize it is quite unpopular, but for a while I've been pretty solidly "university-related events should generally be on-campus unless there is an incredibly good reason why they cannot be on-campus, and then maybe don't have them in people's homes".
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I am really, really scared that police, university admins, others are going to keep provoking, reacting, and escalating until someone(s) get killed. It is scary to me that few in positions of authority seem to care about deescalation, facts, and hard work for real safety.
I did hear "kill the Jews," said by a counter-protester holding an Israeli flag, seemingly as a provocative joke in response to the group's pro-Palestine chants. Not sure if that's the specific incident @Northeastern leadership is referring to
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Today, I got to explain to a librarian that Robin DiAngelo is not a Black woman and should not be on the library display for Black authors.
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@MikeInOttawa2 @SocialistFT @lubilyk The longer Canada Post vacation time kicks in after decades fyi (though yeah I wish they had it, I wish we all did!).
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@BrndnStrssng If you'd like someone with a couple of anthro degrees to say it's not anthropological (it's trying to justify being a jerk) and being weird online isn't research (and is unethical at that), happy to use my grad degree go on record there. I hope your next date night is lovely!
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@focusfronting So much of this is funny and absurdist, yet strikes me as just. sad, I guess? Really well done piece, yet also oof.
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The number of people responding to this who are just hateful and wrong is truly sad. As Toula notes, Québec's décision to frame francisation as punitive, to restrict access to services in non-FR languages, and assume migrants can learn French in 6 months is not good! Not hard!.
In Divisive Language, @ToulasTake explores how under the guise of protecting French, Quebec is throwing linguistic minorities under the bus. Now available to read online for everyone:
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@StefMylesTennis I watched the video (I can lipread a bit) and downloaded/boosted the audio. I feel pretty solid it wasn't a slur, setting aside it's pretty anachronistic (so: likelihood). Either way, some are trying to escalate this in an unsafe way, and you don't need to misgender the student.
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Made it home! . Operation was successful, credit to a really great surgeon who managed to get her bladder tumor out in a way that prioritized her well being, we are tired, vets praised her ability to eat and poop so soon after surgery. I'm so happy/weepy she got this care.
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I am so sad that so, so many do not consider transphobia as falling into gender-based violence. I feel like I'm losing my mind as I try to patiently explain how harm I've experienced falls into that category to the point I had a cry and panic attack. (Fine now, just sad.).
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Friends, colleagues, comrades in TX:.- If you see potential tear gas/pepper spray, take your contact lenses out ASAP.- Flushing w/water is best.- Tear gas is heavier than air, so stay up.- Change clothes as soon as possible.- Keep your mouth closed (don't ingest it).
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Earnestly, honestly glad my tax dollars are going to this. People deserve to be told the truth about their medical options and health, not lied to by fake "clinics" that might not offer any care.
Not sure I have ever seen a billboard like this from a state or city health department. They are all over Western Mass now.
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At risk of prolonging the academic jobs discourse: . - I've have dead friends (plural) because of precarity.- I have been lucky w/the kindness of others helping me through my own ongoing precarity.- Academic hiring is not a meritocracy and many ppl are qualified, be serious.
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.@wtfis2bdone If you want to have a go at me, I would ask 1) if you read the piece (this is not a good piece about PPD), 2) if you think it should've been published (esp like this!!), and 3) to not misgender me. You also don't know me, and what I've been through/done for others.
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@McJunegrand @carolynmichelle So this was an incredible, incredible year for games. Baldur's Gate? Tears of the Kingdom? Resident Evil? Even the new Mario? Really solid games! Arguing for that game to be GOTY means you have to argue against those.
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This is—and I don’t use the term lightly—bullshit: it is demanding studies that do not conform to ethical practice, and certainty beyond scientific hypothesizing. “Safety” is not always attained through prevention, go read @ButNotTheCity instead:
We don’t yet know the risks of stopping pubertal hormones at this critical life stage. That is the basis upon which I am making decisions. I am treading cautiously in this area because the safety of children must come first. 7/9.
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@amandalhu @CRFoundationUK It's odd to me to post those without asking--for ex, when I came up with a solution for my Flo Mask fit (combining advice from others!), the company asked if they could feature the info/photo on the site, and I happily said yes. It's odd to not check-in, even just a DM to ask.
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Did you know that if you go to a conference in a city with a cat cafe, you can go to the cat cafe?
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I have a self-imposed writing retreat this weekend, which means catsitting the largest boy I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. (Big fan of "let me watch your pets so I have a new place to work")
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Last year, a fire in unsafe Air BnBs killed seven in Montréal's Old Port. Now, another fire ripped through a building owned by the same person--with a two-floor hostel and reports of unsafe/questionable conditions. Grateful for those reporting on this.
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Willow wants you to know that she may need to focus on recovery for the next few weeks, she still supports an immediate stoppage of arms sales and a ceasefire now.
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If I were an anthropologist in Steven Pinker's lab giving talks at (IMO) anti-trans political conferences and also made such wild anti-trans claims my colleagues had to issue a statement, I would not then run said claims to the NYT Op-Ed section, but alas, we are different.
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This!!!. My own support for COVID mitigation and my support for peace come from a place of a firm belief in doing all we can for the health and well-being of others, especially those targeted by forces of captialism, war, violence. It is an optimistic practice.
I’ve had a lot followers over the past few months make some variation of the comment, “I appreciate your work on Covid but you are wrong about supporting Palestine.” Let me be clear again: I support Palestine for the same reasons I fight for Covid protections. 1/.
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Check me out on today's episode of Let's Go! 🥰.
If @CBCMontreal wants to hear from a trans person who is an anthropologist and does not think "biological sex" is a stable category (and that this is disengenous), you know how to reach me.
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Context: Hydro Québec is our publicly-owned electricity provider in QC--that also exports electricity to the US northeast. This is a joy.
Hydro-Quebec stands by post supporting LGBTQ+ community despite backlash
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Today at the counter-protest against anti-trans hate in Montréal, there were loud announcements to make sure we all knew we were there to fight *all* hate (incl Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism), at least two labour unions showed up, and we had free masks, water, and food. 🥰
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The face of someone who just got carded in Dublin to go into a Wetherspoon's to get a NA pale ale and read a book ✨ . (I told the bouncer how old I was and he apologized and then we both laughed, I guess the skincare routine is working?)
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This. Please, if you can--even if you are in your 30s! regardless of gender!--get the HPV vaccine! It is a vaccine against something that can cause cancer! It's so good!.
This is an outright lie. HPV vaccine is associated with unprecedented DECLINES in cancer rates. Despite what the redemption campaign wants you to believe, RFK is an anti-vax ZEALOT.
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Begging people who are unfamiliar with UK politics to take a minute before overly fêting Labour: I am glad that many, many Tories are out, BUT. I am worried that Reform got seats AND that Labour has turned rightward: anti-migrant (esp anti-asylum seeker) and anti-trans. 1/2.
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Entered final grades for my first term as part-time faculty! . (Yes, it is adjuncting and contract work, but I am proud of myself for making it through the term.).
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@badinfinity2 That is the one class I got kicked out of lol . (Cincinnati-ish, no discussion of contraception legally allowed, so we had evangelicals jump on and tear apart a rose while they told us we would be unloveable if we had sex--I said I didn't want to end up with someone like that).
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@rejectHisDesign If this is the MTL GRS clinic. I have thoughts on them as an institution (had an upheld complaint after it turns out they didn't track post-op painkillers + suggested via email I do sthg illegal), but also happy to listen/point you or anyone to the complaint forms via DMs. ❤️.
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@postoctobrist I can't stop laughing re trans flag because yeah it does look like that particular brand of toothpaste .
@HaruruChanDesu Why am I aquafresh toothpaste now.
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@ShaulaCutie @ettingermentum It is incredibly rare, and as far as is generally known involves ~17yos. This language 1) conceeds a lot to BS right wing arguments, and 2) limits something that is very rare by limiting much more (eg, surgical endometriosis care might w/this logic be not possible for trans boys).
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Yikes--now @mcgillu calling the cops on @agsem_aeedem picket, after @YorkUniversity called the cops on @cupe3903comms picket. It is really worrying to see universities call police on their striking grad students (who are also casualized workers!). A worrying trend.
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Out here in front of the CN Tower to remind folks that if you experience harm/harassment at the @AmericanAnthro/@CASCATweet.Joint Meeting, talk to staff at the front desk or any of us with orange badges! . You can also call 571-560-0772 to report. ✨. #2023AAACASCA #AAACASCA2023
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Increasingly frustrating to me (as a USian, at that!) to see US folks assume their access to COVID-19 care is the same as everywhere else. Many globally do not have access to new boosters, and few globally have access to things like Paxlovid! Access to care is not the same!.
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Oof, I feel this whole article in my bones as I course prep for another course, but also reflecting on how friends in rad programs doing incredible work (that universities fête publicly!!) are largely adjunct/NTT.
For @thenation I wrote about adjunctification and higher ed labor struggles
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@Moon_Synth_Bio @ScienceMagazine I'm trying to say I don't know what you went through, and I know edits change things, but saying you pressured a student to drop an equity complaint because you were afraid of a tenure review seems bad, and the framing in the piece and here doesn't seem to take that seriously.
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Timeline cleanse (she just finished a cold treat, as evidenced by the black tupperware)
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Trying a more COVID-19 conscious and environmentally-friendly effort at conferencing: I'm traveling by train, wearing my @flo_mask, bringing an air purifier for a panel, after using a nasal spray, friend I'm visiting has already tested (negative). #AAACASCA2023 #2023AAACASCA
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We are trying to stay healthy!. (Bloodwork for the loaf, who was VERY brave. A longtime staff member noticed how much improved her anxiety/well-being has been since we adopted her!)
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@focusfronting There is something uh interesting to me how not all of EMusk's kids talk to him, and looking up to him as a parent of many children.
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@DoSomeMolly This feels like an incredibly overgenerous read of the caption and image posted, esp given the weird bits about, amongst other things, "cis bodies." (That said, it was an account with a few thousand followers, and my bigger eyebrow-raise was the OP's pro-medicalization stance).
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They claimed the policy was for people who wouldn’t otherwise attend, so to just lie about safety feels like a kick in the stomach. Be honest with safety so people can self-assess. That is the bare minimum, y’all.
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@cjgustafson222 Most college classes aren't taught by tenure track or tenured profs, and I'm wondering where your faculty average salary came from, because according to the American Association of University Professors, you're $40k over on your estimation.
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This is it: there were so many options here for a good, thoughtful, messy piece. But this piece reads to me as turning animal abuse (also mental health!) into entertainment, it's gross. (And agreed as well that they should've included rehoming resources!).
@MtlARN @TheCut @jenortiznyc How pet-having interacts with parenthood. How post-partum rage is tricky and misunderstood. How to recognize and heal from it. But that's not what they did. They let a literal animal abuser write an essay about their abuse, and critically challenged it at no point.
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