Yes. Ugh. They teach students that research is essentially the process of finding sources to support opinions about social issues that don’t directly impact them, and that forming thesis statements is more important than analysis.

As a gay dinosaur (or a middle-aged queer nonbinary goblin, to be more precise), I appreciate your love, Jurassic Park Updates.

An important message from Professor Rachel Mordecai . Thank you for sharing this.

Your 'the pandemic isn't over' reminder: Globally more people died of Covid-19 in the first half of 2021 than in all of 2020.

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The The National Black Doll Museum has been a home for thousands of people over the past decade, including me. Britt accomplishes this incredible space on a tiny budget with 0 permanent staff. Collection is currently dislocated in the wake of COVID. Small donations will have huge effects.

so a transphobic woman who formerly worked at a gender clinic claims a young client walked in, said they identified as an “attack helicopter,” and were immediately put on hormones. a bunch of dumbass pundits run with the story as evidence that these clinics are rushing treatment

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wrote a list of the trans men you can currently find in fiction

@RottenInDenmark There's a certain category of person whose most central moral tenet is you should never fully commit to believing anything so long as anyone disagrees. Conflict scares them more than injustice, and when injustice gets worse, all they can do is keep writing this article.

The regret rate of gender-affirming surgery is 0.3%. The regret rate for knee replacement surgery is 6-30%. "Transition regret" is a false narrative being pushed by the media to prevent people from getting access to life-saving, gender-affirming healthcare. However...

As professional organizations in rhetoric remain silent or proclaim neutrality, Kairos speaks up against ethnic cleansing and stands against the Palestinian genocide. We can’t claim investment in antiracism, decolonial praxis, land rematriation, or social justice 1/2

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 20, 1908

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

If you support how these folks voted, I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to let them know. They will be under relentless pressure and attack. It is important to show support - on the inside, it can often feel like there isn’t. Call, write, post. It makes a difference.

And here you can see officers entering an academic building with their weapons drawn, in response to college students protesting their tax & tuition dollars contributing to a plausible genocide

The Birmingham News, Alabama, June 24, 1922

i love being smart and funny and hot and goofy and never making enough money and sad and tired and overworked and even when i try not to work as much and so sad and so sad and angry about this world and