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If I could slay Vecna I would not hesitate. But we become a stranger to our past self when he growls our name. And maybe this new woman is braver because she is afraid. Maybe she seeks love as the antithesis of the stagnation of his domain. Maybe the ticking clock makes more of her moments precious.
Being hunted by Vecna — Rolling for Initiative
I saw a post from a Redditor whom we'll call StillAir describing the fear of optic neuritis. They describe how they've been blind in one eye since childhood and ask about how people manage the fear of...
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January 17, 2026 at 11:17 AM
If I could slay Vecna I would not hesitate. But we become a stranger to our past self when he growls our name. And maybe this new woman is braver because she is afraid. Maybe she seeks love as the antithesis of the stagnation of his domain. Maybe the ticking clock makes more of her moments precious.
'If I crashed a car into the front of a jewellery store and started filling my purse with necklaces I’d be in some trouble. But if I first pulled out my wheelchair, people would apologise for putting the shop in an inconvenient spot and ask if I needed help reaching the top shelf.'
Dodging poop and blame — Rolling for Initiative
I was wheeling on my usual 6k route, rolling on a track that runs alongside a river. It’s rather beautiful. In front of me, rapidly approaching, I see at the last second a dog poop steaming directly i...
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January 10, 2026 at 11:59 AM
'If I crashed a car into the front of a jewellery store and started filling my purse with necklaces I’d be in some trouble. But if I first pulled out my wheelchair, people would apologise for putting the shop in an inconvenient spot and ask if I needed help reaching the top shelf.'
Cora sends out her annual holiday message. You are real, you are valid, you deserve a world in which you can belong as your authentic self, as you know yourself to be on the inside. How do we make a world where everyone can find a place to belong?
Together.
Together.
Episode 52: A holiday message from Cora
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December 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Cora sends out her annual holiday message. You are real, you are valid, you deserve a world in which you can belong as your authentic self, as you know yourself to be on the inside. How do we make a world where everyone can find a place to belong?
Together.
Together.
'We are seeing that people are detransitioning at a pretty high rate' There are two new systematic reviews about the rate of detransition. How high is too high? We take a look together and Cora leaves us with a message for this holiday season. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
Episode 51: Rates of detransition
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December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
'We are seeing that people are detransitioning at a pretty high rate' There are two new systematic reviews about the rate of detransition. How high is too high? We take a look together and Cora leaves us with a message for this holiday season. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
So yeah, dear reader, you’re going to feel unconfident. We don’t conform to society’s norms, we never have, but we can be free of them. We can find looks that work for us. We claim our place in this world and thwart the expectations of the beauty industry.
What is beautiful?
You are.
What is beautiful?
You are.
Confidence — Rolling for Initiative
I’m browsing the MS subreddit today when I come across a poster, whom we’ll call ‘The Rookie’ (intended with affection), talking about the totally valid concerns about relationships, with a sentence t...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So yeah, dear reader, you’re going to feel unconfident. We don’t conform to society’s norms, we never have, but we can be free of them. We can find looks that work for us. We claim our place in this world and thwart the expectations of the beauty industry.
What is beautiful?
You are.
What is beautiful?
You are.
This week Cora can't stop laughing long enough to introduce the podcast, and we consider a future for the profession. Like the podcast, the profession is a party and everyone's invited. You're invited! What are you waiting for, get in here we've been waiting for you! It's the Educated Guess podcast!
It's not you, it's us.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This week Cora can't stop laughing long enough to introduce the podcast, and we consider a future for the profession. Like the podcast, the profession is a party and everyone's invited. You're invited! What are you waiting for, get in here we've been waiting for you! It's the Educated Guess podcast!
Multiple Sclerosis forces you to become someone new constantly and today I don't recognise myself. For all my strength and strident independence, for all the belligerence and defiance, for all my quixotic idealism, when I hit that road I find that I am suddenly, totally helpless.
This fall was a bad one — Rolling for Initiative
It might have been the impact, or the adrenaline spiking my body temperature, but my effort to even sit upright falters. I resignedly lie back in the middle of the road and look up at the sky. Nearby,...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Multiple Sclerosis forces you to become someone new constantly and today I don't recognise myself. For all my strength and strident independence, for all the belligerence and defiance, for all my quixotic idealism, when I hit that road I find that I am suddenly, totally helpless.
I finally reach the top of the hill in the Roci, the group of men following close behind. I thank one of the men and, what is now clear, his friends for all protecting me together. I explain that I’m trying to work out here and they look at one another, nod confusedly.
… trying to work out what?
… trying to work out what?
Putting hands on the chair — Rolling for Initiative
Today I’m wheeling on my regular Saturday 10k route. It’s hard, I’m not going to pretend it isn’t. Four kissing gates, rolling through tunnels of trees offroad, gravel and stones, inquisitive cows, ar...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I finally reach the top of the hill in the Roci, the group of men following close behind. I thank one of the men and, what is now clear, his friends for all protecting me together. I explain that I’m trying to work out here and they look at one another, nod confusedly.
… trying to work out what?
… trying to work out what?
@edpsydan.bsky.social and I laugh about ice hockey, shared endeavours, cultural curricula, neo-liberal views of resilience, and singing at the cinema.
Honestly, recording a podcast shouldn't be this much fun.
Honestly, recording a podcast shouldn't be this much fun.
What can ice hockey teach us about resilience?
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November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
@edpsydan.bsky.social and I laugh about ice hockey, shared endeavours, cultural curricula, neo-liberal views of resilience, and singing at the cinema.
Honestly, recording a podcast shouldn't be this much fun.
Honestly, recording a podcast shouldn't be this much fun.
'We will stand up for you' Is the world beginning to turn back toward supporting the trans community, and is there a way that we can grow and thrive even in a world that does not? Even in the context of transphobia, you know how we psychologically grow? Together. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
Episode 50: Post-traumatic growth
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October 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
'We will stand up for you' Is the world beginning to turn back toward supporting the trans community, and is there a way that we can grow and thrive even in a world that does not? Even in the context of transphobia, you know how we psychologically grow? Together. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
Dan and I ponder sleep in adolescence and how our systems of school and work create problems when our adolescents naturally become night-owls.
Then we think about being outside and how consultation outside can be good for creativity and collaboration.
Welcome home to the Educated Guess podcast!
Then we think about being outside and how consultation outside can be good for creativity and collaboration.
Welcome home to the Educated Guess podcast!
The Educated Guess Podcast Episode 3: A practice of sleep and walking
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October 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Dan and I ponder sleep in adolescence and how our systems of school and work create problems when our adolescents naturally become night-owls.
Then we think about being outside and how consultation outside can be good for creativity and collaboration.
Welcome home to the Educated Guess podcast!
Then we think about being outside and how consultation outside can be good for creativity and collaboration.
Welcome home to the Educated Guess podcast!
'They should be in a straightjacket with a hard steel lock on it' Why are gender diverse folk reluctant to engage with research? Let's take care as we dive together into some of the most harmful research conducted on gender diverse people. It's Classroom Psychology. open.spotify.com/episode/3pDf...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
'They should be in a straightjacket with a hard steel lock on it' Why are gender diverse folk reluctant to engage with research? Let's take care as we dive together into some of the most harmful research conducted on gender diverse people. It's Classroom Psychology. open.spotify.com/episode/3pDf...
Episode 2 of The Educated Guess was filmed in front of a live audience at the EdPsy Festival, and now you can listen and watch the episode on Youtube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
A moment to think about trans kids
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October 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Episode 2 of The Educated Guess was filmed in front of a live audience at the EdPsy Festival, and now you can listen and watch the episode on Youtube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
She bent low, clasped her hands, and smiled.
I like to think of myself a rogueish corsair, a dragon rider, flying from place to place aboard the Rocinante, dashing and debonair. But when this lady wished me a happy birthday, which was in November, all I saw reflected back at me was... sympathy.
I like to think of myself a rogueish corsair, a dragon rider, flying from place to place aboard the Rocinante, dashing and debonair. But when this lady wished me a happy birthday, which was in November, all I saw reflected back at me was... sympathy.
Happy Birthday?! — Rolling for Initiative
Our friends kindly gave us a voucher for a v-e-r-y swanky restaurant in London, so we made a day of it. We went to the aquarium, went to the Moulin Rouge musical, we laughed and rolled our way around ...
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September 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
She bent low, clasped her hands, and smiled.
I like to think of myself a rogueish corsair, a dragon rider, flying from place to place aboard the Rocinante, dashing and debonair. But when this lady wished me a happy birthday, which was in November, all I saw reflected back at me was... sympathy.
I like to think of myself a rogueish corsair, a dragon rider, flying from place to place aboard the Rocinante, dashing and debonair. But when this lady wished me a happy birthday, which was in November, all I saw reflected back at me was... sympathy.
'Mobility has to be the honourable mention. I’m good most of the time but when I’m hot or especially when a fever hits I walk like an adventurously bipedal stoat. Lifting my legs becomes less of a command and more of an enthusiastic hope, like offering prayers to Norse gods for the chance of rain.'
Trust to hope — Rolling for Initiative
Many symptoms of MS are annoying. Numbness in the fingers, spasticity in the legs, the occasional bladder spasm that threatens to cause a small localised flood. Such symptoms are challenging to manage...
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September 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
'Mobility has to be the honourable mention. I’m good most of the time but when I’m hot or especially when a fever hits I walk like an adventurously bipedal stoat. Lifting my legs becomes less of a command and more of an enthusiastic hope, like offering prayers to Norse gods for the chance of rain.'
We started a new video podcast!! @edpsydan.bsky.social and I are hosts of the new podcast Educated Guess, where we talk about education, psychology, and society, and show just how much we have to learn. But fortunately we have educated guests to teach us.
Welcome to Educated Guess!!!
Welcome to Educated Guess!!!
Are schools ready for the future?
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September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We started a new video podcast!! @edpsydan.bsky.social and I are hosts of the new podcast Educated Guess, where we talk about education, psychology, and society, and show just how much we have to learn. But fortunately we have educated guests to teach us.
Welcome to Educated Guess!!!
Welcome to Educated Guess!!!
'Now sure, he didn't give me his number. I was strong but I'd left attractive behind as soon as it started raining, and being this covered in mud with hair slick to my face, sexy was just a particularly strong option in scrabble.'
What matter wounds? — Rolling for Initiative
My journey with mobility challenges began 2 ½ years ago, when my last relapse changed my ‘couch to 5k’ into ‘mostly couch’ and the only ‘5 k' I was gaining tended to settle around my midriff. I used ...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
'Now sure, he didn't give me his number. I was strong but I'd left attractive behind as soon as it started raining, and being this covered in mud with hair slick to my face, sexy was just a particularly strong option in scrabble.'
'Unequivocally... those who underwent surgeries faced higher risks.' This week Cora goes up against an influencer to understand how a handful of studies show surprising outcomes from transition related healthcare, and we look at a systematic review to break the deadlock. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
Episode 48: Negative Transition Outcomes by Classroom Psychology
'Unequivocally... those who underwent surgeries faced higher risks.' This week Cora goes toe-to-toe with an influencer to understand how a handful of studies show surprising outcomes from transition r...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
'Unequivocally... those who underwent surgeries faced higher risks.' This week Cora goes up against an influencer to understand how a handful of studies show surprising outcomes from transition related healthcare, and we look at a systematic review to break the deadlock. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
'Recently I’ve been making friends without telling them I'm trans. That’s what happened at jury service, why I’m pulling endless tissues out of the box like a children’s magician. For just a little while I experienced what it was like not to be openly trans in this world.
And I loved every moment.'
And I loved every moment.'
The cost of visibility — Rolling for Initiative
I arrived home from court today for the last time. Jury service has concluded. As I walked in the front door the emotion of what had happened hit me. Inside I felt an unexpected sense of loss, a sudde...
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August 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
'Recently I’ve been making friends without telling them I'm trans. That’s what happened at jury service, why I’m pulling endless tissues out of the box like a children’s magician. For just a little while I experienced what it was like not to be openly trans in this world.
And I loved every moment.'
And I loved every moment.'
The EdPsy festival is just around the corner. You know who is headlining? No... not Oasis... me... I'm headlining.
But there are other, better, speakers. People like Keri Opai,
Bernard Coard, Jawad Shah, Sarah Gillborn, Anish Chhibber, Will Shield, Jen Daffin and many more.
Get your tickets!!!
But there are other, better, speakers. People like Keri Opai,
Bernard Coard, Jawad Shah, Sarah Gillborn, Anish Chhibber, Will Shield, Jen Daffin and many more.
Get your tickets!!!
edpsy Festival of Educational Psychology 2025
Get tickets to edpsy Festival of Educational Psychology 2025, taking place 19/09/2025. RingCentral Events is your source for engaging events and experiences.
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August 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The EdPsy festival is just around the corner. You know who is headlining? No... not Oasis... me... I'm headlining.
But there are other, better, speakers. People like Keri Opai,
Bernard Coard, Jawad Shah, Sarah Gillborn, Anish Chhibber, Will Shield, Jen Daffin and many more.
Get your tickets!!!
But there are other, better, speakers. People like Keri Opai,
Bernard Coard, Jawad Shah, Sarah Gillborn, Anish Chhibber, Will Shield, Jen Daffin and many more.
Get your tickets!!!
'When the Usher held out an arm to my ailing self, careful to ensure that I got out of the court safely, it wouldn’t have been prudent to refuse him and then faceplant in front of the stenographer.
I’m pretty sure you can be held in contempt for being a defiant asshat.'
I’m pretty sure you can be held in contempt for being a defiant asshat.'
Do I need help… maybe I do… — Rolling for Initiative
I’m terrible at knowing when I need help. Before I had my current wheelchair, The Rocinante, even before my first wheelchair, Firefly, I still regularly refused help I sorely needed. I once took a tra...
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August 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
'When the Usher held out an arm to my ailing self, careful to ensure that I got out of the court safely, it wouldn’t have been prudent to refuse him and then faceplant in front of the stenographer.
I’m pretty sure you can be held in contempt for being a defiant asshat.'
I’m pretty sure you can be held in contempt for being a defiant asshat.'
'It's a fetish, Janet!' What are gender critical beliefs and how have they become so mainstream? We take a look at how framing trans exclusion as the protection of women influences public opinion. And we laugh at just how radical some of these beliefs have become. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
Episode 47: Gender Critical Radicalisation by Classroom Psychology
'It's a fetish, Janet!' What are gender critical beliefs and how have they become so mainstream? We take a look at how framing trans exclusion as the protection of women influences public opinion. And...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
'It's a fetish, Janet!' What are gender critical beliefs and how have they become so mainstream? We take a look at how framing trans exclusion as the protection of women influences public opinion. And we laugh at just how radical some of these beliefs have become. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
The UK has released new statutory schools' guidance around keeping children safe and relationships and sex education and Cora reviews them both. They're an example of trans erasure, but don't worry, Cora totally keeps her cool... totally... It's Classroom Psychology!!!
Episode 46: The effect of the puberty blocker ban by Classroom Psychology
The UK has released new schools guidance around keeping children safe and relationships and sex education and Cora reviews them both. They're an example of trans erasure, but don't worry, Cora totally...
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July 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The UK has released new statutory schools' guidance around keeping children safe and relationships and sex education and Cora reviews them both. They're an example of trans erasure, but don't worry, Cora totally keeps her cool... totally... It's Classroom Psychology!!!
'The transgender movement is the most violent domestic terror threat in the world' Cora takes on Donald Trump Jr. and we take a look at the largest survey ever conducted, released just this week, about the health and wellbeing of gender diverse folk. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
Episode 45: The largest trans health survey in the world by Classroom Psychology
'The transgender movement is the most violent domestic terror threat in the world' Cora takes on Donald Trump Jr . and we take a look at the largest survey ever conducted, released just this week, abo...
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June 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
'The transgender movement is the most violent domestic terror threat in the world' Cora takes on Donald Trump Jr. and we take a look at the largest survey ever conducted, released just this week, about the health and wellbeing of gender diverse folk. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
For trans folk being legible in the world can sometimes involve a change to their voices. Cora has been working on her voice and we take a look at before... and after... Can trans voices change with training? You be the judge. It's Classroom Psychology!!!
Episode 44: Trans voices by Classroom Psychology
For trans folk being legible in the world can sometimes involve a change to their voice. Cora has been working on her voice and we take a look at before... and after... Can trans voices change with tr...
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June 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
For trans folk being legible in the world can sometimes involve a change to their voices. Cora has been working on her voice and we take a look at before... and after... Can trans voices change with training? You be the judge. It's Classroom Psychology!!!