Dr Andrew Joseph Pegoda
@drajp.bsky.social
AJP, he/they. Queer. Crip (Neurofibromatosis). *SARS CoV-2 never left* Views mine. https://andrewpegoda.com
Pinned
I have on-going medical issues with my brain, eyes, lungs, heart, diaphragm, pelvis, stomach, spine, legs, and much more. I take roughly 25 medications. I think if more people KNEW on a CELLULAR level how fragile life is they'd give SARS-CoV-2 the concern it deserves. It’s never too late to #maskup!
And it’s an excellent book!
Misinformation about #trans kids is spreading like wildfire
I’m a Harvard-trained psychiatrist & researcher who has spent a decade working in this space
My new book Free to Be: Understanding [The Science Medicine & Politics of] Kids & Gender Identity is available now:
allstora.com/products/fre...
I’m a Harvard-trained psychiatrist & researcher who has spent a decade working in this space
My new book Free to Be: Understanding [The Science Medicine & Politics of] Kids & Gender Identity is available now:
allstora.com/products/fre...
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
And it’s an excellent book!
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Weaving stories of the kids I’ve learned from with the latest scientific research, I explain everything from what gender identity is, to what gender-affirming medical treatments entail, to the research on bathroom bills, sports, conversion therapy, and more.
March 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Weaving stories of the kids I’ve learned from with the latest scientific research, I explain everything from what gender identity is, to what gender-affirming medical treatments entail, to the research on bathroom bills, sports, conversion therapy, and more.
Reposted by Dr Andrew Joseph Pegoda
Misinformation about #trans kids is spreading like wildfire
I’m a Harvard-trained psychiatrist & researcher who has spent a decade working in this space
My new book Free to Be: Understanding [The Science Medicine & Politics of] Kids & Gender Identity is available now:
allstora.com/products/fre...
I’m a Harvard-trained psychiatrist & researcher who has spent a decade working in this space
My new book Free to Be: Understanding [The Science Medicine & Politics of] Kids & Gender Identity is available now:
allstora.com/products/fre...
March 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Misinformation about #trans kids is spreading like wildfire
I’m a Harvard-trained psychiatrist & researcher who has spent a decade working in this space
My new book Free to Be: Understanding [The Science Medicine & Politics of] Kids & Gender Identity is available now:
allstora.com/products/fre...
I’m a Harvard-trained psychiatrist & researcher who has spent a decade working in this space
My new book Free to Be: Understanding [The Science Medicine & Politics of] Kids & Gender Identity is available now:
allstora.com/products/fre...
My latest! "More sophisticated forms of engagement than 'agree' and 'disagree' exist in the classroom. Ideally, we want to consider lots of different, different perspectives and think about how and why those ideas exist."
thedailycougar.com/2025/11/21/d...
thedailycougar.com/2025/11/21/d...
Don’t agree or disagree, just learn - The Cougar
Social media forces us to think in polarities: we either “agree” (and maybe “like” or “love”) or “disagree” with what the algorithm sends our way. Carrying this kind of thinking […]
thedailycougar.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My latest! "More sophisticated forms of engagement than 'agree' and 'disagree' exist in the classroom. Ideally, we want to consider lots of different, different perspectives and think about how and why those ideas exist."
thedailycougar.com/2025/11/21/d...
thedailycougar.com/2025/11/21/d...
Sometimes, like today, I am even more extremely and deeply frustrated and irritated at how ridiculous people en masse are being about how the world has changed since March 2020 and how they refuse to follow science and consider how easily they could protect others.
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Sometimes, like today, I am even more extremely and deeply frustrated and irritated at how ridiculous people en masse are being about how the world has changed since March 2020 and how they refuse to follow science and consider how easily they could protect others.
Brain surgery to remove a large tumor on the pituitary will be January 5 at MDAnderson. They are also going to remove three painful neurofibromas while I'm under. Total surgery time will be about four and a half hours.
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Brain surgery to remove a large tumor on the pituitary will be January 5 at MDAnderson. They are also going to remove three painful neurofibromas while I'm under. Total surgery time will be about four and a half hours.
my latest!
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
my latest!
A frustration I have with most articles, webinars, discussions, and other conversations about college teaching is that they totally ignore and erase that a majority of said instruction now occurs in online, not face-to-face, classes.
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A frustration I have with most articles, webinars, discussions, and other conversations about college teaching is that they totally ignore and erase that a majority of said instruction now occurs in online, not face-to-face, classes.
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If you are a person who told everyone they were overreacting in 2016, and you have since realized you were wrong, I think you have a valuable role to play right now:
Talk to people who aren't convinced things are *that bad* about why you were wrong and what you wish you had done differently.
Talk to people who aren't convinced things are *that bad* about why you were wrong and what you wish you had done differently.
October 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If you are a person who told everyone they were overreacting in 2016, and you have since realized you were wrong, I think you have a valuable role to play right now:
Talk to people who aren't convinced things are *that bad* about why you were wrong and what you wish you had done differently.
Talk to people who aren't convinced things are *that bad* about why you were wrong and what you wish you had done differently.
Reposted by Dr Andrew Joseph Pegoda
If ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET did to our White House what Donald Trump just did to our White House, Republicans would be losing their motherfucking minds.
October 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET did to our White House what Donald Trump just did to our White House, Republicans would be losing their motherfucking minds.
Don't miss @salamonsmd.bsky.social , et al.'s new article
Covid-19 is Airborne AIDS.
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
Covid-19 is Airborne AIDS.
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?
COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal
and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due
to the immune dysfunction caused ...
www.ajpmfocus.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Don't miss @salamonsmd.bsky.social , et al.'s new article
Covid-19 is Airborne AIDS.
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
Covid-19 is Airborne AIDS.
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
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My experience is that these self-appointed critics and would-be reformers of the higher ed system *never* take the opportunity to talk to people in the higher ed sector. They’re just not curious and don’t ask questions. They know the answers in advance. They’re the antithesis of real scholars.
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
My experience is that these self-appointed critics and would-be reformers of the higher ed system *never* take the opportunity to talk to people in the higher ed sector. They’re just not curious and don’t ask questions. They know the answers in advance. They’re the antithesis of real scholars.
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Texas Systems Review Course Descriptions, Syllabi, as Critics Scrutinize Them
Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of controversial topics like gender identity. https://bit.ly/4q3VMaW
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of controversial topics like gender identity. https://bit.ly/4q3VMaW
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
October 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Texas Systems Review Course Descriptions, Syllabi, as Critics Scrutinize Them
Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of controversial topics like gender identity. https://bit.ly/4q3VMaW
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of controversial topics like gender identity. https://bit.ly/4q3VMaW
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.
Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you
That is not, in fact, what ICE does
He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...
That is not, in fact, what ICE does
He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...
Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day
Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.
ballsandstrikes.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.
Reposted by Dr Andrew Joseph Pegoda
I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material.
Administrators caving to this is terrifying.
Administrators caving to this is terrifying.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material.
Administrators caving to this is terrifying.
Administrators caving to this is terrifying.
In Texas - right now - 1 out of 19 are sick with the on-going novel virus that people en masse deny even existing.
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In Texas - right now - 1 out of 19 are sick with the on-going novel virus that people en masse deny even existing.
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We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Volume 19, Issue 1 – Summer 2025 – Wordgathering
wordgathering.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.
Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.
#CripLit #CripArts
Important publication of mine is out!
I've been anxious to share this for many months. My essay--“A Model of Cripnormativity (Or, Is the Crip Body Accepted?)"--is in the latest issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature.
wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1...
I've been anxious to share this for many months. My essay--“A Model of Cripnormativity (Or, Is the Crip Body Accepted?)"--is in the latest issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature.
wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1...
Andrew Joseph Pegoda – Wordgathering
wordgathering.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Important publication of mine is out!
I've been anxious to share this for many months. My essay--“A Model of Cripnormativity (Or, Is the Crip Body Accepted?)"--is in the latest issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature.
wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1...
I've been anxious to share this for many months. My essay--“A Model of Cripnormativity (Or, Is the Crip Body Accepted?)"--is in the latest issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature.
wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1...
My latest article looks at the popular show THE PITT.
bioethicstoday.org/blog/bioethi... #bioethics #pandemic #COVID
bioethicstoday.org/blog/bioethi... #bioethics #pandemic #COVID
Blog - BioethicsTV: “The Pitt” Erases the Pandemic’s Past and Present - Bioethics Today
Extrapolating from CDC data and Michael Hoerger’s Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative, we know that Pennsylvania experienced a “high” volume of COVID
bioethicstoday.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My latest article looks at the popular show THE PITT.
bioethicstoday.org/blog/bioethi... #bioethics #pandemic #COVID
bioethicstoday.org/blog/bioethi... #bioethics #pandemic #COVID
Best thing in my world…holding hands with Chester Lovejoy and Willow Lovejoy.
July 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Best thing in my world…holding hands with Chester Lovejoy and Willow Lovejoy.
The big cat, and the bigger cat!
June 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The big cat, and the bigger cat!
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"How people are disabled impacts the extent to which they are accepted by others," writes @drajp.bsky.social. The scholar proposes a paradigm of “cripnormativity,” which imposes a hierarchy of socially acceptable and unacceptable disabilities.
publicseminar.org/2025/06/greg...
publicseminar.org/2025/06/greg...
Greg Abbott’s Wheelchair - Public Seminar
From A Treatise on Artificial Limbs with Rubber Hands and Feet (1899) | George Edwin Marks / Not in Copyright On...Read More
publicseminar.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"How people are disabled impacts the extent to which they are accepted by others," writes @drajp.bsky.social. The scholar proposes a paradigm of “cripnormativity,” which imposes a hierarchy of socially acceptable and unacceptable disabilities.
publicseminar.org/2025/06/greg...
publicseminar.org/2025/06/greg...