Elizabeth Anne Wood
@elizabethannewood.bsky.social
Sociologist | Writer | Death Doula
Thrilled to collaborate with Victoria Pitts-Taylor on this piece about why gender is under attack. Hint: it’s about democracy as much as it’s about bodies and roles
#censorship #HigherEducation #gender #transgender #PoliticalRepression
#censorship #HigherEducation #gender #transgender #PoliticalRepression
Gender is not an ideology – but conservative groups know learning about it empowers people to think for themselves
From book bans and firing teachers to taking over university administrations altogether, right-wing politicians and activists worldwide have been keen on rooting out gender from schools. Why is that?
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Thrilled to collaborate with Victoria Pitts-Taylor on this piece about why gender is under attack. Hint: it’s about democracy as much as it’s about bodies and roles
#censorship #HigherEducation #gender #transgender #PoliticalRepression
#censorship #HigherEducation #gender #transgender #PoliticalRepression
I had a great time with Jill McClellen on Seeing Death Clearly. We covered tons of ground about some of the hardest conversations we need to have. From "why can't I talk to my doctor about this" to "what do we tell the kids," we touched on it all. bit.ly/SeeingDeathC... #DeathDoula #EndOfLifeCare
Pleasure, Power, and the Silence Around Death with Elizabeth Wood - Seeing Death Clearly
Elizabeth Wood, a sociologist who studied gender and sexuality, found her focus shifting when her mother was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2009 and later terminal cancer in 2012. Watching her mother...
www.buzzsprout.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I had a great time with Jill McClellen on Seeing Death Clearly. We covered tons of ground about some of the hardest conversations we need to have. From "why can't I talk to my doctor about this" to "what do we tell the kids," we touched on it all. bit.ly/SeeingDeathC... #DeathDoula #EndOfLifeCare
I care deeply about shifting the death denial of our culture so that we recognize the beauty and power in our mortality.This film project is all about facing death with love so we can live every moment as fully as possible. Check it out. #DeathPositivity #DeathCare seedandspark.com/fund/soon-dead
Soon Dead - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark
As her father enters at-home hospice care, Rose finds his biggest concern isn’t dying—it’s ensuring that she fulfills his unusual last wishes. Soon Dead is a lighthearted invitation to stop running from the inevitable, and a reminder that this moment, right now, is all we have.
seedandspark.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I care deeply about shifting the death denial of our culture so that we recognize the beauty and power in our mortality.This film project is all about facing death with love so we can live every moment as fully as possible. Check it out. #DeathPositivity #DeathCare seedandspark.com/fund/soon-dead
Age verification laws are likely to do more harm than good, even to the very people they claim to protect. Join this Monday conversation to learn more about the threats to #FreeSpeech and #DigitalPrivacy that we're facing as a result of today's ruling in FSC v. Paxton.
From, @riccilevy.bsky.social, " The Supreme Court's refusal to block Texas's deeply flawed age-verification law is more than a disappointing legal outcome—it is a direct attack on free speech, bodily autonomy, and the digital privacy rights.."
www.woodhullfoundation.org/press-releas...
www.woodhullfoundation.org/press-releas...
Woodhull Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Age Verification Laws — Woodhull Freedom Foundation
Today, June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court released its decision in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v Paxton, ruling against free speech and privacy. In the ruling, the court states, “The First Amendment lea...
www.woodhullfoundation.org
June 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Age verification laws are likely to do more harm than good, even to the very people they claim to protect. Join this Monday conversation to learn more about the threats to #FreeSpeech and #DigitalPrivacy that we're facing as a result of today's ruling in FSC v. Paxton.
You need this book or you know someone who does. And it’s free until 6/25. Kate Bornstein’s “Hello, Cruel World” is full of ideas about how to stay alive and push back against the injustice that makes it hard to feel loved and respected.
Thank you, Auntie Kate @katebornstein.bsky.social
Thank you, Auntie Kate @katebornstein.bsky.social
Free eBook: Hello, Cruel World (2nd Edition)
On June 18, 2025, the United States Supreme Court voted to uphold Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, including puberty blockers and hormone therapies, effectively shielding...
www.sevenstories.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You need this book or you know someone who does. And it’s free until 6/25. Kate Bornstein’s “Hello, Cruel World” is full of ideas about how to stay alive and push back against the injustice that makes it hard to feel loved and respected.
Thank you, Auntie Kate @katebornstein.bsky.social
Thank you, Auntie Kate @katebornstein.bsky.social
So grateful to work with an organization working to advance to sexual freedom and human rights through education, research, advocacy, and coalition-building. Especially when our kids are being threatened.
We neglected to tag Elizabeth in our first post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us @elizabethannewood.bsky.social!
June 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
So grateful to work with an organization working to advance to sexual freedom and human rights through education, research, advocacy, and coalition-building. Especially when our kids are being threatened.
With everything going on in the world it can be hard to remember the local politics matter. It’s primary season here in NYC and early voting is open. My $.02? Rank the slate. #DontRankCuomo
June 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
With everything going on in the world it can be hard to remember the local politics matter. It’s primary season here in NYC and early voting is open. My $.02? Rank the slate. #DontRankCuomo
I see you, trans friends, and I honor you. I despise the actions the U.S. government has taken in its attempt to render you invisible or deny your existence. You are real. You are powerful. You matter!
#TransDayOfVisibility #GenderRightsAreHumanRights #SexualRightsAreHumanRights
#TransDayOfVisibility #GenderRightsAreHumanRights #SexualRightsAreHumanRights
March 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I see you, trans friends, and I honor you. I despise the actions the U.S. government has taken in its attempt to render you invisible or deny your existence. You are real. You are powerful. You matter!
#TransDayOfVisibility #GenderRightsAreHumanRights #SexualRightsAreHumanRights
#TransDayOfVisibility #GenderRightsAreHumanRights #SexualRightsAreHumanRights
#FuneralDirectors: What if I told you that many of the challenges you face when dealing with grieving families—shock, confusion, skepticism—could be eased with the help of a death doula? Thurs., 2/20, 7pm EST. 1 CE.
bit.ly/CVIntroDoula
#ContinuingEducation #FuneralEducation #ABFSE #DeathDoula
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#ContinuingEducation #FuneralEducation #ABFSE #DeathDoula
February 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#FuneralDirectors: What if I told you that many of the challenges you face when dealing with grieving families—shock, confusion, skepticism—could be eased with the help of a death doula? Thurs., 2/20, 7pm EST. 1 CE.
bit.ly/CVIntroDoula
#ContinuingEducation #FuneralEducation #ABFSE #DeathDoula
bit.ly/CVIntroDoula
#ContinuingEducation #FuneralEducation #ABFSE #DeathDoula
Newspeak hits the science journals. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
insidemedicine.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Newspeak hits the science journals. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Reposted by Elizabeth Anne Wood
Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
January 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
A doctor in NY has been indicted in Louisiana for violating the state’s abortion ban via telemedicine. I hope NY’s shield law holds. This seems to be the first such case.
#AbortionBans #WomensHealth #ReproductiveFreedom
#AbortionBans #WomensHealth #ReproductiveFreedom
Arrest warrant issued for New York doctor indicted in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pill
An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a pregnant minor. Dr.
apnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
A doctor in NY has been indicted in Louisiana for violating the state’s abortion ban via telemedicine. I hope NY’s shield law holds. This seems to be the first such case.
#AbortionBans #WomensHealth #ReproductiveFreedom
#AbortionBans #WomensHealth #ReproductiveFreedom
Beyond thrilled that @britsoci.bsky.social featured Between Us in Network. More than ever we need the power of stories to help us understand the social forces shaping our personal troubles so we can heal ourselves and work for change. #AccessibleSociology #BetweenUsBook bit.ly/BetweenUsUCP
January 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Beyond thrilled that @britsoci.bsky.social featured Between Us in Network. More than ever we need the power of stories to help us understand the social forces shaping our personal troubles so we can heal ourselves and work for change. #AccessibleSociology #BetweenUsBook bit.ly/BetweenUsUCP
I love this NYT Op-Doc. Three conversations. In each, an adult child asks a parent about their sex life. The unexpected moments are beautiful. What do you think would happen if you asked your parent (or your adult child) these questions?
#sexuality #DifficultConversations #SexAndAging
#sexuality #DifficultConversations #SexAndAging
Video: Opinion | The Hardest Conversation to Have With Your Parents
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I love this NYT Op-Doc. Three conversations. In each, an adult child asks a parent about their sex life. The unexpected moments are beautiful. What do you think would happen if you asked your parent (or your adult child) these questions?
#sexuality #DifficultConversations #SexAndAging
#sexuality #DifficultConversations #SexAndAging
At Thanksgiving we often listen to Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant.” Just a tiny act of celebratory resistance against war and repression. Today I read that Alice died. Please leave positive thoughts in the comments to help counter what feels like an ill omen.
Alice Brock, Restaurant Owner Made Famous by a Song, Dies at 83
Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2024 at 1:18 AM
At Thanksgiving we often listen to Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant.” Just a tiny act of celebratory resistance against war and repression. Today I read that Alice died. Please leave positive thoughts in the comments to help counter what feels like an ill omen.
Dramatic sky, late fall light, and the shimmer of the ocean. It’s okay to be unsettled. There is beauty and power in all kinds of energy.
November 23, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Dramatic sky, late fall light, and the shimmer of the ocean. It’s okay to be unsettled. There is beauty and power in all kinds of energy.
Looking for my #DeathDoula friend out others involved in #EndOfLifeCare. #Hospice folks? #PalliativeCare folks? #FuneralProfessionals? #EstatePlanners? #Grief counselors and coaches? I’d love to connect!
November 20, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Looking for my #DeathDoula friend out others involved in #EndOfLifeCare. #Hospice folks? #PalliativeCare folks? #FuneralProfessionals? #EstatePlanners? #Grief counselors and coaches? I’d love to connect!
