Dr. Sarah Williams
@sarahwilliams.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Medical Anthropology @ UConn. Hiker, forager, keeper of cats. Research on repro & perinatal health, repro justice, and queer health in Mexico and Canada.
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Here's the newsletter post I wrote today about the CDC vax page and MAHA as marketing buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
The affiliate marketing HHS
I’m bumping what I had planned to work on today, a bit of critical reflection on AI, in order to write this up instead while everyone is reacting to the...
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Here's the newsletter post I wrote today about the CDC vax page and MAHA as marketing buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
Cheney invading hell, Mamdani sweeping in NYC. My cynical, cortisol-drenched heart has grown two sizes today.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Cheney invading hell, Mamdani sweeping in NYC. My cynical, cortisol-drenched heart has grown two sizes today.
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.”
-Anne Frank, 01/13/1943
-Anne Frank, 01/13/1943
May 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.”
-Anne Frank, 01/13/1943
-Anne Frank, 01/13/1943
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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
I am an anthropologist and maternal health scholar today because of an NSF REU ethnographic fieldschool focused on 1st gen students.
#withoutNSF
#withoutNSF
"Scientists are being encouraged to share the stories of what NSF funding makes possible, and what is at stake, with the hashtag #WithoutNSF. Share your stories on social media and tag AAG so we can follow and amplify."
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May 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I am an anthropologist and maternal health scholar today because of an NSF REU ethnographic fieldschool focused on 1st gen students.
#withoutNSF
#withoutNSF
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Global North is becoming unsafe for #globalhealth meetings! @madhupai.bsky.social Nhial Deng &I highlight how on top of visa inequity, lack of safety is a concern for GH meetings in the GN. Action should include shifting meetings to the Global South! Share&Advocate!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
May 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Global North is becoming unsafe for #globalhealth meetings! @madhupai.bsky.social Nhial Deng &I highlight how on top of visa inequity, lack of safety is a concern for GH meetings in the GN. Action should include shifting meetings to the Global South! Share&Advocate!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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BREAKING: An Alabama court permanently blocked efforts to subject midwife-led care in birth centers to onerous, hospital-like regulations.
This is a victory for Alabama birth centers, midwives, and their patients.
This is a victory for Alabama birth centers, midwives, and their patients.
May 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
BREAKING: An Alabama court permanently blocked efforts to subject midwife-led care in birth centers to onerous, hospital-like regulations.
This is a victory for Alabama birth centers, midwives, and their patients.
This is a victory for Alabama birth centers, midwives, and their patients.
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every day I log on and people try their best to get me to lose my faith in humanity. but I am resilient and have a bad memory
April 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
every day I log on and people try their best to get me to lose my faith in humanity. but I am resilient and have a bad memory
ICE has only existed since 2003. It’s younger than most of the people it terrorizes. We can admit it was a mistake and kill it so that our democracy and communities can live.
April 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
ICE has only existed since 2003. It’s younger than most of the people it terrorizes. We can admit it was a mistake and kill it so that our democracy and communities can live.
There’s something sick and broken about USians’ constant recourse to “X group of people aren’t bad/are deserving of rights, they’re TAXPAYERS.” Earning enough money to owe a share to the gov has nothing to do with a human being’s value.
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
April 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There’s something sick and broken about USians’ constant recourse to “X group of people aren’t bad/are deserving of rights, they’re TAXPAYERS.” Earning enough money to owe a share to the gov has nothing to do with a human being’s value.
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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..
April 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..
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More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
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I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.
April 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.
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BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
Millennials kept saying we were tired of all the “unprecedented times” so the universe sent us an Extremely Precedented Time.
April 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Millennials kept saying we were tired of all the “unprecedented times” so the universe sent us an Extremely Precedented Time.
Masculinity so frail it bankrupts itself and the global economy.
April 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Masculinity so frail it bankrupts itself and the global economy.
Community rejection of Nazi shit works!
BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:
April 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Community rejection of Nazi shit works!
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One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’”
By @mckenziefunk.com
By @mckenziefunk.com
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
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April 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’”
By @mckenziefunk.com
By @mckenziefunk.com
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The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
April 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
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This is updated with the latest information I've received. Five pages long with two columns.
I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is updated with the latest information I've received. Five pages long with two columns.
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I urge faculty members to join the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). We have few organizations that represent us and offer us collective power. #Yale has a new chapter. You can start one if your campus doesn't have one yet. And you can join now too.
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March 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I urge faculty members to join the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). We have few organizations that represent us and offer us collective power. #Yale has a new chapter. You can start one if your campus doesn't have one yet. And you can join now too.
www.aaup.org/membership/d...
www.aaup.org/membership/d...
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Democratic House Rep. John Larson goes off in the House Ways and Means Committee discussion about Elon Musk and DOGE.
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March 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Democratic House Rep. John Larson goes off in the House Ways and Means Committee discussion about Elon Musk and DOGE.
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Call your Senators who are standing up against this to thank them; call everyone else to tell them that they are aiding the collapse of this country and demand they stop it.
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BREAKING: The US Senate is receiving as many as 2,000 calls per minute from angry people demanding that Elon Musk & DOGE stop their unlawful actions immediately.
KEEP CALLING!
Google your Senate rep
Call ☎️
(202) 224-3121
Ask for your Senator.
Tell them exactly what you think!
DO YOUR PART!
BREAKING: The US Senate is receiving as many as 2,000 calls per minute from angry people demanding that Elon Musk & DOGE stop their unlawful actions immediately.
KEEP CALLING!
Google your Senate rep
Call ☎️
(202) 224-3121
Ask for your Senator.
Tell them exactly what you think!
DO YOUR PART!
February 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Call your Senators who are standing up against this to thank them; call everyone else to tell them that they are aiding the collapse of this country and demand they stop it.