Anne Fausto-Sterling
@birdlady.bsky.social
Biologist, gender/sex expert, feminist. In the works: a book on gender identity. In retirement: lots of bird photography.
Substack: Sterlinga.substack.com
Mastodon: @faustosterling@mastodon.world
Website: annefaustosterling.com
Substack: Sterlinga.substack.com
Mastodon: @faustosterling@mastodon.world
Website: annefaustosterling.com
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Powerful people are working overtime to keep poor people from eating.
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Powerful people are working overtime to keep poor people from eating.
Here's a link to an interview with the author of a new book on the origins of feminist science studies. I confess (blush) that me name has a significant index entry.
catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
View of An Origin Story for Feminist Science Studies
catalystjournal.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Here's a link to an interview with the author of a new book on the origins of feminist science studies. I confess (blush) that me name has a significant index entry.
catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
This is truly terrifying, It really IS what is on the US Department of Labor Facebook page. Check for yourse.f
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This is truly terrifying, It really IS what is on the US Department of Labor Facebook page. Check for yourse.f
New substack. sterlinga.substack.com/p/what-does-...
Check out my new post! This is a report of an interesting bit of science, with a dig about with-olding food stamps at the end.
Check out my new post! This is a report of an interesting bit of science, with a dig about with-olding food stamps at the end.
What does the Grinch, a sea slug, a sea anenome and some coral have in common?
Hint: this is about the newly discovered intracellular kleptosome
sterlinga.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
New substack. sterlinga.substack.com/p/what-does-...
Check out my new post! This is a report of an interesting bit of science, with a dig about with-olding food stamps at the end.
Check out my new post! This is a report of an interesting bit of science, with a dig about with-olding food stamps at the end.
Gender ideology. What is MAGA afraid of?
theconversation.com/gender-is-no...
theconversation.com/gender-is-no...
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 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Gender ideology. What is MAGA afraid of?
theconversation.com/gender-is-no...
theconversation.com/gender-is-no...
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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Reposted by Anne Fausto-Sterling
October 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I have a new publication called Throwing Like a Girl
sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l...
Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l...
Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Throwing Like a Girl
I have a new publication!
sterlinga.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I have a new publication called Throwing Like a Girl
sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l...
Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l...
Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky
Scientific Humanisms (Chapter 5) - Science and Humanism
Science and Humanism - October 2025
www.cambridge.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky
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New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.
My full statement:
My full statement:
October 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.
My full statement:
My full statement:
Reposted by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Seth provides a damning account of all the times 47 has been violent or has threatened violence.
Partial list of people 47 said should be executed: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Mark Milley.
Partial list of people 47 said should be executed: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Mark Milley.
I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full.
Here it is:
Here it is:
Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene
The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.
sethabramson.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Seth provides a damning account of all the times 47 has been violent or has threatened violence.
Partial list of people 47 said should be executed: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Mark Milley.
Partial list of people 47 said should be executed: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Mark Milley.
Another report on conditions at the US National academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Turmoil at US science academy as Trump cuts force layoffs
Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about capitulation and censorship.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Another report on conditions at the US National academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Those opposed to affirmative care are trying to create a "science footprint" that supports their attack on trans medicine. This describes a piece of that story.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown
The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.
www.motherjones.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Those opposed to affirmative care are trying to create a "science footprint" that supports their attack on trans medicine. This describes a piece of that story.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Is there a verifiable photo of a child being zip tied by ICE in the Chicago raid? Because a picture is worth a 1000 words. If the photo is real, let’s circulate it.
October 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Is there a verifiable photo of a child being zip tied by ICE in the Chicago raid? Because a picture is worth a 1000 words. If the photo is real, let’s circulate it.
Reposted by Anne Fausto-Sterling
“This trial exposed their true aim: to intimidate and silence anyone who dares oppose them,” he added. “If we fail to fight back, Trump’s thought police won’t stop at pro-Palestinian voices – they will come for anyone who speaks out.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students
Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“This trial exposed their true aim: to intimidate and silence anyone who dares oppose them,” he added. “If we fail to fight back, Trump’s thought police won’t stop at pro-Palestinian voices – they will come for anyone who speaks out.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Of embryos and vaccines
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
Of embryos and vaccines
If you REALLY want to protect the unborn...
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Of embryos and vaccines
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
I found this to be exptremely helpfuyl. Thanks, Jack, for taking us through the Quality of Evidence Pyramid as applied to gender affirming care.
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...
The Distortions Hindering Gender-Affirming Care
A Low Quality of Evidence Does Not Mean “Do Not Treat”
jdrescher.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I found this to be exptremely helpfuyl. Thanks, Jack, for taking us through the Quality of Evidence Pyramid as applied to gender affirming care.
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...
jdrescher.substack.com/p/the-distor...