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Dr. Mae Forrest Barnes
@dr-maeforrest.bsky.social
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She/her, disabled trans genderqueer lefty anarchist theologian, PhD in Theology and Ethics. Cohost of the Anarchodox Podcast.
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Shits going crazy at the urology conference
A flyer for the event: Conversations with my Penis. It is an orange flyer with a purple eggplant singing into a microphone in the center.
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Face of a girl who went to the gym for the first time in several months lol
Mae in workout clothes: Green headband, green and yellow Zelda crest t shirt, shorts
October 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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They can't keep getting away with this!
Jesse Pinkman, crying in anguish, as per the meme
October 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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This one springs to mind for me. She really was the blueprint.
Reagan Ripley from Inside Job a haggard, mid 30s, brilliant and overwhelmed, most likely autistic woman with bags under her eyes and forced smile
October 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Victor, you need a normal doctor, and preferably not a grad student like YOU
"My dear Victor," cried he, "what, for God's sake, is the matter? Do not laugh in that manner. How ill you are! What is the cause of all this?" "Do not ask me," cried I, putting my hands before my eyes, for I thought I saw the dreaded spectre glide into the room; "HE can tell. Oh, save me! Save me!" I imagined that the monster seized me; I struggled furiously and fell down in a fit. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein (Kindle Locations 668-671). . Kindle Edition.
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Skipping ahead a few chapters (because i forgot i was doing this) and like, having finished a dissertation, i almost kind of understand what Victor here is thinking
I passed the night wretchedly. Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness. Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete! Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein (Kindle Locations 627-630). . Kindle Edition.
October 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Interesting set of historical knowledge these guys keep drawing from
screencap of the wiki page for "sivis pacem, para bellum," the latin phrase that Hegseth is quoting. The highlighted passage reads: The main clause of the adage was used as a motto by German arms maker Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM), and is the source of the term Parabellum as applied to firearms and ammunition (especially the 7.65mm Parabellum and the 9mm Parabellum cartridges). "Parabellum" was the telegraphic address of DWM.[11][12] It is accompanied by an image of the parabellum, a weapon commonly used by Nazis
September 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Wally got a boyyyyfrieeeend
Will you smile at the enthusiasm I express concerning this divine wanderer? You would not if you saw him. You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidious; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man. Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein (Kindle Locations 218-221). . Kindle Edition.
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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aw, Wally is a little bit lonely :(
But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it... Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein (Kindle Locations 77-79). . Kindle Edition.
September 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Sleepy princess
An Australian shepherd sleeping
September 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Signature look of smug superiority
Mae, smirking smugly. She has fuckin incredible eye makeup, a green bandana and a black shirt. Also she remembered to wear earrings, two hoops on each side
September 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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This is by far the funniest remark I've ever gotten from a professor, and it's on my initial draft of my dissertation.

"Be more subtle, hun"
A handwritten note in the margin of my dissertation that reads: "Be more subtle, hun"
August 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Not Butler immediately questioning the very concept of gender separate from sex as a useful category for discourse! People, I'm sure, will have no problem with this paragraph (they in fact do have all the problems)
(p10-11)
This radical splitting of the gendered subject poses yet another set of problems. Can we refer to a "given" sex or a "given" gender without first inquiring into how sex and or gender is given, through what means? And what is "sex" anyway? Is it natural, anatomical, chromosomal, or homnal, and how is a feminist critic to assess the scientific discourses which purport to establish such "facts" for us? Does sex have a history? Does each sex have a different history, or histories? Is there a history of how the duality of sex was established, a genealogy that might expose the binary options as a variable construction? Are the ostensibly natural facts of sex discursively produced by various scientific discourses in the service of other political and social interests? *If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps the construct called "sex" is as culturally constructed as gender;* indeed, perhaps it ... ...was always already gender, *with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all."
August 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that's iconic to you.
The title screen to Beyond Good and Evil from the GameCube. A green, swirling abstract background featuring a set of very different yet iconic seerif fonts, one of which seems more art deco than anything else. The options include New Game, load, options, and credits.
August 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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The council of dipshits in my brain, all orderly in a tight circular table, calmly debating whether a hot dog is a sandwich or a taco
July 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Weird comment
July 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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New glasses!
Mae, in her new glasses, thin wire frame, circular, silver. Black blouse, pink and green headband.
July 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Rest in piss, you abusive shit, enjoy experiencing the holiness of God and withering before it's light
The Google result of searching John MacArthur, with the date of his death, July 14th, 2025, circled in red.
July 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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If you want to get a feel for what it's like to come out as trans later in life, Mark Z. Danielewski kind of nailed it from a cosmic horror angle in House of Leaves.
This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in your life. It won't matter. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all. For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how. You'll have forgotten what granted you this awareness in the first place. Old shelters— television, magazines, movies— won't protect you anymore. You might try scribbling in a journal, on a napkin, maybe even in the margins of this book. That's when you'll discover you no longer trust the very walls you always took for granted. Even the hallways you've walked a hundred times will feel longer, much longer, and the shadows, any shadow at all, will suddenly seem deeper, much, much, deeper. You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you'll be afraid to look away, you'll be afraid to sleep. (cont) (cont) Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as what Mark Z. Danielewski. Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves-Pantheon (2000) (Kindle Location 428). Kindle Edition.
July 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Me: Nobody turned me trans, I've always been this way, social contagion theory is bullshit

Meanwhile, young me saw this goddess and grew such gender envy
Willow Rosenberg, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is a young, red-headed woman, with a light multi-colored blouse, a beige jacket, a fashionable chain necklace (twas the style at the time) and holding two books, looking off to the right
July 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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New pfp drop
Mae, in full makeup, black eyeliner, pink lipstick, wearing a red tee and a red/blue plaid overshirt. On her head is her black, square glasses and black cap with red star.
July 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Trying colored lipstick, please be gentle
Mae is sitting in a large recliner. She is wearing a green paisley headband, a olive green tee, and a white striped overshirt button up. Hermakeup is green themed, with green sparkly eye shadow, black eyeliner over the top lid, and green lipstick.
July 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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When you are mean to me, this is who you are being mean to
Thr rankin Bass version of Gollum, a frog like, pitiable creature with green skin and hunched physique
July 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Dr Manhattan meme. A man is being exploded by Dr Manhattan, while saying ",But the law is so complex", while Dr Manhattan says "Laws aren't real"
June 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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BTW, yesterday was my 2 year Traniversary. I started HRT, and began a transition still in progress. I feel like, if nothing else, my hair is thicker and my smile is more genuine. (Still need new glasses though lol.)
Mae, 2 years ago on 2023, first day of HRT. Grizzled 5 o clock shadow. Balding. Black shirt. Pained smile, filled with anxiety. Mae, 2 years later on HRT. No headband, black shirt, green cardigan. Her hair is growing back on her forehead. And her smile is less pained, more calm. Less anxiety. Current day Mae, just wearing a boho headband, for the fashion of it.
June 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM