Dr. Liz Powell (they/them)
@drlizpowell.bsky.social
I'm a psychologist, speaker, author, & coach who believes that Great Sex can change the world! Bi, queer, polyam, kinky, genderqueer. Pronouns they/ them.
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So I'm a Chaos Muppet which means I have ridiculous ideas sometimes but I figure why not see if there's interest in some of them. For instance, would folks want to watch a video of me breaking down the Netflix Christmas Movie Cinematic Universe and its implications on what even is reality?
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Ending my (very brief) social media hiatus to announce that I am the proud recipient of not one, but TWO, DFL Code of Conduct incident reports.
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Ending my (very brief) social media hiatus to announce that I am the proud recipient of not one, but TWO, DFL Code of Conduct incident reports.
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When you write the whole piece around the idea of “MeToo” as an adequate description of what caused specific men to lose specific positions, and when you do this incredibly weird cutesy business to avoid *mentioning what happened*, you do a disservice to readers.
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
When you write the whole piece around the idea of “MeToo” as an adequate description of what caused specific men to lose specific positions, and when you do this incredibly weird cutesy business to avoid *mentioning what happened*, you do a disservice to readers.
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I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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Google's Gemini AI assumes bylined reporters are the subjects of their stories, what a shitty product www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
The day Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, accused me of a crime
It was disconcerting, to say the least, to find myself identified as a criminal defendant at the top of a recent internet search.
www.abqjournal.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Google's Gemini AI assumes bylined reporters are the subjects of their stories, what a shitty product www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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5/🧵 Race divides the Democratic Party more than it does Republicans. Young Republicans remain almost as racially resentful as older Republicans. But among Democrats and independents, massive shifts. White Gen Z independents have lower racial resentment than Boomer Democrats.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
5/🧵 Race divides the Democratic Party more than it does Republicans. Young Republicans remain almost as racially resentful as older Republicans. But among Democrats and independents, massive shifts. White Gen Z independents have lower racial resentment than Boomer Democrats.
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3/🧵 This generational trend is consistent across every demographic subgroup you can imagine. Non-college Gen Z men? Lower racial resentment than college-educated elder Millennials. The pattern holds across gender, geography, and religion. Young men and women are moving in tandem.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
3/🧵 This generational trend is consistent across every demographic subgroup you can imagine. Non-college Gen Z men? Lower racial resentment than college-educated elder Millennials. The pattern holds across gender, geography, and religion. Young men and women are moving in tandem.
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Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
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lol people are mad about this but the internet alone has shown how much society hates women, ESPECIALLY women of color.
This isn’t Michelle Obama saying women aren’t qualified to be president. It’s Michelle Obama saying that people don’t WANT a woman president.
This isn’t Michelle Obama saying women aren’t qualified to be president. It’s Michelle Obama saying that people don’t WANT a woman president.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
lol people are mad about this but the internet alone has shown how much society hates women, ESPECIALLY women of color.
This isn’t Michelle Obama saying women aren’t qualified to be president. It’s Michelle Obama saying that people don’t WANT a woman president.
This isn’t Michelle Obama saying women aren’t qualified to be president. It’s Michelle Obama saying that people don’t WANT a woman president.
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Disability ancestors aren’t gone; they accompany us. In our organizing, in mutual aid, in the awkward joy of surviving another day that wasn’t designed for us. They’re in every access met, every gentle reminder to slow down, every firm refusal to abandon one another.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Disability ancestors aren’t gone; they accompany us. In our organizing, in mutual aid, in the awkward joy of surviving another day that wasn’t designed for us. They’re in every access met, every gentle reminder to slow down, every firm refusal to abandon one another.
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We see this today. People like Gavin Newsom are no true friends of queer liberation but, if they gain power, will only normalize antiqueer and trans politics while making performative gestures and rehetoric towards queer inclusivity.
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
We see this today. People like Gavin Newsom are no true friends of queer liberation but, if they gain power, will only normalize antiqueer and trans politics while making performative gestures and rehetoric towards queer inclusivity.
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It goes to show - Queerness disrupts the heteronormative, reproductive logic that underlies both fascism and liberalism. Even when fascism falls, liberal institutions still move to normalize the intensified persecution of queer people, because the same foundational assumptions remain untouched.
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It goes to show - Queerness disrupts the heteronormative, reproductive logic that underlies both fascism and liberalism. Even when fascism falls, liberal institutions still move to normalize the intensified persecution of queer people, because the same foundational assumptions remain untouched.
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Many queer people were also denied restitution after the war because they were not considered victims of fascism - as only those targeted based on racial, political or religious grounds were considered.
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Many queer people were also denied restitution after the war because they were not considered victims of fascism - as only those targeted based on racial, political or religious grounds were considered.
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When the US liberated Nazi concentration camps, many queer people stayed in prison because they were seen as having broken the law. Indeed, Paragraph 175, which criminalized gay intercourse in Weimar Germany & had been expanded to include intent by the Nazis, was not abolished by the US after WWII.
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
When the US liberated Nazi concentration camps, many queer people stayed in prison because they were seen as having broken the law. Indeed, Paragraph 175, which criminalized gay intercourse in Weimar Germany & had been expanded to include intent by the Nazis, was not abolished by the US after WWII.
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The fiercest of souls. Thank you for your tireless advocacy, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. Rest in peace, Alice.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The fiercest of souls. Thank you for your tireless advocacy, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. Rest in peace, Alice.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
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Not for nothing, I still find it incredibly funny that conservatives have been calling Catholicism "based" for the last 5 fucking years and now they're about to splinter into a new Protestant Sect because the Dioses are um... Christian. With Christian beliefs.
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Not for nothing, I still find it incredibly funny that conservatives have been calling Catholicism "based" for the last 5 fucking years and now they're about to splinter into a new Protestant Sect because the Dioses are um... Christian. With Christian beliefs.
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lol sorry to break it to you but America does not like women
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
lol sorry to break it to you but America does not like women
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I think that's part of it, but also I think they just genuinely felt that an anti-gay, anti-abortion church with a male-only hierarchy ruled by an infallible dictator WOULD OF COURSE align with their fascist project.
And forgot to, you know, check.
And forgot to, you know, check.
I'm convinced most tradcaths in the political class (e.g. Walsh, Vance) chose Catholicism because they didn't think they could compete for attention in *Protestant* Evangelical spaces. They thought marking themselves as 'Catholic' would help them stand out.
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I think that's part of it, but also I think they just genuinely felt that an anti-gay, anti-abortion church with a male-only hierarchy ruled by an infallible dictator WOULD OF COURSE align with their fascist project.
And forgot to, you know, check.
And forgot to, you know, check.
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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It's almost trite to anyone who is online at all, but the radicalization of JD Vance is one of the great ignored stories of our time. And we're a few heartbeats from becoming one of the biggest stories in US history.
JD Vance now leads the GOP. And he wants the party to welcome Hitler lovers.
And the press refuses to reckon with what this means.
www.thefarce.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's almost trite to anyone who is online at all, but the radicalization of JD Vance is one of the great ignored stories of our time. And we're a few heartbeats from becoming one of the biggest stories in US history.