BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

This is a critical victory for trans rights.

It's 100% shitty right now, but Kim Deal from the Breeders lives in my neighborhood & I just snagged a ticket to see her perform. Gonna mask up and dance my ass off tonight.

I see a lot of trans folks scared that we're going to be exterminated right now. And you're right that they're going to try.

So I want to say this: they tried before, from 1981-1989.

And for most of you, every moment of queer joy you've ever had came in the shadow of that last effort to kill us.

Oh and if it's for (reflexive) thematic analysis specifically, this one:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks:

1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1

It was a hell of a good time to offer to do more mentoring of queer future mental health professionals. I could do this all the time, it's more meaningful than ever right now!

The terrible thing about fascists!
Is fascists want terrible things!
The top consolidates power!
Th' opposition just puppets on strings!
They're Nazis Nazis Nazis Nazis
They want us to die!
But the most terrible thing about fascists is...
The people who comply
The peeeeople who comply

Update: From APPIC, official word is VA based internships are exempt from the federal hiring freeze. Other federal sites, like the Bureau of Prisons remain uncertain.

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

The attempts to destroy tenure, DEI and the right to strike are BACK in higher ed in Ohio. If you are a constituent, NOW is the time to write & call to defeat the new set of bills that may be voted on as early as NEXT WEEK. We've succeeded before, let's do it again! actionnetwork.org/letters/veto...

Fuck Target, for real.

I see you fellow academics launching into course prep/edits & I commiserate. Any folks working on syllabus for the wacky required Cog X Affective Bases class for doctoral programs (I am and I dislike cog.. . so much. . . )

We've now taught future generations that even if you're a 34 count convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and traitor to your country, as long as you flood the zone with lies and use the enormous wealth of corrupt billionaires, you can be elected president... and THAT is fucking appalling.

This better be a warm-up for Dogma 2, with God (Alanis) singing this to Bethany's now-25? year old adult child, the last descendent of J, 'cause if so, I'm HERE FOR IT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgbP...

Today in Muppet History: Milkshake the Duck makes their first and only appearance as a member of Elmo's polycule.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Only four of of these made me lol . . .