Julie Spray
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Julie Spray
@juliespray.bsky.social
Childhood & medical anthropologist, child health researcher, Lecturer at University of Galway Ireland, Pākehā New Zealander, she/her, never enough cats. I study people because they fascinate & confuse me. Children make most sense though. We like to draw.
Also would love recommendations of journals in critical higher education whose editors understand feminist epistemologies
October 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
And you know so much more than them! You know so much more than you did the last time you taught, you’ve forgotten how much you know
August 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Trump helped me learn to recognise narcissistic people in my own life. Once you see the pattern and understand the drivers, confusing people become a lot more predictable. Thanks Donald, I guess?
August 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It was, I think, the most exciting episode I’ve ever seen of any franchise. So well edited too. What a dream cast, what a joy to watch them
August 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
And the students are so much younger right?!
August 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Please tell Lisa congratulations ngā mihi nui on an amazing first episode and I’m so proud of her! Also why is she not on Bluesky
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We've had huge societal shifts that made childhood a private matter instead of a collective social responsibility, then wonder why so many youth are alienated & vulnerable. We need to think about this with a social & generational lens on gender & power, not an individualised developmentalist lens.
August 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We are asking boys, who are age-segregated and stripped of agency in schools, where they must play a social Game of Thrones, to resist the vortex of power and make themselves relationally vulnerable without any models as to how. This is actually super hard and wise adult men need to step in to help.
August 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If boys are being algorithmically gender-segregated into cultural bubbles where leaders and role models convert their vulnerability into a sense of power, then that's a potent vortex and we can't hold kids responsible for knowing how to navigate that alone. This is a hermeneutic injustice issue.
August 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
When I interview medical professionals about children’s role in their chronic illness management, so many of them only point to receiving education. It’s such an injustice to children, who are typically already doing a lot of their own management that adults don’t see.
July 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Let me know how this resonates and if you have any more items to add to the checklist! Next resource is: "How might adultism be shaping your participants' experiences?"
July 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
July 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM