Bri Barnes
@justanotherbri.bsky.social
I am a queer PhD candidate in sociology who studies identity and sense making through an epistemology informed by absurdist principles. I use lots of visual methods and in my non-academic life I am a street/documentary photographer | they/them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I have spent many years trying to understand how people can feel justified in celebrating another person being harmed or killed.
While American healthcare is clearly broken and health insurance seems to be almost entirely exploitative, I still can't bring myself to celebrate someone's murder
While American healthcare is clearly broken and health insurance seems to be almost entirely exploitative, I still can't bring myself to celebrate someone's murder
December 6, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I have spent many years trying to understand how people can feel justified in celebrating another person being harmed or killed.
While American healthcare is clearly broken and health insurance seems to be almost entirely exploitative, I still can't bring myself to celebrate someone's murder
While American healthcare is clearly broken and health insurance seems to be almost entirely exploitative, I still can't bring myself to celebrate someone's murder
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1. In a major development, the first national consensus guidelines for trans youth have been released in France.
They recommend affirmation and medical care, denounce "wait and see."
They refute much of the Cass Review.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...
They recommend affirmation and medical care, denounce "wait and see."
They refute much of the Cass Review.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...
New French Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Denounce "Wait-And-See" Approach
The new guidelines, published by the French Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, create the first French national medical consensus on trans youth care.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:18 PM
1. In a major development, the first national consensus guidelines for trans youth have been released in France.
They recommend affirmation and medical care, denounce "wait and see."
They refute much of the Cass Review.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...
They recommend affirmation and medical care, denounce "wait and see."
They refute much of the Cass Review.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...
I'm sure I'm not alone in this time of year being kind of rough because of homophobic or transphobic family. I'm lucky to have a best friend who has become my big sister. Not everyone is so lucky. Make sure you check on your queer friends and make them feel welcome if you can
November 26, 2024 at 9:58 PM
I'm sure I'm not alone in this time of year being kind of rough because of homophobic or transphobic family. I'm lucky to have a best friend who has become my big sister. Not everyone is so lucky. Make sure you check on your queer friends and make them feel welcome if you can
I'm having a Sad Bitch™️ morning. Here's my current anthem. I love this song
open.spotify.com/track/6hjh2p...
open.spotify.com/track/6hjh2p...
Trying My Best
Anson Seabra · Songs I Wrote in My Bedroom · Song · 2020
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:06 AM
I'm having a Sad Bitch™️ morning. Here's my current anthem. I love this song
open.spotify.com/track/6hjh2p...
open.spotify.com/track/6hjh2p...
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My grandmother passed away two years ago right near her birthday (which was Christmas day). I miss her dearly, but today as I was archiving a ton of my photos into cold storage I stumbled across this gem from before she got sick and thought I should share it. This is how I remember her
November 24, 2024 at 1:06 PM
My grandmother passed away two years ago right near her birthday (which was Christmas day). I miss her dearly, but today as I was archiving a ton of my photos into cold storage I stumbled across this gem from before she got sick and thought I should share it. This is how I remember her
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Albert Camus: The fullness of the cup is meaningless, but we should still let it satiate us
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Albert Camus: The fullness of the cup is meaningless, but we should still let it satiate us
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Simone de Beauvoir: One is not born, but rather becomes, a cup
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Simone de Beauvoir: One is not born, but rather becomes, a cup
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Abolitionist: The carceral cup is constraining our radical imagination
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Abolitionist: The carceral cup is constraining our radical imagination
November 24, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Albert Camus: The fullness of the cup is meaningless, but we should still let it satiate us
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Albert Camus: The fullness of the cup is meaningless, but we should still let it satiate us
Everytime someone hurls a homophobic or transphobic slur at me my day goes off the rails. It hangs around my neck for days. I put on a strong face because I want to be able to support folks who can't, but it ruins me psychologically for a while 😭
people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization
November 23, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Everytime someone hurls a homophobic or transphobic slur at me my day goes off the rails. It hangs around my neck for days. I put on a strong face because I want to be able to support folks who can't, but it ruins me psychologically for a while 😭
In this dark time, I am thrilled to see so many higher Ed institutions removing financial barriers for folks who traditionally can't go to college. I am a first Gen college student and many of my students are too. I'm proud to be at a public uni doing similar
#umassboston #firstgenstudent
#umassboston #firstgenstudent
MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible. nyti.ms/3V6GVia
November 23, 2024 at 12:01 PM
In this dark time, I am thrilled to see so many higher Ed institutions removing financial barriers for folks who traditionally can't go to college. I am a first Gen college student and many of my students are too. I'm proud to be at a public uni doing similar
#umassboston #firstgenstudent
#umassboston #firstgenstudent
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Since some seem determined not to get it:
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Since some seem determined not to get it:
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
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I discuss voting and voting patterns regularly in all my courses. Emphasizing the importance of participation in local/state elections where students see their votes counting AND holding politicians accountable between voting cycles resonates with them. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
At student voting summit, organizers tackle apathy, education
At the National Student Vote Summit, attendees discussed the best ways to boost political involvement after an election that saw worse turnout than in 2020.
www.insidehighered.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:16 PM
I discuss voting and voting patterns regularly in all my courses. Emphasizing the importance of participation in local/state elections where students see their votes counting AND holding politicians accountable between voting cycles resonates with them. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
How are y'all helping your international and immigrant (first Gen or otherwise) students with anxiety related to what their spring semesters might look like? I teach at two very diverse minority serving schools and I'm seeing stress in many of my students
#nohumanisillegal
#nohumanisillegal
November 22, 2024 at 2:54 PM
How are y'all helping your international and immigrant (first Gen or otherwise) students with anxiety related to what their spring semesters might look like? I teach at two very diverse minority serving schools and I'm seeing stress in many of my students
#nohumanisillegal
#nohumanisillegal
This has become one of my favorite morning rituals. I'll miss this campus a little when I leave
November 18, 2024 at 11:59 AM
This has become one of my favorite morning rituals. I'll miss this campus a little when I leave
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I anticipate that I will be defending my prospectus early in the spring. That plus teaching 6 courses has me seeing my lifelong dream coming true
Being a professor, mentoring and helping students see how sociology matters outside the classroom is the best part of my life
#firstgenstudent #gradschool
Being a professor, mentoring and helping students see how sociology matters outside the classroom is the best part of my life
#firstgenstudent #gradschool
November 18, 2024 at 11:41 AM
I anticipate that I will be defending my prospectus early in the spring. That plus teaching 6 courses has me seeing my lifelong dream coming true
Being a professor, mentoring and helping students see how sociology matters outside the classroom is the best part of my life
#firstgenstudent #gradschool
Being a professor, mentoring and helping students see how sociology matters outside the classroom is the best part of my life
#firstgenstudent #gradschool
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In my PhD years I have escaped a toxic/abusive living situation, been homeless in my car, had a major mental health event landing in a respite for a few months. I have no safety net and I feel so alone in academia.
Have y'all felt this level of precarity during school, how'd you make it through?
Have y'all felt this level of precarity during school, how'd you make it through?
November 15, 2024 at 3:04 PM
In my PhD years I have escaped a toxic/abusive living situation, been homeless in my car, had a major mental health event landing in a respite for a few months. I have no safety net and I feel so alone in academia.
Have y'all felt this level of precarity during school, how'd you make it through?
Have y'all felt this level of precarity during school, how'd you make it through?
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Ohio's legislature begins its annual assault on academe by criminalizing using the bathroom that conforms to one's identity and prohibiting universities from designating gender neutral facilities. Will dress codes be next? www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-l...
Ohio legislature restricts transgender bathroom use in schools, universities
Ohio is just one step away from enacting a transgender bathroom restriction in schools after the Ohio Senate voted 24-7 on Wednesday to pass a bill that bars transgender students from using K-12 schoo...
www.daytondailynews.com
November 14, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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Yesterday I shocked a bunch of my intro to soc students by explaining that Smith wrote Wealth of Nations before the industrial revolution and was ardently anti-monopoly, anti-corporate, and believed that unregulated capitalism will always lead to abuse of the working class by capitalists
November 14, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Yesterday I shocked a bunch of my intro to soc students by explaining that Smith wrote Wealth of Nations before the industrial revolution and was ardently anti-monopoly, anti-corporate, and believed that unregulated capitalism will always lead to abuse of the working class by capitalists