It’s a nonfiction book not focused on trans experiences, but I am non-binary!

Reproductive Justice, Adoption, & Foster Care

www.thirdplacebooks.com/book/9781032...

I laughed so hard that I scared my dog.

I don’t like it, not just because of the nationalism, but because I’ve gotten actually hit with fireworks in my face and body. Illuminating.

That is unique in my experience.

This is my decades long approach to this day, but it’s weird to not feel like an odd person out.

The other thing that I’ve been saying for years to scientists: all the DEI stuff y’all do? It has roots in Black studies and gender studies. The NSF ADVANCE program that has touched the life of every woman in American science? Gender studies roots. But folks had fuck all to say defending it. 🧪

Black studies could have taught you that your silence will not protect you. That’s an Audre Lorde reference.

You want to know how to fight authoritarianism? Black studies literally studies and teaches Black survival under authoritarian conditions. 🧪

And the idea that there is nothing that the majority white scientific community could do to intervene in the rise of white supremacist attacks on Black studies *and* eventually American democracy is a complete evasion of responsibility.

The attitude that scientists took — that they were taken care of so they didn’t need to worry about the conservative attacks on their colleagues and liberal complicity with them — has not worked out well, has it? It’s almost like there’s a whole fucking poem about this, actually