They/Them (T. T. Perry)
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Applied and translational sensory scientist. https://ttpphd.com
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GLMA25: A Thematic Analysis of Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy
Hello! You’ve found a PDF of my poster for the 2025 GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ+ Health. Authors: T. T. Perry, Julia Black, E. M. Campbell, Pallas Lysander-Romberg, Oberyn McCreless, D. W…
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Grab a PDF copy of my GLMA poster:
A Thematic Analysis of Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy
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#Trans #Intersex #Circumcision #Autonomy #HealthCare
A Thematic Analysis of Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy
ttpphd.com/2025/10/09/g...
#Trans #Intersex #Circumcision #Autonomy #HealthCare
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
2026 is absolutely gonna be my year. It's gone be a crazy, busy, emotional one. Those things are all super me. My year. I'm ready.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
2026 is absolutely gonna be my year. It's gone be a crazy, busy, emotional one. Those things are all super me. My year. I'm ready.
Cishets love age play I guess.
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Cishets love age play I guess.
Tragically and to my great frustration, today is "be itchy" day.
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tragically and to my great frustration, today is "be itchy" day.
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Your morning reminder- if your feed is stressing you out, remember that you can mute words for 24 hours.
I promise that if something genuinely huge happens, it will break containment and you’ll know.
Brought to you by muting SCOTUS and court for the day…
I promise that if something genuinely huge happens, it will break containment and you’ll know.
Brought to you by muting SCOTUS and court for the day…
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Your morning reminder- if your feed is stressing you out, remember that you can mute words for 24 hours.
I promise that if something genuinely huge happens, it will break containment and you’ll know.
Brought to you by muting SCOTUS and court for the day…
I promise that if something genuinely huge happens, it will break containment and you’ll know.
Brought to you by muting SCOTUS and court for the day…
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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
—Ursula K. Le Guin
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
—Ursula K. Le Guin
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The "major questions doctrine" is just something Supreme Court Justices made up to give themselves more power whenever they feel like it. No basis in law granting the Supreme Court majority additional ability to undo an act of Congress they disagree with because Justices say this one's a big deal.
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The "major questions doctrine" is just something Supreme Court Justices made up to give themselves more power whenever they feel like it. No basis in law granting the Supreme Court majority additional ability to undo an act of Congress they disagree with because Justices say this one's a big deal.
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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I cannot stress emphatically enough, nor with sufficient regularity, that you're gonna have to leave corporate media behind. You are the means to its ends, and its ends are hostile to you and your way of life.
December 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I cannot stress emphatically enough, nor with sufficient regularity, that you're gonna have to leave corporate media behind. You are the means to its ends, and its ends are hostile to you and your way of life.
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V. annoying thing about oralist/eugenicist arguments in deaf ed is how the counter is reduced to amorphous cultural protectivism, which, OK culture is great, but also your way doesn't work! 80% of US deaf kids have CIs and 70% of US d/hh experience language deprivation. Math ain't mathin' babes!
December 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
V. annoying thing about oralist/eugenicist arguments in deaf ed is how the counter is reduced to amorphous cultural protectivism, which, OK culture is great, but also your way doesn't work! 80% of US deaf kids have CIs and 70% of US d/hh experience language deprivation. Math ain't mathin' babes!
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“I Own My Children”: The Parental Rights Movement and How to Challenge It
Hazel Woodrow for Canadian Anti-Hate Network
These are the tools you need to understand where the "parental rights" movement comes from, what its goals are, and what you can do to challenge it.
www.antihate.ca/_i_own_my_ch...
Hazel Woodrow for Canadian Anti-Hate Network
These are the tools you need to understand where the "parental rights" movement comes from, what its goals are, and what you can do to challenge it.
www.antihate.ca/_i_own_my_ch...
“I Own My Children”: The Parental Rights Movement and How to Challenge It
Anti-2SLGBTQ+ activists, cloaking themselves under the “Parental Rights Movement” are taking advantage of that normal parental care and interest, in order to surreptitiously build numbers for thei...
www.antihate.ca
November 1, 2023 at 11:24 PM
“I Own My Children”: The Parental Rights Movement and How to Challenge It
Hazel Woodrow for Canadian Anti-Hate Network
These are the tools you need to understand where the "parental rights" movement comes from, what its goals are, and what you can do to challenge it.
www.antihate.ca/_i_own_my_ch...
Hazel Woodrow for Canadian Anti-Hate Network
These are the tools you need to understand where the "parental rights" movement comes from, what its goals are, and what you can do to challenge it.
www.antihate.ca/_i_own_my_ch...
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This piece uses "Vent" diagrams to create open windows that let in new thinking. It's a way to acknowledge complexity while breathing in fresh air to stale binary modes of analysis.
"Let’s think about how we can show our kids that it would be safe to come out to us if they were queer or trans."
"Let’s think about how we can show our kids that it would be safe to come out to us if they were queer or trans."
November 1, 2023 at 11:27 PM
This piece uses "Vent" diagrams to create open windows that let in new thinking. It's a way to acknowledge complexity while breathing in fresh air to stale binary modes of analysis.
"Let’s think about how we can show our kids that it would be safe to come out to us if they were queer or trans."
"Let’s think about how we can show our kids that it would be safe to come out to us if they were queer or trans."
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The Anti-Childism Scale
PEACE I GIVE blog (2020)
"Childism is prejudice and discrimination against children and childlikeness.
My hope is that it will get people thinking and give them an idea of where they stand with respect to embracing or rejecting childism."
peaceigive.com/2020/03/24/t...
PEACE I GIVE blog (2020)
"Childism is prejudice and discrimination against children and childlikeness.
My hope is that it will get people thinking and give them an idea of where they stand with respect to embracing or rejecting childism."
peaceigive.com/2020/03/24/t...
December 21, 2024 at 11:19 PM
The Anti-Childism Scale
PEACE I GIVE blog (2020)
"Childism is prejudice and discrimination against children and childlikeness.
My hope is that it will get people thinking and give them an idea of where they stand with respect to embracing or rejecting childism."
peaceigive.com/2020/03/24/t...
PEACE I GIVE blog (2020)
"Childism is prejudice and discrimination against children and childlikeness.
My hope is that it will get people thinking and give them an idea of where they stand with respect to embracing or rejecting childism."
peaceigive.com/2020/03/24/t...
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This thread up and down.
Also, I've been beating this drum about the danger to the information ecosystem for six and half years now. A few links below:
Also, I've been beating this drum about the danger to the information ecosystem for six and half years now. A few links below:
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This thread up and down.
Also, I've been beating this drum about the danger to the information ecosystem for six and half years now. A few links below:
Also, I've been beating this drum about the danger to the information ecosystem for six and half years now. A few links below:
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NEW: FIRE positions itself as an alternative voice for free expression, but an analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social found deference to religious-based viewpoints in free speech debates — and in some cases, the elevation of those views over all others.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Can a Group Allied With the Right Defend the 1st Amendment for All? — Assigned
FIRE, a product of the “academic freedom” campaign, wants to protect free speech for everyone. Yet its stances show deference to religious views and a persistent anti-queer strain.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
NEW: FIRE positions itself as an alternative voice for free expression, but an analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social found deference to religious-based viewpoints in free speech debates — and in some cases, the elevation of those views over all others.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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This week I share an anniversary with thousands of strangers. My mom died of Covid five yrs ago today; hers was one of 9,744 such deaths that week. That we know of.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
When Our Grief Turns to Despair - Dame Magazine
It’s been a year since I wrote about my bottomless, fathomless, American grief, about my inability to give it shape even as I tried to shape it with words. We’d lost about 220,000 Americans to COVID-1...
www.damemagazine.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This week I share an anniversary with thousands of strangers. My mom died of Covid five yrs ago today; hers was one of 9,744 such deaths that week. That we know of.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
What is social media "for" exactly?
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
What is social media "for" exactly?
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One reason that the US (and the UK presumably, I don’t even go there) doesn’t teach children universal critical thinking and critical information literacy skills is that the idea that children should be able to evaluate or dissent from the lies of adults in society is politically contested.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
One reason that the US (and the UK presumably, I don’t even go there) doesn’t teach children universal critical thinking and critical information literacy skills is that the idea that children should be able to evaluate or dissent from the lies of adults in society is politically contested.
A politics of relation spotlights that what we believe and what motivates us is intimately tied to the question of "Whose suffering is so intolerable that we feel compelled to address their cries?"
I've said this before, but there are two kinds of people in the world.
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A politics of relation spotlights that what we believe and what motivates us is intimately tied to the question of "Whose suffering is so intolerable that we feel compelled to address their cries?"
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As a trans Christian, I think I’m actually doing it better than they are. Taking on a new name to match my identity and calling? Contradicting the ways of the World (patriarchy)? Being hated for proclaiming the truth? Scars that show the sacrifices I’ve made? Get on my level, cishets!
June 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As a trans Christian, I think I’m actually doing it better than they are. Taking on a new name to match my identity and calling? Contradicting the ways of the World (patriarchy)? Being hated for proclaiming the truth? Scars that show the sacrifices I’ve made? Get on my level, cishets!
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Once again, the thing that no one really wants to say out loud is that NATO is already at war with 🇷🇺
⚡️Czech president says Europe may need to shoot down Russian aircraft, drones violating NATO airspace
Czech president says Europe may need to shoot down Russian aircraft, drones violating NATO airspace
European countries may have to start shooting down Russian aircraft and drones that violate NATO airspace if Moscow keeps testing the alliance's resolve, Czech President Petr Pavel said in an intervie...
kyivindependent.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Once again, the thing that no one really wants to say out loud is that NATO is already at war with 🇷🇺
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“In the case of trans and intersex people, genocide is often perpetrated by making it impossible for individuals to exist as their true selves… No denial or omission in law can erase the concrete reality that trans and intersex people have always and will always exist.”
We must refuse such erasure.
We must refuse such erasure.
Red Flag Alert on Anti-Trans and Intersex Rights in the UK | Lemkin Institute
www.lemkininstitute.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“In the case of trans and intersex people, genocide is often perpetrated by making it impossible for individuals to exist as their true selves… No denial or omission in law can erase the concrete reality that trans and intersex people have always and will always exist.”
We must refuse such erasure.
We must refuse such erasure.
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There is only one true cis straight male ally and he’s Kelly from OMG Shoes
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
There is only one true cis straight male ally and he’s Kelly from OMG Shoes
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the reason a catchall term like "evangelical" even exists is an attempt to recognize that, across many different Christian denominations, there is an anti-intellecual, vibes-based agreement on who Jesus is and how a student might best follow him - and - it's definitely not by sharpening their mind
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
the reason a catchall term like "evangelical" even exists is an attempt to recognize that, across many different Christian denominations, there is an anti-intellecual, vibes-based agreement on who Jesus is and how a student might best follow him - and - it's definitely not by sharpening their mind
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Oh yeah, there’s another point I’ve noted since I wrote which further undermines the idea that “subjunctive gametes” for an individual could be identified by considering the subset of possible worlds where that individual has a specific genotype…
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Oh yeah, there’s another point I’ve noted since I wrote which further undermines the idea that “subjunctive gametes” for an individual could be identified by considering the subset of possible worlds where that individual has a specific genotype…