Excited to (re)announce that my book with Alan Prince has been released! Find it here (and everywhere books are sold): equinoxonlinelibrary.com/book/58178/t...
In her speech at Genspect's Lisbon conference, Sex Matters' Helen Joyce pitched an explicit plan to use bans on puberty pausers as the starting point for a cascade of restrictions leading to all-ages bathroom bans: archive.ph/1XZqT
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, a tool the CDC uses to track things about high schoolers, found that 3.3% of all high schoolers are trans & 2.2% are questioning. Here's what that means, and the asterisks you need to know about the data. (1/?) www.transvitae.com/cdc-survey-f...
CDC's first national survey reveals transgender teens face heightened risks of bullying and mental health crises, urging schools to foster safer environments.
We need to protect trans kids by listening to them and standing up when people say bigoted things about them and to them Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/h...
A survey by the C.D.C. found high rates of sadness, bullying and suicide attempts among transgender and gender-questioning teenagers.
And if anyone is wondering if this is me trying to push back as best I can against the harm done by Haidt's deeply cynical bestseller 'The Anxious Generation'... then yes, that is 100% the case.
It's parents who are anxious about smartphones, not their children www.newscientist.com/article/mg26... It's me! For New Scientist! Pointing out that the 'anxiety spike' caused by smartphones etc can often be pinned on the older generations, not kids/younger people #Phones #Tech #Anxiety
Smartphones have indeed created an "anxious generation", but it isn't young people, it is their parents, argues neuroscientist Dean Burnett
Listen, if I am at a party and someone shows up dressed as Hitler and starts spewing horrible things and no one is kicking that person out then I am going to leave that party and go to a different one where that isn't allowed. What exactly do you not understand about this?
After months of research and painstakingly connecting the threads of transmisogyny theory, queer activism, and field-wide epistemic injustice, I would like to present "The Third Sex": my treatise on a third-world transfeminism. Read: tinyurl.com/59kzm98k
Don’t A/C shame people. It’s a matter of life or death for vulnerable folks, and heat gets worse under climate change. Want to swear off something? A cybertruck is sitting right there
In discourse analysis, this is a transcription choice that works when you’re analyzing a community’s speech patterns, but notice how Trump’s speech is never transcribed so “precisely” in their copy. The imbalance demonstrates bias and disdain. It’s smarmy and unprofessional, aka the CNN brand.
This is an unusual transcript (of Harris/Walz by CNN), filled with "gonna", "wearin'", "I'll tell ya", "pulling outta the race". These things are ubiquitous in speech, but most transcribers would change these to "going to", "wearing", "I'll tell you", "out of". edition.cnn.com/2024/08/29/p...
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down exclusively with CNN Thursday for her first interview since ascending to the top of the Democratic ticket.