Excited to see Aven Peters' innovative & rigorous study of embodiment and trans identification out in the latest AJS. Aven's study adds an essential new piece to our understanding of contemporary population patterns of trans identification and announces @avenpeters.bsky.social as a major new talent.
This sounds like a really compelling course! My article on the relationship between disability and transness is *almost* out—you can read the accepted manuscript here, and the pretty typeset version should be available sometime in January.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
public comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit & strip care from DACA recipients ends at 23:59pm EDT tonite
if you haven't commented, it won't take long & is worth doing. context & guidance in-thread ⬇️
if you have commented, thank you💜🏳️⚧️
For a general strike, we’d need at least 3.5% of the population—be one of the 11 million people needed to set a date!
generalstrikeus.com/strikecard
Colored pencil drawing of a hawkfish. The fish looks purple due to the lighting, with red-orange and black spots. The background is an abstract blend of purple, black, blue, and white.
I’m a few days behind on #fishyfeb, but here’s my #hawkfish!
A pastel painting of a grey shark from below, with sunlight shining behind its head and a blue background.
Quick #shark with sunlight poking through for #FishyFeb. #pastels
A watercolor and colored pencil painting of six orange jellyfish on a light blue background.
Watercolor and colored pencil #jellyfish for today’s #FishyFeb!
Colored pencil drawing of a yellow and dark brown tiger ray with an abstract blue background
Tiger ray in colored pencil for today and yesterday #tiger #stingray #fishyfeb
A colored pencil drawing of a lion fish. The fish is reddish brown and white with hints of purple, and the background is black with patches of gray.
Lion fish for #fishyfeb! #coloredpencil
A colored pencil drawing of an oscar fish that appears purple due to the light, with bright orange eyes and orange coloring near its gills. The background is abstract and colorful.
I had a lot of fun with this one! Oscar fish in #coloredpencil for #fishyfeb
A watercolor painting of a brown and grey catfish with an abstract teal background.
Still learning watercolor, but I think this #catfish is cute. #FishyFeb
This is lovely!
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
My wife says I should make art for my mental health, so here’s my attempt at #fishyfeb
From a census employee
Federal data update: BRFSS has been taken down and a lot of the census website is “unavailable due to maintenance,” although data.census.gov still works.
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Maria Moe (pseudonym), a trans woman in federal prison, is suing Donald Trump after his executive order resulted, horrifyingly, in her being removed from the general population, locked in solitary confinement, and told she’d be transferred to a men’s prison because of the order.
