"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

Congratulations! What a fabulous project!

NYU Langone still silent on NY Attorney General’s call to resume transgender care - Washington Square News NYU Langone Health remains silent three weeks after the New York attorney general’s deadline for the medical center to restore gender-affirming care for minors. Attorney General Letitia James has not ...

News from today confirms NYU Langone has still not started care.

Mayor Mamdani has yet to push for enforcement of NYC Human rights law against the hospital, which is in his power.

He has yet to direct H+H to absorb trans youth patients.

He has maintained radio silence.

I recently learned that rewatching HR is called “reheating” and it’s watchers, “reheaters”

If you've enjoyed my posting about #QueerBib26, have no fear--Queer Bibliography will be back in 2027! It will be hybrid.

The best way to not miss the CfP is to sign up for the QUEERBIB listserv, which you can do at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/QUEERBIB.

If you see this, post an eye!

Acknowledgments This dissertation would not have been possible without the support of many people. First and foremost, I thank my advisors Leah Somerville, Randy Buckner, and Steven Pinker for welcoming me to Harvard and for their years of outstanding mentorship. I am also indebted to my professors from the University of Southern California, including Frank Manis, who nurtured my passion for developmental psychology, and Megan Herting, whose mentorship introduced me to research on neuroendocrinology and sexual development. I am also grateful to my high school teacher, Mrs. E., for first introducing me to academic psychology. I am thankful that my studies have set me on a path connecting with brilliant researchers similarly fascinated by sex differences, including Carole Hooven, Alex Byrne, and Hollie Hammond. Through these friendships I am grateful to have been introduced to my committee members, Michael Bailey and Kenneth Zucker, whose support made this dissertation possible and whose feedback has been tremendously valuable. I am also indebted to the transgender people my work has allowed me to connect with and learn from through their lived experiences, especially my friend Ramblin. This is a sensitive topic and I appreciate those who have approached it with nuance and grace in the public forum, especially Lisa Littman, Helen Joyce, Abigail Shrier, Leor Sapir, and James Morandini, all of whom I also had the good fortune of meeting during my graduate studies. As an interdisciplinary researcher with eclectic interests, I am fascinated by my dissertation topic because it threads so many existing topics I have dabbled in throughout my research career, including: hormones and brain development, evolution and sex differences, puberty and mental health, adolescent social development, and philosophical questions of mind, identity, and bioethics, all while addressing an ongoing public health crisis and unfortunately ix

It also comes with the most cursed acknowledgements page to have ever been written.

Thesis acceptance certificate signed by Steven Pinker, Leah Somerville, Randy Buckner, Michael Bailey, and Kenneth Zucker.

Pack up. I’ve found the most cursed thesis committee ever to exist.

The recs in the comments are already so good!!

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.

Please share.

tcpipeline.org

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Congratulations!!!!!

Dreaming Trans: Method, Sex, & the Unconscious with Prof Tobias Wiggins Session 1: T4T Methodologies - Mar 10, 4:30 – 6:30 Session 2: Desire Lines: Trans//Sexuality - Mar 24, 5:30 – 8:00 Session 3: Transphobic Countertransference - Apr 7, 4:30 – 6:30 Location: TBA Trans is a fever dream. Erupting at the edges of overheated fantasy, in contemporary scenes of moral panic the figure of the trans//sexual haunts the collective psyche, used as a political scapegoat or release valve for anxieties about sex, embodiment, and cohesion of the nation-state. What does it mean to think with trans livability amongst a social imaginary that insists, if not simply on trans destruction, then on their absorption of antagonisms and disavowed affects? Further, if we take seriously the psychoanalytic dream’s capacity to compromise, to wish, to overdetermine, and to leak jouissance, then what becomes possible for the trans dreamer within this field? Our conversations will unfold across three sites of inquiry, each holding the tension between trans-fantasy and the political fantasy of transness. The first seminar traverses possibilities in T4T methodologies, or trans-specific approaches to research. The second seminar examines transmasculine sexuality in film, the archive, and the bathhouse with a screening and discussion of the hybrid film Desire Lines (2024). The third seminar turns to the unconscious life of transphobia through an examination of transphobic countertransference. By thinking trans together, this participatory series insists on opposing cisteria through the sustained practice of collective psychic movement and play. Open to all; particularly welcoming 2-Spirit, trans, nonbinary, & gender-nonconforming people; scholars in Transgender Studies; those interested in psychoanalysis; faculty; graduate students; & advanced undergraduate students. Registration limited to participants who commit to completing the assigned readings in advance and to attending all sessions in person.

My colleague Tobias Wiggins is holding this amazing seminar series on trans methodologies at McGill! Please spread the word!

All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.

An amazing essay by art historian Dr. Denva Gallant. 😇 hyperallergic.com/all-about-lo... for @hyperallergic.com

@meganlcook.bsky.social gonna send you the weirdest email with the weirdest stuff

Silver-beaked tanager eating a cricket.

a silver-beaked tanager tackling a large cricket.
#birdoftheday
#Birds&Bugs

Colour plate depicting ray-finned fish, coloured orange with three cream stripes running along the length of its its body. From 'A History of the Fishes of the British Isles' (1862) by English naturalist Jonathan Couch.

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855

Poor ol' Chas.

It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟

Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that a vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy! 🌈📚🗃️ #histsci #queerhistory

Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw From rising horror star and award-winning author of Thi…

My publisher is giving away 20 finished hardcover copies of my upcoming novel, WRETCH! 🪲🕯️🖤 Please help spread the word if you can! This book is queer and sad and a little gross. I hope you love it!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Me at Trident Booksellers with Chris Golden on March 24!

BOSTON, MA friends:

I’ll be at Trident Booksellers on Tuesday, March 24 with Christopher Golden to celebrate the launch of my novel, WRETCH. I really hope to see you there!

Register here: eric-la-rocca-event-rpbu7.tripleseattickets.com/registration...

Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.

Check out all our great new books releasing this February, including “Sex Isn’t Real,” by @beansvelocci.bsky.social. See our blog for more: buff.ly/yFB1kAQ

This art historian says Blackness in the Middle Ages wasn't viewed the same way as it is today Denva Gallant is an assistant professor of art history at Rice University and she’ll be speaking at the ASU symposium. She’s a medievalist and an art historian, and she studies ideas of Blackness in t...

Denva Gallant talked to KJZZ 91.5 FM The Show about #RaceB4Race Love and about representations of Blackness in the Middle Ages. "How does race inform the way we conceive of love? And how do we love in times of turmoil?"

www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.

sincere question: if you are writing a lot right now, how

Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.

An associate dean told English faculty “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classes…faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.”🙃

Sadiq by Brian Turner It should make you shake and sweat, nightmare you, strand you in a desert of irrevocable desolation, the consequences seared into the vein, no matter what adrenaline feeds the muscle its courage, no matter what god shines down on you, no matter what crackling pain and anger you carry in your fists, my friend, it should break your heart to kill.

…it should break your heart to kill.

A nebula X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A. Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA); Infrared: NASA/NSF/IPAC/CalTech/Univ. of Massachusetts; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & J.Major

This is NGC 2264, also called the "Christmas Tree Cluster." It's a cluster of young stars about 2,500 light years away.

They were 'born' during the Pliocene Epoch (2-5 MYA), about the same time as early hominids like Ardipithecus or Homo habilis, so they're barely older than humanity.
🎄💫🔭

JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.