the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and nonbinary youth.

"Remind yourself constantly that no one gave you your identity, truth, or power, and no one can take them away without your permission." ⤵️

Kids are people, man.

While it’s important for the law to protect them in developmentally appropriate ways, it’s absolutely essential that the law recognizes the agency and autonomy of minors.

96 pages and 6 footnotes later, comps are done. I will celebrate by……writing a lecture for class tomorrow and trying to forget about how bad those 96 pages are.

Thank you!!

I’m taking my comprehensive exams this week, so if you see me here yell at me to go write instead 🫠

Dorothy Roberts Lays Out a Damning Exposé of Medical Racism and “Child Welfare” Scholar Dorothy Roberts exposes effects of anti-Black mythmaking and calls for an end to the family policing system.

Roberts:
'Hope is something we have to practice...
Abolition is a horizon that we must continually struggle toward because we can’t accept the current suffering perpetrated by the carceral state ... because we are committed to hoping for a more caring and humane world.'

truthout.org/articles/dor...

Yay!! Glad to see you here, too!!

I can’t even express how appreciative I am for my co-authors, reviewers, and the thinkers whose work inspired this piece. Getting to think with all of them/you has been one of the greatest pleasures of my grad school experience so far.

I’m really excited for the work this paper points us toward.

So amped for this publication!!

I’m so grateful to Melanie (who I don’t think is here yet?) for bringing us all together.

This paper feels risky, and necessary. It hopes to answer the question of whether — and if so, how — SW education can respond to anti-CRT and anti-trans legislation.

Can u pick me up? I’m doing autoethnography again (making memes)

A priori is when it fits with your priors and a posteriori is when it fits with your poasts