#AfternoonReads Special issue on queer grief studies: exploring queer lives, desires, death, and mourning beyond normative assumptions. Essays expand queer death studies & frame grief as central to queer being itself. Queer being is also queer grieving.

It’s officially last days to defend of the semester! #unoproud

Why is it I alway have the weirdest hair days when I have big zoom meetings?!!?

Deal with things as they come, not as you fear. #lifelessons

"Those 8 children in Shreveport aren't a natural disaster.They're the consequence of choices—legal, political, cultural—that can be made differently. The only reason it feels otherwise is that we keep pretending the alternative is impossible. It isn’t. We just haven’t been willing to want it enough"

MAGA wants teen births. It won't work Teen birth rates are at historic lows — and young women want to keep it that way

I have taught teen HIV and Sex Ed for decades. This moment is shocking. Education is power. Are your state sex Ed laws up to date? That’s a place to fight back.

The Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’ When a man shoots his wife and children, the term you are looking for is patriarchy.

“It is tempting to treat Elkins’s actions as the isolated incident of a madman. But poor mental health is never a reasonable explanation for attempting to execute one’s wife and children. Patriarchy offers a better explanation for this violence.” by @profcrunk.bsky.social via @thecut.com

Happiness Comes from Being Soft To love means being open to heartbreak

Happiness comes from being open to heartbreak. #lifelessons

Coffee is the greatest liquid asset. #lifelessons

Expectations are the biggest heartbreak. #lifelessons

When the empathy goes, so should you. #lifelessons

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study examines whether online dating helps explain differences in homogamy between same-sex and different-sex couples in the United States. Background Same-sex couples tend to exhib...

#MorningReads How I Met My Partner: Online Dating and the Homogamy Gap Between Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples:
Broader partner market constraints & selection processes matter most. Queer couples show less racial, educational, & age homogamy than het couples and are more likely to meet online.

It’s very hard work living in a party city.

Worst US export.

#MorngingReads Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

In human experiments a single interaction w/ AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility & repair interpersonal conflicts. Further, sycophantic models were trusted & preferred.

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Remeber when Kenny Rogers was Rock?!!

Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.

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You can download East African Queer + Trans Displacements OA here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Queer and Trans Mobilities and the Search for Refuge Mengia Tschalär (CUNY), Samuel Ritholtz (Oxford), Rebecca Buxton and B Camminga (Bristol) in conversation with Diego Rodriguez (Leicester).

What does justice look like for queer & trans people searching for refuge? Join us 20 May for a book panel with scholars from Bristol, Oxford, CUNY & Leicester. Free, hybrid. Register 👇

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April 2021 Archives Featuring "Celebrating Selena," "The Relief Gang Never Stops," "A Fatal Error Inspired a Plan to Reduce Friendly Fire, but the Military Isn’t Interested" and more stories from across the state of Texa...

Happy birthday to Selena Quintanilla, who would have turned 55 years old today. 🌹

Read our whole issue from April 2021 dedicated to the Queen of Tejano here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/issue/april-2021/

When someone says they’re sorry all the time, it’s hard to know when they’re actually apologizing.

Son of Jolene!

Health gaps by sexual orientation and gender identity among Japanese millennial generation: A decomposition analysis Sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) have been found to experience poorer physical and mental health than non-SGMs. This study aims to identify health …

#MorningReads Japanese SGM millennials face substantially worse health than nonSGMs. Victimization explains most disparities vs socioeconomic factors & healthcare access. Authors suggest reducing structural stigma & strengthening legal protections may be key to improving health equity. #SOGIData

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