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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My former spouse/forever family Leo Kattari and I have a chapter in Morty Diamond’s upcoming edited collection “To the End: Queer Writers on Divorce and Liberation.” Pre order your copy here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826795... (or from your fav local bookstore!)

Cover of To the End: Queer Writers on Divorce and Liberation edited by Morty Diamond

Quote from Shanna Katz Kattari about divorce

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had some fun doing this episode (in bed! crip4crip!) with Madeline 💜✨

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Social Work for Palestine Book Club is back! Join us this October and November as we read Don't Say Palestine by Assal Rad, and then join us on November 19th on zoom for a community discussion. Register here: bit.ly/SW4PNovember...

Cover of the book Don't Say Palestine against a red background featuring protest signs.

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The SRG Collective @srgcollective.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can listen on whatever your favorite Podcast provider is (Apple, Spotify, IHeartRadio, etc: rss.com/podcasts/sur...), or check us out on youtube for a captioned option (youtu.be/aO2wWDpO2D8)

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Southern pedagogy, coalition building, and navigating conflict from a queer relational perspective

YouTube video by Shanna Katz Kattari

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Y’all. It’s 2026. Why are you still using the word lame for anything other than to describe an animal (human or not) with a limp? Get it together. Being ableist isn’t cool.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/09/2026

Okay rich friends employed with companies that do employer matching: Please help me raise $7k to support @scarleteen.com's fall fundraiser. We're expecting 7 million visitors this year (up from 5 million!) in a climate where access to good sex ed, esp. for LGBTQIA+ young people, is dwindling.

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Scarleteen's Raising $7,000 to Celebrate 7 Million Visitors in 2026!

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This was so fun to record, and I learned a lot about reproductive rights, Kentucky/Appalachia, and more!

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thrilled to be on this episode of US Association for the Study of Pain ‘s podcast, talking about whether research and science can ever truly be unbiased or apolitical (spoiler alert; it can’t) & talking about ways to navigate doing research on topics now banned. m.soundcloud.com/usasp/episod...

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35. Pain Research in a Shifting Political Landscape: Funding, Values, and the Work That Still Matters

Play 35. Pain Research in a Shifting Political Landscape: Funding, Values, and the Work That Still Matters by OUCH! Talking Pain with USASP on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free...

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Totally convenience sampling poll for faculty; How would you feel if you were told AI was being used to summarize your promotion and/or tenure materials? Would you want to opportunity to consent/opt out? Would you worry that opting out might make your work be more deeply scrutinized?

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s Ypsi Pride today (rescheduled due to wildfire fire smoke). Wishing all of y’all a Happy Pride and a reminder that we get to celebrate beyond a month.

Two white queers in glasses and masks pose at Pride

White nonbinary femme in a Lisa frank tbemed caftan poses outside

Two white nonbinary queers pose in a masking lot

A white masc nonbinary queer holding a cup of lavender coconut lemonade

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Love hearing me yap? Good news: another episode of the SuRGe Ahead Podcast is available!

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You know, it’s (funny/sad/ironic/disheartening) that I posted this over a year ago, and this is still very much the case, but also worse?

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I love online education. I have since long before the pandemic, having gotten a certificate in online education in ‘14. I love the communities we make together, the vulnerability that comes with being in each other’s homes, the joy from meeting people’s pets & partners & progeny. Congrats Grads!

Two people, one masked and using a cane, face each other and pose for the camera.

Three people, one masked and using a cane, one pregnant, and two holding foam fingers, pose for the camera in front of a step and repeat

Four people, one with a mask and cane, two wearing dresses, pose for the camera

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Dr. Jason Arday’s students (current and former) made this site about him so that all the amazing things about him are not forgotten. leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo... 1) I am sobbing 2) Other than the few comments about Blackness, most of this could have been/has been written about me.

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Everything Good About Jason Arday

First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ok, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, I see you. Their conference this year is virtual, for many many reasons, including not asking people from outside the U.S. to travel here, not asking trans folks to travel to states that are attacking them..

Why are we virtual this year?Our virtual format isn't about convenience. It's about creating a conference that is safer, more equitable, more accessible, and more engaging. We listened to our members' needs and considered five guiding principles for this year's conference given the evolving political situation in the United States.SAFETYCreates a secure environment for trans and non-US members.EQUITYRemoves the wealth barrier that can prevent students and early-career professionals from attending, and especially those who have had their grant funding reduced or eliminated.REACHAllows us to bring together world-class speakers who couldn't ordinarily commit to days of travel.PACEYou don't have to choose between sessions. Engage with the program at your own pace and digest content on-demand.ACCESSJoin from wherever you are without the barriers of international travel, visas, airfare, hotels, or time away from work and family.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I love the many people saying Locked Tomb. I’d also say Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series or T. Kingfisher’s Paladins/clockwork boys/Swordheart world

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

One of the things that is holding me during all of the rough times is building more community through the @srgcollective.bsky.social and especially through interviewing our members and learning about all the brilliance of their brains and work. Melinda was no exception to this.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Please enjoy this rare image of Vlad, our shyest rescue, showing off how much he loves draping himself over his Daddy to be held in this exact way, but only in the basement. Cats are weird and wonderful. Also, this is only our third biggest cat. Will let you sit with that.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are any other academics reading R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis? I devoured it in two days (good read for sure), and also OOF. So activated by all the academia content and a reminder of the low key cult we are a part of. Def saw one of my PhD students yesterday and told them I hoped I was NEVER like that 😬

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The SRG Collective @srgcollective.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Flash event! Health policy roundtable with us tomorrow, August 12th, at 2pm EST. Come hear 3 members talk about reproductive justice, how the Title laws are being used against marginalized folks, and how local policy engagement can make the biggest change. Join us at tinyurl.com/SRGHealthPol...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Please don’t offer disabled people “thoughts and prayers”. Don’t offer empty platitudes and inspirational memes. Offer real, tangible help… and then follow through. We lack support for the most basic activities of daily living. That’s where we need help.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A thought experiment for you: How well would you be able to do your job (and/or the other important pieces of your life) if you had to be relatively flat, with your feet elevated, almost all the time?

White redheaded femme with glasses and no make up is in bed with an ice pack, and is wearing a shirt

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This song is amazing (give it a second to get beyond the dude’s quotes).

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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 09/08/2026

A blistering reminder that only 5 U.S. states provide air conditioning in all prison units. And states like Texas and Florida, known for sweltering heat, are not among them:

Color-coded U.S. map showing which states provide air conditioning in their prisons. Only New Mexico, Nebraska, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Kentucky provide AC in all units.

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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

medicare for all is the litmus test for being able to rebuild america's scientific, health care and civil service capacity. if you arent willing to stand up to blue cross and united, you aren't willing to do the work necessary to rebuild and build it better. will get a better managed decline.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Another clear example of anti-Indigenous BS being baked into every aspect of our society. Iam disgusted at this racist crap. @menardsofficial.bsky.social

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Can confirm. This has been a big issue for me the last several years, and one of the most frustrating (cognitive) ones.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Because I know you all wait with bated breath to check out my (Covid cautious) conference fatshion, I present to you two of my three looks from the pain conference in Ann Arbor this week. I was flaring badly, so look three was a super soft leopard print dress and me mostly flat in my hotel room.

Selfie of a white red headed nonbinary femme with tattoos, wearing a mask and glasses, with a purple themed look and trans flag earrings and a rainbow mask chain

white red headed nonbinary femme with tattoos, wearing glasses and a purple themed outfit, posing full body

white red headed nonbinary femme with tattoos, wearing glasses and a sushi themed dress with cute red fish bone earrings

white red headed nonbinary femme with tattoos, wearing a mask and glasses and wrist braces in a sushi themed dress posing full body in a hotel room

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It is so interesting that folk are coming for Fauci. I too strongly disagree with many decisions he made. My disagreements stem from the fact his recommendations killed and disabled hundreds of thousands, if not millions, due to downplaying masking efficacy. We are not the same.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/08/2026

We really need to care more about the mass rape in Sudan and mass child enslavement in Congo being funded by our tax dollars.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

meme featuring the character Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows wearing a white Victorian-style gown with her hair styled into small horns.

Top text: "Ambulatory mobility aid users going out in public:"
Bottom text: "LET THE CEREMONY OF JUDGEMENT COMMENCE!"

@emmanewbound

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I cannot tell you how much this sucks for the field of social work, and how badly this is going to impact people’s access to therapists, case managers, and more.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/08/2026

A society that vilifies scientists and healthcare workers for trying to save lives is a society determined to destroy itself.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I can’t tell if this is about Harry Potter or Chick-Fil-A, but it stands either way

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Super stoked about this episode with my former spouse/forever family Dr. Leo Kattari, include his storytelling model for sharing your story when it comes to effective advocacy.

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