Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 28/03/2026It’s been a minute, but it was so good to be outside today standing up sit each other, for our communities, and for democracy. #NoKings 030
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Thrilled to collaborate with Victoria Pitts-Taylor on this piece about why gender is under attack. Hint: it’s about democracy as much as it’s about bodies and roles #censorship #HigherEducation #gender #transgender #PoliticalRepressiontheconversation.comGender is not an ideology – but conservative groups know learning about it empowers people to think for themselvesFrom book bans and firing teachers to taking over university administrations altogether, right-wing politicians and activists worldwide have been keen on rooting out gender from schools. Why is that? 020
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I had a great time with Jill McClellen on Seeing Death Clearly. We covered tons of ground about some of the hardest conversations we need to have. From "why can't I talk to my doctor about this" to "what do we tell the kids," we touched on it all. bit.ly/SeeingDeathC... #DeathDoula #EndOfLifeCarebuzzsprout.comPleasure, Power, and the Silence Around Death with Elizabeth Wood - Seeing Death ClearlyElizabeth Wood, a sociologist who studied gender and sexuality, found her focus shifting when her mother was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2009 and later terminal cancer in 2012. Watching her mother... 030
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I care deeply about shifting the death denial of our culture so that we recognize the beauty and power in our mortality.This film project is all about facing death with love so we can live every moment as fully as possible. Check it out. #DeathPositivity #DeathCare seedandspark.com/fund/soon-deadseedandspark.comSoon Dead - Film and Storytelling | Seed&SparkAs her father enters at-home hospice care, Rose finds his biggest concern isn’t dying—it’s ensuring that she fulfills his unusual last wishes. Soon Dead is a lighthearted invitation to stop running from the inevitable, and a reminder that this moment, right now, is all we have. 050
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Age verification laws are likely to do more harm than good, even to the very people they claim to protect. Join this Monday conversation to learn more about the threats to #FreeSpeech and #DigitalPrivacy that we're facing as a result of today's ruling in FSC v. Paxton. 062
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 23/06/2025You need this book or you know someone who does. And it’s free until 6/25. Kate Bornstein’s “Hello, Cruel World” is full of ideas about how to stay alive and push back against the injustice that makes it hard to feel loved and respected. Thank you, Auntie Kate @katebornstein.bsky.socialsevenstories.comFree eBook: Hello, Cruel World (2nd Edition)On June 18, 2025, the United States Supreme Court voted to uphold Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, including puberty blockers and hormone therapies, effectively shielding... 130
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 20/06/2025So grateful to work with an organization working to advance to sexual freedom and human rights through education, research, advocacy, and coalition-building. Especially when our kids are being threatened. 020
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 15/06/2025With everything going on in the world it can be hard to remember the local politics matter. It’s primary season here in NYC and early voting is open. My $.02? Rank the slate. #DontRankCuomo 050
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 31/03/2025I see you, trans friends, and I honor you. I despise the actions the U.S. government has taken in its attempt to render you invisible or deny your existence. You are real. You are powerful. You matter! #TransDayOfVisibility #GenderRightsAreHumanRights #SexualRightsAreHumanRights 040
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 18/02/2025#FuneralDirectors: What if I told you that many of the challenges you face when dealing with grieving families—shock, confusion, skepticism—could be eased with the help of a death doula? Thurs., 2/20, 7pm EST. 1 CE. bit.ly/CVIntroDoula #ContinuingEducation #FuneralEducation #ABFSE #DeathDoula 031
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Newspeak hits the science journals. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...insidemedicine.substack.comBREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised. 020
Reposted by Elizabeth Anne WoodErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/01/2025Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care. The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care. This one at UVA Hospital. 6767051660
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 31/01/2025A doctor in NY has been indicted in Louisiana for violating the state’s abortion ban via telemedicine. I hope NY’s shield law holds. This seems to be the first such case. #AbortionBans #WomensHealth #ReproductiveFreedomapnews.comArrest warrant issued for New York doctor indicted in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pillAn arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a pregnant minor. Dr. 020
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Beyond thrilled that @britsoci.bsky.social featured Between Us in Network. More than ever we need the power of stories to help us understand the social forces shaping our personal troubles so we can heal ourselves and work for change. #AccessibleSociology #BetweenUsBook bit.ly/BetweenUsUCP 061
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I love this NYT Op-Doc. Three conversations. In each, an adult child asks a parent about their sex life. The unexpected moments are beautiful. What do you think would happen if you asked your parent (or your adult child) these questions? #sexuality #DifficultConversations #SexAndAgingnytimes.comVideo: Opinion | The Hardest Conversation to Have With Your Parents 030
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 28/11/2024At Thanksgiving we often listen to Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant.” Just a tiny act of celebratory resistance against war and repression. Today I read that Alice died. Please leave positive thoughts in the comments to help counter what feels like an ill omen.nytimes.comAlice Brock, Restaurant Owner Made Famous by a Song, Dies at 83Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts. 190
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Dramatic sky, late fall light, and the shimmer of the ocean. It’s okay to be unsettled. There is beauty and power in all kinds of energy. 1110
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Looking for my #DeathDoula friend out others involved in #EndOfLifeCare. #Hospice folks? #PalliativeCare folks? #FuneralProfessionals? #EstatePlanners? #Grief counselors and coaches? I’d love to connect! 2121
Elizabeth Anne Wood @elizabethannewood.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Hi all! I’m new here. Haven’t been on Twitter/X in ages but lots of my FB friends have headed here so I’m joining in. Happy #caturday 0180