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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA

@lbklein.bsky.social
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Violence prevention and anti-oppressive practice researcher. Social work educator. Twin parent. Views=own

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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Sadly, the Northwest Network's amazing website is now defunct, but here is a link to the advocacy tools in their archive. There's a one page resource in particular on self-determination vs. safety. www.nwnetworklgbtq.org/advocacy-tools 7/7
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Advocacy Tools | NW Network LGBTQ Archive — NWNetworkLGBTQ.org
Downloadable tools and guides from the original NW Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian, & Gay Survivors of Abuse, created to support LGBTQ survivors, build survivor-centered advocacy, and advance anti...
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Our role is to accompany survivors, to honor their choices, and to create the conditions for empowerment and healing. 6/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Centering self-determination does not mean ignoring safety—but we cannot have safety without agency. As advocates, social workers, helping professionals, and peer supporters, our role is never to rescue. 5/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
When we prioritize safety over self-determination, we risk recreating the same power dynamics that survivors experienced from those who harmed or are harming them. 4/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
What we know, though, is that safety is a highly subjective concept. Self-determination must come first. Survivors are the experts on their own lives. Supporting survivors means helping create space for choices as they define what healing and safety look like for them. 3/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I teach this in the lineage of Connie Burk, who developed tools that explain basic principles of survivor advocacy. Conversations about survivors of harm frequently start with a focus on the survivor’s safety. 2/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
On Tuesday, I taught the second session of my interpersonal violence course. A foundational lesson about working with survivors in any capacity is the relationship between self-determination and safety. 1/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
How do you navigate due dates in your classes? How do you balance high expectations and humanity? 10/10
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I know that this policy won't work for every class structure, but for me it has helped establish trust and increase work quality. It has also eliminated late night panicked emails waiting for me to let them know that they don't need to write their assignment from the emergency department. 9/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I will always remember submitting a subpar paper while having a miscarriage because I had a professor that did not accept late work under any circumstances. 8/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This policy is also personal for me. I can think of many moments when a policy like this would have radically shifted my own mental health, pain management, and balance of school with caregiving or crisis intervention work. 7/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I’d rather collaborate to find a path forward than have someone disappear because they’re struggling alone. 6/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
If students need more than that extra week, I ask them to reach out to me before the extended due date to develop a plan. I don't need to know what they are going through (though I am always happy to listen/support/provide resources), but I do want them to know I'm committed to their success. 5/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I want to give students space to negotiate that delicate balance without feeling like I get to decide what is worthy of accommodation or not. 4/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Students in social work are navigating multiple classes, their internships, jobs, caregiving responsibilities, and maintaining their lives and self- and community-care. 3/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I want students to have a structure to the semester, but I also want to provide flexibility. I don't want to vet why a student might need more time and to be in the position for them to need to disclose beyond their comfort zone or make something up. 2/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I offer a one-week, no-questions-asked extension on every assignment in my classes. 1/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
What makes a reflexivity or positionality statement feel meaningful (or not)? How can we help new researchers navigate what to disclose and what to omit in their work? 8/8
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The brief reflexivity or positionality statement in a manuscript is only a small window into that process — but it’s also a public one, with real implications for relationships, credibility, and employment. 7/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
What does it look like, in this sociopolitical moment, for emerging scholars to discern what they share and what they withhold? Professional hierarchies, identity, safety, and credibility all factor into what we carry into our work. 6/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Although I’m pre-tenure, I’ve long been open about aspects of my identity and lived experience. (For example, I've been openly queer for 20 years). Much of who I am and why I do this work is documented in publications and other public spaces. This calculus is different for new researchers. 5/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The latter feels particularly fraught right now. 4/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Who we are is crucial to the research process. It shapes how we ask questions, listen, analyze, and share what we’ve learned. There’s an internal process of reflecting on ourselves and our teams, and an external process of reporting those reflections in publications. 3/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This orientation process has me reflecting on reflexivity, positionality, and power. 2/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I’m beginning a new project with undergraduate students who are not only new to my lab, but new to research. Our project focuses on the impact of today’s sociopolitical environment on efforts to prevent and respond to sexual violence. 1/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A win for trans youth in Wisconsin and beyond. It shouldn’t be a privilege to pee. www.advocate.com/news/court-p...
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Federal appeals court says transgender girl has right to bathroom access in Wisconsin school district
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling is a win for a young transgender student.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17/06/2025
"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. I've never seen government racial discrimination like this." That's what a Reagan-appointed judge said about Trump cancelling hundreds of NIH grants. We can't stop fighting Trump's assault on science, the NIH, and our values.
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Judge orders Trump admin. to restore hundreds of terminated NIH grants
"I've never seen government racial discrimination like this," the judge said.
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
We have always been here, and we always will. I wish there weren’t still so much to resist—but we will continue to resist. And we will not wait for some abstract, utopic future to claim joy, community, and rest. I am proud of us. Happy Pride. 🌈 5/5
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I have never been more proud to be queer. I have never been more proud of the queer people in my life. 4/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This year, they cut off federal funding for research and services with LGBTQ+ people, calling it unscientific or promoting "gender ideology." As our communities face so many attacks on our rights and well-being, we organize, we gather, and we protect our peace. 3/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This year, they erased the TQ+ and trans folks' stories from the Stonewall National Monument—but they did not erase the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Stormé DeLarverie. 2/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I realized earlier today that this is my 20th Pride Month as an openly queer person. 1/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Returning from a Bluesky hiatus to share that I’m grateful for this recognition of my research. Ending gender-based violence and supporting survivors, especially those who are most structurally marginalized, remains my priority.
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Lauren Forrest @laurenforrest.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
LGBTQ+ health matters. Queer and trans science matters. We have always been here, and we always will be. My colleagues, science, and the public deserve better. 4/4
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
These are just the grants that were cut midstream. We are seeing funding mechanisms disappear and terms for whole populations of humans banned. 3/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The expertise, time, and thoughtfulness it takes to apply for and administer these grants to advance health and wellbeing is extraordinary. The grief is overwhelming. 2/
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“We no longer have anywhere studying LGBT cancer in the United States.” amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/... 1/
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Trump administration cancels at least 68 grants focused on LGBTQ health questions | CNN
A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologicall...
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you're wanting to learn more about the EO on gender ideology, researchers at Northwestern assembled a brief and helpful primer: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...
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Three takeaways from new executive order on ‘gender ideology’
Northwestern experts weigh in on the consequences and legality of President Trump’s Jan. 20 order
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Passports didn't have a gender marker before 1978 when the UN made them mandatory because of "the rise of unisex fashion and hairstyles." Removing them would require a change in rules from the UN's International Civic Aviation Organization.
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Sabrina Cluesman, PhD, LCSW (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @sabrinacluesman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🧵 My first dissertation paper is officially published #AIDSandBehavior 🎉 Key takeaways from this nat'l sample of trans & gender expansive young people highlight how ongoing anti-trans legislation efforts are a dire threat to their health and well-being. #StopAntiTransBillsNow @mgwadz.bsky.social
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Intentions to Use PrEP Among a National Sample of Transgender and Gender-Expansive Youth and Emerging Adults: Examining Gender Minority Stress, Substance Use, and Gender Affirmation - AIDS and Behavio...
Transgender and gender-expansive young people, ages 13–24 years, experience disproportionate HIV risk yet are among those with the lowest US PrEP uptake rates (< 10%). Factors influencing PrEP outcome...
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LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’m working on my third year review stuff too, and I see you. We are here.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 20/01/2025
New England Journal of Medicine [Jan 15] Oldest, most prestigious med journal: "Cass Review transgresses medical law, policy & practice...[If published in U.S.] would have violated federal law for failing to adhere to requirements for integrity of scientific process." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]
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The Future of Gender-Affirming Care — A Law and Policy Perspective on the Cass Review | NEJM
The Cass Review on gender-affirming care, which has been used to justify bans in U.S. states, transgresses medical law, policy, and practice, which puts it at odds with mainstream U.S. expert guide...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes
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The Q Caucus @qcaucus.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Caucus Co-Chairs Britt & Vern made sure that there will be SNACKS at our 12:30pm SIG meeting today (in Leschi)! Bananas, fruit snacks, fruit/nut bars, and bubble waters galore 🥰🥰 #SSWR2025
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Today HHS issued a first-of-its-kind federal report on health recommendations for intersex people, including ending "the ongoing practice of performing non-emergent, non-consensual surgeries in intersex infants." Incredible work by @interact.bsky.social
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HHS supports intersex bodily autonomy in first-ever health equity report
Today, HHS released a groundbreaking report on intersex health, linking the practice of non-consensual surgery on intersex infants to harmful outcomes.
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Jama @pagingdrjama.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Hey #SSWR2025 attendees: if you don’t already, follow @erininthemorning.com to stay up to date on policy & legislation impacting your trans colleagues, students, and community members. #SocialWorkers4TransJustice
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