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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 14m

CPTSD is not primarily about what happened to us. It's about how what happened to us turned us into someone we didn't choose. The "just get over it" people don't understand that. We don't "just get over" who we've become. We have to recondition, rewire, reshape ourselves.

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 4h

"This work suggests that there is not one 'right' way to support others when they feel bad. Instead, what feels caring in one culture may not be viewed in the same way in another." - Maya Tamir & Shir Ginosar Yaari ow.ly/OBoe50ZSm5U

Two women sit together on a light-colored sofa, with one talking and gesturing while the other listens intently.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15h

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 9h

Today I learned about tulpamancy.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 11h

This is incidentally why, when people on the center or left uncritically and earnestly buy into the disingenuous and performative framing of the right’s construction of “wokism”, they are engaging in a kind of thought-terminating brain rot that hollows out one’s understanding of power.

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 13h

Turns out politics is education!

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 13h

Sometimes I publish original pieces on WHT as well, like my ‘humanifesto’ Transgender for Everybody, an essay on how trans rights are human rights … whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/transgende...

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Transgender for Everybody

A Humanifesto

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 16h

A pretty enormous part of expertise is knowing what work not to do.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 16h

Truly a fantastic week for trans inclusivity, between the Planning Familial publishing dire abortion access stats that exclusively say "women" everywhere and yet another round of sexual assault discussion that's all Women This and Men That

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Terra Field @rainofterra.gay · 18/06/2025

This is what instantly popped into my head when I heard Dear Leader was ranting about "Transgender for Everbody":

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think I might fuck around and found my own research institution.

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have to care more about the sexual citizenship of young people. www.sexualcitizens.com

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Sexual Citizens

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ugh I need an adult. *looks at the adults* On second thought, I'm flying solo on this one.

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's becoming financially important for me to understand who Aella is, apparently.

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm still extremely sad about R L Stollar's passing. What an immense loss for all of us.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

"Now these are just Instagram and Facebook ad buys, not television, but it's notable that Elon Musk's PAC has pulled back ever so slightly with its attacks on trans people. It shows that the folks behind the PAC aren't seeing the returns they hoped for..." www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...

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We May Have Just Seen the Tides Turn on Trans Rights

Some conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people?

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 28/09/2026

Table stakes for the next Dem President should be tearing up every single 287(g) and throwing them in the trash.

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The best book you can read about campus sexual assault is Sexual Citizens. It will challenge you. www.sexualcitizens.com

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Sexual Citizens

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My argument wasn't "no one's responsible." It's closer to Iris Marion Young's argument that structural injustice implicates everyone who participates in the system, and responsibility runs forward, toward collective political action, not backward toward hunting for a culpable individual. 3/n

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Michael Falcon here giving a perfect example of my thesis that belief in accountability is a precondition of successful, sustainable representative democracy. Let's talk about this for a moment.

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

DYK military persecution of #queer soldiers & sailors during WWII led to the #GayRights movement of the 1950s &‘60s? Many gays & lesbians during the War were away from home for the first time & became more likely to find each other in public places than through private networks.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why do smart people believe false things? A lot of it comes down to identity. When a belief is tied to who we are, we defend it even when the evidence says we shouldn't. matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/week-2-ide...

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Class 2: Identity, Belonging, and Belief

This week’s video dives into identity and belonging, and how these shape what we believe.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 27/09/2026

This whole thread. Aka how “So you hate waffles?” isn’t just a social-media phenomenon. Context-blindness is everywhere.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 26/09/2026

Found a new favorite bumper sticker today in the wilds of central New York

A grey car with a bumper sticker on it with a yin and yang symbol and text that reads: “THICC DADS WHO VAPE FOR CHRIST”

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 26/09/2026

This is actually the point of Torture and Eucharist: authoritarian states want to destroy all social bodies except the individual and the state, and so recreating social bodies (including the church as a social body) is essential.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

personally I think making your side of any dispute think worse for the tasty mcvibes of putting down an out group is rarely a good trade off, unless you have extremely powerful propaganda tech at your disposal or don't need your side's brains for anything later

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This makes me feel physically sick. The pathologization and persecution of feminine boys often feels more nauseating and violating to me than even some naked transphobia. Something about hitting you at your youngest places. Feminine boys get treated so badly and almost no one talks about it.

Because extreme boyhood femininity
is often a precursor of adult transsexualism, transvestism, and homosexuality, the author recommends early intervention for
boys who meet specific behavioral
criteria of gender disturbance. It is
necessary to involve the parents in such treatment and to deal with the
resistances they may have to
recognizing and working on the problem as well as problems within the marital relationship that may affect the child's behavior. These
boys are remarkably responsive to treatment given between the ages of 5 and 12, becoming more masculine in behavior and more comfortable
with their identity as males.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/09/2026

There is no universally guaranteed, publicly funded research support even at a public R1 like UMass. Everything is bargained for, dependent on external funding or privately funded endowments within the institution (endowed chairs, endowed funds) or whatever revenue a dept can generate

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/09/2026

The provost of UMass (R1) literally told a group of historians this: “research” means pulling in large external grants and unless you do that, you don’t matter and get nothing internally. “Research“ is about $ and institutions support only those disciplines that bring in $ or raise it privately.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Doing & thinking about things we like, things that give us pleasure, is not optional in realistic trauma recovery-- it's so essential that we have to purposefully, consistently make time for it. Even if we have to start entirely in our head w/ what we imagine.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Eventually we have to talk about the police themselves when discussing what’s happening.

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using the terms “Woke 1"/“Woke 2” isn't cute or funny, but it does play into and legitimize a false narrative of what "woke" means. That harmful narrative positions any mention of race, gender, sexuality, etc. or any semblance of inclusion, equity, justice as unserious, baseless, or out of touch.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's really clear that wide swaths of the social media left today would have been overtly hostile to the 1970s disability rights movement and painted demands for infrastructure spending for accessibility as absurd "wreckerism".

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just because people come to the same conclusion about something, it doesn't mean that our interests are the same and it's dangerous to assume they are.

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Dr Steve Westlake @steveclimate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Leading by example also helps to reduce "pluralistic ignorance" - the proven phenomenon that most people underestimate how concerned others are about the climate crisis. If we see leaders taking personal action, it signals that others care, that society cares. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action - Nature Climate Change

Global support and cooperation are necessary for successful climate action. Large-scale representative survey results show that most of the population around the world is willing to support climate ac...

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Dr Steve Westlake @steveclimate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We argue that leading by example is a "crucial missing link" between generic messages about the need for climate action and people's everyday lives. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dr Steve Westlake @steveclimate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes you're right. ✅Our research shows that leading by example on climate change increases trust, credibility and popularity of leaders. ✅It also increases other's willingness to change ⛔Unnecessary high-carbon behaviour undermines all those things.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 21/09/2026

One weird thing about energy/climate academia is how many people choose to do lots of unnecessary and harmful stuff (fly lots, eat lots of beef, drive fossil vehicles lots, etc.). I get that we need policy and system change, but also, doesn't this it undermine credibility after a point?

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Want to watch the September 14 hearing in Hadachek v. Oregon? Intact Global has uploaded their recording. Note that the attorneys for the State "pulled an ICE" and asked for their faces to be blurred. The State must not be proud of arguing for "female privilege." youtu.be/5uttntzG1_o #Law #Oregon

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HADACHEK v. OREGON - Hearing on State of Oregon's Motion for Summary Judgment

NOTICE: Attorneys representing the State of Oregon formally requested that their images be blurred in this video. Their images have been blurred in accordance with the court’s order. Shouldn’t every…

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

3) H.Res.1479 by @kamlager-dove.house.gov calls for Impeaching Russell Thurlow Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, for high crimes and misdemeanors. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2) The Scientific Integrity Act from @reppaultonko.bsky.social would require federal agencies that fund, conduct, or oversee scientific research to adopt and enforce a scientific integrity policy. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As you call members of Congress to raise concern about a Vought-led grant review panel, encourage them to sign onto proposed legislation that could help: 1) Follow the Science Act by @degette.house.gov would remove political appointees from the grant-making process: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I recently spoke with a friend in Turkiye, who shared what things are like under Erdogan. She said that they waited too long to speak up, and not the consequences are too great. She said how glad she was to see us pushing back and how she wished more people in Turkiye had made the same choice.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026

In contrast Vought and Kratsios have largely killed NSF and its decades-long mission of funding the best discovery science. “For many U.S. scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the agency they know and loved died on 10 Sept.”

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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers

New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's a teaching by Hillel many of you (even non-Jews) may have heard: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" It's a call to action to take care of each other.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At a certain point we're all being hurt in different ways, and saying someone else's hurt doesn't matter because your model says they have access to more privilege (whether or not that is the case) isn't helping any of us?

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

but it acts to divide AFAB nonbinary folks as "basically women" or "basically trans men (who we all know pass all the time)" which ummm ignores a lot of nonbinary people: AMAB, intersex, those who are purposefully going for androgyny, etc...

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes I run across a take in trans spaces that basically runs "nonbinary people aren't 'visibly trans'", with the implication usually that our needs are less important. Let's talk about my swimming class. Or, rather, getting changed for swim class.

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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Someone in Beijing is reading my mother's obituary today. How strange.

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