(they/them). First year sociology PhD student at UC Berkeley. Studying health scientific knowledge, gender, and disability.
Maddie Kerr
One of my pet peeves lately is people saying “X isn’t political” when they mean “X shouldn’t be partisan.” Lots of things that don’t need to be partisan are in fact political because they involve (what *should be* collective) decisions about how to distribute resources and power in society.
being a graduate student feels like there are sixty tabs running in my brain at all times but i currently have the processing capacity of a dusty 2008 ipod touch
Let's Streisand-effect these people.
Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops.
Read and share.
I’m excited to share my paper, “Evidence, Expertise, and Exploration: Politics of Knowledge in Gender Therapy,” published in The Sociological Quarterly! For those interested in constructions of expertise, boundary work, conversion therapy, trans studies, etc.:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!!
www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afternoon. https://bit.ly/4e7Q9VE
A federally funded study on #trans #mentalhealth was abruptly terminated, despite being rated more highly than 96% of competing projects and being over half completed. #Psychology and sexual health professors explain the effects ripple through science and society: buff.ly/eFZCL4H
Wheelchair user Julia Feinberg, who has spinal muscular atrophy, lives independently thanks to the 600 hours of help she gets each month to have someone assist with daily tasks.
If Gov. Gavin Newsom gets his way, Feinberg risks losing the care that allows her to live an independent life.
Professional mental health organizations widely embrace gender-affirmative therapy as an approach to supporting transgender (trans) clients in their identities, shifting away from historically path...
