#Insidious

Audrey Truschke cannot answer to the question of scholarly ethics and intellectual honesty. She relies on the authority invested in her by the Academy, without an iota of the reflexivity
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I'm doing a thread of all the times "gender-critical" voices have been heard. This is off the top of my head. Please add your own examples.December 2017: BBC Documentary, “Transgender
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I want to talk about the Paeliryon, a devil in Dungeons & Dragons. More accurately, I want to talk about the insidious nature of transmisogyny, and the double standards queerness
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Hey, legal/policy twitter: anybody know of any good scholarship connecting reproductive oppression and voter suppression as linked anti-democratic policies? I’ve seen a few articles, but not much, and it’s all
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Trump holding a #naturalization ceremony at the white house is peak #TrumpChaos. the height of dishonesty & cynicism. so here, apropos of nothing, is a non-exhaustive list of just 10
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Did a survey at uni of Japanese folks on how they felt about recent releases The Last Samurai, Lost in Translation, and Memoirs of a Geisha.Most: "Happy to see our
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Republicans are not cowards, but true believers - and pretending otherwise “risks misleading the country about the true depths of GOP radicalization.”@ThePlumLineGS is making a crucial point - and addresses
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bipolar 2, by the amazingly talented @100bigdogs living with manic depressive disorder is exhausting. it drains me most days. today was a particularly a roller coaster of a day, fluctuating
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"Justice Alito's invocation of Sir Matthew Hale in his leaked majority opinion is so, so much more fucked up than people realize. I'm a professor with a PhD, and my
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A thread about Depression -I’m not a medical health professional but this is my experienceFirstly, there are different forms of depression & different ways that they manifest. Personally I suffer
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not me jumping in here with some thoughts that probably no one will ever read because i’m usually a fandom lurker and no one here knows who i am? well
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Thread. Many US leftists are super Eurocentric & the most naive are Scandinaviaboos, so I keep saying Latin American history is more relevant to where we are & where we
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Recently saw a Google Talks presentation of @jposhaughnessy which was filled with wisdom nuggets. Listing some of them down here. 1. The only point of failure that a passiveinvestor faces
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ugh okay, my mail-in ballot just arrived and it's time for a thread on CA's prop 25: the Replace Cash Bail with Risk Assessments Referendum. 1/x a "yes" vote
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something I think about a lot is who is allowed to be an expert on their own life and who isn't - mostly in the context of illness and disability,
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In honor of pride month, I wanted to share a few LGBTQ+ books I've read and I think y'all will enjoy 1. Carry On by Rainbow RowellFirst off this is
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