Alejandra Hope

Hmm.

You know. My parents + older sister took a trip to Montreal for the express purpose of genealogical research the summer I graduated undergrad and I wasn't allowed to go and now I'm mad all over again about it. I want that information!!! 😤

Like @philipcooke.bsky.social, I work with a lot of trans and queer folks and can also say I can't spot the difference btwn a trans kid v a gay kid. That's up to them.

Fuck, I can't even articulate my own relationship to gender/sexuality most of the time, you want me to tell you yours!?

"Gender affirming therapy" is actually a quite limited way to think about the process 🙃

Never not fucking angry the terfs got "exploratory therapy" instead of "gender affirming therapy" because what Philip says here is exactly right.

I appreciate the impulse to appeal to medical authorities, but medicalizing gender has done a lot to shape our current anti-trans hellscape.

To be clear, a doctor is as capable of determining a person’s “true” gender OR sexuality as they are capable of determining a person’s “true” favorite color.

We are not less racialised, or more shielded from racism, when our adopters are white. Our adopters might be blatantly racist or, at best, playing the color blind card. #adoption 🥚

Guess I need to figure out how to access the appropriate records without talking to my family 🙃

Wait. Not that I actually have access to the records (and watch there be a carve out for this specific situation) but my (adoptive) father's grandfather emigrated from Montreal, so... !?

That's perfect, ty

Now that the panic attack as fully subsided... I'm really mad at myself that I never manage to honk in situations like this! First dude absolutely deserved it. 😤

As it is, the committee's actual ideas are ~fine~ but I'm with @awaisaftab.bsky.social, they could use a little more workshopping!

I just read this and, as I've already taken migraine meds+an edible, I missed the subheading to indicate where Awais stepped in with his own thoughts, so I sent it to a friend and was all, "I'm really loving the direction the DSM committee might be going in, it's almost psychodynamic again! 🤦🏻😂

I just thought of this, but I suspect that most American Prots don’t know that “just war theory” even exists. They only have a "Bible study vibes” ethic patterned on OT narratives. Unless they’ve really engaged with “secular” theory, they haven’t encountered it. Catholics are much better versed.

I had a writing prompt on "girl dinner" over the weekend and I didn't share with the group bc everyone else had these lovely pieces &mine was just, "Wtf is up with the memeification of culture?! Have we always done this? Were [elder] millennials the last generation to grow up into adults?" Anyway.

*migraine, which is ironic cause i did also just have my annual neurology checkup but also not a surprise given the sudden braking, 🫠

Send that to every insurance exec and/or "behavioral health" clinic in the country lolsob

My day thus far:
*woke up at 4am
*phone call with friend
*overdrawn checking account
*fight with GVD
*haircut
*very nearly t-boning a dude who inexplicably ran a light (like there's no way he thought he had green? a bus had just gone through the intersection?)

I would like to go tf back to bed now.

Second driver was a right on red which would've been fine had they turned into the right lane 🙄

I would like people to stop running l red lights in front of me, pls and ty (two separate people at two consecutive lights this time!) 😑

Yes, definitely!

You're so welcome! It's important but like you said in your thread, most of us aren't explicitly taught *how* to set one up in grad school/internship/even supervision. And/or we avoid it for our own countertransferential reasons

Here's a template that looks thorough enough:

Yeah, here's a company that will take on all the work for you: www.theraclosure.com/practice-exe...

I used a template that I got from a psychologist friend of mine!

This is a good reminder that I still need to update my professional will since a) buying a new work laptop and b) switching EHRs last year 😬

A map showing that most of the US West is having the warmest winter on record, while most of New England hasn’t had one this cold in over 20 years. Caption: “Wild chart from the WaPo - for a lot of younger people across America, this is either the coldest winter of their lives, or the warmest winter of their lives”

I just came across this map illustrating how dramatic the weather has been this year. I knew it’s been unusually cold and snowy in the Northeast this winter, but I didn’t realize it was this extreme!

Me telling a friend the other day that the texture of tofu >>> chicken

...maybe I should try this???

This is often why I sleep in a hammock 🙃

Oh, wow!

Me, about new Scrubs the other night! 😅

I think San Francisco is generally thought to be steeper? But a 19% grade for several blocks is no joke! Even driving up it makes me nervous, haha