Nola

Woahh trippy. I’ve seen a lot of pronoun pins but never anything like this

If they want to use that metaphor, they should be talking about male bodybuilders and the ways testosterone is over/misused in gym bro spaces. Gender-affirming HRT levels or levels used for cis women are small compared to that, but they don’t want to criticize the Andrew Hubermans & Joe Rogans

Sign says “No kings, no ICE, no infringements on trans rights”

Here’s my sign! I was a little disappointed that No Kings Worcester, MA messaging seemed to be “the problem is Trump, the solution is Democrats” (when the problem is much bigger than 1 guy & Dems continue to fund genocide) but the crowd agreed ICE raids need to end & was in support of pub health 🙌

This is nice, but the way Reagan ignored the AIDS crisis, doing almost nothing to stop countless deaths, makes it questionable imo to applaud him for anything

Your work seems really neat! I’m Nola (they/them). I’m finishing up my undergrad degree and interested in researching the history and politics of alternative medicine movements as well as how public health advocates can better counter pseudoscience

What’s a “reply guy”? Also, very cool that people on here are prioritizing accessibility, love that

The lecture-and-test model isn’t the norm in more advanced classes anymore anyway, at least not in my experience, and I doubt chatgpt could simulate a seminar-type class in a meaningful way

Who Up Quantifying the Self? Podcast Episode · Binchtopia · 10/08/2025 · 1h 18m

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Super interesting new ep about body tech ⌚️ as corporate surveillance. I get what they mean about finding useless results—I got a CT scan for chronic condition& it showed kidney cysts, which sound concerning until you learn they’re usually asymptomatic & very common

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Use our new action center tool to tell the House not to sacrifice transparency for a false sense of security.

As someone who’s also chronically ill, I really appreciated this reframing of illness experiences as helping us develop valuable skills. Doesn’t make symptoms stop being painful, but it’d be great if we got official credit for the extensive work of managing bodies with complex needs

True, but other groups have tried this as well. What made the difference in the scale of said violence was that the lineage you are referencing had the power to carry out colonialism/slavery/fascism/etc. on such a large scale

Understandable. Thanks for being willing to change your thinking in this

I’ll be thinking about these people when I hear “I don’t know why anyone voted MAGA, they must be idiots.” These commenters buy into propaganda lies not bc they’re stupid but bc they’re desperate & want to believe & Dems haven’t hyped up a better ambitious offer

I’m sorry but saying that being a fascist is genetic is concerningly biodeterminist and is similar logic to that of scientific racism, even if you’re using that logic against a different group. I’d re-think this take if I were you

But also yeah the Trump cult would like to eradicate all disability, whether or not someone asked for it

Totally. I kinda feel bad for the chronically ill MAGA people who probably moved to the right thru crunchy/wellness content they consumed in hopes of just feeling better. Trump & RFK are making false promises to exploit their pain

“Place where they send disabled people to be neglected and die” can be made to look like socialized medicine. The cult has to pretend to take care of its members so they stay loyal to the fascist project, which historically has shared elements with socialism

Wait how did the Tylenol BS upset anti-vaxxers??

I also can’t help but see the similarities between Victorian to early 20th century sanitariums with their “rest cure” and present-day conversations about limiting exertion for ME/CFS and Long COVID. Not sure where that observation leads, though

garment workers victimized by factory settings that were supposedly too harsh for women (specifically women, because of their perceived fragility), and another stereotype for women who were said to have followed sinful temptations into dance venues in the city.
#EverythingIsTuberculosis

If you liked this video, I highly recommend Diego Armus’s chapter “Tango, Gender, and Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires” in Disease in the History of Modern Latin America. It talks about how Industrial-Revolution-era Buenos Aires had 2 different stereotypes of the consumptive woman—one for

YouTube video by CrashCourse The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time | Crash Course Lecture

I know this video isn’t new, but continue to be impressed at how Hank & John Greene can produce content that’s so widely known & beginner friendly while at the same time not at all basic. Vid touches on rarely acknowledged humanities-of-illness themes that fascinate me youtube.com/watch?v=7D-g...

#disability #neurodivergent #RonnyJackson #BritneySpears #trans #transgender #StopFascism

& how Neurotypical standards also harm people without a developmental, neurological, psychiatric, or learning disability diagnosis. Systems that expect us to perform as THE Neurotypical are part of how body fascism keeps us reaching for impossible standards.

just like how Britney Spears’s right to make her own decisions was taken away. This is not to say that all trans people are inherently neurodivergent. I just want to point out how these labels are fluid & political &

If you’re trans, MAGA wants to exclude you from the Neurotypical Archetype. When politicians question transgender adults’ abilities to make mentally sound decisions about our own healthcare, they are trying to exclude us from the neurotypical privilege of having legal decision-making capacity…

no one is *THE* Neurotypical, THE perfect model of a post-industrial office worker. We can all get brain fog when sick, antsy when at a desk for too long, or “distracted” from work by friends (“distracted” in this case being a value judgement abt which is the main task & which is the distraction)…

Something I want to add:
“Neurotypical” is an archetype/representation of an ideal. Some of us are certainly more neurodivergent (in both the impairment sense & the political “systems are not built to include us” sense) than others. Neurotypical & NT-passing privilege are very real. However, …

Let’s go unions!!!

Body Fascism The missing link between MAHA, ableism, fatphobia, and prohibitions on gender-affirming healthcare?

I think “Body Fascism”—forced bodily conformity to fascist standards—might be the missing link to explain why MAHA, ableism, fatphobia, and prohibitions on gender-affirming healthcare (and so much more) feel so similar. I write about it over on Substack.
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