Mira Akbar

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

04.02.2025 01:26 — 👍 27916    🔁 15810    💬 1279    📌 3686

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

30.01.2025 02:35 — 👍 190030    🔁 41633    💬 3648    📌 1932

Thank you so much for your work. Whipping Girl was invaluable for me finally deciding to take hormones, and also for becoming aware of some of the challenges I'd face for doing so.

And now, your videos like this one have been invaluable tools to provide allies with knowledge and understanding.

01.02.2025 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's also a small God, to only have been able to make two types of people, don't you think?

20.01.2025 05:36 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...and also, by their logic: who are they to say that God didn't make me a transwoman. It's not up to them to decide.

20.01.2025 01:38 — 👍 36    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As reactionary pundits rush to blame Harris’ loss on those fighting for trans rights, here’s a reminder that centrist Dems blamed Gavin Newsom’s vocal support of gay marriage for John Kerry’s loss in 2004

Nothing new under the sun

10.11.2024 22:58 — 👍 345    🔁 103    💬 10    📌 5

Forgiveness

#forgiveness
#perspective
#reflection

29.12.2024 00:49 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Joy is resistance.

02.12.2024 18:04 — 👍 68    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

12.11.2024 01:22 — 👍 172591    🔁 21346    💬 6588    📌 1372