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This should say “Lesbians AND Space. Which is why I love it. It’s not just a love story, it’s a romance with space and time and lesbians are medium in which that story is told. It’s beautiful, it’s captivating, it’s heart wrenching in the best way.

I don’t know who needs to hear it, but “Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid is 1000% worth the read. 3 words: Lesbians in space.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Women in Imperialism
2. Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
3. Sociology of Feminist Theory
4. Anthropology of Gobal Gender Violence
5. Literature Seminar on Toni Morrison

Totally why I’m the academic and person I am

White and tan American cocker spaniel sitting on a purple blanket on an ottoman in front of a window with plants

Matilda for the timeline

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

MAGA operates from a core premise of assumed objectivity. They see themselves as the norm. They are the unmarked. They are the “correct” way to be (a man, an American, patriotic, etc). So actions requiring them to admit another POV is correct would be opposed by their worldview. They literally can’t

They cannot accept their minority position. Like “the silent/moral majority” before them, MAGA operates on the assumption that their hates are universal. They see the killing of “fucking bitch” as a net good. They want that; therefore we must as well. It’s a failure to see the world as it is.

The punishment of white liberal women is essential to the mission if not the mission itself. We betray the idea of America they hold dear in favor of the multiracial democracy they hate. Therefore, they couldn’t just jettison the murderer. They have to laud him as he has accomplished THE MISSION.

The problem is that they got the result they really wanted. More than the ethnic cleansing, they need to punish white liberal women who they see as betrayers. They’re trying to police what kinds of gender and race solidarity is appropriate. The terror they’re evoking is their wet dream

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.

Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.

Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

The only question left after that epilogue is does Nancy like butches or femmes?!? I NEED to know!

Too many people treated Stranger Things as a passive viewing experience and are trying to mask their comprehension issues as critiques.

I took a “Women in the Civil Rights Movement” course during undergrad that’s entire aim was to deconstruct this. It changed everything I thought I knew about organizing, the protests, and the way gender works in meaning making. High recommend learning about amazing women who made it all happen

A photo of Claudette Colvin in a red sweater

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

Something sociologists know (and the general public doesn’t) is that most people don’t actually hold very firm political beliefs. They just follow political directives from people they trust—in large part, to seek social status and acceptance.

Stigma is a powerful tool in shaping ideology.

How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here

This also reflects the dangers of rugged individualism & individualizing inequality. Everything is disconnected from systems of power. It’s ahistorical & as Charles Mills wrote, perpetuates an epistemology of ignorance—a system of not knowing how white supremacy functions in everyday life over time.

And yes, I know it’s a Canadian production, but the distribution in America is still meaningful

It’s not a show about sports or sex (both make brief appearances), but about the racial, ethnic, and cultural pressures that limit queer people’s full participation in society, and it’s done exceptionally well.

Heated Rivalry is not a show for everyone, but it’s also a show so many of us need. The recognition of how important sex can be in finding yourself isn’t something we see on screen in America and to see that with two queer men, in this cultural moment, is powerful.

Media depictions of coming out often flatten the experience in a way that serves heterosexual audiences more than queers, but Heated Rivalry shows the complexity of the different pressures that make that moment deeply queer. That final scene with Shane’s mom has me sobbing on my couch. Well done 👏

This brought to you by me tearing up in my car between holiday shopping bouts.

It’s been 24 years since Willow and Tara broke up in “Tabula Rasa” on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but everytime Michelle Branch’s “Goobye to You” comes on shuffle, I bawl.

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Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

adam.tsuris @AdamTsuris Somewhere along the way, being wrong about facts was reclassified as "having an opinion," and knowing facts was stigmatized as "having bias." It's a big part of why we're in hell now.

Honestly, if Netflix saved “Wheel of Time” all would be forgiven. Well, maybe not all but most.

A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help

Good luck. Go with God (and take this shit with you)

Looking at the craftsmanship on that “trophy,” I think this is the correct take lol

The 1,000 Year History of the Strap-On From medieval Europe to Zanzibar, the strap-on dildo has deep lore.

Amazing

www.them.us/story/1000-y...

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺