Bri Barnes

I have spent many years trying to understand how people can feel justified in celebrating another person being harmed or killed.
While American healthcare is clearly broken and health insurance seems to be almost entirely exploitative, I still can't bring myself to celebrate someone's murder

New French Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Denounce "Wait-And-See" Approach The new guidelines, published by the French Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, create the first French national medical consensus on trans youth care.

1. In a major development, the first national consensus guidelines for trans youth have been released in France.

They recommend affirmation and medical care, denounce "wait and see."

They refute much of the Cass Review.

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www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...

I'm sure I'm not alone in this time of year being kind of rough because of homophobic or transphobic family. I'm lucky to have a best friend who has become my big sister. Not everyone is so lucky. Make sure you check on your queer friends and make them feel welcome if you can

Have realised this
#lgbtqia

Trying My Best Anson Seabra · Songs I Wrote in My Bedroom · Song · 2020

I'm having a Sad Bitch™️ morning. Here's my current anthem. I love this song
open.spotify.com/track/6hjh2p...

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

I love this.

My grandmother passed away two years ago right near her birthday (which was Christmas day). I miss her dearly, but today as I was archiving a ton of my photos into cold storage I stumbled across this gem from before she got sick and thought I should share it. This is how I remember her

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Albert Camus: The fullness of the cup is meaningless, but we should still let it satiate us

Everytime someone hurls a homophobic or transphobic slur at me my day goes off the rails. It hangs around my neck for days. I put on a strong face because I want to be able to support folks who can't, but it ruins me psychologically for a while 😭

In this dark time, I am thrilled to see so many higher Ed institutions removing financial barriers for folks who traditionally can't go to college. I am a first Gen college student and many of my students are too. I'm proud to be at a public uni doing similar
#umassboston #firstgenstudent

This book looks incredible. I'm excited to read it as I embark on my dissertation data collection next spring

Since some seem determined not to get it:

Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.

Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?

Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.

At student voting summit, organizers tackle apathy, education At the National Student Vote Summit, attendees discussed the best ways to boost political involvement after an election that saw worse turnout than in 2020.

I discuss voting and voting patterns regularly in all my courses. Emphasizing the importance of participation in local/state elections where students see their votes counting AND holding politicians accountable between voting cycles resonates with them. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

How are y'all helping your international and immigrant (first Gen or otherwise) students with anxiety related to what their spring semesters might look like? I teach at two very diverse minority serving schools and I'm seeing stress in many of my students
#nohumanisillegal

Sunrise view facing east from UMass Boston. Reds and yellows fade into purple clouds.

This has become one of my favorite morning rituals. I'll miss this campus a little when I leave

I anticipate that I will be defending my prospectus early in the spring. That plus teaching 6 courses has me seeing my lifelong dream coming true
Being a professor, mentoring and helping students see how sociology matters outside the classroom is the best part of my life
#firstgenstudent #gradschool

I do want to call out my department at UMass Boston for going above and beyond on helping me continue to make progress through the last two years of tragic uncertainty. I wouldn't be where I am in my diss work without them

In my PhD years I have escaped a toxic/abusive living situation, been homeless in my car, had a major mental health event landing in a respite for a few months. I have no safety net and I feel so alone in academia.

Have y'all felt this level of precarity during school, how'd you make it through?

WIN + L to lock your computer when you walk away from it

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Yesterday I shocked a bunch of my intro to soc students by explaining that Smith wrote Wealth of Nations before the industrial revolution and was ardently anti-monopoly, anti-corporate, and believed that unregulated capitalism will always lead to abuse of the working class by capitalists