Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD

today you think about fear and fear but you do not die and like any goddexx you are scorned and become the fire anyway yea though you walk yea through you rise though bitch you are here and this, too, is a form of resurrection today you are and you are not afraid and what mistake what divine miracle

Taking a moment on #tdor with these words that watch over me on my wall every day. May we become the fire anyway. For this - endless libation. For this - gardens wherever you roam.

Excerpt from "litany in which you are still here" by kiki nicole. listen to the rest at soundcloud.com/user-8302447...

20.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Despite the relentless attacks on science, I just wish everyone knew how hard scientists work every day to put forth our best ideas, review and improve each other's work, and do the most rigorous science we are capable of to save lives and promote health. Love, your friendly neighborhood scientist.💖

13.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I learned so much from my colleagues and we all truly did our best to steward $60 million in rigorous new research on preventing domestic violence, treating opioid addiction, reducing postpartum depression, supporting survivors, and so much more.

13.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Every single one of my fellow reviewers were unflaggingly thoughtful and we were united in asking one question - Which of these grants is going to do the most for patients and their families? My own grant got rejected before review, and I am honestly delighted I got to review others' grants instead.

13.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I recently served on my first scientific grant review panel! What was it like? Two dozen of us read hundreds of pages of grants, wrote reviews, and showed up ready to discuss for 8 straight hours. (1/4)

13.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Healthy Binding | Practical advice for healthy binding & Tools for trans and nonbinary people who bind, their parents, and providers

Highly recommend healthybinding.com by Frances Reed which also has a "binder finder" resource! And thanks to doodler for the shout out above for our book as well.

10.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Researcher career milestone today: Got (blinded) reviews back on a manuscript and reviewers all agree I need to cite more work by Peitzmeier et al. 😅 DON'T MIND IF I DO

23.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can't wait!! Every time Maia and I talk about writing this book I feel like it peels back another layer of the onion on our process. Excited to be reunited and in conversation on Friday and honored the event is already standing room only. Come if you love comics, health comm, or trans joy!

10.09.2025 02:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not just for book authors! I was surprised to see more than a dozen of my journal articles got fed into the maw of AI. Researchers, check for yourselves!

20.08.2025 21:48 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The NIH has reached out and I'm hopeful my K01 will be reinstated soon. My R21 application got assigned to review in October. I am celebrating this victory, I am grieving the 8+ months I will never get back, I am glad we are fighting for our right to do the work we are called to do.🔥

18.08.2025 02:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

IT IS SO ORDERED. Signed by Lydia Kay Griggsby, United States District Judge. Screenshot from memorandum opinion available here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520.94.0.pdf

...is at the end, where she says, all caps and bold,

IT IS SO ORDERED.

The government must restore our LGBTQ+ health grants and review our applications.

18.08.2025 02:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Screenshot from memorandum opinion available here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520.94.0.pdf

Screenshot from memorandum opinion available here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520.94.0.pdf

Screenshot from memorandum opinion available here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520.94.0.pdf

Screenshot from memorandum opinion available here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520/gov.uscourts.mdd.582520.94.0.pdf

Honored to be in a group of LGBTQ+ health researchers who sued the government over NIH grant terminations and won a preliminary injunction! Some key parts of the memorandum opinion issued this week stating that the government did in fact unlawfully discriminate below, but my favorite part...

18.08.2025 02:08 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Trump Administration Scraps Research Into Health Disparities

Some of my NIH-funded work with @rebeccafieldingmiller.com and @abigailmhatcher.bsky.social @nickmetheny.bsky.social that was unconstitutionally terminated featured in the NYT this week: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/h.... Thanks to litigation it is restored and we are training a cohort in November!

18.08.2025 01:34 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Come see @redgoldsparks.bsky.social and me speak at the awesome @peoplesbook.bsky.social in September about writing + drawing for a future in which we can all breathe. 💖

11.08.2025 23:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This fun convo had me reflecting on how the weaving of storytelling and teaching that felt so instinctive to us was its own little innovation, and how the outsider status of comics in the academy made me feel more free to take my sweet time dreaming this book into existence with Maia. Thanks GMIC!

11.08.2025 23:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Such an honor to have our book recognized by GMIC as best educational comic of 2024! Love all that @graphicmedicine.bsky.social does for the field and uplifting amazing work. I loved loved @keezyyoung.bsky.social's Sunflowers and am working on getting my hands on a copy of The Jellyfish to read!

01.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Adapting effective sexual assault prevention for online delivery Can an in-person intervention that decreases young women’s risk of sexual assault maintain its effectiveness when adapted for online facilitation?

A little write up about our campus sexual assault prevention trial! doi.org/10.56367/OAG... We will be recruiting freshmen and sophomore women at University of Maryland, Central Florida, Michigan, and Guelph in just a few weeks.

01.08.2025 12:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Post it saying "Write a book about diverse trans + gender expansive survivors of intimate partner violence + how not only transphobia but other intersecting systems of power shape their victimization, survival, resilience, resistance, and healing. "

20+ colorful post it notes on a wall with attendees' intention setting projects

First day of the #Intersectionality Training Institute and we are all setting our intentions for an intersectional research project we want to accomplish in the next year. Getting chills from all the cool work that will come out of this week of learning and community! 😍

07.07.2025 19:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cover: Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier Back cover: Created as an example for the 2025 National Transgender Health Summit "Art of Community Engagement Panel" @redgoldsparks on insta and bluesky

Spread 1: In order to better understand the health impacts of chest binding, we interviewed 25 people about their binding journeys and asked those same people to do 90 day surveys. I came to this topic because I have friends who used chest binding, including someone who ran a survey on tumblr which went viral in 2015. -Sarah

Spread 2: High points: How generous all of the research participants were with their time and experience, and getting to turn this research into a book! Low points: Having TERFs discover my academic papers and misinterpret the data to make inaccurate and transphobic claims!!

Spread 3: Takeaways: Secrecy and stigma make binding more dangerous, but it came be done safely and can be a powerful tool to affirm gender and support mental health! Taking reasonable care (not binding for too long, wearing binders that fit) can mitigate negative health risks and increase positive mental health benefits.

Last weekend @sarahpeitzmeier.bsky.social and I taught a zine workshop for researchers at the National Transgender Health Summit #NTHS2025. I made this zine as an example, based on our book BREATHE: JOURNEYS TO HEALTHY BINDING. I wrote about the workshop here: www.patreon.com/posts/breath...

08.06.2025 18:32 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

...from a participant who told us binding gave him the freedom to exist. That quote eventually made it into our book Breathe and reminds me every day why we do the work. Grateful to everyone who has shown up for our studies and taught me what matters. ❤️

04.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Corkboard with drawings, study recruitment flyers, motivational quotes, and a handwritten note saying "it gave me the freedom to exist."

We all need reminders of why we do this work and meeting readers in SF with @redgoldsparks.bsky.social this weekend was so life giving. Came back to the office today to see this reminder I scrawled on a scrap paper and stuck to my board 5 years ago...

04.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

cover of a zine titled Do you make books? Yes? I want YOU to join Authors Against Book Bans! By Maia Kobabe

WHAT IS AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS? A coalition of writers, illustrators, editors & other book creators, standing united against the unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We support the availability of diverse voices in our libraries, in our schools, & in our culture. We pledge to band together against the oppression of literature, to speak when our voices are silenced, to go where our bodies are needed, & to fight to ensure this freedom. Our concern is not only for the books, but for the children, families, educators, librarians, & communities who suffer when the freedom to read is challenged and taken away. WHAT CAN AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS OFFER YOU? - Regional groups working on legislation to protect authors & the freedom to read state-by-state - Online trainings on digital security, public speaking, & how to counter book challenges in your community -Affinity groups for BIPOC authors, queer authors, authors with disabilities, indie, nonfiction, romance writers & more -Support if your book is challenged or your school visit is canceled! -A very active discord community

Author: What if my book hasn’t been challenged? Maia: JOIN! Author: Ok, but what if I’m really busy and can’t do much organizing right now? Maia: JOIN ANYWAY! Even if all you do is sign up, your membership will help lend weight to the letters AABB sends to publishers & legislators. As of January 2025, AABB has 3500+ members. Check out the recent open letter to publishers on AABB’s socials & feel free to share it with your contacts. An Open Letter to Our Publishers- instagram.com/p/DCzYmKcR8uq

Maia: I’ve been facing intense challenges to my book since 2021. Knowing that I am not alone in the fight against censorship is what keeps my spirits up! Watching the folks in AABB share information, co-write legislation, show up to library & school board meetings, & speak up to publishers about the need to protect diverse books & minority authors has been amazing! This is a weird & scary time to be an author, but you are not alone! Join thousands of us fighting for the freedom to read, the freedom to write, the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, & the freedom to share our stories!

Has your name ever appeared in the credits of a book, or is it likely to in the near future? Then you should join
@authorsabb.bsky.social! Full transcript and jpg of this zine formatted for print available here: www.patreon.com/posts/i-want...
#authorsagainstbookbans

26.01.2025 22:50 — 👍 477    🔁 289    💬 6    📌 8

Had the best time making zines at NTHS in community with so many amazing researchers and practitioners! Can't wait to see what you publish!

02.06.2025 03:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0