It's time for widespread refusal to fill in sex or gender on government documents, birth certificates or otherwise.

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Women aren't the sex class. We're the ruination class.

This essay by Ursula K Le Guin is the best thing I’ve read explaining why Heritage and trumpets and nazis are all obsessed with using the state to stuff us all back into radioactive heterosexual nuclear families.

I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.

Maybe decades of work in abortion has made me paranoid, but at this point I'd worry about giving them ideas

6-7 again for the sociological win 🧪 “The teacher says ‘do problems 6 and 7,’ and boom—a shared moment. Laughter. A known way of moving your hands. It's nonsense that makes sense socially. Because for ten seconds, you belong.” *culture* [Becky Kennedy’s post on LI]

When you constantly call a popular candidate a "communist," you don't hurt the candidate. You just make communism look even better

My boomer mom: “They’re trying so hard but they’re too stupid.”

I can't help but wonder if supporters of this cruelty have never cared about a child or anybody at all.

ICE told us

Um is he joking? If not are we going to see the end of commerce clause?

Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

They’re delaying Casey Means’ confirmation hearing because she’s in labor. Second wave feminism cemented some basic accommodations for favored women. They can undermine the wins by narrowing who’s favored.

It's terrifying how the idea that Nazis are inconceivably monstrous leads right into the idea that no one is actually ok with Nazi stuff, no matter what they say or do.

My dear colleagues and I needed to learn this years ago, but now is better than tomorrow.

How automated control and surveillance endangers and harms us all from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at @dairinstitute.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

#translivesmatter #weshouldnthavetomove

They meant “we hate virtue” when they tried to make “virtue signaling” a slur.

The only good ice.

Vaccine opponents challenge the idea “that if you’re going to be part of a community, you must help protect the other people in your community.” And “when it comes to vaccines, it makes it illegal.” This isn’t staying in Idaho.

If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.

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I can't stop thinking about how INCITE warned way back in the early 2000s that the NGO-ization of movements would lead to the centrist-pundit nightmare we're in right now.

If discovering narrow definitions of family aren’t universal turns //what about the men’s loneliness?// into //what about white people’s loneliness?// it will be a villain origin story for sure.

On some level Texas is LIKE THIS ™ not in spite of our diversity (not only sexuality, but also race and immigration) but because the people of Texas are perceived by conservative Texans as a very real demographic threat.

I hate the attacks on science because they hurt people, not because science is more important than people.

Always quoting Upton Sinclair.

The policies on paper were similar, though implementation varied a lot and there's probably no good data to really compare, but looking at the other fascist regimes at the time -- Italy and Spain -- Nazi Germany got the best short-term birth rate bounce. Yay! /7

At abortion meetings my colleagues are pretty unafraid of conflict. There's something so honest and restorative about being with people who are willing to admit that science demands we keep trying hard. ✊

I've been trying to understand the pronatalist population panic by reading about the antinatalist population panic in the 60s and 70s, which led me to Ansley Coale's 1968 PAA presidential address. It's wild.

Gassing protesters in the U.S. is a fully bipartisan project and this has been true for a long time...

Legendary excellence at the job of professor here.

Who know who was right? The crazy old guy ranting in the food coop in 1997 about the domestic police exemption the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction.

Dr. Stramondo: "Wheelchairs are NEVER medically necessary. They are SOCIALLY necessary to allow the user to access social inclusion and the good of life. This is ... medicalizing access!" #ASBH2025 #Bioethics

you have a right to be angry

Brutal. These funding rates less than 10% of “bad” funding rates in the US merit-based systems yielded before whatever is happening now. I had no idea those were the salad years.

Babies have more self respect.

Starting now; join us on Zoom. pop.psu.edu/events/20th-...

Hey pronatalists, did you know your predecessor in population panic said 1.5 billion humans (18% of our current population) was a good target?

I’m dressing as the age period cohort problem for Halloween

Put-on rural identity is so ick - the only people who buy it are city folk. Relatedly, I've been thinking about Elizabeth Nichols' song "Ain't Country" since this whole tattoo story took off.

Many men, screaming: TFR TOO LOW. NO SPERM. NO BABIES. END TIMES. Me and a few other women: There are no good or bad birthrates. There are just people and whether or not they can build the families they want.

Sometimes being a demographer makes me too pedantic even for myself. Sorry for my emails/papers/equations/things I say, everybody. Not sure there's any way around it.

Listen, as a person who subscribed to her hometown herbs and astrology newsletter well into her 20s and also taught fertility awareness to hundreds of people, the girlies really don't know what a new moon is.

You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...

Miraya Gran is the kind of person Trump and his administration say they are going to help. But unless the cost of IVF goes down a lot, she can’t afford to give her daughter a sibling. “I’ve got two embryos waiting for me, and I’m not accessing them due to lack of insurance coverage." New from me:

It's honestly surprising that only 50% of those who agree that women's role is (only) as help-mates to men want to repeal the 19th Amendment.

We've seen religious elites and social media warriors call for the end of women’s suffrage. But we don’t have a sense of how everyday Americans feel about women’s political rights. Until now. We preview new survey results about repeal of the 19th Amendment and adoption of a household vote.