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...

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)

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

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!

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!

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...

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!

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. 💖

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!

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!

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.

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! 😍

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...

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...

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

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!