This workshop is now about half full (admission is rolling) and it’s shaping up to be a great cohort! Still plenty of time to apply; the deadline is Jan. 24.

the original gift link to the story has expired, so here’s another one. I worked on this for 2+ years and learned so much from the dozens of birth mothers who shared their experiences in open adoption.

“When white people talk about how we “made it,” we must also acknowledge that whiteness is an invisible and built-in advantage in how we achieve success.” @georgianndavis.bsky.social explains why, despite similar experiences, she isn’t like JD Vance.

Georgiann Davis’ account of growing up intersex and obese in a dysfunctional family is a ‘queer’ response to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. But will the Trump administration spoil her happy ending? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/hillbilly-energy-middle-school-dropout-academic-tenure

In their new book, Five Star White Trash: A Memoir of Fraud and Family, ASA member Georgiann Davis @georgianndavis.bsky.social @unm.edu chronicles her surprising journey from middle-school dropout to professor. @nyupress.bsky.social

Intersex people have existed since the beginning of time and will exist until the end of time. No law, executive order, judge or advocate of pseudoscience can erase us. Their goal is to conceal any existence outside of an impossibly narrow sex binary. Our existence is resistance.