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alice , 12 days ago to random

I just went on a follow-fest for women with a PhD, but realized I'm already mutuals with almost everyone who shows up in the limited search results 😋

If you're a Dr. Gal or other female science communicator type, pop into the thread, say hi!

I'd love to learn about what you do 💜
(and I'm sure lots of others would too)

#WomenInStem #FollowFriday (on Tuesday) #WomenInMedicine #Dr #PhD

corbden , 10 days ago

@alice I’m a nonbinary woman+man scholar and writer working in the religious trauma and cult research spaces but without a related degree. Does that count? A planetary scientist from Los Alamos National Lab told me the research I did on my book related to Mormonism could have earned me a doctorate if I’d gone that direction. 😂 Anyway happy to meet you. 👋🏻

corbden , 10 days ago

@alice Thanks! I follow some other amazing science women to recommend but I’m struggling with names tonight, so if I think of them I’ll follow up tomorrow.

corbden , 10 days ago

@alice My brain has still not booted up this morning, but I remembered one name 😂 Have you followed @futurebird ? Her passion for bugs is ant-fectious!

GottaLaff , 24 days ago to random

Via Jon Favreau:

1. Republicans block a bill that would protect contraception

2. Trump floats jailing his opponents; an informal advisor suggests executing them

3. DataProgress poll: 63% of swing voters have heard little to nothing about Trump's guilty verdict

May I humbly suggest that Biden supporters use their feeds to put some of this info in front of people instead of continuing to complain/amplify stupid WSJ story …?

152 days to go. Lots of work to do. Gotta pick our battles wisely.

corbden , 24 days ago

@GottaLaff My son made my mom know about the conviction. I was too tired/conflict avoidant. She’s in denial now (it’s a “witch hunt”) but I can tell she’s thinking about it. We did get her to not vote Trump in the primaries, she just didn’t mail her vote. I made it personal, about the personal existential threat to me as a queer person. She doesn’t like Biden, either, which is fine. She won’t vote for him but she’d consider just not voting. Which is fine by me. The “both sides suck” argument is an ok way to go in this case because it validates their negative emotions about democrats where they can comfortably rest while they evaluate their misguided positive feelings about the GOP and Trump. I let her know that I have problems with Biden, too, but I’m voting for him anyway. I got to this point by making it personal, addressing those emotions, my fear and sadness.

ttpphd , 1 month ago to random

More people should be screened for PTSD, especially considering the collective trauma we are experiencing.

corbden , 1 month ago

@JSharp1436 @ttpphd It’s much higher than that. Just for childhood traumatizing experiences, 35% did nothave at least one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_childhood_experiences

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html (There’s a chart if you scroll.)

Full paper:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220625/

StillIRise1963 , 1 month ago to random

Each non nazi white person needs to convert 5 white nazis.

corbden , 1 month ago

@philip_cardella Those who are fascist deep down due to selfishness and not ignorance… they are logically correct about almost everything. They’ve allied themselves with who they believe to be the strongest in order to achieve the highest position in society available to them.

But here’s where they’re wrong and where their self-interest will fail them:

If you ally yourself with those who will do anything for power, that “anything” includes backstabbing whoever is next. Which WILL be them at some point. History shows this over and over. The personal histories of those they support shows this.

If you admit that the strongest should rule, then anyone with some means to overpower them can and will have full reign over them. Their best selfish move is to align with those who want to protect everyone equally.

corbden , 1 month ago

@philip_cardella And the best way to reach anyone who is closed to new information (ignorant or selfish) is by asking them questions. The Socratic Method. Get them to put their reasoning into words. Hold a mirror up to them so they can see themselves.

corbden , 1 month ago to random

All the internet people we’ve met.

corbden OP , 1 month ago

All Internet People We’ve Met

Who gets to have that experience?

Out of all of human history, who has ever gotten to interact with as many people as we have?

From as many far places?

Living so many different kinds of lives?

What other humans throughout time have gotten to consider so many perspectives of reality?

What a fucking privilege.

corbden OP , 1 month ago

And that’s the privilege that the close-minded, for all their privileges, want to throw away. They would trade this astounding rare wonder… for the right to trample anyone with a different perspective.

corbden OP , 1 month ago

You there, internet person. We have bridged the gap enforced by the limitations of reality that would elsewise keep us apart. We have spanned space and time in order to perceive one another.

What a goddamned blessing. What a marvel!

corbden , 1 month ago to random

I have so many book ideas, and I have all the skills. It's a shame that I struggle with disabilities and lack of supports to heal and live so that I can write those books.

While writing about Natasha Helfer's excommunication, it occurs to me that there isn't a book (that I know of) about prominent LDS excommunications. Each and every one of the political excommunications I'm citing are interesting all on their own. And some I'm not citing (like Fawn Brodie) because they don't connect to Natasha's story.

I'd write that book after finishing my scripture, then the one on Abuse Culture.

I've also got a bunch of unwritten novels in me, and two novels (sequels to Emerald City Dreamer) that are in first draft and need finishing and publishing.

These lacks of support are intentional. I'm less competition now. My ability to speak truth to power is severely fettered.

#AmWriting #Sexcommunicated #exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma

corbden OP , 1 month ago

I would give my maximum my efforts and talents to making cool shit for everyone. All I ask in return is to be taken care of with my basic needs and comforts. I don't need much. The idea that we need to be threatened and cajoled into working by the threat of starvation is a lie.

The truth there is that we need to be threatened and cajoled to do THEIR WORK FOR THEM.

#AmWriting #Sexcommunicated #exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #AbuseCulture

corbden OP , 1 month ago

Here's an incomplete list just of feminists excommunicated from the LDS Church for their feminist activism and writings:

Sonia Johnson, Maxine Hanks, Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, Lavina Fielding Anderson, Margaret Toscano, Janice Merrill Allred, Kate Kelly, and Natasha Helfer.

Most of these women are still alive, but are aging rapidly. It would be nice for someone to write about them while they're still here to interview.

At least I'm getting Natasha's story. She might not say she was excommunicated for feminist activism, but I consider her sex-positivity work to be deeply feminist.

And this list doesn't count the other awesome people excommunicated for thought crimes.

#AmWriting #Sexcommunicated #exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #AbuseCulture

dillyd , 2 months ago to random

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corbden , 2 months ago

@dillyd @aaron They also shoot seeds up to 10ft. If you get them in your yard, do not let them get a foothold or you will rue the day.

futurebird , 2 months ago to random

The correct way to eat a cupcake with too big icing.

corbden , 2 months ago

@futurebird

We join our friends in a university debate about whether or not a cupcake is a "sandwich."

Dr. Cupcake: Your proposal is preposterous!

Prof Sandwich: It IS a sandwich, and I can prove it!

Professor Sandwich rips the cupcake in half

Prof Sandwich: QED!

Dr. Cupcake: That's it, I resign.

18+ loren , 2 months ago to random

Presented without comment

18+ corbden , 2 months ago

@loren This fits the hashtag game to make the CyberTruck going on right now.