One of my colleagues (located in Germany) would like to connect with fellow trans or non-binary people working in history of science (broadly construed) to share experiences and get some general advice. If you are interested in helping out, please contact me via DM. #histsci
Born out of vacillating between "a better world is possible" and "we're so fucked."
Okay. Okay. Hear me out, y'all...
Therapy.
For everyone.
Like, yes, I mean everyone, because I'm American and my literal entire culture is Europeans fleeing and hiding from the horrific trauma pile-up that was early modern Europe and then inflicting said trauma on everyone else who wasn't like them.
Everyone gets therapy.
Intrauterine device insertion, reproductive health. Might take down later.
Went to get my old IUD removed and a new one inserted. Mildly painful, but like menstrual cramps.
I...apparently have a big fibroid tumor. That no one told me about until today, even though they would have seen it on the ultrasound I had to prep for this process.
Wtf. Were y'all going to get around to telling me? That there was a thing? In there that wasn't in there before? That I didn't know about it?!
Gaah.
Reading that libraries, #RadicalEmpathy, and #neutrality open letter and wondering... what attempts to defend neutrality as an "ethically-informed philosophical position of long-standing professional principle" are there in #library literature? Because they cited the criticisms so thoroughly but then had no sources supporting the view they're arguing for...
If you needed more reasons to be wary of Elsevier, here's what kind of data they collect about you. For example: whenever you do anything within Mendeley.
https://eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hotel-elsevier-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like-not/
uspol, resistance, risk, safety, communications
Social media, including the fediverse, is not secure or safe. Do not organize resistance, mutual aid, civil disobedience, etc. via these platforms. Fascists and opportunists WILL try to exploit these channels to disrupt, defame, threaten, injure, and kill, all in the interest of sadism and profit.
In person, without devices, with people you know is best. End-to-end encrypted apps are second best.
Abortion info (where to get one, where to donate: US based)
If you are in need of abortive medication and do not have access to a doctor:
https://www.plancpills.org/
If you need help finding a doctor or abortion funding:
https://ineedana.com
If you have funds to donate to an abortion fund and want them to go someplace local:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-aDTsZXnKhMcrDmtcD35aWs00gw5piocDhaFy5LKDY/edit
it will never not boggle my mind that at one point during the great depression the federal government was literally paying for anywhere between 3,000-8,000 people to do archives field work in every county in the United States during the latter half of the 1930s. THE 21ST CENTURY DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.
Librarians, care workers, educators, nurses, non-profit workers are "passion" jobs — dominated by women and ripe for exploitation. They are often treated as if workers are doing the labor for free.
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-librarians-are-not-okay-a43
Actual Librarian. Wannabe Archivist. When not getting paid: parent, belly dancer, witch, Pagan, fatty, spare cat fur repository.