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[palaeoiris]

Today is Intersex Day of Remembrance, also known as Intersex Solidarity Day, which was first celebrated in 2005 on the initiative of Intersex International. The date coincides with the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a 19th century French intersex figure whose memoirs were later published by Michel Foucault. Today is a day to draw attention to the struggle for intersex rights, whose issues are often overlooked, even within the LGBTIQ+ community.

The violent nature of the socially constructed sex and gender binary is perhaps most clearly exposed in the existence of intersex people. The struggles for both intersex and transgender liberation are deeply interconnected and intertwined. True liberation for queer people isn’t possible without the liberation of intersex people from the forced gender and sex binaries of our society.

Learn more here >>>> intersexday.org

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[alexei-home-fromthewar-at-last]

heck ya stem queer :3

Heck yeah! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨

Happy pride from your local STEM queer!!

[wren-kitchens]

im annoyed and a little pedantic so can i just say as a blanket statement

queerbaiting is when the promotion for a FICTIONAL STORY intentionally hints towards two characters having a romantic relationship, without any intention to follow through in the show, in order to get queer people watching without discouraging the homophobic enjoyers of the show

queerbaiting is NOT:

a celebrity who you think is queer because theyre gnc or they have a 'vibe'. that is a real person and they cannot queerbait

two friends of the same gender pretending to flirt with each other for fun. those are real people and they cannot queerbait

a show with two characters of the same gender who are canonically friends that YOU PERSONALLY think would be better in a relationship. that's not bating, that's shipping, and subject to opinion

there are more but those are the main examples of people misunderstanding what queerbaiting is and being mad at something that isn't actually a problem

[placeboelysium]

Posting this so I can say ... I need her so bad guys

[chawliekin]

and if I said that dennis’ insistence on being the breadwinner/provider despite literally being a pampered princess who dgaf about traditional roles of masculinity in every other regard (aside from ego) is because his mom only stayed with/chose frank for his wealth and dennis is highly aware that he’s difficult to love and unable to show his emotions openly so he has to be contributing something to the relationship materially in order to feel like he’s worth staying for… and mac grew up with parents who were extremely ambivalent to him and eachother so he has to overcompensate by proving his worth at every given moment and seeking praise/validation from people (and religious icons) who will never demonstrate the same amount of dedication to him but he has no idea how else to desperately keep himself close to those he loves other than by eroding himself into something they’ll approve of… dear god they’re both exactly what the other needs — someone who can’t and won’t leave them even if they try — and they don’t even see it…

[lust-love-lesbian]

Happy lesbian visibility week everyone!!

[olive-pup]

Okay this is a huge step towards my goals. What it looks like is just a servo randomly moving but what you can't see in the background is an esp32 receiving a stream from my phone which is connected to an EEG headband. Specifically this is tracking gamma brain waves. The lower the number the less I'm actively thinking. There's a very long road ahead before I'm ready to integrate this into my ears and tail, but this is the first step, and since I'm not a software doggy, it's a big step. Next steps will be to capture the raw data and implement floating point average and servo smoothing to get a more consistent "animation" then it's just up to me to train my brain on how to make it do it's thing.

[musicalsiphonophore]

There’s a stereotype and joke that “gay people can’t do math”, or inversely, that queer people are amazing at English and other humanities. Mostly this seems to be said by queer people, not straight and cis people. But that doesn’t mean it’s not kind of icky.

I think this stems from the idea that maths (and other related subjects) is cold and logical, and inversely, that humanities subjects like English are sensitive and subtle.

Queerness is thought of as something sensitive and subtle, and not something cold and logical. And people seem to think that accepting queer people (or being queer) means you’re sensitive and good at understanding others’ feelings, and so on, and not necessarily logical.

In reality, queerness is entirely logical and objectively true. Homophobia and transphobia aren’t just a case of being overly logical or insensitive - they’re a case of being biased, they’re a case of being cruel.

But because some queer people seem to believe on some level that accepting their identity requires amazing emotional skills and minimal logic, they sort of separate themselves from things that they see as so objective and cold - maths and STEM subjects.

It’s not great, is it?

That is why I do not like “gays can’t do math” jokes.

[hellsite-proteins]

Gay gay homosexual gay gay gay

happy pride everyone! i managed to get this one in before the end of june :)

letter sequence in this ask matching protein-coding amino acids:

Gaygayhmsealgaygaygay

protein guy analysis:

this turned out really well, with confidence ratings of 80% or more throughout most of the alpha helix. the side chains are also interesting to look at, because the glycine (G) and alanine (A) are tiny, while the tyrosine (T) is pretty bulky and aromatic. i don't really know what this little guy would do inside a cell, but its pretty fun to look at on the screen

predicted protein structure:

cartoon representation

cartoon with side chains shown as sticks

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Establishing myself as the dominant STEM bisexual on my floor by walking around like this.

[gendercrystal]

PhDay 30: one month as a PhD student done

Wow a lot of stuff has been going on. I've made friends already. I've been on an experiment already. Got a vague plan for the future and a list of potential directions to go in for my project.

Things I've learnt:

Higher year PhD students are very nice and welcoming

Parties are great for making friends even if you're socially awkward

Travelling for research is cool and not as bad as pre-travel anxiety makes you fear

Being trans in a physics department/research environment is fine. The research centre abroad didn't mind I had a different name on my passport

You can actually dive right in and be respected as a part of academia as a total newbie if you will yourself to have confidence

No one knows fully what they are doing, they only know some bits of what they're doing. You learn one bit at a time.

[palaeoiris]

Yesterday we debuted these two designs as first physical stickers available from our ongoing Palaeo Artivism collection. You can get them as stickers from our Etsy and Teepublic stores. But if you're priced out of buying these as stickers, we also put high-res files on our website as resources available FREE FOR PERSONAL and ACTIVIST USE.

Feel free to print them out on home, school or office printers, and put them up everywhere you can! We would love to see them in physical space more, so if you do and send us a photo that would make us so happy! And we can post it for you if you wish to stay anonymous.

http://palaeoiris.com/#palaeoartivism

[nb-goblin]

study participants needed!

UPDATE: thank you everyone that's taken part :) the study has now closed, we got over 200 participants!! thank you so much

Hi, I'm a second year psychology student doing research on how queer people view others within the LGBTQ+ community.

Its just a short task and survey that should take 5-10minutes to complete, any participation is appreciated! Thank you!

Link (including info about our ethical aproval): https://run.pavlovia.org/Wake/public-iat/

Extra clarrification on some things under the cut :)

In this study we use the words "(gender) conforming" to mean anyone thats not part of the LGBTQ+ community and "(gender)non-conforming" for anyone that is. This was suggested to help us code the results better, but we now know that this may have overcomplicated things.

The first part of the study involves an IAT, for some people they will be put into the "positive, conforming" conditioin first and others will be the "positive, nonconforming" first. It may seem scewed, and some people have bought up that it can seem bias, but that is just how this type of test works- it has been used and tested in many other studies and has not shown internal bias.

These are the main two points people have bought up, feel free to ask any other questions about this research though I will be happy to try and answer as much as I can :)

[whatwouldmariecurieactuallydo]

For my lovely followers - and all people in STEM

You can do it!!

[placeboelysium]

I'm back home after a couple days did u guys miss me

[her-stars]

Need me a masc gf who’s willing to be an accessory to my outfits!! just follow behind hand in hand and occasionally wrap her arms around my waist when we’re out because we know how we look cute. i’m serving (they look cute too but they give me all the attention bc they can't keep their hands off me) <3