Ethan
@drbeef.bsky.social
Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Prof by day. Elder emo by night. Critical public health, the science of sex(uality) science, disability justice. Not your average guy (Auti he/they).
I mean, just *look* at this cover image. This is the energy I am bringing with me into 2026.
Joy as resistance! Joy as rebellion! If all they want is for us to suffer and die, then you better shove your pride right back in their faces!
Joy as resistance! Joy as rebellion! If all they want is for us to suffer and die, then you better shove your pride right back in their faces!
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I mean, just *look* at this cover image. This is the energy I am bringing with me into 2026.
Joy as resistance! Joy as rebellion! If all they want is for us to suffer and die, then you better shove your pride right back in their faces!
Joy as resistance! Joy as rebellion! If all they want is for us to suffer and die, then you better shove your pride right back in their faces!
If you’re spending New Year's Eve in a room with 50 or more people tonight (in the U.S.), just know that there’s a 63%++ chance that COVID is there with you.
Source: pmc19.com/data
Source: pmc19.com/data
December 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you’re spending New Year's Eve in a room with 50 or more people tonight (in the U.S.), just know that there’s a 63%++ chance that COVID is there with you.
Source: pmc19.com/data
Source: pmc19.com/data
And, for anyone who isn’t good with numbers, or not sure where to look: for COVID, specifically, I’m very fond of the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative Data Dashboard pmc19.com/data (of course, YMMV due to lacking reporting/collecting of data, in general).
Here are December 29 data, for instance.
Here are December 29 data, for instance.
December 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
And, for anyone who isn’t good with numbers, or not sure where to look: for COVID, specifically, I’m very fond of the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative Data Dashboard pmc19.com/data (of course, YMMV due to lacking reporting/collecting of data, in general).
Here are December 29 data, for instance.
Here are December 29 data, for instance.
A reminder from @radicalemprints.bsky.social on this (not exactly, but close enough) Krampusnacht.
Be good to each other, friends.
Be good to each other, friends.
December 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A reminder from @radicalemprints.bsky.social on this (not exactly, but close enough) Krampusnacht.
Be good to each other, friends.
Be good to each other, friends.
Livin in truly wild times.
October 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Livin in truly wild times.
When your autistic mom (complimentary) is coming over to watch your dog for the weekend.
October 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
When your autistic mom (complimentary) is coming over to watch your dog for the weekend.
Me: looking for alternatives to my planned backcountry camping trip over the coming weekend (because it’s on a NPS-operated island that no longer has a ferry running to it and would be too dangerous to kayak to).
The USDA Forest Service:
The USDA Forest Service:
October 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Me: looking for alternatives to my planned backcountry camping trip over the coming weekend (because it’s on a NPS-operated island that no longer has a ferry running to it and would be too dangerous to kayak to).
The USDA Forest Service:
The USDA Forest Service:
I am *really* hoping some of my fav critical AI people will contribute to this AJPH call for contributions on "Responsible Artificial Intelligence Use for Advancing Public Health."
Please, please, please, someone write a paper that says “there is no responsible use” and here’s why….!!?! Please?
Please, please, please, someone write a paper that says “there is no responsible use” and here’s why….!!?! Please?
September 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I am *really* hoping some of my fav critical AI people will contribute to this AJPH call for contributions on "Responsible Artificial Intelligence Use for Advancing Public Health."
Please, please, please, someone write a paper that says “there is no responsible use” and here’s why….!!?! Please?
Please, please, please, someone write a paper that says “there is no responsible use” and here’s why….!!?! Please?
Today, the guy walking into the gym as I was leaving says, “damn, dude, you’re jacked! I’m tryin’ to get like you!”
Little does he know, I threw my back out opening the freezer two days ago.
There’s a certain odd kind of loneliness to a life lived disabled, but invisibly. Even if my delts are 🔥.
Little does he know, I threw my back out opening the freezer two days ago.
There’s a certain odd kind of loneliness to a life lived disabled, but invisibly. Even if my delts are 🔥.
September 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Today, the guy walking into the gym as I was leaving says, “damn, dude, you’re jacked! I’m tryin’ to get like you!”
Little does he know, I threw my back out opening the freezer two days ago.
There’s a certain odd kind of loneliness to a life lived disabled, but invisibly. Even if my delts are 🔥.
Little does he know, I threw my back out opening the freezer two days ago.
There’s a certain odd kind of loneliness to a life lived disabled, but invisibly. Even if my delts are 🔥.
I am once again begging people to Shiny Happy People (documentary).
I'm not saying all these guys my age were recruited via Teen Mania, specifically. But the far right's funding of what essentially amounts to an "army of God's warriors," from the Great Society era onwards, is well documented.
I'm not saying all these guys my age were recruited via Teen Mania, specifically. But the far right's funding of what essentially amounts to an "army of God's warriors," from the Great Society era onwards, is well documented.
September 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I am once again begging people to Shiny Happy People (documentary).
I'm not saying all these guys my age were recruited via Teen Mania, specifically. But the far right's funding of what essentially amounts to an "army of God's warriors," from the Great Society era onwards, is well documented.
I'm not saying all these guys my age were recruited via Teen Mania, specifically. But the far right's funding of what essentially amounts to an "army of God's warriors," from the Great Society era onwards, is well documented.
I'll take the longer one soon, but in only 3 minutes, this was my score. One qrpng answer was about Sweden, one was an honest to goodness misread/misunderstanding of the answer options.
But, yes, as a disabled and immunocompromised person, I *have* read A LOT of COVID research.
But, yes, as a disabled and immunocompromised person, I *have* read A LOT of COVID research.
September 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I'll take the longer one soon, but in only 3 minutes, this was my score. One qrpng answer was about Sweden, one was an honest to goodness misread/misunderstanding of the answer options.
But, yes, as a disabled and immunocompromised person, I *have* read A LOT of COVID research.
But, yes, as a disabled and immunocompromised person, I *have* read A LOT of COVID research.
Join me and @thepoliticizedprac.bsky.social, in conversation about his amazing new book, this Sunday (Sept. 7) at 6:30p ET. Free, hybrid event at Charis Books.
Link to register: www.crowdcast.io/c/the-mental...
Link to register: www.crowdcast.io/c/the-mental...
September 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Join me and @thepoliticizedprac.bsky.social, in conversation about his amazing new book, this Sunday (Sept. 7) at 6:30p ET. Free, hybrid event at Charis Books.
Link to register: www.crowdcast.io/c/the-mental...
Link to register: www.crowdcast.io/c/the-mental...
no new pictures, where are you at mentally
August 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
no new pictures, where are you at mentally
way down yonder on the chattahoochee.
August 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
way down yonder on the chattahoochee.
"Get a job at a non-profit," they said.
"We'll pay off your loans in just 10 years" they said.
"We'll pay off your loans in just 10 years" they said.
August 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"Get a job at a non-profit," they said.
"We'll pay off your loans in just 10 years" they said.
"We'll pay off your loans in just 10 years" they said.
Remembering Dolly Sods.
July 2021
July 2021
August 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Remembering Dolly Sods.
July 2021
July 2021
What I wish it looked like.
August 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
What I wish it looked like.
The first special section on Global LGBTQ+ Health in the Face of Legal Persecution in the American Journal of Public Health (@amjpublichealth.bsky.social) is now live!
Full issue here: ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/115/8
Full issue here: ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/115/8
July 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The first special section on Global LGBTQ+ Health in the Face of Legal Persecution in the American Journal of Public Health (@amjpublichealth.bsky.social) is now live!
Full issue here: ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/115/8
Full issue here: ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/115/8
I know everything is shit, but these past two weeks, I've gotten to take one of my loves to one of the places I love, and it's been a blessing and a balm.
I'll share more pictures to cleanse the TL, if you can guess the location correctly. 😉
I'll share more pictures to cleanse the TL, if you can guess the location correctly. 😉
July 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I know everything is shit, but these past two weeks, I've gotten to take one of my loves to one of the places I love, and it's been a blessing and a balm.
I'll share more pictures to cleanse the TL, if you can guess the location correctly. 😉
I'll share more pictures to cleanse the TL, if you can guess the location correctly. 😉
