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Kirti Patel, MD

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Gynecologist & host of The Gynarchy, @thegynarchy.bsky.social, a podcast at the intersection of women’s health and feminism, on most podcast platforms https://linktr.ee/thegynarchy

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · Jan 23

US women in 2025:

Get long acting birth control, don’t delay the divorce, make sure your finances are in order and you have cash on hand, make a “go bag”, make a list of trusted contacts, make sure your passports and IDs are up to date. What else?

(Obvs, I’ve been reading Handmaid’s Tale. 😬)

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 11h

I gave this poem to a cute 86 yo patient who told me she broke her hip trying to chase some very annoying wild geese out of her yard. She’s thankfully doing ok and is now planning on letting the geese be. Maybe this will help! ‘Harsh and exciting’ is prob the nicest thing ever said about geese.

Wild Geese (Mary Oliver)
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 22h

🎶
Don’t you sweat it, baby
It’s alright
You were dancing through the lightning strikes
Sleepless in the onyx night
But now the sky is opalite
🎶

Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 22h

Things are so dark now but this song is pure joy and hope …

🎶
This is just
A storm in a teacup
But shelter here with me my love
Thunder like a drum
This life will beat you up, up, up, up
This is just a temporary speedbump
But failure brings you freedom
And I can bring you love…
🎶

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 22h

I was listening to Opalite 🎶 on repeat on the drive to work this morning and one of my first patients was wearing numerous opalite rings. She said they were her mom’s. 🤍

Just a coincidence but I love things like this. Makes my day magical. ✨

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 1d

Officially obsessed with The Life of a Showgirl 🧡💚

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The Gynarchy Podcast @thegynarchy.bsky.social · 2d

Learn about vaginismus, a common sexual pain disorder, and its treatment, on our latest episode.

Ep 27: Pain with Sex with Sadaf Lodhi, MD

Listen/watch now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most podcast platforms. Links in bio.

#vaginismus #womenshealthpodcast #womenshealth

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 3d

How beautiful 💚

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6d

Israel committed piracy by illegally intercepting the #GlobalSumudFlotilla in international waters.

Human rights defenders, from 46 countries, including Greta Thunberg, were abducted as nearly 40 vessels carrying aid, for genocide & starvation stricken Gaza, were stopped. #3E

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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 4d

Give Greta a Nobel.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 4d

Zeteo demands Israel release the activists kidnapped from the Gaza humanitarian flotilla, including Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg.

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Liz @atheistjliz.bsky.social · 4d

This is stunning but not because of the actions themselves. No method of torture is beneath Israel. It's stunning because they're so brazen to do this to a globally recognizable activist.

What will Sweden do? The UN? This lawless genocidal regime is accountable to no one.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 4d

If you haven't yet, sit with the unconstitutional kidnapping of US citizens, including children, all of whom were taken from their homes in the middle of the night. Some zip-tied. Some naked, including children. Black hawk helicopters. Guns. Masks.

This IS when we shut the country down.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 4d

Yay congratulations! 🥳

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4d

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 4d

All the videos we see of ICE/police/military assaulting people on camera are happening because they know they will face no consequences for their actions. They're breaking the law because they believe the law no longer applies to them. What kept them in check before was fear. Now they have none.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking: Trump-appointed federal judge issues temporary restraining order against Federalized deployment of National Guard in Oregon.

Judge: “this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 4d

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Jeanne Brennan @jeanneenabottle.bsky.social · 7d

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 7d

💔

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Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Queen

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