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Queerness in science and nature
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No executive order can truly erase LGBTQIA+ people. We’ve always been here. 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/no-executive-order-can-truly-erase-lgbtqia-people-weve-always-been-here/
No executive order can truly erase LGBTQIA+ people. We’ve always been here.
The sweeping executive orders are supposed to make us feel hopeless. I refuse to let them.
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February 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Scientists have observed same-sex sexual behaviors in over 1500 animal species.
If nature itself is so undeniably queer, how, then, is queerness “unnatural”?
February 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"The bans show a clear pattern of targeting authors of color, women and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Books that educate about racism, gender and history are most often the recipient of relentless censorship attempts." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Multi-level barrage of US book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America
Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes ‘but this has never all happened at once’
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
how DEI of him!
January 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
January 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This study speaks to the importance of queer representation in a variety of fields: healthcare, research, and communications, to name a few.
👶 A trans-led study into the UK's fertility clinics has found vast gaps in clinical knowledge about the needs of queer people, affecting our access to help, mental health needs and the support we deserve.

www.wearequeeraf.com/huge-gap-fou...
Huge gap found in fertility providers' care for LGBTQ+ people
Researchers of a landmark study into fertility care in the UK have exposed widespread clinical gaps in knowledge about the needs of queer patients.
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January 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In order to move beyond binary thinking, we also need to reject the idea that everything is arranged neatly along a spectrum. We are so much more wonderfully complex than that.
January 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM