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Brandy Schillace

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Author+Historian (sci/med), Mystery Novelist, Host of PeculiarBC, Editor of Medical Humanities BMJ. Mystery: FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE. Next nonfiction: #trans rights against Nazis. @SciAm @WSJ @wired. #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her

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My son took an exceptional photo of our dog, Susie.

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Hannah is resting 🟡's avatar Hannah is resting 🟡 @hannah.the-void.social
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I didn't pay to see the full thing, but three paragraphs was a enough to know that they are arguing that research into trans medicine was manipulated. In favor of trans people. Fuck just about anyone still giving them money.

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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I have begun the next novel! Leuchtturm1917 120g notebook and Waldmann fountain pen with black noodler ink. Interlude: Wallace needed some love.

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Stephen Gallagher's avatar Stephen Gallagher @brooligan.bsky.social
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Now *that's* a seaside town

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En Buen Ora's avatar En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social
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my kingdom for a Democratic Party which (a) existed and (b) didn't feel trapped between taking on Trump & his allies as the horrendous bog monsters they all are and trying to make all the Republicans who support him not feel bad

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Richard Kadrey's avatar Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social
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I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. -Clarence Darrow

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Make a list, friends. I know where there’s lots of sand.

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Anna Meier's avatar Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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John Constable RA's avatar John Constable RA @johnconstablera.bsky.social
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Greenhouse and Garden by Stanley Spencer 1937 Oil on Canvas (Ferens Art Gallery, Hull)

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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“Five Asian elephant calves were discovered buried on tea estates in northern West Bengal … Bruising on their backs suggested herd members had dragged their bodies over long distances to reach the tea estates for burial. In some cases, elephants traveled for 48 hours while carrying the dead calves”

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"By locking out its own workers, the NEA has pulled out the same kind of tactics that union-busting CEOs love to draw on to crush organized labor."

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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I just saw a children’s book called Jesus and my Gender about why girls must stay girls and boys must stay boys because God said and now I need to wash my eyeballs —this from the crowd accusing us of indoctrination, eh?

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honestly I’d much rather see people be horny for vaguely anthropomorphized Go-Gurts than for British politicians

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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👍 My About page online reads: “I am a truck, a train, a bulldog in a wind-tunnel; I’m also autistic. I live in the middle spaces where the contradictions are, containing bits of astral matter, aspects of both genders and possibly some dragons and vampires.” I am still she/her but also royal we.

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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So… I just wrote a book about Interwar trans rights… and tracked 1916 to 1933 as a specific step by step to this exact thing. I know you are busy. But if you wanted an ARC… it’s uncanny and terrifying. And we are sitting at about 1924 just now, almost to the dot. (It’s not our till 2025, Norton)

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“She was human, and she cared about organizing because she cared about people and how miserable our lives have grown amid the decay of neoliberalism. She cared about making their—our—lives better in the here and now, not just in some far-off future.” 💛

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Scott's avatar Scott @smadin.net
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There's nothing actually "liberal" or "left" about solar panels! It's just one way to generate electricity! It's actually a pretty good way! You'd think people who consider themselves "pro-business" would be in favor of lowering costs for businesses by encouraging competition among suppliers.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols's avatar Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social
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Fantastic, difficult, important review, definitely worth reading

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Wallace brought me a live mouse today. I get live mice, delicately delivered from him …or violently murdered birds from Darwin.

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C.J. Subko's avatar C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social
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TL;DR Brain development esp frontal lobes continues into your 20s but 25 isn't a magic cutoff

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Sorry you are right—in my head I got ‘founding father’ and ‘signatory’ confused.

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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It’s slippery because you don’t make decisions with only your frontal cortex (which is all they measured). You temporal lobes, limbic system, hormone levels, your nutrition, your environment and education all play a role. Judging by ‘cortex change’ is like measuring intelligence by brain weight.

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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In neuroscience, maturity refers to the point at which brain change plateaus — not whether you can make decisions. And for many, the brain continues to change until death, so yup.

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I will add—I know this brain science well from my research. Neuroscience can’t be reduced to a sound bite and neither can brains or individual people.

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Yes! That’s where I started—yesterday I heard, yet again, the [insert marginal group] ‘cannot be allowed to make decisions because not 25.’ It’s hardly ever leveled at cishet white men—only those the right wants to take autonomy away from (trans, women, minority, etc etc)

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Darwin stepped about the Beagle at age 22… I’ve got lots more.

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(Yes I keep looking) Martin Luther King Jr became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery in 1954. In 1955, he would lead the famed Montgomery bus boycott AND earn his PhD as he turned 25.

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5 signatories of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 were under 25–(+James Monroe 18, Alexander Hamilton 21.) Oprah Winfrey started her media career at 19. Nellie Bly blew the doors off male-only journalism before 21— #transgender youth should not be deprived autonomy to because “not 25”

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Brandy Schillace 's avatar Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Indeed! 5 signatories of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 were under 25–James Monroe was 18 and Alexander Hamilton 21.

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The trouble with ‘Brain maturity at 25’ myth continues, as “anti-trans activists cite this as evidence young people should not be allowed to access lifesaving, gender-affirming care”
An older article (2022) on the #neuroscience but one I return to a lot as action against trans people escalates 🏳️‍🌈🧪🏳️‍⚧️

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