emily fraser 🌿🐌✨
@emilyesfraser.bsky.social
Former doc filmmaker/cinematographer/teacher, current full-time sick person, occasional poet
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Thank you to Pleiades for publishing my snarky little CDC hate poem 🖤
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one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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The absolute fucking irony.
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The absolute fucking irony.
I don’t know about most, but I’m definitely thankful for Spellbound. It’s the first documentary I saw that made me think about how fun it must have been to make & it planted the seed for me to become a doc filmmaker
What movie are you most thankful for? (not necessarily your favorite!)
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I don’t know about most, but I’m definitely thankful for Spellbound. It’s the first documentary I saw that made me think about how fun it must have been to make & it planted the seed for me to become a doc filmmaker
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American Movie is my reset button whenever I feel I don't have any drive or passion anymore, Mark Borchardt's singular ambition despite everything (including common sense) telling him to stop is infectious and never fails to set me back on track. Takes place on thanksgiving too so points for that
What movie are you most thankful for? (not necessarily your favorite!)
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
American Movie is my reset button whenever I feel I don't have any drive or passion anymore, Mark Borchardt's singular ambition despite everything (including common sense) telling him to stop is infectious and never fails to set me back on track. Takes place on thanksgiving too so points for that
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A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I talk about her in my Black abolitionists of NYC walking tour and usually no one has heard of her but she was Rosa Parks on the bus 100 years before that incident.
In 1855 Elizabeth Jennings Graham brought a suit that initiated the desegregation of NYC transit. Raised by politically active parents (her was mother formerly enslaved, her entrepreneur father was awarded a patent in 1821) Ms. Graham was a teacher, organist, & kindergarten founder.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I talk about her in my Black abolitionists of NYC walking tour and usually no one has heard of her but she was Rosa Parks on the bus 100 years before that incident.
“In our work, we assumed—before anything else, before any evidence—that there was meaning, and that we were rational, and we decided that we treat texts, ourselves, and each other this way. This is truly and always radical”
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“In our work, we assumed—before anything else, before any evidence—that there was meaning, and that we were rational, and we decided that we treat texts, ourselves, and each other this way. This is truly and always radical”
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Yeah 😔 I know I’m not worthless, but I also know society sees me as worthless & that has real consequences
sick people should be able to count on social programs for care so we don't have to put ourselves through self-esteem shredding relationships just to get sufficient help
I feel so incredibly worthless today and am questioning why I'm even on this planet, and while part of me knows--
I feel so incredibly worthless today and am questioning why I'm even on this planet, and while part of me knows--
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Yeah 😔 I know I’m not worthless, but I also know society sees me as worthless & that has real consequences
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Thanksgiving is not a colonial/Pilgrim holiday. It’s a Civil War holiday. & we think otherwise in part because of the Lost Cause. 🗃️
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/
Let’s talk the real #history of #Thanksgiving & the #LostCause history of the #CivilWar Follow @karencoxhistorian “Forgotten America” is available on @thegreatcourses plus & @Audible
TikTok video by PhDRachel
www.tiktok.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Thanksgiving is not a colonial/Pilgrim holiday. It’s a Civil War holiday. & we think otherwise in part because of the Lost Cause. 🗃️
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/
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This is an excellent piece on PEM by @darthfoo.bsky.social. Seriously considering sending to literally everyone I know.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why I Can’t Just Meet You for Dinner
The Reality of Post-Exertional Malaise
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is an excellent piece on PEM by @darthfoo.bsky.social. Seriously considering sending to literally everyone I know.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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“There is a power that wants me to love.”
-Franz Wright
from “Walden”
-Franz Wright
from “Walden”
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“There is a power that wants me to love.”
-Franz Wright
from “Walden”
-Franz Wright
from “Walden”
Went to sit outside in the sun with my breakfast & there was half(!) a dead rat on my chair, so I guess I’ll never sit outside again now
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Went to sit outside in the sun with my breakfast & there was half(!) a dead rat on my chair, so I guess I’ll never sit outside again now
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This is another oft-undescribed thing! Often people who have "recovered" still experience PEM, just at much, much higher levels of activity.
Thread.
Even now, when I am 90% back to my pre-Covid baseline, I can experience PEM after going past my now-better (much!) limit. You say, “Hey! If I go past my limit, I am stuck feeling flu-like for two to three days!”, and they don’t listen.
Even now, when I am 90% back to my pre-Covid baseline, I can experience PEM after going past my now-better (much!) limit. You say, “Hey! If I go past my limit, I am stuck feeling flu-like for two to three days!”, and they don’t listen.
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is another oft-undescribed thing! Often people who have "recovered" still experience PEM, just at much, much higher levels of activity.
Hope she gets better but I’m cringing at the boom-bust behavior & the language around “failing” 👀
open.substack.com/pub/inneruni...
open.substack.com/pub/inneruni...
I was the Deputy Director of the Office of Long COVID. Now I’m terrified I have it.
I have been unwell for almost two months.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hope she gets better but I’m cringing at the boom-bust behavior & the language around “failing” 👀
open.substack.com/pub/inneruni...
open.substack.com/pub/inneruni...
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We are up to 688 LoCITT participants!
If we could enroll all 1,000 participants within a month of launch (by 11/30), it would send a powerful message about the demand for remote Long COVID clinical trials.
We appreciate the community's help to spread the word:
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
If we could enroll all 1,000 participants within a month of launch (by 11/30), it would send a powerful message about the demand for remote Long COVID clinical trials.
We appreciate the community's help to spread the word:
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
LoCITT-T - Long COVID Treatment Trial
The Long COVID Treatment Trial-Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is investigating the efficacy of repurposing this drug to treat Long COVID.
longcovid.scripps.edu
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We are up to 688 LoCITT participants!
If we could enroll all 1,000 participants within a month of launch (by 11/30), it would send a powerful message about the demand for remote Long COVID clinical trials.
We appreciate the community's help to spread the word:
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
If we could enroll all 1,000 participants within a month of launch (by 11/30), it would send a powerful message about the demand for remote Long COVID clinical trials.
We appreciate the community's help to spread the word:
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
Medical sexism is behind so much of MAHA’s appeal. Doctors don’t know shit about women’s bodies or diseases & anti-medical, anti-vax, woo woo wellness grifters are foaming at the mouth to eat up everyone being harmed by Covid who just found out there’s no help for us within the medical system
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Medical sexism is behind so much of MAHA’s appeal. Doctors don’t know shit about women’s bodies or diseases & anti-medical, anti-vax, woo woo wellness grifters are foaming at the mouth to eat up everyone being harmed by Covid who just found out there’s no help for us within the medical system
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
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The first feature-length documentary on ME/CFS & #LongCOVID, “What Doesn’t Kill You…” is crowd-funding.
I believe video and in particular documentaries can be a powerful way to get messages across & am impressed so far so have donated for a second time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rS...
#MEcfs
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I believe video and in particular documentaries can be a powerful way to get messages across & am impressed so far so have donated for a second time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rS...
#MEcfs
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The First Feature-Length Documentary on ME/CFS and Long COVID (Now Crowdfunding)
YouTube video by What Doesn't Kill You
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The first feature-length documentary on ME/CFS & #LongCOVID, “What Doesn’t Kill You…” is crowd-funding.
I believe video and in particular documentaries can be a powerful way to get messages across & am impressed so far so have donated for a second time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rS...
#MEcfs
1/
I believe video and in particular documentaries can be a powerful way to get messages across & am impressed so far so have donated for a second time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rS...
#MEcfs
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It kinda was witchcraft though! It took skill & attention & some pirating to get all the right spells in the right order, but when it worked it was a kind of magic 🪄
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
It kinda was witchcraft though! It took skill & attention & some pirating to get all the right spells in the right order, but when it worked it was a kind of magic 🪄
Darwin-CMP032 😭 A butterfly after my own heart
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Darwin-CMP032 😭 A butterfly after my own heart