Josie
@josiedefaye.bsky.social
She/her. Poet. PhD student, UC Berkeley School of Education. 🏳️⚧️ Facilitator: Trans/gressive Writers’ Workshop.
My informal description of the concept of 'sex modality'—interested in whether people have encountered this term and/or think it offers practical use. medium.com/@josephinein...
‘Sex modality’: Proposal for new(?) terminology
Acknowledgments to Florence Ashley for enriching our communities’ access to intelligibility through practical concept-buildng. From…
medium.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My informal description of the concept of 'sex modality'—interested in whether people have encountered this term and/or think it offers practical use. medium.com/@josephinein...
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
ctrl-f search and replace 'dialectic' with 'threesome'
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
ctrl-f search and replace 'dialectic' with 'threesome'
Friends of 🏳️⚧️ persuasion—I'm fleshing out a conceptual paper on gender as practice of literacy(ies) and interested in discussing things with anyone who has skin in the game and gender studies on the brain. DMs very open.
October 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Friends of 🏳️⚧️ persuasion—I'm fleshing out a conceptual paper on gender as practice of literacy(ies) and interested in discussing things with anyone who has skin in the game and gender studies on the brain. DMs very open.
ppl really use 'homogeneous' rather than 'homogenous' huh?
October 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
ppl really use 'homogeneous' rather than 'homogenous' huh?
Democrats do not understand that leftists are not democrats
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Democrats do not understand that leftists are not democrats
Vulpix, Psyduck, Jynx
Name your fav Pokémon.
October 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Vulpix, Psyduck, Jynx
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
The next time a cis person asks me my pronouns I’m going to say ‘guess’
September 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The next time a cis person asks me my pronouns I’m going to say ‘guess’
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Learning that “glamor” comes from “grammar” is the highlight of my week.
September 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Learning that “glamor” comes from “grammar” is the highlight of my week.
Trans privilege is being granted the label ‘terrorist’ without having earned it through insurrectionary action💅🏼
September 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Trans privilege is being granted the label ‘terrorist’ without having earned it through insurrectionary action💅🏼
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There should be no forgiveness for Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, or anyone else who whitewashed Charlie Kirk's image in the wake of his death. They participated in a cleanup job that is facilitating Kirk's status as a "martyr." They have had a hand in the harm the administration will do in Kirk's name.
September 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There should be no forgiveness for Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, or anyone else who whitewashed Charlie Kirk's image in the wake of his death. They participated in a cleanup job that is facilitating Kirk's status as a "martyr." They have had a hand in the harm the administration will do in Kirk's name.
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Why isn’t every local news broadcast opening with, “What are the ‘Groypers’, and how do you know the signs of your son is part of the deadly gang?”
September 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Why isn’t every local news broadcast opening with, “What are the ‘Groypers’, and how do you know the signs of your son is part of the deadly gang?”
Mainstream media: the shooter called someone a fascist, therefore he was on the left, because a United States republican in 2025 wouldn’t oppose fascism
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Mainstream media: the shooter called someone a fascist, therefore he was on the left, because a United States republican in 2025 wouldn’t oppose fascism
TYLER ROBINSON: “let me dress up as ultra-right cartoons for Halloween and reference memes on my bullet casings inspired by Nick Fuentes’ “war on Charlie Kirk” Groyper army”
MAINSTREAM MEDIA: “shooter had no evident ideological motivations, let’s make this about trans people”
MAINSTREAM MEDIA: “shooter had no evident ideological motivations, let’s make this about trans people”
September 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
TYLER ROBINSON: “let me dress up as ultra-right cartoons for Halloween and reference memes on my bullet casings inspired by Nick Fuentes’ “war on Charlie Kirk” Groyper army”
MAINSTREAM MEDIA: “shooter had no evident ideological motivations, let’s make this about trans people”
MAINSTREAM MEDIA: “shooter had no evident ideological motivations, let’s make this about trans people”
Mainstream media is really going to bury Tyler Robinson’s clear Groyper affiliation in this Charlie Kirk coverage huh?
September 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Mainstream media is really going to bury Tyler Robinson’s clear Groyper affiliation in this Charlie Kirk coverage huh?
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1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun.
Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found.
WSJ owes a full retraction and apology.
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Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found.
WSJ owes a full retraction and apology.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Press Conference: No "Transgender" Or "LGBTQ" Symbols Found At Kirk's Shooting
Yesterday, several media outlets claimed or strongly implied that "transgender symbols" were found at the scene of the gun used by Charlie Kirk's shooter. This turned out to be false.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun.
Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found.
WSJ owes a full retraction and apology.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found.
WSJ owes a full retraction and apology.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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MA dems removed almost all of the language on trans rights from their platform. all of this from the 2021 platform was stripped
September 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
MA dems removed almost all of the language on trans rights from their platform. all of this from the 2021 platform was stripped
there's a special place in my heart for papers whose footnotes are more interesting than their main content
September 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
there's a special place in my heart for papers whose footnotes are more interesting than their main content
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it's truly wild that the Democrats have watched all the protest movements of the past few years and seen it as an opportunity to cultivate zero young leaders
August 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
it's truly wild that the Democrats have watched all the protest movements of the past few years and seen it as an opportunity to cultivate zero young leaders
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August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM