The funny part about NIH saying they want to return to their origins for grant review is that one of the first extramural grants awarded used US taxpayer money to unknowingly infect Guatemalan sex workers with syphilis and then make them have sex with prisoners. I'll take the NIH of 2020, thanks.

Taking a moment on #tdor with these words that watch over me on my wall every day. May we become the fire anyway. For this - endless libation. For this - gardens wherever you roam.

Excerpt from "litany in which you are still here" by kiki nicole. listen to the rest at soundcloud.com/user-8302447...

...is at the end, where she says, all caps and bold,

IT IS SO ORDERED.

The government must restore our LGBTQ+ health grants and review our applications.

Honored to be in a group of LGBTQ+ health researchers who sued the government over NIH grant terminations and won a preliminary injunction! Some key parts of the memorandum opinion issued this week stating that the government did in fact unlawfully discriminate below, but my favorite part...

First day of the #Intersectionality Training Institute and we are all setting our intentions for an intersectional research project we want to accomplish in the next year. Getting chills from all the cool work that will come out of this week of learning and community! 😍

We all need reminders of why we do this work and meeting readers in SF with @redgoldsparks.bsky.social this weekend was so life giving. Came back to the office today to see this reminder I scrawled on a scrap paper and stuck to my board 5 years ago...