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michaelann.bsky.social
Community AI/ML, Folk Theories, Epistemic Justice, Queer/Trans HCI. Assistant Prof of Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northeastern University. @nusealab.bsky.social director. Neurodivergent, trans woman, femme lesbian, dork.
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this is life as a trans woman in america, now. this is the consequence of the reckless, wicked rhetoric thrown at trans people. our president helped make this happen, but so did the atlantic, the new york times, jesse singal and jk rowling. they are all culpable.

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Occasionally my wife will make a very correct and positive observation about my body but I'm still over here looking around like "who is she talking to?"

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

A reason I get so angry when people diminish stochastic terrorism's role in shaping our society is because when things like the campaign of terrorism & subsequent hate killing of Jonathan Joss happen we all instinctively acknowledge that it may not have were the perpetrators not emboldened.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Among many other reasons, this kind of thing is why: 1) one of my big pieces of advice to trans girls just figuring themselves out is "make cis girl friends" 2) some of my earlier stuff went easier - it was EXTREMELY helpful to be in a position where like 90% of my friends were already cis girls

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

TBH sometimes the secret to passing is looking like you're exhausted and need to head to school for an emergency parent-teacher conference AGAIN

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

There's a straight line from the normalization of harassing queer people online as a right-wing sport, to politicians replatforming violently queerphobic agendas, to the emboldening of those very right-wingers in moving their stochastic violence from radicalization chambers to offline.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

if you like chubby women you can just go be one

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I think someone finally blocked me over my "Marathon must be sacrificed so Destiny might live" takes

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Wife apologized to me that there will probs be more stink laundry to do because she’s going to start lifting again. Oh noooooo my wife is gonna get buff as hellll oh nooooo she’ll be able to throw me into beddddd from across the roooooom oh noooooo how will I ever recover from this

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Tbh I would actually love to see Rhys Darby take a shot at playing Sybok

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I have to write an impact statement about how all of this impacts my mostly-trans lab group, and I’m struggling to not just write “the horrors” and link to a bunch of posts like this one as evidence

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Being trans right now is waking up on Supreme Court decision days wondering if decades of precedent will be overruled to decide that we as a class no longer have constitutional protections from discrimination.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

As a person who teaches and grades a lot of academic writing: the vast majority of you have a lot of cleaning your own houses up to do before you go on rants about proper citation styles. Also MLA style is trash, here’s a nickel to buy yourself a better stylebook, kid.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Excited for how many people will say things like “she was a complicated woman” when I die

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Anonymous peer reviews where I get dinged for things like being ungenerous to my own past work continue to be hilarious. One day I will write back and tell them that DeVito wrote me personally and gave me permission to move past her old shit saying quote “that’s literally how scholarship works”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

hot take i guess but i think trans women deserve to be treated as vulnerable and defended from harm, abuse, and harassment

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It’s absolutely bonkers that our society is so deeply misogynistic that we had to invent a bunch of bizarre and stigmatizing terms for “woman looks at herself in the mirror and actually likes what she sees”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

He helper man Lil bean boy

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It’s like language builds on language like ideas build on ideas or something Tbh I think I’d rather see a concept become something of a meme than stay restricted to academic circles - like y’all understand epistemic violence a lot better because of this now, and that’s a net positive

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

There's something like this for trans sapphics, too. So many of us are T4T because we have less value to cis sapphics for many of the same reasons that trans women who live men have less value to men. We're built wrong, we're incapable of carrying children, we're deeply damaged, and we're

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

“Mama, I am *not* touching your project, see? I am not touching it!”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It is “STEM Day” at Fenway Park and I am baffled. Is the baseball going to be more scientific than normal? Will the audience be mostly scientists? If so why was I not invited, I can tolerate baseball for up to 10 minutes at a stretch without a sarcastic crack.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This morning I am thinking about how in 2021 I gave a very big invited talk at a very big tech company that runs a very popular search engine about how the NYT was actively promoting transphobia via their search results. And they kept prioritizing the NYT in trans-related search results anyway.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I love you all but if someone ever shows up and offers me command of a starship, I'm sorry but I'm bailing on this whole planet.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Having trouble finding butchfemme fiction I can get into.... what if I just start reading Mara Sov/Sjur Eido fanfic again

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment