Profile avatar
clowater.bsky.social
PhD student at McMaster studying anthropology, trans sport, queer issues, polyamory, kinship, anthropology of the state. All pronouns. www.victoriaclowater.com
82 posts 344 followers 404 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 22 Comments 27

Fact ~ Lia Thomas didn't dominate the NCAA. Lia Thomas when she won her NCAA title her winning time was 9.4 seconds slower than the NCAA record. That's massive over 200 yards. Almost a full 25 yard lap slower than the record.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

I'm at a library talk today and for their speaker series they made an entire playlist of AI songs on the theme and I am just at a loss... if we can't get librarians and scholars on board with supporting actual artists and human creativity over AI noise, then I fear we are cooked.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I’m sure this is a superbowl thing but this is genuinely how I feel when I’m birding

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Empathy

submitted 29 days ago • 357 comments

“Hard for me to see gender as biological if it requires a police state to enforce it.” - dead bird user Sean Gallagher

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

If it is indeed the case that transgender women athletes are significantly excelling and dominating in women's sports, then it stands to reason that they should be granted acceptance into the United States Armed Forces prior to their cisgender women counterparts.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Attacking trans people isn't a distraction that fascists are using to hide what they are up to, transphobia is a core part of their ideology and enforcing patriarchy is an important step in creating the world they want

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

You don't say www.psypost.org/transgender-...

submitted 30 days ago • 83 comments

It's been a three year process, but I am thrilled to share that my latest article on trans inclusion in swimming is out today in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! This article looks at the online discourses on @swimswamnews.bsky.social about Lia Thomas’ participation in NCAA women’s swimming events.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

my heart is raw today, so I’m sharing a new interview that gave me hope about how we treat each other. thanks to @deanspade.bsky.social for chatting about why changing our romantic and personal relationships is political work, and his new book Love In A F*cked Up World @teenvogue.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

It's been a three year process, but I am thrilled to share that my latest article on trans inclusion in swimming is out today in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! This article looks at the online discourses on @swimswamnews.bsky.social about Lia Thomas’ participation in NCAA women’s swimming events.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Bus Stop, Fredericton, N.B. Molly Lamb Bobak n.d.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Bound by BDSM: What Practitioners can teach Everyone about Building a Happier Life will be in print Fall 25. It joins my other books: Chasing Masculinity: Men, Validation & Infidelity and The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife: Power, Pragmatism & Pleasure in Women's Infidelity

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Important research! Haha, so true!

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

The lectures on “maintaining your humanity” always come up when some vile person who has had no scruples about harming others suffers a misfortune or dies. The argument is that “good” people should make emotional space for the fate of folks who never gave a damn about others. I don’t buy this.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

It’s so interesting to see these urgent exhortations to reestablish decorum. I have not seen evidence of a “coarsening” of American society. If anything, the opposite: I’ve seen thousands of individuals asserting their humanity and protesting the indignity of the system UHC profits from.

submitted 79 days ago • 261 comments

Slow week

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

cannot recomend this article enough right now. an extremely well-articulated argument that moves beyond some of the usual arguments used, often unsuccessfully, for access to trans healthcare--both for children and adults!--in the current space

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Alberta passing Canada’s first gender-affirming care ban yesterday. The U.S. Supreme Court hearing its first case on gender-affirming care bans today. Tough week for the human rights of trans people.

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments

Since Alito and others are quoting the Cass Report like it's definitive science, this is the moment to repost @polgreen.bsky.social's excellent piece on the Cass Report , which is,"for all its claims of impartiality, is fundamentally a subjective, political document." www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/o...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

If you need me, I’ll be painstakingly removing 745 words from a paper I’ve been working on for four years so that it meets the journals word count 🥲

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

1. In a major development, the first national consensus guidelines for trans youth have been released in France. They recommend affirmation and medical care, denounce "wait and see." They refute much of the Cass Review. Subscribe to support my journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...

submitted 81 days ago • 95 comments