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lesja.bsky.social
reproductive justice for all, solidarity forever. demographer, asst prof of research at CU Boulder, inveterate and not particularly professional poster. на носу очки, а в душе осень
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one thing that helped me past a plateau with french was realizing the new language new personality thing is real, and "good-natured simpleton" is a very liberating personality

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

I'm never gonna be able to look at a photo of Simone again without seeing 🔘👄🔘

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you do the work of right-wing billionaires, you might be able to get a title like "Director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies." Should journalists treat that as a legitimate credential for expertise? Dr. Prof. Philip Cohen, PhD, investigates. /1

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Love a library book surprise (255 pages in, this is the only annotation)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Revoking Lyman's PAA membership for equating period TFR with completed cohort fertility

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

So, uh, we gonna talk about that interview on NPR, fellow demographers? Wasn’t expecting to catch anti-PAA strays while driving to church!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

ICE didn’t exist 25 years ago and it can not exist again

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It's nice to have a pleasant little exchange with your airplane seatmate, I'm Midwestern, I get it. But the key is they have to know when to shut up, and many people don't

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Wake me up when we've all agreed that 'deport' is not a legal term and thus saying "he deported US citizens" does not imply legality or endorsement of the action

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

They are coming for uncles

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Live footage of my child at bath time tonight youtu.be/9S1EzkRpelY?...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking about potato varieties to plant, which has reminded me of the most sitcom-like interaction I've ever had: while on my dissertation fieldwork in Russia, I was at the market buying potatoes, and as I was looking them over, the vendor goes, "Amerikanka." [American girl]

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Gen Z has no idea that when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child;

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The idea of a small business tyrant whose neighbors don't already know whether they endorse Trump is a little mystifying to me. It's like looking up whether someone you know has a beard.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Seeing a lot of coverage about the closure of Boulder Abortion Clinic. I’m grateful for the abortion I received there 9 yrs ago. But I wish the stories included that there are great all tri clinics with competent providers (who are younger and most of them women) where people receive excellent care.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I shrunk the pronatalists so I can hear their delightful thoughts whenever I want from my own shirt pocket ᴵ ᵇᵉᵃʳ ʷʰᶦᵗᵉ ᶠʳᵘᶦᵗ ᵒⁿᶜᵉ ᵐᵒʳᵉ \ 🔘👄🔘 🔲👄🔲 / ᴸᵉᵗ ᵘˢ ʳᵉᵍᵃˡᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵗʳᶦᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶜʰᶦˡᵈ

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

I was getting so mad at my challah dough (cool, normal, healthy behavior) because it was taking so much extra flour to not be sticky and it was only 8 minutes into kneading that I realized it's probably because it's raining today 🫠

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

should i buy a sousaphone off a spanish craigslist post

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

i shared the half-finished draft of this with Amanda and she said it was "so mean" (complimentary). anyone know where i can place a mean rant?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I worked at Boulder Abortion Clinic for four years. A lot of narratives are being written about its closing. There is no shortage in Colorado of physicians willing to do the fulfilling work of helping people have abortions.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Hey demographers! Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social and I whipped up comment on the proposed changes exposing our federal colleagues to political interference. Here's our text if you want to submit a public comment, too. Link to submit your response below.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment