Bex MacFife

UOregon PhD Student. 🏳️‍⚧️Medical sociologist. 🏳️‍🌈Sexuality educator. Gyno Teaching Assoc. Genderqueer. Geeks about body bits. Nerds about words. She&they.

[Jennifer Polk, PhD (she, her) @FromPhDtoLife]

One challenge for folks in academia, including graduate students, is to try to separate who you are from what you do.

Try this: How would you describe what you do without referencing your degree, discipline, job title?

Go!

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

Yet another resource for those who still don't get it. Share it with those people. For those of us who already know, who've seen the decades of research saying as much, maybe skip this for your own sake. <3 #Dystopia

[Omarr Savage, MSN, ΨNP-BC @NurseOSavage]

I couldn't tell you the number of times that a patient experiencing psychosis has made a claim where, on the surface, it sounded outrageous but turned out to be completely true.

Listening to our patients is important, even when it's noisy.

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

It's about time someone academically took on "Trans Broken Arm Syndrome" like this! A solid citation for what so many of us just know and brilliant people have been going after for a while. Thanks for writing it and for reading it--so important and worth the difficult content.

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

@c_j_pascoe @NBCNews When you mentioned earlier that your church was in the news I thought "ah, yes. Club Q was a church. This is the equivalent of a church shooting for us." Feeling care for you and so many others right now.

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

Everyone recommends doing summer internships if you're a sociology graduate student interested in applied work. I want one of those! Any tips or leads? Looking at medical education/ healthcare research/ qualitative/ policy/ LGBTQ/ ReproJustice @AcademicChatter @soc_hpe @ASAMedSoc

[Kevin C. Winstead @Kaerf1]

I remain uncomfortable with how we currently are contextualizing disinformation as a rise instead of a constant.

Black Panthers being the #1 communists threat in the USA was disinformation.

The Black welfare queen was disinformation.

Birth of A Nation was disinformation.

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

@c_j_pascoe @HarperKeenan @ucpress It has a title! It has chapters! I'm so excited to read it, congratulations.

[The Tweedy Mutant @the_tweedy]

Sometimes I hear arguments about how humans are "wired" to prefer healthy, nondisabled ppl and, as someone who uses mobility aids, I can confidently state that, no, humans are wired to be curious little primates until their mortified parents intervene.

[Lyra, Esq., is NOT DAREDEVIL @PinkRangerLB]

A note on the invisible trans people of the past:

When I first started publicly tweeting about being an openly trans lawyer I got a wave of a certain type of email or DM, and I mean there were dozens. They were from 50+ year old closeted trans lawyers. /1

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

@KellyUnderman Yay I hope to see you there! I'll be on a panel this year!

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

His name was Gilbert Baker. He was an artist and a drag queen. There was pink in it then. And turquoise.

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

Woah. The queer/punk communal living spot in SoMa where I used to live? I learned today that the original pride flag was first sewn there in 1978. !!! What a way to end a queer healthcare conference! #GLMA22 #QueerHistory #StillPunk #LGBTQIAhealth #ClownHotelTheyCalledIt

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

Parts of my workshop at #GLMA22 were live-tweeted! The vibe in that room was the highlight of my conference. So much love to Alex Papale and @FrancesGrimstad for taking on pelvic exams with me.

[Arunima Kohli, MD (she/her) @arunimako]

Walked in to @FrancesGrimstad talking about how our training is different but similar in lots of areas, but we need to question it: why do we do the outside-in approach? is a bimanual necessary? why do you need more than one finger for a bimanual? #GLMA2022

[Bex MacFife @Bex_Education]

@erinrjohnson3 Deep care for you! And thank you for normalizing caring for yourself. I believe it'll happen how you want and need it to.

[Alexey Shiklomanov @ashiklom711]

Scientists, in general, publish too much. It's hard to keep with literature, and most papers exaggerate the importance of their results.

That's why, as a selfless act of service to the scientific community, I never publish anything.

You're welcome.