Dr. Kari Nixon

Asst. Prof | Medical humanities| Victorian Lit || Münchausen-by-proxy survivor || QUARANTINE LIFE out now @simonschuster || reps @ceciliaclyra & @patrick_nelson

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

It was an honor to speak with @amandaknox abt the many ways munchausen by proxy can manifest. @GypsyRose_B’s brave story has made more ppl aware of the issue, but this abuse is often much more subtle, & that’s a message worth shouting to the media—we are people, not plot devices

[Amanda Knox @amandaknox]

It turns out, Munchausen by proxy is often a lot more subtle than in cases like Gypsy Rose Blanchard's. I interviewed Dr. Kari Nixon for the latest episode of #Labyrinths.

https://t.co/D1yQ9k85L8

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

using the interview for both my written article and a series of social media posts featuring the experts' responses. My deadline for this piece is the end of November, and I am hoping to see if you would be available for next week short, recorded video interview ? /3

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

@HFerdjani Hello, Hannane! My name is Kari Nixon, and I am fact-checker with Logically Facts, a fact checking organization accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network and have third-party contracts with Meta and Tik Tok to manage misinformation and disinformation on /1

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

their platforms. I am working on a year-end round-up piece that looks forward to 2025 and addresses what experts foresee as the misinformation trends and challenges in the year ahead. We would like to meet with select experts on a recorded video call for approx 10-15 min /2

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

@RepJackKimble @AoDespair Hello! I am a fact-checker with Logically Facts, and I am trying to confirm that your account is satire (it is currently being used for a lot of misinfo)--could you please DM me so I can get a commentary from you?

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

kochs postulates still make me so happy

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

Trying to decide if modern rap is more reliant on synecdoche or metonym…. 🤔 which would be easier if I could ever remember the difference between the two 😅

[emily may @emilykmay]

having an ex best friend is such a specifically heartbreaking experience because it was possibly longest relationship you were ever in. and then they......turn into an actual stranger? and at one point they called you 17x a day. like, i know your brother's birthday still.

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

The* not there sigh

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

I encourage you to read there follow up interview with me on munchausen by proxy in the wake of gypsy rose blanchard’s release from prison

[⁠⁠Kasia Delgado @KasiaLDelgado]

After Gypsy Rose Blanchard's release from prison this December, I caught up with the same survivor to find out how the high profile case made her feel - and the thoughts she had seeing that a fellow survivor had been driven to murder. @theipaper
https://t.co/Sui7kKycen

[⁠⁠Kasia Delgado @KasiaLDelgado]

Last year I interviewed a Munchausen by proxy survivor whose mother faked her illness and kept her on morphine through childhood and teenage years. @theipaper

https://t.co/RyTXa8iYwA

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

@_ryanruby_ 🤯

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

Y’all this is the energy we need for the revolution

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

6 yo sassed me BAD tonight. Repeatedly in a 30 second period.

Partner calmly asked her, “what part of that did you think was a good idea?”

I SWEAR TO CHRIST ON THE CROSS that child looked him dead in the eye and said: “all of it.”

I am fucking slain. 💀💀💀

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

@Raffi_RC We love Raffi 😭🥺

[Raffi Cavoukian 🇨🇦 @Raffi_RC]

toxic masculinity is a menace. (no pun intended.) patriarchal dominance crap. antidote? the mature masculine.

the mature masculine. self aware, emotionally available, respectful of women. in reverence with creation.

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

@kilojoule_ 😂

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

Tbt that time when, instead of writing a final essay for grad school, I spent an entire day teaching my dog Desdemona to play dead at the sight of a handkerchief. Worth it.

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

@EmiGarside unheard of!

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

LOLOLOL I wonder if that scholar who just cited my work, and who is absolutely On Here remembers making me cry at my first ever academic conference

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

@EmiGarside OMG PLEASE read my academic nemesis thread I began today because I decided to

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

Reader, I did not leave. Instead, I decided to be kind to everyone, and not care about how important they were in terms of ranking. And I always am kindest to grad students. See? It really is that easy.

[Dr. Kari Nixon @HalfSickShadows]

anyway, after he made me cry that day, the first day I learned how brutal the Academy can be, I decided if Academia was going to turn me into that, I would leave.