Travis Wisdom

PhD Student, International Human Rights Law | Children’s Rights | Genital Autonomy | Trans & Intersex Rights | All views my own | RTs/following≠endorsement

[Travis Wisdom @travis_wisdom]

Some of the principles that guide my research and advocacy. Thank you to @elevate_and_fly for making a great print!
#humanrights #genitalautonomy #i2

[Travis Wisdom @travis_wisdom]

@NoContextBrits Healthcare and prevention of gun violence

[ThatIntersexGuy @ThatIntersexGuy]

The reason society over looks ethics pillars of consent & autonomy with #RIC is for the same reason it’s overlooked with #intersex surgery on kids. All these forces surgeries are performed to enforce a cultural genital norm. Which is seen as critical, emergency care. (1)

[Travis Wisdom @travis_wisdom]

@observinglala Thank you. Keep doing your great work to protect children. ❤️

[Tora @ToraTigress]

@blondefitsbest I agree. I have had parents argue why they have the right to cut their boys. What? Why would you want you child to have pain? You don't own them and can't give them back what was stolen from them in 18-21 years.

[PihcChip @blondefitsbest]

I wonder… if people were not given the option to circumcise their infants… do you think it makes their sons less lovable in their eyes? The way some people talk about their reasons for circumcision, it sure sounds like it. As if a circumcision “completes” them.

[Travis Wisdom @travis_wisdom]

@Liquid23_ @YourWholeBaby People interpret these experiences differently. You may feel that circumcision isn’t something you need to survive, and this is ok. For me, as a victim of both child rape and genital mutilation, I am very much a survivor of these practises which have caused me significant trauma.

[Travis Wisdom @travis_wisdom]

@observinglala Some of us despise what was done to us without consent. It has caused me profound psychological pain. As a result, I am not intimate and I do not date. Everyone’s bodily autonomy should be protected.

[MGM-Victim 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇸 @mutilation_surv]

@m0therbat You're a hero, the mom I wish I would have had. It would have saved me a lifetime of pain, disfunction and anguish. Your son is lucky to have you ❤️❤️❤️

[ThatIntersexGuy @ThatIntersexGuy]

@gypsyontheloose Neither. The answer is body autonomy. Allow people to feel pride in & control their own bodies & whatever they wish to do with them. But never forcibly a child’s body. Shameful.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Childhood trauma comes back as a reaction, a symptom, or a core belief.

A THREAD 🧵:

[Jason Fairfield @JasonFairfield0]

@5co77y_Mac I think we just stop using the word “uncircumcised” and stop putting any status adjective in front of penis unless it’s had something done to it. In other words, start calling most American penises “circumcised penis” as if it’s one word and don’t modify intact penises at all.

[Jason Fairfield @JasonFairfield0]

There are 2 kinds:

Penis
Circumcised penis

This idea that intact penises should be prefaced and announced as “uncircumcised penis” is circumcisionist nonsense.

If no parts have been removed from it, it’s just a penis. As nature and evolution intended.

The other is modified.

[Intact America @intactamerica]

We're always amazed that #hospitals make male child genital cutting a job requirement. #Endcircumcision 😠 #circumcision

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

5 books that will help you build healthy academic writing habits (so you can write a lot and publish a lot):

[Travis Wisdom @travis_wisdom]

@nathaliejacoby1 Bernie Sanders and/or Katie Porter

[Gaia @gaialect]

i think i will want separate bedrooms when i’m married. unless maybe if the bed is super big… no but even so like we can decorate our own rooms the way we want and have sleepovers… man i don’t know. i just feel like we would thrive in our spaces decorated the way we like.

[Victoria! @VictoriaTheTech]

When I was student teaching, I extended a due date for a student who had just lost a family member.

Upon hearing this, my mentor teacher pulled me aside and told me that I’m “not here to be their friend,” I’m supposed to be here to be their teacher.

I think about this a lot.

[15 Square @15__Square]

We want every single man unhappy about being circumcised to speak up.
The world needs to listen to ALL the people who had the right to body autonomy taken from them or were not informed about what would happen to their bodies after the procedure. Click ↙️
https://t.co/iSmfkoiArv

[Tora @ToraTigress]

@mutilation_surv Just because an act has been going on for years does not make it unquestionable. Parents today think about the human rights of children and decide they want to respect them, instead of harming/hurting them. Come into the 21st century.