Addy Berry, PhD
@addyberry.bsky.social
Researcher, illustrator, overthinker & undersleeper in Manchester | Views my own | Research interests include healthcare, mental health, justice, gender, sex, family, community, SW, BDSM, autism, intersex | Wrote a book about intersex & ageing, coming soon
I started a new adventure this week that I’m very excited about. Not quitting research, activism or advocacy work. Also, just the loveliest, most curious passionate group. It’s been the most wonderful, rewarding week. 🙏🏻💖✨ #psychosexualtherapy #sexuality
A girl won the role of Seymour in South Grand Prairie High School in Texas. Then, the district freaked out because of Texas' anti-trans and anti-gay law. So they tried to strip her role and give it to a boy. She refused, so now they are cancelling the play. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Texas School Kills ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ After Girl Cast As Seymour, Citing Anti-LGBTQ+ Law
Following backlash, the school gave one young actress’s role to a boy—and told her to share the role of Audrey with another girl as consolation. Then they cancelled it altogether.
erininthemorning.com
One piece you should be reading about academia. Whiteness is fragile. It is held together by bigotry, scarcity, capitalism, and genocide. Whiteness recapitulates itself through oppression and repression. Whiteness, in and of itself, is rooted in violence, pillaging, vileness, and self-superiority.
jenn m. jackson@jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about Jason Arday and Black academic life. I took time to process his passing as I worked through my traumas from my time on the tenure-track. I no longer work at Syracuse University. I can't share details yet. More to come. jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/they-mean-...
Victor Madrigal-Borloz is wonderful & I’m grateful for this. She’s been successfully using the UN to legitimize her anti-trans campaign & wreaking havoc for a while now. The anti-trans movement has successfully been used as a Trojan horse to usher in fascism & she’s been a crucial part of that.
Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 2w agoProminent ‘gender critical’ transphobe in UN called out for “proximity to US conservative groups [ADF]”… “Reem Alsalem, has taken views that regressively depart from UN human rights doctrine, displaying how an ideologically skewed mandate can undermine the consensus of UN human rights bodies.”…
Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.
Dr Mary McAuliffe@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3w agoCourt hears of ‘significant’ and ‘out of blue’ change of practice by Minister for Justice www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Congratulations Addy! This is such an important publication - a whole book on intersex ageing, rescuing the topic from something that might get mentioned as a limitation in research into LGBTQIA ageing, into something about which we now have actual empirically-derived knowledge.
Addy Berry, PhD@addyberry.bsky.social · last mo.It feels so strange to finally hold this in my hands. #intersex #ageing #healthcare #mentalhealth #family #education #employment #community www.routledge.com/Intersex-Age...
Get your copy today! spr.ly/6002BGdOL2 Beyond pleased to have you publish with us! 🎉
Addy Berry, PhD@addyberry.bsky.social · last mo.It feels so strange to finally hold this in my hands. #intersex #ageing #healthcare #mentalhealth #family #education #employment #community www.routledge.com/Intersex-Age...
It feels so strange to finally hold this in my hands. #intersex #ageing #healthcare #mentalhealth #family #education #employment #community www.routledge.com/Intersex-Age...
UN: Climate change will reach at least 1.8 C, a point where there are no good outcomes Trump: Great time to repeal limits on power plant pollution!
E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
nytimes.com
When we encounter new information, our brains create a neural pathway for that information and it keeps trying to keep that connection, even if it’s wrong. First impressions, misinformation…our brains can’t help but be impacted.
In 897 CE, the catholic church dug up the corpse of a dead pope and put him on trial. The corpse was found guilty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver...
Cadaver Synod - Wikipedia
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Put another another way, Stegosaurus never saw a flower. T Rex saw plenty. (They evolved in between.)
“I came to this country to pursue my education. I didn’t come here to commit a crime or hurt anyone. Yet now I’m walking through the streets with a GPS monitor on my leg, carrying a feeling of shame and humiliation that I never imagined I would experience.” www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
springfieldnewssun.com
"Hey, do you want this contract? It's on site?" Where? "USA" Oh didn't they just declare trans people to be terrorists? "Oh, do you think X would go do this job?" No for the same reason. America doesn't want smart trans hackers securing their stuff they do not get smart trans hackers.
The Trump regime's HHS and Office of Population Affairs have released another anti-trans report claiming that trans people are violent, authoritarian, anti-democratic, and extremist. This is a massive escalation in state propaganda and nothing but a pretense for horrors to come.
This kind of research is vitality important So much research in the medical field is based on cis white men As I’m getting older and having more health issues, even if doctors are helpful they are completely in the dark when it comes to trans women of my age
Addy Berry, PhD@addyberry.bsky.social · 2mo agoSex and gender shape every aspect of human health, influencing disease risk, clinical presentation, treatment response and health outcomes. Despite this, data gaps persist, compromising both scientific validity and equity. 1/
Sex and gender shape every aspect of human health, influencing disease risk, clinical presentation, treatment response and health outcomes. Despite this, data gaps persist, compromising both scientific validity and equity. 1/
She exemplified strength, acceptance, wisdom, wit, skill, goodness, bravery & unwavering integrity. Meanwhile, she was 5’ tall, unabashedly working class & hyperfeminine. She stood by us until the very end. Let her death serve as a reminder to be like her & not cave to fascism.
As I keep saying: there is a class of people who have absolutely radicalised themselves to very extreme political positions, completely taken leave of their senses. And we know about this because they write about it for a living, they can’t wait to tell us all about their new epiphanies.
I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
bylinetimes.com
Big Brother is as Big Brother does, mother-Flocker.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn a new interview, he told Bloomberg that “we’re not Big Brother” — definitely not a thing that Big Brother would say, right? — and that “we’re focused on protecting people.” futurism.com/future-socie...
This was part of the anti-trans playbook, “big pharma is banking it”. Bad faith shit. Zero interest in what happens to intersex kids, no interest in what the effects of diethylstilbestrol. Just endless persecution & scapegoating of those who disrupt hegemonic norms. Nazi shit.
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is something the 'rising #ADHD diagnoses are just big pharma wanting to sell more meds' arguments seem reluctant to explain. If the whole thing is a huge complex plot to sell pills, why would those pills be so rare and hard to get? Like advertising a restaurant only accessible via jetpack
Can really see it in the media coverage, they just swapped out their templates
Philippa East (Author)@philippaeast.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere seems to be a concerted effort right now to undermine the diagnosis/concept of ADHD and/or autism. It’s probably been going on for awhile, but I’ve really seen it take hold lately, and it’s really concerning. A lot of parallel to the undermining of gender identity and trans healthcare, too.
