Dr. Zoe R. Smith

@drzoersmith.bsky.social

Child & adolescent clinical psychologist supporting Black and/or Latiné teens with ADHD. Liberation. Healing. Radical hope ✊🏽Basketball. Books. Neurodiversity. 🏀📚🧠

1. In devastating news, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of conversion therapy, a practice the UN calls torture. The ruling could have catastrophic consequences, writes Jackson in her sole dissent. The ruling comes on trans day of visibility. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Supreme Court Rules Against Conversion Therapy Bans On Transgender Day Of Visibility

"The fallout could be catastrophic," said Justice Jackson in her lone dissent of the 8-1 opinion.

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When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4mo ago

The Supreme Court just struck down Colorado's conversion therapy ban. They have now legalized the systematic torture of LGBTQ youth and invalidated the laws that protect them from this abuse. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Yes, and a five year old is one of those immune compromised people. It takes a minute for kids to be able to fight off disease. It’s why we vaccinate them. It’s also why we are hearing a lot more about children dying from the flu. 🙃

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.

Screenshot of a NewsWire post on X displaying a headline stating that U.S. vaccination rates are declining and that no county in Idaho, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, or Wisconsin has reached kindergarten herd immunity. The headline cites The Washington Post and appears on a plain background without an accompanying photo.

one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true

Art Viewer@arthistory.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated. The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.

Any mutual aids for people struggling to eat here? Found on twitter but haven’t found any here yet. Send if you can & I’ll donate/uplift! 💕 hate that we have to do this & mutual aid & donating money to food pantries (they can stretch $ further that we can for food) is what we who can, can do