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#Trans people have been vocal for years/decades about anti-trans content creators online and their impact on legislation, violence, and the well-being of trans people.
#Sociology under-investigates anti-trans rhetoric online as a modern social crisis, lacking tools for concrete acknowledgement and intervention. Transphobic tweets are statistically modeled, but major anti-trans content creators can run free to be non-consensually intimate with trans lives online.
Call it out!
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I'm excited to share that my dissertation research will study transgender narratives in the conservative podcast space!
My research aims to develop tools for sociologists and trans advocates to address current crises in cultural discourse, identifying dehumanizing themes in
the content we see online.
I would love to connect with anyone who has thoughts, opinions, concerns, or questions about my research.
There's something so frustrating as a scholar who keeps up with current events to be so concerned about some social crisis currently happening -- that has been happening for years and is already known to be endangering lives -- And then to see next to nothing about it on research databases. 
What are we doing here? How many more re-hashings of Focault do we have to have before we start turning some collective energy towards some unexplored and pertinent puzzles?