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

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

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

kochs postulates still make me so happy

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 😅

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.

The* not there sigh

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

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

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

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. 💀💀💀

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.

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.

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.

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.

no, probably not, because he absolutely ascribed to the type of Academia where people's value is attached to their academic rank. and at the time I was a nobody. So I didn't register or matter to him until I was important in socially validated ways. My eyes can't roll enough

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

Thinking abt that time I ruined Psychology class by innocent asking how Pavlov collected and measured all the Doggo Saliva 🥺

Of all the podcast interviews I’ve ever done, I think this is the one I’m proudest of. @amandaknox’s unique life experiences give her an incisive ability to cut to the heart of complex issues, and helped me be my most articulate self about a complex issue

And by coincidence, I also happened to get in contact with another woman who's experienced Munchausen by proxy, Dr. Kari Nixon (@HalfSickShadows), and who went on to study how illness impacts identity. It's a topic she pursued before even realizing that she herself was a victim.