Classroom Psychologist

'How has nobody been looking at this?' There are only a handful of studies that look at the relationship between puberty blockers and cognitive development in terms of IQ and executive functioning. Let's get into them together in Classroom Psychology! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/cora-…

"We are disabled, but primarily that means that we are unable to be churned by the economic machine, and maybe we are through with playing by the rules of someone else’s game." rollingforinitiative.com/blog/a-wicked-…

@jk_rowling What a fascinating question, thanks for asking. How has European and especially British colonialism oppressed indigenous cultural practices of gender diversity worldwide? Let's take a look in Classroom Psychology! spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/gRUUXHiAWOb

I can’t stress how ludicrous it is to assert that Europeans created the concept of binary sex when centuries worth of other continents’ myths, art, literature and cultural and religious practices prove beyond doubt they didn’t need Whitey’s help to tell a man from a woman.

“They say that placing a hand upon a burning stove makes seconds pass like hours. Well, the silence lasted for an epoch. Civilisations rose and fell while I sat there trying in vain to implode.” mstrust.org.uk/news/stories/h…

'The gender craziness is most common in wealthy, White, progressives' We take a look at the demographics of trans and non-binary people as we take on a question from JD Vance. Is this VP-in-waiting right? Let's dive in together in Classroom Psychology! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/cora-…

"My legs were the kind that functioned better as floatation devices. My balance was in the ‘well you are getting a bit older’ range and my leg strength was between ‘couldn’t break the surface of a puddle’ and ‘they billow like sails during a fart’." rollingforinitiative.com/blog/well-i-lo…

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'If I was wearing a wig and lipstick would I have been banned from schools...?' Some forms of masculinity can be a positive force in the world, and some not so much. Thankfully we have Dr Ffion Davies to help ponder the difference in Classroom Psychology! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cora-…

I made a mistake and have been ghosted by my Urologist. I'm still sore after my eye doctor discharged me. I'll miss him, he was nice, he touched my face, he made my pupils dilate, he told me I had a cute neuritis... rollingforinitiative.com/blog/my-urolog…

'It makes no sense to give people permanent solutions to a temporary problem' We look at two recent studies, using different methods, with remarkably different findings about trans healthcare. Time to take a deep dive into both in Classroom Psychology!!! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cora-…

@DrElFisher Warmly received, thanks. I'm actually doing way better right now, and when my new wheelchair arrives I'm going to really stretch my legs, so to speak.

'The doctors in the multidisciplinary team now consider the situation to be in the ‘oh crap’ category of trouble, just above ‘that doesn’t look good’ and barely below ‘whoa, Hank, come and look at this’. rollingforinitiative.com/blog/inside-ev…

We don't look at people in stables with sadness at how they're bound to their horses. I realised that I don't fall out of my wheelchair so much as fall off it, I don't push it so much as ride it, and I'm not bound to it so much as it is bound to me... rollingforinitiative.com/blog/im-not-bo…

Sometimes MS transgresses the norms of society, and that invites us to feel shame. So we learn from the example of disabled Iranian athletes to plant a new seed of authenticity. Also Cora talks for a while about farts. Let's Science the s**t our of MS!!! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cora-…

'Teaching gender identity as if it is fact' We're so fortunate to have @DrElFisher help us to understand what different measures of gender identity tell us about its development; let's get into a cozy conversation together in Classroom Psychology!!! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cora-…

In our last episode we talked about cyberbullying, and now we see one of our beloved ff14 community the target of online harassment. But against such hate we will always stand together. 'Amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.' You are not alone. #LightTheWay #ff14

Cora talks about the road she has travelled to this point, a story of strange symptoms and wild relapses. We're getting honest today about the hard parts of this diagnosis, but we'll face them together, as we Science the s**t out of MS. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cora-…

'You can be sued for cyberbullying for speaking the actual truth' We take a look at the Paris Olympics, at cyberbullying, and Cora gets... uh... upset. But it'll be ok because we're a community here at Classroom Psychology!!! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cora-…

Cora meets a new disabled stranger, falls out of her wheelchar... again... and searches the literature and then the world for a disabled community to which to belong. Let's Science the S**t out of MS! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cora-…

Our new chapter of Classroom Psychology begins with Dr Antreas Anthimou about creating consensus in a contentious world. We're going to be interviewing experts every other episode, and you can now watch us on YouTube! It's Classroom Psychology!!! youtu.be/PYpoLqZZDH0