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Currently writting an autoethnographic, research-informed critique of the ideological conflation of
transexuality, intersexuality, and "gender nonconformity."
It will likely have a different title
Thinking & Understanding
- How scientific knowledge is built (and how it can be misunderstood)
- What “evidence” means in science vs. personal experience
- Cognitive biases and how they shape perception
- Learning how to read research responsibly
- Developing intellectual humility and curiosity
- Logic vs. intuition: when each is useful
- Being wrong gracefully and changing one’s mind
The Self in Context
- Growing up with socioeconomic constraints and their psychological traces
- How class, culture, and language shape worldview
- Personal values forming over time — what stays, what changes
- Embodiment: how identity is lived rather than theorized
- Emotional intelligence as a lifelong practice, not a trait
Ethics, Responsibility & Conscience
- Morality without dogma or rigidity
- The difference between empathy and self-erasure
- Responsibility to self vs. responsibility to community
- The moral weight of choice, and of inaction
- Integrity as practice (not a trait)
- How power dynamics influence everyday interactions
Society, Culture & Human Behavior
- What we inherit culturally vs. what we create
- Social signaling and identity performance
- Loneliness in modern societies
- Digital identity vs. lived identity
- How fear and shame shape social norms
- The emotional economy of social media
Science, Philosophy & Meaning
- Why certain philosophers resonate (and how to read them critically)
- Scientists whose work changed how you see the world
- The relationship between science and imagination
- Material reality vs. ideological narratives
- The meaning of “truth” in a world of competing claims
- The limits of certainty
The Body, Identity & Lived Experience
- How the body shapes the self (not just the mind)
- The difference between identity-as-politics vs. identity-as-lived-reality
- Medical knowledge vs. cultural narratives about gender and the body
- The quiet ways pain, medical history, and survival shape personality
- Dignity in being ordinary vs. being made symbolic
Care, Vulnerability & Emotional Labor
- The cost of being the caretaker in a family system
- How responsibility can shape maturity prematurely
- The ache of always being “strong”
- Caring vs. self-erasure
- How being depended on affects one’s sense of self
- Rest as something learned, not given
Power, Language & Interpretation
- How language can obscure truth — or reveal it
- How meaning changes depending on the speaker’s social position
- When language becomes performance instead of communication
- Euphemisms as moral distancing tools
- Why some people misunderstand each other even with the same words
Trauma, Memory & Self-Construction
- How memory is rewritten over time
- The differences between moving on, coping, and healing
- Self-forgiveness vs. self-justification
- What “resilience” actually costs
- When survival strategies stop being necessary but remain active
Learning, Curiosity & Intellectual Self-Development
- Learning without academic validation
- How to take knowledge seriously without worshipping authority
- The difference between “understanding a concept” and “knowing how to think”
- Keeping a personal research library
- The discipline of re-reading as comprehension
- Why certain ideas stay with us
Time, Change & Becoming
- How identity changes without needing to be reinvented
- The slow formation of values
- Letting some versions of yourself end
- Making peace with uncertainty
- What maturity actually means
- The difference between growth and constant reinvention
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