Epistemicide
New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.
More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.
See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas
pressprogress.ca
January 27, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Epistemicide
say the word, chat
"epistemicide"
"epistemicide"
almost every article, series, or podcast about trans people/trans care in the nyt centers the voices of cis people
when trans people get to speak, they are taken out of context, misrepresented, or called biased activists
it's like if you wrote an article about abortion and primarily spoke to men
when trans people get to speak, they are taken out of context, misrepresented, or called biased activists
it's like if you wrote an article about abortion and primarily spoke to men
A new podcast from the New York Times left out patient stories that could have best illuminated its topic, those of trans youth but also of detransitioners, argues @evanurquhart.bsky.social.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
June 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
say the word, chat
"epistemicide"
"epistemicide"
epistemicide
More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide.
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With Gaza’s Libraries in Ruins, Palestinians Fight to Preserve Historical Memory
More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide.
truthout.org
March 22, 2026 at 1:27 PM
epistemicide
epistemicide in a nutshell
I genuinely don't know what to do when there's so few public trans figures that one of them having a bunch of bad ideas means that like a quarter of the total popular writing about an issue sucks shit
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
“Getting DIY hormones is like getting backalley abortions”
Yeah in that the coolest people I know are organizing and helping each other do it safely while you whine that the State is doing what it does best and you aren’t ready to fight it.
Yeah in that the coolest people I know are organizing and helping each other do it safely while you whine that the State is doing what it does best and you aren’t ready to fight it.
December 24, 2024 at 2:08 AM
epistemicide in a nutshell
Say the word with me, chat.
"epistemicide"
"epistemicide"
April 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Say the word with me, chat.
"epistemicide"
"epistemicide"
Epistemicide as official federal policy
Trump signed an executive order that tries to write trans people out of existence today.
It's mostly symbolic.
It's still gonna make for a LOT of pain for the trans community--just probably not where you think it will.
It's gonna be real bad for grant funding, which means medical research.
A 🧵
It's mostly symbolic.
It's still gonna make for a LOT of pain for the trans community--just probably not where you think it will.
It's gonna be real bad for grant funding, which means medical research.
A 🧵
January 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Epistemicide as official federal policy
Attempted epistemicide running rampant in the U.K. today.
Theory bite!
This is probably something that cis people would find useful, as much or more than trans people, because a lot of cis people participate in it in conversations about transness and trans folks ;3
This is probably something that cis people would find useful, as much or more than trans people, because a lot of cis people participate in it in conversations about transness and trans folks ;3
May 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Attempted epistemicide running rampant in the U.K. today.
Epistemicide
“In a series of unpublicized revisions last month, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics has removed all references to gender or gender identity from at least four federal surveys…”
Trump DOJ Erases Trans People from Crime Data Surveys
Trump's Justice Department has removed questions about gender identity and trans people from at least four federal surveys.
theappeal.org
May 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Epistemicide
... what
January 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
... what
The exemplar of trans epistemicide.
January 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The exemplar of trans epistemicide.
epistemicide
StatNews [Feb 22] -- CDC will no longer track trans identity in its health surveillance systems, incl. HIV monitoring & its key Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--the only nationally representative data on trans youth, used by states to develop/refine programs. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
CDC will no longer process transgender data
The agency's decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems that serve as critical resources for researchers.
www.statnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
epistemicide
So, a quick reminder ...
February 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
So, a quick reminder ...
Epistemicide
Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
August 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Epistemicide
Interesting thread, up and down, on "epistemicide"
The core of my idea is that knowing is an act people do together. This isn’t about who controls the computers or data, whether the systems are open, or even whose labor is misappropriated. Any of these arrangements could be changed, but the problem remains that LLMs restructure our social relations
July 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Interesting thread, up and down, on "epistemicide"
Adding "Epistemicide" to my vocabulary! We're in the midsts of the largest organized destruction of knowledge imaginable.
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Adding "Epistemicide" to my vocabulary! We're in the midsts of the largest organized destruction of knowledge imaginable.
"pineapple on pizza is epistemicide" says future internet user infected with Words Are Just Vibes disease
notice specific phenomenon
label that phenomenon to be able to analyze it
label takes on value judgment connotations as analysis demonstrates the phenomenon has problems
popularization of the label shifts focus away from phenomenon to value judgment
label becomes generic insult
every time
label that phenomenon to be able to analyze it
label takes on value judgment connotations as analysis demonstrates the phenomenon has problems
popularization of the label shifts focus away from phenomenon to value judgment
label becomes generic insult
every time
April 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"pineapple on pizza is epistemicide" says future internet user infected with Words Are Just Vibes disease
AI is epistemicide
July 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
AI is epistemicide
this is just the shit they did on the “feminine boy project” in the 60s 🤷♀️ 60 years out of date!
epistemicide innit!
epistemicide innit!
March 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
this is just the shit they did on the “feminine boy project” in the 60s 🤷♀️ 60 years out of date!
epistemicide innit!
epistemicide innit!
"should I engage with art by and about marginalised people" ideally yes
pushing back against epistemicide is. kind of a big transfeminist thing
pushing back against epistemicide is. kind of a big transfeminist thing
December 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
"should I engage with art by and about marginalised people" ideally yes
pushing back against epistemicide is. kind of a big transfeminist thing
pushing back against epistemicide is. kind of a big transfeminist thing
the number of cis people who straight up know nothing about the history of conversion practices is astonishing. Epistemicide innit.
May 4, 2026 at 4:13 AM
the number of cis people who straight up know nothing about the history of conversion practices is astonishing. Epistemicide innit.
This is a form of epistemicide
July 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This is a form of epistemicide
So long as people don't truly understand radical feminism, transmisogyny and the epistemicide of trans women's oppression will persist.
April 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
So long as people don't truly understand radical feminism, transmisogyny and the epistemicide of trans women's oppression will persist.
LLMs are a tool for epistemicide
Yo, historians, what the actual ****?
I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
🗃️
I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
🗃️
July 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
LLMs are a tool for epistemicide
just, if you were curious, other things that don’t resolve the underlying problem of an unsupportive family:
• making sure unsupportive family can intervene, undermine, & abuse the child at the earliest convenience
• EPISTEMICIDE
i know it’s not a good faith answer but wikipedia is still free.
• making sure unsupportive family can intervene, undermine, & abuse the child at the earliest convenience
• EPISTEMICIDE
i know it’s not a good faith answer but wikipedia is still free.
May 22, 2026 at 10:13 PM
just, if you were curious, other things that don’t resolve the underlying problem of an unsupportive family:
• making sure unsupportive family can intervene, undermine, & abuse the child at the earliest convenience
• EPISTEMICIDE
i know it’s not a good faith answer but wikipedia is still free.
• making sure unsupportive family can intervene, undermine, & abuse the child at the earliest convenience
• EPISTEMICIDE
i know it’s not a good faith answer but wikipedia is still free.
I should just pin this
July 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I should just pin this