Larissa Phillips
@larissaphillip
Founder of Volunteer Literacy Project, structured phonics curriculum teaching reading to adults. Writing @quillette @thefp Also rural life & horses.
Imagine you’re an adult and learning how to read is the main thing on your bucket list.
Fairy tales are so weird and deep because the thought of a modern-day beautiful mom helping her adolescent daughter transition gives real poison apple vibes.
Terrific response 🧵 “We are advocating that these clinics should track these children long-term, provide bone density scans, bone h care, fertility counseling, and open therapy supports to assist these parents and children away from a medical pathway.”
Yesterday the @NYT published a story by @JillCowan (with assistance from Azeen Ghorayshi, @amy_harmon and Joseph Goldstein) 🧵This is our letter in response:
This article is a great example of the unveiling of an unreliable narrator. It's the Tell-Tale Heart all over again. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/mag…
Same. Although I'd include Hamas's horrific actions in my conversion.
I was ambivalent about Israel and thought reports of antisemitism were exaggerated. Until 8 October 2023. Yes, *8* Oct. It's not the braindead rapists and kidnappers of Hamas who radicalised me but the massive support they received. Now, I'm a Zionist and I'm not even Jewish.
Mamdani saying "my wife and I's anniversary" on his we're-going-to-Uganda video is a direct result of the pullback in grammar instruction. Gen X and Boomers had those rules pounded into our heads by elementary school teachers. But teachers can't correct their students' spoken…
Call me old fashioned, but I think the bare minimum we should expect from our medical professionals is that they know the differences between male and female human beings.
An ideology whose explicit aim is making the falsification of reality compulsory will corrupt medicine and science as surely as it attacks core civil liberties, rights, and freedoms. It will derange institutions, individuals, and whole societies, creating a selection effect…
Listening to an A&E consultant Kate Searle in the Peggie v NHS Fife claim she knows she's female because "she was assigned female at birth" and then say "she's not an expert in it". Absolutely excruciating symptom of how gender ideology rots medical & scientific knowledge.
Possibly my most unpopular observation. The most uneducated adults I encounter in my adult literacy program—and there is no comparison, it is a vast gulf—grew up in countries where children are not required to go to school. The American SPED program is terrible: kids relegated…
If parents are not qualified, doesn’t that say something about the current education system?🤔
The gender issue is like one of those mythical tests that medieval knights had to try, and the winner would get the throne and the greatest glory and honor, etc. Many will try. We'll watch them gallop their coursers up to the test, swords drawn—and then we'll watch them run away…
Rahm Emanuel's criticized Ds for "pronoun" talk, but @megynkelly is the first interviewer I've seen drill down on his gender views. Boys + girls are "fundamentally, physically different." No "men claiming they're women" in women's prisons. "Can a man become a woman? No."
We need to find out how much everyone makes so we know whose wages we need to compensate.
Why am I expected to tip a barista at Starbucks for simply handing me a coffee? I don’t understand why I’m asked to tip for something that’s already part of the job. It’s not table service, it’s counter service. Why has this become the norm?
After decades of fomenting pretend outrage over nonexistent threats to their own privileged well-being, progressives have lost the ability to recognize an actual women's rights issue as it stares them in the face. Is this because it doesn't affect them?
The so-called progressives of today are the ones who stand with men who want access to women’s prison—even men convicted of rape. I have met so many formerly lefty, progressive feminists who are now voting republican because gender identity ideology is harmful to women and girls.
Real progressives would infiltrate the manosphere, convert the men, and raise a big brood of progressive babies. These people are going to purify themselves out of existence within one generation.
With today’s young men and women increasingly polarized over politics, Gen Z is facing a sexual apocalypse.
Incredible, amazing article. It's shocking how under-diagnosed endometriosis is, and how narrow the world of infertility medicine still is. What a great piece!
My last piece before maternity leave is about my journey to motherhood—and the journeys of other women for whom the road to pregnancy is far from straightforward. thefp.com/p/what-i-went-…
We keep hearing sane rational voices urging the Democrats to find a moderate message that appeals to more than just 22-year old activists. And we get this. Elizabeth Warren saying the same.
If you refuse to see what is happening, the cancellation of the Colbert show should open your eyes. I want to explain to you what a censorship state looks like - where a corrupt government gives favors to media that suppresses criticism of the regime.
My smart. reasonable leftist friends are starting to leave the conversation. I think they're not ready to officially reject the brand, but it's getting harder and harder to defend the points. I keep hearing "I haven't really been following that." It's just a matter of time. 😄
Interesting piece! Good for him. Also, so prolific! I find the "well I never" reactions of Alex Perez and Percival Everett stuffy and annoying. JK Rowling let people think she was male because they couldn't handle a woman writing about the fantasy world. The Brontes and George…
Reading the final chapters of "When Things Fall Apart" with a group of adult literacy and GED students. A student reading out loud was having trouble with pronunciation, and I kept highlighting words, breaking them down, showing syllables, etc. She got to "tusk" and couldn't…