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“Like much in our society, history is rewritten to make a systemic issue an individual issue instead.”

–Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda, Bioethics Today—

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Dr. Andrew Joseph (AJP) Pegoda is a feminist, queer, crip (neurofibromatosis type one), neurodivergent interdisciplinary scholar, educator, guest speaker, and author with twenty years of experience exploring human rights through the intersections of history, historical memory, minorities, fiction, and pedagogy. Dr. Pegoda has coined numerous concepts, including “cripnormativity” (2021, updated in 2025), “student time” (2021), “compulsory tolerance” (2024), “stupid suffering” and “stupid (re)infections” (2024), and “parental determinants of health” (2025).

Additionally, Dr. Pegoda is a non-tenure track professor, currently teaching First Year Writing, Crip Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Dr. Pegoda is assisted by the world’s best Support Team: Molly Jolly Lovejoy, Dr. Willow Lovejoy, and Dr. Chester Lovejoy and was assisted by the His Majesty Dr. Trevor Lovejoy The Cat from November 5, 2010, to March 2, 2024, when he unexpectedly died.

Reach Dr. Pegoda by email, ajpegoda(at)central(dot)uh(dot)edu.

Note: I do not use AI/LLM tools for any part of any of my work. All of my work–research, teaching, ideas, writing, and editing–is my own intellectual work and is done without using such tools that are known to be used dishonestly en masse, to be built on theft, and to be terrible for the environment. My core and sincerely held non-theistic religious beliefs do not allow any intentional use of AIs/LLMs. Additionally, I absolutely forbid any of my intellectual property ever being submitted to any AI/LLM tool.

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