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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

I shall pass on your thanks to this student!

Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

I should mention that I've been out as queer longer than this student has been alive! So after assuring her that I know what a chapstick lesbian is, we had a great conversation about labels and why they're interesting

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

The term "butch" is not popular with her peers - the dichotomy is masc/femme rather than butch/femme. Interesting to consider this (lack of) usage alongside efforts to recentre and reexamine "butch"
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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Today one of my students took it upon herself to explain the lesbian taxonomy to me, including such terms as "femme", futch" and "chapstick lesbian". According to her, the kids are using "masc" instead of "butch", and "stone top" instead of "stone butch"

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on the side of the shark btw

Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 2d

“The films you like to watch are emotionally complex with characters who all look kind of the same* and have incredibly complicated and nuanced motivations, and it’s exhausting. What I want to watch is a film where a big shark wants to bite things.”
* they’re faceblind

So we’re watching Jaws today.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

This show is perfect

www.vice.com/en/article/l...

Why the British Reality Show 'Don’t Tell the Bride' Is the Most Important Thing on Television

Deep analysis of the best show on TV.

www.vice.com

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

To be specific, at the point when spouse and I got together I am pretty sure they had seen a maximum of twelve films in their life that weren’t a Jurassic Park, a Star War or a Die Hard.

Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
The Crown
Mad Men
Peaky Blinders
Love Island (but I've read a lot of transcripts thanks to sociolx of gender students)
James Bond (any)
The Godfather
Lord of the Rings
Any Tarantino
Any Cary Grant film

My wife says it would be faster to list the films I have seen

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

Also never seen Indiana Jones (any), Seinfeld, Frasier, Arrested Development, Community, The Wire, House, Golden Girls, The Office, Sex and the City, Supernatural...

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
The Crown
Mad Men
Peaky Blinders
Love Island (but I've read a lot of transcripts thanks to sociolx of gender students)
James Bond (any)
The Godfather
Lord of the Rings
Any Tarantino
Any Cary Grant film

My wife says it would be faster to list the films I have seen

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks! It ended up being 17500 words when we submitted it!

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 13d

always a pleasure!

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 13d

My brilliant friend Ruth wrote this incredible essay about grief and the ways that trans people are failed by institutions and the ways in which we must - must! - resist doom to create something better. We find solace and solidarity and help and hope in community 🏳️‍⚧️

Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 13d

New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.

It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.

It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.

Reject Trans Doom-Posting

This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…

ruthpearce.net

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 14d

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

www.oxfordbibliographies.com

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 14d

I feel weird about sharing photos of people with whom I'm no longer in touch, but please enjoy this photo of me from Dec 2006 in a houseshare somewhere off Liverpool's Smithdown Road. The sofa! The belt! The Ikea storage crate that we tried to disguise! I can smell this photo...

A person with brown skin, short black hair and glasses, wearing blue baggy jeans, a studded belt, a grey hoodie and, inexplicably, reflective armbands strikes a dramatic pose for the camera. They are in a cluttered living room. You can see two sofas in matching kinda ugly patterned fabric, a coffee table covered in random mess and an open bottle of wine, and a storage crate in the background over which someone has placed some lacy fabric to try to disguise that it's a storage crate. It's not really working to disguise anything.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 20d

I've baked when it's 32°C and when it's around 10°C and it was a very different experience! I'm told that sea level also makes a difference but that's not really something I've had the opportunity to explore

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 20d

I think, given that you're already working with quite a high level of hydration in the dough, ambient humidity is probably less of a factor. Not saying that it has *no* effect because it will - but I think temperature is probably the one that varies more when I bake and has a greater effect

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 20d

The tally marks are to keep track of how many times I do stretch and folds during bulk fermentation. Tbh I notice more of a difference with temperature - I baked this on a cool day and it was somewhat underproofed. Might start recording temp because that does seem to be such a major factor

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 20d

I don't but I probably should...

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 22d

Back on my sourdough bullshit. Didn't get as much rise as I hoped but not bad from a resurrected dried starter and my first time baking with it in a couple of years. Probably going to be the first of many...

A round, golden brown sourdough loaf. It's fresh out of the oven and resting on a kitchen hob to cool down.

Handwritten list of the ingredients and weights, notes on timings and notes on oven temperatures and timings

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 25d

Ultimately, the EHRC guidance indicates that we should be denied community, healthcare, employment and fundamentally, denied being part of society. How do you talk to people who think that's entirely fair and proportionate?

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 25d

Preparing to write to my MP about the EHRC guidance and just. What do I have to do and say to convince people that I, and all trans people, deserve to live with dignity and peace and safety? How do I persuade someone that we deserve to live?

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 25d

It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.

Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.

We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.

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GIRES UK @giresuk.bsky.social · Sep 8

✨ New Report Out Now ✨

GIRES, in partnership with @hospiceuk.bsky.social and @stonewalluk.bsky.social has published the Being Ready Survey Report – looking at trans and gender diverse people’s experiences of death, dying, and bereavement care.

👉 Download here: www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's Thursday night. Big Woman is not hanging out with you. All you've got is Small Non-binary.

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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · Aug 30

I have just submitted a new article on the language(ability) of the collective trauma of witnessing Gaza and the role of language in pedagogy and anticolonial struggles.

Here is the closing paragraph:
#GazaGenocide #Trauma #Language #Pedagogy #Education #KeepTellingofGaza

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