Prof Ben Britton
@bmatb.expmicromech.com
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Dyslexic atomic sorcerer @ UBC, Vancouver 🍁 (he/him & 🏳️🌈)|🐕 dad|🇨🇦🇬🇧 Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (🔬⚛️), Clean Tech, Academic Governance (UBC Senate & Faculty Assoc.), EDI. T1 CRC. Leads @expmicromech.com. Has too many hills to die on. Views own.
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Eric’s responses illustrate the pressures he faced to pass as straight:
Before I was out . . . I happened to laugh in a very gay way and [another student] mocked my laugh in the same kind of gay way that I laughed and then asked me, with obvious hostility, ‘are you gay?’ Other people were around him at the same time. And I said, ‘no,’ I was not gay. (respondent looks visibly uncomfortable at this point; he grimaced as he said this line, tugged at his shirt, shifted in his seat between ‘no’ and ‘I was not gay.’) Fortunately, the conversation ended there, but he really hurt me by that. He made me feel unsafe, and denigrated based on my sexuality. I never forgave him for that. (Eric)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rleo4i4q7co6w53dwecgsdcz/bafkreiepbwj3uat37qesjdud4c2skplx25fpwwnf2ds3swsbcg2moyfzda)
