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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'm super stoked to have this project out in the world! Here's to more trans research by and for trans folks in the near and infinite future 🏳️‍⚧️🎇

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Does reading fiction still improve empathy if every character in the book is a fucking asshole? Asking for a friend.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I understand the arguments for tenure but please for the love of god there needs to be a way to limit access to students and teaching jobs for some of these profs.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Will we ever stop making films about the regrets of white men?

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia Manansala. A funny, charming murder mystery featuring some great Filipina aunties and a wiener dog named Longanisa.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew. An exploration of the subjectivity of personal history, motherhood, and the east-Asian immigrant experience in small-town Canada.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor. A family saga mystery thriller set in India, this story explores greed, corruption, and the politics of wealth and loyalty.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The Apology by Jimin Han. A multigenerational family saga spanning from South Korea to the United States. It explores diaspora, colonialism, and intergenerational trauma in tender and sometimes funny ways.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan. A WWII story told from the perspective of a Malaysian mother turned spy.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa. A disabled elderly woman breathes community and connection back into the life of a man considered to be a failure by society and himself.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

One Hundred Days by Alice Pung. An abusive controlling mother, a teenage pregnancy, and a fight to discover one’s own agency as an Asian biracial Australian teen.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Turns out that washing your face twice a day does, in fact, make a difference.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Excited to get back to the library after a week off. BRING ON THE BOOKS.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

#PhDlife is like going on a long hike, getting to the top, and thinking you’re done and can rest only to realize that there’s actually a whole other mountain to climb. The grind continues, with naps and snacks a-plenty of course.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The last assignment has been handed in! It’s time to sleep sleep sleep 😴

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

As PhD students everywhere attempt to survive their final projects of the term, may I remind us all: Nothing that academia can offer you is worth losing your mental and physical health over. Take the nap, go for the walk, watch the movie. The work will be there when you return. #phdlife #balance

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Takeaways from #Alien, the #movie: 1. Men will choose death and their own discomfort over giving power up to a woman. 2. Corporations will always choose profit over people; #unionize. 3. The cat deserves an Oscar.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Is the story of Alien just ‘men not listening to women and making hasty decisions out of discomfort’? #alien #movie #cinematiceducation

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution by Sherri Winston Gentrification, hair and respectability politics, friendship, and a talented brave girl who just wants to make beautiful music.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller Ultimately, a story of intergenerational diasporic life and experiences.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani One girl’s experience of India’s partition through a diary of letters to her deceased mother.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow Explores the trauma of school shootings with a beautiful balance of nuance and levity.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

While the reading year is not done yet, my reading has significantly slowed down because #phdlife and also the #wicked soundtrack. So I’m going to spend the next few weeks and create some reading list threads. Today is best juvenile/middle grade fics 🧵

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Sometimes a PhD day is working a half day at your regular job and then taking a nap. #phdlife

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Your pulse is rushing? Your head is reeling? Your face is flushing? Girl, I fear you are gay. #wicked #enemiestolovers #sapphic #whatisthisfeeling

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ok but can we talk about how Elphaba not only says she doesn’t want a future with the wizard once she understands that future to be unjust, but she says she CAN’T want it any more? That’s the profound truth of having a real justice and liberation framework. Once you know, you cannot desire it.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Librarian: I don’t have a cup but I can help you find every resource to ever exist on what a cup is; how to use and create one; and the political, historical, and sociological significance of cups as dish ware.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This! One of my favourite librarian tasks is putting in purchase requests for people so we get the exact books folks want and need 💖

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

When you’re stuck on a project or manuscript, sometimes you just need to talk it out with a friend who has ✨no clue✨ what you’re working on. Explaining context and your inner thought processes to someone is such a game changer! #phdlife #phdsky #academicwriting

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ok but Glinda is the perfect example of how Yt people are obsessed with being perceived as good instead of actually being good. #wicked #wickedmovie

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

And beware that it only works if you have not already ovulated! Obviously take it anyways but be prepared for it not to work depending on where in your cycle you are. We keep us safe.

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Does anyone else strategically dress for fear sweats when guest lecturing/presenting? Just me? #phdlife #academia #whyy

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If you can’t explain a concept to a fourth grader, do you even really understand it?

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Why are academics so intent on using jargon?! I can’t get over how even we can’t understand each other across disciplines 😤🫠 #phdlife #academics #academia #wecreateourownhell

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I did not follow my own advice and make use of my public library today… There’s always tomorrow 🫡📒 #phdlife #phdsky #stillgotstuffdone #justalsocapitalismed

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Maria (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @queersian.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

And let them read anything! Graphic novels, audiobooks, magazines, fact books, joke books! There’s so much more to literacy (and subsequent life skills) than being able to sound out words on a page 📖📚📒

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