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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈

@raphaelk0hn.bsky.social
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Co-Chair of @gladduk.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Birmingham Medical Student 🩺 Theatre Reviews @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭 All-around ADHD Gay Jewish Twink. 🧠✡️ #LGBwiththeT, He/Him. @Raphaelk0hn on the other apps too.

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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
✨Medical Education SFP Secured✨ Absolutely thrilled to share that after a long application and interview process, I’ve been selected for one of just five ring-fenced Specialised Foundation Programme jobs by the Birmingham Medical School.👨‍🎓 Looking forward to the opportunities the SFP offers! 🩺
Dear Raphael,
 
I am emailing to share the outcome of the Pathway 1 SFP interviews.
 
I am very pleased to inform you that you were successful in your application, and would like to offer you the position of education-oriented SFP.
 
The standard of applications was incredibly high, so this is an impressive achievement – many congratulations!
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Coming back from a little social media break to share this exciting opportunity we’re offering at @gladduk.bsky.social for early career doctors and dentists as well as students this year! Explore your creativity and maybe even win a cash prize 🤩 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
GLADD writing prize 2025

Intersecting identities

Medical & dental students prize
Early career doctors & dentists prize

Deadline 14/11/25 2pm

GLADD logo and images of an art easel and a piece of paper with a quill
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
After unfortunately missing the press night due to illness, I’m very grateful to The RSC for fitting me in to review ‘The Constant Wife’ tonight! ✨ Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
A program for ‘the constant wife’ in front of a stage set of a living room
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Very proud to find out that I’ve been awarded the Roper-Hall Ophthalmology Prize this year at my medical school!
Dear Raphael,

On behalf of the Trustees of the Roper-Hall Eye Foundation, I would like to congratulate you on being awarded our 2025 University of Birmingham MBChB Undergraduate Ophthalmology Prize to the value of [censored] for your essay ‘Tele-Ophthalmology in the 21st Century: Innovation or Necessity for Global Eye Health?' 

Our Trustees were very impressed with your essay that showed an in-depth understanding of the key concepts of the topic. It was easy to read with little jargon, well laid out, and appropriately referenced.

Best wishes. 

Yours sincerely,
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Loved attending the @gladduk.bsky.social Annual Dinner and AGM earlier this month - a fab evening celebrating 30 years of GLADD. It was an honour to present the David Harvey Award to @drjohartland.bsky.social ✨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Very pleased to have been re-elected as Co-Chair for another year!
Picture of all the GLADD AGM attendeesDr Kit Tigwell and Raphael Kohn presenting Dr Jo Hartland with the David Harvey Award
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Celebrating my birthday at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre to see what I hear is an a-maize-ing musical… it’s time for ‘Shucked’! 🌽🎭
An outdoor wood stage with a hut on it
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Happy 23rd birthslay to me 💅🎂🎈
A mirror selfie of me
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Excited for an afternoon of Sondheim and surrealism at the @nationaltheatre.org.uk for today’s matinee of ‘Here We Are’ 🎭 ✨
Two actors on a stage with mirrors on it
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Back to reviewing tonight, this time at @royalcourt.bsky.social to see ‘After The Act’ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
A program of ‘after the act’ held in front of a stage with a white backdrop and furniture on it
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
An awesome afternoon today representing @gladduk.bsky.social , teaching @unibirmingham.bsky.social’s 3rd year MBChB students all about LGBTQ+ health and inclusivity in their professional development module 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Me standing at the front of a lecture theatre
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A real pleasure to have co-presented a talking poster today at #ASGBI2025!
Me and another student standing next to a poster on a screen
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
That’s one step closer to becoming a doctor out the way… Fourth year exams? Passed them ✅ Bring on final year!
Email reading:

‘Dear Raphael Kohn,
 
Your main assessment period results and progress decisions are now available.  Please read all the information below for details and guidance.
 
Results and Feedback
 
Recommendation
 
Your recommendation from the Main Board of Examiners meeting is:
 
Passed with no supplementary requirements.’
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Ready for a bloody good show tonight at the press night of ‘Titus Andronicus’ at The RSC 🩸 Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
A white stone stage with a programme for ‘Titus Andronicus’ held in front
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Back at the theatre tonight for The RSC’s new season, beginning with a footy-themed ‘Much Ado About Nothing’! Kick-off’s at 7.00, hoping this one scores a screamer or two! (did i get the foot-ball references right?) Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
A program for ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in front of a stage with football projections on it and screens to the side reading ‘Messina FC’
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Spent the last month off social media to focus on my exams. It was utterly blissful, to be honest. No TERF bigotry in my replies. No constant spew of hate everywhere. Quite tempted to do it again…
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Time for another press night - this time it’s to see The RSC’s ‘Edward II’! Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
A program for Edward II featuring two characters kissing
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Being locked in a train carriage on the platform with alarms incessantly going off is not how I wanted to start this morning…
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All That Dazzles @allthatdazzles.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Shakespeare goes nautical in the RSC’s new production of ‘Hamlet’. With an immaculately assembled cast, tremendous creative risks are taken with massive payoffs in this titanic, utterly triumphant production. Read @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review here: www.allthatdazzles.co.uk/post/review-...
allthatdazzles.co.uk
Review: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Theatre)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tremendous creative risks are taken with massive payoffs in this titanic production of Shakespeare’s classic.
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
It’s time for The RSC’s first press night of 2025 as ‘Hamlet’ opens tonight… and it looks to be a titan of a production! Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
A boat-like set on a thrust stage, tilted downwards with a wooden roof hung above
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Back in blues for surgical rotations 🔵
Me wearing blue scrubs and a rainbow lanyard
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
As I reach the end of my psychiatry rotation that I’ve been on these past few weeks, I’m feeling very proud to have been awarded an end-of-rotation commendation, as well as the creativity in psychiatry prize! On to surgery and anaesthetics next… I’m very excited!
Commendation in psychiatry 
Proudly presented to
Raphael Kohn

For showing great engagement in the psychiatry rotation 

University of Birmingham
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation TrustCreativity in psychiatry

This prize is proudly awarded to
Raphael Kohn
For a beautiful project during the psychiatry placement
07.02.2025

University of Birmingham
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My first press night of the year tonight at the Birmingham Hippodrome for Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake 🩰 ✨ Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
A programme for Swan Lake in front of a white curtain with a swan on it
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 01/02/2025
Today is the start of LGBTQ+ History Month. #LGBTplusHM25 Far too many LGBTQ+ doctors and medical students still face discrimination. As your trade union, we are here to support you. THREAD
An image of the BMA logo with the progress pride flag.
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It’s 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ History Month. So reflecting on the terrible history of So-Called ‘Conversion Therapy’, I’m hoping we’ll see more Medical Schools over the next year work on making the future of medicine safer for 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ people. Very few med schools left now on the GLADD Charter… 👀
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Wonderful news as North Wales Medical School at Bangor University joins the @gladduk.bsky.social Charter on So-Called LGBTQ+ ‘Conversion Therapy’ - so proud to see our project continue to flourish so successfully 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ See it here: res.cloudinary.com/gladd/image/...
UK Medical Schools’ Charter on So-Called LGBTQ+ ‘Conversion
Therapy’

Created in partnership between The Association of LGBTQ+ Doctors and Dentists (GLADD) and Lancaster University Medical School
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Had a lovely morning at Aston Medical School, representing @gladduk.bsky.social, to deliver a lecture to their bright first-year students about LGBTQ+ Health and how to be an inclusive doctor 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
A picture of me in front of a slide bearing the GLADD logo
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Quick question: why is a British ‘queer theatre’ programming a play starring a performer who expresses anti-trans sentiments?? You’re either here for the LGBTQ+ community or you’re not. And let me tell you now, you’re not.
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I mean, this gay Jew couldn’t exactly miss seeing ‘The Producers’ at the Menier Chocolate Factory, could he? ✨
A selfie of me in front of a red curtain
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
If there’s one thing I do before I go back to medical school… it’s gotta be seeing ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ again at the @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social! I just can’t get enough of this stellar show ☄️
A black set with a ring on the floor and letters at the back of the stage spelling out ‘Moscow’
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
What’s the stagiest way to spend New Year’s Eve? At the theatre of course! It’s time for the Operation Mincemeat New Year’s Eve special performance… and there’s bottomless sangria at the bar 🍷 Ready to ring in the new year with this stunning little show!
An ‘Operation Mincemeat’ program held in front of a yellow curtain
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The year is almost up but my theatregoing isn’t - I couldn’t miss a chance to see Ncuti Gatwa and Sharon D Clarke in the National Theatre’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’! 👜
A handbag floating in front of a red curtain on a stage
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I’ve waited so many years for this day. And now, I’m seeing ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ at the @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social 🎭 I’m ready to have my life changed ☄️
A black theatre set with light bulbs on the backs of seats and letters at the back of the stage
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
What’s the best way to spend Christmas Eve? At a panto of course! But not just any panto - I’m at the @jw3london.bsky.social Jewish Panto: Goldie Frocks and the Bear Mitzvah! ✡️🎭✨
A diamond pattern curtain in front of a stage
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The weather outside may be mild, but I’m at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane where it appears there’s a Tempest… starring Sigourney Weaver!
A grey curtain on a bare theatre stage
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I’m now the proud owner of a new Birmingham Medical Student name badge that includes my pronouns! A small step towards inclusivity but a great one 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
A green name badge bearing the University of Birmingham logo and my name, with my pronouns he/him alongside and the words ‘medical student’ below.
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Good news! @gladduk.bsky.social is now here on Bluesky - give us a follow and keep up to date with all we’re doing! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
GLADD banner with the GLADD logo next to a stethoscope wrapped in a rainbow ribbon
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Thank you to the Greener Surgery conference at @unibirmingham.bsky.social for a great day of thought-provoking discussions about how to make surgical practice more environmentally-friendly - and why this is not just a hope for the future but a necessity! 🌿😷
A large hall with a ‘Research for greener surgery 2024’ slide projected on a screen
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Excited to be at the ‘Research For Greener Surgery 2024’ conference today at the University of Birmingham to learn about the carbon impacts of surgery and how to work towards a more sustainable future! 🌿😷
The great hall of the University of Birmingham, a large red brick building with a dome roof
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All That Dazzles @allthatdazzles.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A beautiful mix of humour and melancholy makes The RSC’s ‘Twelfth Night’ a total delight, with its laugh-out-loud comedy balanced well by its bittersweet undertones. Read @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review: www.allthatdazzles.co.uk/post/review-...
allthatdazzles.co.uk
Review: Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Theatre)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A mix of humour and melancholy makes for a total delight in this Shakespeare comedy balanced well with bittersweet undertones
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Tonight it’s the Twelfth Night of December. So I’m at The RSC to see the press night of… Twelfth Night 🎄✨ Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
A picture of me in front of a Christmas tree background holding a program for ‘Twelfth Night’A black stage with a white box at the back and a program for ‘Twelfth Night’ held in front of it
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Last week, GLADD committee members met with @amateuradam.bsky.social and Zoë Playdon, our guest judges for the GLADD Student Prize 2024 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ It was an honour to read and discuss such high-quality, creative entries with such esteemed colleagues! 🤩
A screenshot showing a video chat of GLADD committee members and Adam Kay and Zoe Playdon
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
What’s next? Is Luigi Mangione going to be starring as ‘Jenny’ in the next run of 2:22: A Ghost Story?
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The right way to spend my Thursday evening is definitely at the Old Joint Stock Theatre to see ‘Zanna, Don’t!’ 💅 Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
A black stage with a bed and hearts on it
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This year I will, once again, not be sharing my Spotify wrapped because I am, once again, deeply embarrassed x
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I may be a massive theatre nerd, but I’ve never seen The Book Of Mormon. 📖 That all changes for me tonight at their first night in Birmingham 🎭✨
A church-like arch over a stage with a heavenly cloud design curtain
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wanted to love this one… but surely we’re not still giving Higgins a happy ending in ‘My Fair Lady’ in 2024? ⭐️⭐️⭐️ for Curve Leicester’s production of ‘My Fair Lady’: ⬇️
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Ready for a loverly night at the Leicester Curve theatre at the press night of My Fair Lady! ✨ 🌺 Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭
Me in front of a My Fair Lady bannerA program for My Fair Lady held in front of a blue theatre curtain
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Ok I’m holding space for Defying Gravity, what now?
Me holding space on my laptop’s keyboard while Defying Gravity plays on YouTube. The other tabs open have Google searches for ‘how to be as talented as Cynthia Erivo’, ‘how to belt defying gravity’, and ‘how to quit medical school’
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Manchester I am in you again
A selfie of me on a train
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Raphael Kohn 🏳️‍🌈 @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
You know what day it is… You know what I’m doing tonight… #Wicked
Wicked movie posterWicked BBFC screen
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