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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

7 months

candidATE 👄 officially ABD

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

1 year

I won a department award (yay!) but also I’m just so grateful to have a loud, curly-haired, trans Latina as an advisor 🥹🥹🥹

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

11 months

musicology / sound studies

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11 months

My summer course has been approved by the department!! "Latinx Feminist Aesthetics in Music, Sound, and Performance" is coming to UCSD in 2024 🥹

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

My AMS proposal was accepted 🥹🥹🥹 hope y’all are ready for trans of color sound studies shaking things up in November

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

absolutely grateful to @uaw2865 for fighting for me to earn a huge raise to 2778 a month (from 2583) in the upcoming quarter! actually that 190 pre-tax difference is why I was so broke!!! no longer rent burdened 😇 #unionblessed

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4 years

Omg. I got into the UCSD PhD program. AHHHHHH!!!!!

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7 months

entering my Ivy League era

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1 year

musicologists are finally ahead of the curve, showing what the academy looks like if we didn't give a shit about racial diversity in admissions and hiring

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

5 months

CORNYYYYYYYY y'all this man is CURRENTLY affiliated with the UCLA Nazarian Center for Isr*el Studies...and the UAW wants to use an IDF terrorist to garner "both sides" sympathy for the strike bffr

UAW 4811

@uaw_4811

5 months

Learn why this former IDF soldier is voting yes on strike authorization tomorrow:

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alejandrina is ABD

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2 years

I just got my headshots done today and??? 🙊🙊🙊

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

3 years

IM GETTING PUBLISHED!! Paper Is being accepted w minor revisions :))) “This was one of the most enjoyable and thought provoking experiences of scholarly reading I have encountered for some time.” 🥺🥺🥺🥺

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

4 years

I just accepted my admission to the @UCSanDiego PhD in Music (Integrative Studies)!! Like holy shit!!!

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

I would stay rent burdened the entirety of this contract. Literally. This strike was supposed to lift us out of poverty, not keep us in it. UAW needs to do better, not during another strike–NOW

solidarity.

@ucbsolidarity

2 years

With these raises, those of us who are currently the lowest paid would see over $13,000 more per year. We’ve heard countless stories of how this raise would change lives. Quote this tweet with what this contract would mean for you!

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

6 months

¡ ELLA YA GANÓ !🚨🚨🚨 la académica de mujer coronada 👑 la reina 👑 del Proyecto Trans Latina San Diego

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

1 year

1 year on E 🏳️‍⚧️ grateful to everyone who has supported me, laughed with me, and wiped away the tears 🦋🦋

alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

first day on E | primer día tomando estrógeno

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11 months

Couldn’t be prouder to share a panel with these dear friends 🥺 first AMS panel with all trans grad students 🦋. @QueerTrumpeter @hrmnlschvz I love you both so much 💖💖💖 thanks for being part of my intellectual community 🫶🏼✨

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3 years

@er_ique DONT LET WHITE TRANS PEOPLE HAVE ARCA!!!! She’s latina and is actually doing great work in the Latin music world (and like esp as a DJ).

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

6 months

UCSD Undergrads: summer session registration begins Monday. Consider signing up for my MUS 15 course in August!!! Latinx Feminist Aesthetics in Music, Sound, & Performance 💃💃💃 @ucsdmusic

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

3 years

It’s so odd that other Latines wanna beef so hard about the term Latinx and yet my undergrads who read @MigrantScribble ‘s beautiful essay “The X in Latinx is a Wound…” really seem to get the importance of addressing anti-blackness, colonialism, and femicide in our society

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

1 year

I’m excited to share some research next week and I hope folks can join!!! 🦋🦋🦋💖💖💖 Zoom registration:

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@A_M_Medina

1 year

In one week, we’ll be presenting our panel “Transauralities: Thinking Trans in Music and Sound Studies” at the upcoming AMS/SMT conference in Denver. Come hear beautiful papers by @QueerTrumpeter and @hrmnlschvz

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

6 months on hormones 💛💕🥰✨

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@A_M_Medina

11 months

happy "she could be nicer" week to all who celebrate 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

V. Joshua Adams

@vjoshuaadams

11 months

If we get rid of teaching evaluations how will I enjoy completely contradictory impressions of my teaching with the occasional remark about my appearance thrown in??

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

1 year

Our panel, “Transauralities: thinking trans in music and sound studies” was accepted to AMS 🌸💛🌸 but I’m more excited to share space with the brilliant @QueerTrumpeter and @hrmnlschvz . Grateful to have friends willing to try to find a way to hear trans life together 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

10 months

this is the critical race/trans/queer theory Marxist academic they're warning you about, btw.

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5 months

My class this fall will be able to fulfill requirements for the Chicanx/Latinx studies minor at UCSD 😭😭😭

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

1 year

No one told me that I’d be getting hotter as I go through grad school… or maybe it’s the hormones

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

6 months

Come to my talk this Saturday, 2pm @Latinx_Studies !!! This is my first time presenting on Xandra Ibarra's ( @lachicaboom ) work and I'm really excited 🪳🪳🪳

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

7 months

I just sent in my qualifying exam essays and prospectus to my committee and now I’m drinking a beer in my bed lol

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@A_M_Medina

2 years

Dream team alert‼️‼️‼️ I’m so excited to be putting together a panel with @MorganLeSlay & @hermanchav for this upcoming AMS: “Transauralities: thinking trans in music/sound studies” 🏳️‍⚧️🥰💛💫

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

Trans Sound Studies:

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

6 months

you know, music studies can be interdisciplinary if you want it to be?

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

they forgot: Disabled? Wait till 2025 Have kids? Wait till 2025 International worker? Wait till 2025 Want healthcare for your spouse? Wait till 2025 Rent burdened and not receiving the Berkeley or UCLA base pay? Wait till 2025. RnF aren’t waiting, we’re voting no

Diana Smith

@Diana_MY_Smith

2 years

Do you 🫵 like 🥰 money 💰?? then vote 🗳️ yes 🙌 on the GSR 🔬 and ASE 🏛️ contracts 📝. Toxic PIs? 🤢 we grieve. Extreme workload? 😓 we grieve. UC doesn’t pay on time? 😤 we grieve. And we’ll win 💪💪.

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1 year

AMS/SMT folks!!! Are you a little weirdo? Do you like to engage in ✨communal song✨? Or do you just think I’m pretty? Come to queer karaoke w/ me and @PaulDavidFlood Thursday night! Freaks, geeks, n everyone in between invited 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

3 years

My mom didn’t make it. She was able to pass in a gentle sleep and I think as her child that’s all I could want for her. I have lots of ppl around me so I’ll be fine but damn this sucks.

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

3 years

My honors thesis passed and was awarded Magna cum laude!!!! We DID IT 🥺🥺🥺

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

I def picked my program based on my advisor and it was 100% the right choice 🥰🥰🥰

Dr. Jorge J Rodríguez V

@JJRodV

6 years

The advice I continue giving folks looking into PhD programs is to look for an advisor who is kind. Don’t look for the “most brilliant” advisor. Look for the person who is kind, who mentors you, lifts you up. And pro-tip: kind folks are usually the most brilliant. #PhDChat

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alejandrina is ABD

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1 year

¡Viva la putería! Inspiring evening con mis cariñxs @RadioRodriguez and @ultramaricon

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

4 months

so it looks like i forgot about this lmao, but there's always time to celebrate 2 years on E :]

alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

1 year

1 year on E 🏳️‍⚧️ grateful to everyone who has supported me, laughed with me, and wiped away the tears 🦋🦋

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alejandrina is ABD

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2 years

I wasn't promoting this when it was first published because of the UC strike, but I'm happy to share my contribution for @rs_latinamerica ! un millón de gracias a mi amix @aleydarocha_ for inviting me <3

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

I mean my trans politics demand an end to US/Western imperialism so… I hope these bitches become unemployed lmao. The end of the US military is trans liberation. But sure, let’s see where“change from within” takes us

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@A_M_Medina

11 months

i know im pretty generally reserved about scholarship and stuff but it was really beautiful how great the vibes were at our AMS panel. I was expecting pushback or hesitation about the theoretical and methodological work being done but so many people were genuinely excited i luv

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

Union staff talked down to us like we were “throwing a tantrum” when we didn’t want to concede our wages after the UC failed to budge. Before the strike even began, we were told that 54k was REALISTIC for current CA living conditions.

UAW 4811

@uaw_4811

2 years

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alejandrina is ABD

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7 months

hot alt barista trans guy invited me to a t4t social at a worker-owned brewery if you wanna know what it's like to be in Portland, OR

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

3 years

Probably gonna take “Psychoanalytic Sound Studies” next term lol what is our department

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

1 year

My essay, "The Trans Ear/(h)earing" has just been published by @ResonanceJrnl !! Special thanks to @CharlesEppley for the invitation.

The Trans Ear/(h)earing

In this essay I offer a theoretical conceptualization of the ear in order to expand current debates surrounding embodiment and materiality within the field of sound studies. I am interested in how...

online.ucpress.edu

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alejandrina is ABD

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2 years

The amount of love and support I got for my Trans of Color Sound Studies paper is making me so emotional rn . Feeling proud of myself 🥰

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

Then n now 🏳️‍⚧️🫦💕🌸

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@A_M_Medina

8 months

is it normal to feel like you don't actually know a single thing right before taking ur qualifying exam...asking for me lol

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2 years

It’s a great day to Vote No on the UAW contract besties 🥰🥰🥰

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5 months

Like mother like daughter 🖤🐈‍⬛🖤

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2 years

student called the 80s "the late 1900s" LMAOOOOOO

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

3 years

My paper “Towards a Trans of Color Sound Studies” will be presented at a sound studies conference at Hanyang University in South Korea! 🥳 I’m still hoping to present this at AMS/SEM/SMT too, but it’s nice to know the project is being well-received

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

God I already know there’s gonna be so many annoying ass papers on these anti-drag bills by cis queer performance studies scholars

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2 years

Amigas, I’m spending the summer doing fieldwork in CDMX!

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7 months

Rejections: boyhood :/ the girl reading this post the DMV Acceptances: Beauty Grace Talent

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@A_M_Medina

7 months

My mom emailed Dr Phil for advice on raising her cross-dressing child (me) and they tried to put me on the show lmao

ethan !!!

@slimeguyethan

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share a piece of lore about yourself

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2 years

god bless my primary care doc bc she helped me get my ffs and breast consultation moved to THIS TUESDAY 💖✨💖 love WOC supporting WOC

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

2 years

Omg the bar I do ethnography at for their Latin nights has recently hosted a queer North African/Arab party (which I’m told is one of the first in SD) and is now doing a Lunar New Year drag brunch??? This is on top of already having pup nights and fat cabaret. I love it 💫✨💛

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

10 months

Finally finished my diss proposal. Thank fuck.

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11 months

now i dont *like* when students don't do the best job on their homework, but when a canvas comments starts with "sorry i screwed the pooch on this one" i'll never be mad lmao

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2 years

Is @ucsdmusic prepared to stand in solidarity with striking graduate student workers and cancel ALL performances until the strike is over? Artistic labor IS LABOR! #ShutItDown

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2 years

Did anyone else think Ferrero Rocher was rich ppl candy growing up?

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@A_M_Medina

10 months

Starting 2024 with a fuck ass bob 😮‍💨

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@A_M_Medina

2 years

Ugh I got to hug and kiss so many trans girls last night I really don’t know what I’d be doing if other women didn’t encourage me 🥹🥹🥹 and also I was with a group of beautiful queer/trans folks too I love my friends sm 💛💫✨

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2 years

woke up to another day of being fat, hot, smart, and trans

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

3 years

For anyone interested: I will be presenting my paper, “Toward a trans of color sound studies: annihilation, silence, and listening against the necropolitical” Friday April 15th at 7pm Pacific.

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alejandrina is ABD

@A_M_Medina

1 year

*(about to) Present at the AMS for the second time *finished coursework and MA thesis *spent 2 months in Mexico City for fieldwork, n had it funded!! *celebrated a year on HRT *kissed soooooo many trans ppl *adopted my cat!!!

S.H.🅰️N.G.H🅰️I ™ 🐲🈵 📍

@KhalifLi

1 year

2023 almost over what have u achieved so far?

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alejandrina is ABD

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3 years

Just submitted my application for the ford fellowship !!! Cross your fingers for me babes 🥲🥲

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@A_M_Medina

2 years

Idc if it makes me a petty bitch but I’m this close to dropping a seminar bc the prof said I look upset when I was just sitting there. Like no girl I just have resting bitch face but I’m upset now!!!!

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7 months

thank god i checked my spam bc i found out i got a travel grant for a conference lmao

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2 years

Miraaaaaaaaa 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

alejandrina is ABD

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2 years

Fuck I’m halfway through this tattoo and it’s sooo good

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1 year

the "hyperpop and trans survival" paper was written by a white cishet guy???????

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6 months

So, the same as a PhD student in the humanities at ucsd?

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2 years

First full draft of my MA thesis sent to my committee!!! Time to treat myself by going to a trans/nb kink party 👅 happy spring break to me ajajajaja

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7 months

the oral exam generally went well and the committee was super reaffirming except that they don't seem to love my chapter on the Chiquita Banana commercials :/

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1 year

idk man, my parents were so happy when they found out i had a salary and insurance right after college, even if humanities phd salaries suck. But still, they knew i got a check every month that paid rent and that was fine.

C. E. Aubin?

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hey current humanities phd students, not to freak you out but whatever you're imagining the (academic and non-academic) job hunt process is gonna be like, i can assure you that it's actually much worse

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6 months

Now that I checked in to my hotel, it’s time for ethnography (finding transsexuals on Grindr)

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2 years

my phone autocorrected "the worst" to "theorist" lmao

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4 months

revising my syllabus for august and im still so pleased to be teaching a music class with all Latinx/LatAm authors, most of whom are queer, and that my two TAs are LatAm too :] maybe pedagogy will heal my conservatory burnout

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2 years

I feel like as someone who is both pretty and does sound studies I deserve a pair of Schiaparelli ear-earrings before I die

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6 months

From now on I’m only giving my talks from inside a car

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1 year

I haven’t even landed in Mexico City yet and I already found a close-by trans friendly lesbian party to go to tomorrow night lmao

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2 years

My body is sad, heart exhausted. This TDOR feels especially heavy as my first one since starting hormones. Beyond grateful for the trans ppl who have held me throughout my life. Be tender with each other today. 💛

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3 years

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1 year

sooo i have a date scheduled for my qualifying exam now? :0

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2 years

how do you write through the emergency of trans death without fulfilling the academy's perverse desire for trans scholars to reproduce their oppression as objects of discourse? ugh, this shit is hard!

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2 years

thank u to my department @ucsdmusic for letting me teach every quarter to pay for my own research! I forgot this whole PhD thing, and the articles I'm writing with my affiliation to the dept, are actually just a side hobby to my real job of grading undergrad papers!

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4 months

beautiful weekend at Feminist Theory and Music 17 spent with friends, mentors, and amazing research. I'm so happy I got to share part of my dissertation last Friday <3