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Krisha Aghi

@krishuponastar

2 years

My therapist:

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As a trans woman of color, dealing with desirability politics makes it so hard to get railed...and that's why this Pride month I'm partnering with Amtrak,

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Krisha Aghi

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damn cis ppl bristling about being clocked

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@gracecamille_

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and these "bodies" "assigned female"...are they with us in the room right now?

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Krisha Aghi

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2 years

biological sex implies the existence of mathematical sex, botanical sex, virological sex, electrodynamical sex,

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@thenamesdavie @Remdelarem My anxiety and depression at 3 am

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Krisha Aghi

@krishuponastar

9 months

they performed neuroimaging on fujoshis SCREAM

Neurological Imprints of Boys’ Love Culture: Shaping Sexual Orientation Identity in the Digital...

With the omnipresence of social media, Boys’ Love (BL) culture has found a burgeoning audience among young females. While this cultural phenomenon offers a platform for self-expression to some, its...

www.biorxiv.org

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Krisha Aghi

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2 years

PhDoll

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Krisha Aghi

@krishuponastar

5 years

5th year grad student at the departmental welcome back event

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1 year

@theemare The way I'd be escorting him off midair if I were the stewardess

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Krisha Aghi

@krishuponastar

3 years

Got the surgery that turns you into trangelina jolie

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1 year

This is not correct . Hijra, kinnara, khwaja sira etc are communities of third gender ppls whose identities are closely linked to very specific histories and cultural practices.

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9 months

@braincelltwo They said pack it up Ouran high school host club lmaoooooooo

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9 months

@FoxxDoesThings It's a garbage paper so it will be

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Krisha Aghi

@krishuponastar

4 years

They're collaborating 💻🐛 🧪🐌 📝🐝 🔬🐞 🧫🦋

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Krisha Aghi

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3 years

Appreciate the support from scientists about the validity of trans identity but cautioning them to not rely on biological essentialism as a way to validate said identities. Like "the science SAYS so" isn't a great way to go about trying to validate trans peoples

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4 years

@ztsamudzi literally what were you going to do in that uniform, quickly.

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3 years

Inclusive language (pronouns etc) is important but addressing material insufficiencies (lack of access to healthcare, housing, etc) and the root cause (capitalism) of these insufficiences should be our main goal as trans academics

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Krisha Aghi

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3 years

took my estrogen shot on time this week

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3 years

At least my microscope is nice to me

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Krisha Aghi

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5 years

@shopfencing "cis women get misgendered too" then stop being such a brick suzanne and let tgirls vent bc it's genuinely anguishing when you get clocked and dont really know which of the thousand features youre concerned about gave you away.

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1 year

just saw someone ask how do you serve in an academic way....let's be serious now loves.

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Krisha Aghi

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6 years

@LeftAtLondon You say Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, I say the iCarly theme song

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Krisha Aghi

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3 years

Just putting that nose 👃 to the grind 😤😤, getting that CNS paper 😍😍 while I witness the last gasps 😳 and collapse of a dying empire 👑

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4 years

??????????? what

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the images that materialize in my head when i think about science twitter

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2 years

Really?!? 42k THAT'S what they're considering?!?! THAT'S what we're striking for?????

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3 years

@hosoterratoma

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2 years

Opinion | Poo Poo Pee Pee

Inside Higher Ed

@insidehighered

2 years

Opinion | Allowing biologically male athletes on female teams will continue a practice of unfair sex-based disadvantage for women at our colleges and universities, argues Angie Kirk.

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"Mean girls would show up at your door in the middle of the night and beat you with canes if you were wearing thigh highs. If you didn't voice train you were shot."

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Krisha Aghi

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4 years

The inclusivity of my field ❤️❤️

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@MaartenvSmeden

4 years

Why did you become a scientist? Wrong answers only

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@Ti_Enjoli Meritocracy in science

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3 years

@_pem_pem baby batter up...

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3 years

Well, it's a Sunday

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Krisha Aghi

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4 years

Most panels favor cis, gay and white voices and miss key perspectives on the experiences of QTBIPOC in STEM fields that have historically excluded them. @robertnulrich and I have put together a panel of incredible scientists who will speak to those experiences on #LGBTQSTEMDay

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me talking about my bf

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@nonbin_eri

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3 years

when i showed up at a friends wedding like this...3.5 years into transition

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Krisha Aghi

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2 years

As of yesterday the cat's out of the bag. I am very excited to announce that I will be joining @Profa_Correa lab as a postdoc in 2023! #TeamCorreaLab

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Krisha Aghi

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3 years

Whats annoying about a lot of white-led DEI initiatives in STEM is that these initiatives like to think that racial issues within STEM are uniquely structured as issues of "representation" rather than the fact that its just white supremacy luv xx

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4 years

Shes_alive.jpg

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5 years

@shopfencing 3 years on HRT

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5 years

me before and during grad school

nina matsumoto 🌸

@spacecoyotl

5 years

me with eyeliner vs. me without

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@krishuponastar

4 years

Much of trans visibility discourse and resources tend to favor white and east asian trans folks in STEM so I would love to help Black and brown trans folk especially apply for this!!!!

nationalpostdoc

@nationalpostdoc

4 years

The Ben Barres Fellowship is an award for professional development of trans, intersex, and non-binary graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the STEM fields

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@sabahzero @christineliuart @olgabot they never were tbh! institutional prestige always has been an indicator of systemic privilege and not necessarily merit!!!

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4 years

I lived bitches

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@krishuponastar

2 years

Excited to announce that our review is online!! Incredibly proud to have worked with a stellar group of people to get this out!!

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3 years

The feminine urge to leave academia

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Krisha Aghi

@krishuponastar

9 months

Ecstatic to announce our latest piece on deconstructing binary frameworks within neuroendocrinology is up now! This was a labor of love and I am so proud of my co-authors, @MegMassa and @amjhill .

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@coherentstates

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Why does a certain type of white folk think trans ppl don't participate in or like drag

Capt'n Amy🌹👰🐶

@CaptnAmy

2 years

Why do cis folk, het and gay, think trans women like drag?

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how does one look at the general state of the world and just like....not feel a crushing sense of despair for the future? asking fr advice tbh

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My nani and nana at their wedding in Sialkot in 1963 <3

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I'm Krishan. I study synaptic transmission and plasticity (but also dabble in some math) and im an #actuallivingscientist

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@UnburntWitch the two genders, ben1s and vag00ber

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@HerbBride this image is so akjdakjdshakjdahdkja ppl rly hate tw

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well...its happening tomorrow! dm me for the zoom link and ill try to send it in time

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She's 29....

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@transscribe @OWAnonymous_ 5 dps screeching "I need healing" while mercy ugly sobs behind the payload, hiding from an enemy widow >>>>> a balanced team somehow

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@postingtwink @AliceAvizandum When the conductor makes me do a bump instead of checking my ticket >>>

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4 years

this you?

What many transgender activists don't want you to know: And why you should know it anyway

www.scholars.northwestern.edu

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I’m very pleased to share our brand-new paper on male bisexuality, just published in PNAS: Thread

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GAG 12 YEARS between photos I'm SCREAM!!!

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i have been perceived

Isacoff Lab

@IsacoffLab

3 years

Today, on #TDOV21 , we celebrate team member @krishuponastar . Her work examines activity-dependent mechanisms of synaptic regulation on both a network and single active zone level.

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New face preview

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@krishuponastar

5 years

yall check in w ur queer and trans friends tomorrow bc it might be rough as fuck

Chase Strangio

@chasestrangio

5 years

I am alarmed at how few people are talking about the most important case directly addressing LGBTQ people ever to reach the United States Supreme Court - set to be argued on October 8. Did you even know it was happening?

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OMG shes so me...

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Krisha Aghi

@krishuponastar

5 years

Yes! As a trans scientist also wanted to add that when we do have convos like this we don't simply retreat to a bioessentialist framework to justify the validity of trans identities!

dr. christine liu ✨刘天晴

@christineliuart

5 years

RT if you're a scientist who acknowledges that neither gender nor sex is binary, and would very much like TERFs to stop referring to science when attempting to justify their bigotry. 💖

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j*n h**mstra posting something vapid about "changing academic culture"

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2 years

@anarcho_goblin @HerbBride i dont agree w the idea that enby people are responsible for reduced access to healthcare bc transitioning enby ppl etc but i do believe they can be incredibly annoying!!!! like you are right now.

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Krisha Aghi

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3 years

getting the surgery that turns me into trangelina jolie tomorrow

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4 years

2 years later and we're back on our bay area bullshit

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5 years

Me writing my biosketch vs me writing my specific aims

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Krisha Aghi

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I was openly queer for many years but coming out and transitioning at the start of grad school 3 yrs ago was one of the hardest things I could have done esp since there arent rly other TWoCs in neuro. However I never once regret being as visible as I am. #NationalComingOutDay

500QueerScientists

@500QueerSci

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It’s #NationalComingOutDay . 🏳️‍🌈 As LGBTQAI+ in STEM we have our coming out story 🏳️‍🌈 and then we often have our #OutInSTEM story 🏳️‍🌈🔬! What’s yours?

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2 years

Forgot to take my meds today

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"who said scientists can't wear colorpop ultramatte lips and a shade matched cc cream" just post ur selfie!!!!!!!!!

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5 years

Happy halloweekend from me and the boo

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Me waiting for my Zoom dissertation talk to begin

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@shopfencing Most don't cover FFS because they don't want trans people to be CUNTIER than cis women

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@chrystran Clownfish! They have a matriarchy with the female fish at top. When she dies, the dominant male transitions to female and takes over. We love fem tops!

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Krisha Aghi

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3 years

Direct deposit: $1400 Me to Elsevier: so everything is open access now

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4 years

everyone say HELLO to our baby Saffron. Shes still adjusting to her new home but shes so sweet

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7 years

@UnburntWitch imagine what goes through someone's head to wonder and ask lmao. "does this person have bEn1s or vAG00BER?"

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not a soul can clock

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getting introduced at my exit talk

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1 year

Skill issue

stacy

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@iridescentUwU Truth is you probably won’t ever “pass” unless you got to transition before puberty hit. But you can still get gendered correctly with the right presentation and you can be beautiful. Passing would require paving over your past and personality anyway. It’s not worth it.

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@Ecce_Homosexual Happy birthday to her 🎉

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On the heel of a lot of threads I'm seeing, if y'all know of any trans students who have questions about grad school/PhD programs in the life sciences you can tag them here and I'll do my best to answer qs including whats it's like being a TWoC in science

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Krisha Aghi

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3 years

The beef on my plate waiting to be thrown into the hotpot

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Krisha Aghi

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Hello children....

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Krisha Aghi

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4 years

shes 28....and spiraling.....

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1 year

Mia Thermopolis teas

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Krisha Aghi

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5 years

Someone: what year are you in grad school? Me:

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Krisha Aghi

@krishuponastar

5 years

Getting on a call w a medical provider for like the 5th time this week just reminds me daily of the extra shit trans ppl have to deal w in academia and how there are no guidelines that help faculty understand that this process is an incredibly taxing one (1/)

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Krisha Aghi

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2 years

Some of you are like "AFABs are from Venus, AMABs are from Mars"

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Krisha Aghi

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3 years

Some of these diversity in STEM initiatives......

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Krisha Aghi

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5 years

Hey @UCBerkeley , why is your registrar changing my name and gender incorrectly when I had changed months ago officially through the registrar? Why do you put this unnecessary burden on your trans students?

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Krisha Aghi

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ajsdhkajsdha this portion of a paper figure is SENDING me and idk why

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