Kat Gupta

Was similarly delighted to mark a first year research report on Turnitin with the filename "can't"

Mood, as the kids would say.

"we" no longer exist. we have become garlic.

Everything is garlic. I can no longer smell garlic. My eyes are still stinging so I assume the fumes are still present. But I honestly couldn't tell you whether I - or my hands, my clothes, or anything else in this flat - smells of garlic

We genuinely cannot smell garlic anymore and have no idea how much - or indeed, if - we smell of garlic.

"hey Kat, what are you up to this Saturday night?"

🚨 One more week to apply to the PhD position at the London Social Media Observatory. If you are interested in empirical, quantitative, and/or computational approaches to studying social media and politics, apply! 😊

That's amazing news! So glad that your work in this area has been recognised and will be supported!

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Congratulations Niall! I look forward to seeing what you do

I shall pass on your thanks to this student!

I should mention that I've been out as queer longer than this student has been alive! So after assuring her that I know what a chapstick lesbian is, we had a great conversation about labels and why they're interesting

The term "butch" is not popular with her peers - the dichotomy is masc/femme rather than butch/femme. Interesting to consider this (lack of) usage alongside efforts to recentre and reexamine "butch"
www.instagram.com/butchisnotad...

Today one of my students took it upon herself to explain the lesbian taxonomy to me, including such terms as "femme", futch" and "chapstick lesbian". According to her, the kids are using "masc" instead of "butch", and "stone top" instead of "stone butch"

I'm on the side of the shark btw

This show is perfect

www.vice.com/en/article/l...

To be specific, at the point when spouse and I got together I am pretty sure they had seen a maximum of twelve films in their life that weren’t a Jurassic Park, a Star War or a Die Hard.

Also never seen Indiana Jones (any), Seinfeld, Frasier, Arrested Development, Community, The Wire, House, Golden Girls, The Office, Sex and the City, Supernatural...

Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
The Crown
Mad Men
Peaky Blinders
Love Island (but I've read a lot of transcripts thanks to sociolx of gender students)
James Bond (any)
The Godfather
Lord of the Rings
Any Tarantino
Any Cary Grant film

My wife says it would be faster to list the films I have seen

Thanks! It ended up being 17500 words when we submitted it!

always a pleasure!

My brilliant friend Ruth wrote this incredible essay about grief and the ways that trans people are failed by institutions and the ways in which we must - must! - resist doom to create something better. We find solace and solidarity and help and hope in community 🏳️‍⚧️

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

I feel weird about sharing photos of people with whom I'm no longer in touch, but please enjoy this photo of me from Dec 2006 in a houseshare somewhere off Liverpool's Smithdown Road. The sofa! The belt! The Ikea storage crate that we tried to disguise! I can smell this photo...

I've baked when it's 32°C and when it's around 10°C and it was a very different experience! I'm told that sea level also makes a difference but that's not really something I've had the opportunity to explore

I think, given that you're already working with quite a high level of hydration in the dough, ambient humidity is probably less of a factor. Not saying that it has *no* effect because it will - but I think temperature is probably the one that varies more when I bake and has a greater effect

The tally marks are to keep track of how many times I do stretch and folds during bulk fermentation. Tbh I notice more of a difference with temperature - I baked this on a cool day and it was somewhat underproofed. Might start recording temp because that does seem to be such a major factor

I don't but I probably should...

A round, golden brown sourdough loaf. It's fresh out of the oven and resting on a kitchen hob to cool down.

Handwritten list of the ingredients and weights, notes on timings and notes on oven temperatures and timings

Back on my sourdough bullshit. Didn't get as much rise as I hoped but not bad from a resurrected dried starter and my first time baking with it in a couple of years. Probably going to be the first of many...

Ultimately, the EHRC guidance indicates that we should be denied community, healthcare, employment and fundamentally, denied being part of society. How do you talk to people who think that's entirely fair and proportionate?

Preparing to write to my MP about the EHRC guidance and just. What do I have to do and say to convince people that I, and all trans people, deserve to live with dignity and peace and safety? How do I persuade someone that we deserve to live?