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i read critical theory like it's "Chicken Soup for the Brown/Queer/Trans*/Poly/Global South/Deaf/Womanist Soul"

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grading undergraduate papers where they're mostly just quoting the bible to justify why they were disgusted by brokeback mountain (even though their disgust was completely unrelated to the assignment)

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when i'm playing "never have i ever" with my high school friends, and all of the girls i used to sleep with in high school refuse to take a big-ass gulp when "never have i ever slept with someone of the same sex" comes up (some of you should be CHUGGING those sugary drinks, jerks)

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when i self-inseminated for the first time and had an allergic reaction (probably because my body thought that i was trying to inseminate the gay away)

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when my crush says sexy things to me

(you bring out the selena in me, it's true)

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when married-and-monogs-straight-white-girl in my queer theory seminar says pretty much anything

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when white queer theorists are all "parenting is sooooo normative"

(child, i know you ain't talking about parents who are single, poor, young, migrant, or of freaking color)

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how i typically enter my queer theory classroom

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what payday feels like

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when our polycluster's panel gets accepted to a conference

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what white students look/sound like when addressing students of color

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breakfast as a graduate student

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tryna get fit for my new marathon-running crush.

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first time teaching an undergrad course solo: the expectation.

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margaret thatcher died...

j/k.

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when i found out that arizona is tryna make it even more unsafe for trans* folks to pee

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truth.

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when attention-seeking bro's at the gym lift more than they should and grunt and get weird veins popping out of their foreheads