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political scientist @edinburghpir | research/teach/tweet on #gender #migration #protests #Asia #academia | my own views
Dec 13, 2022 21 tweets 6 min read
Many people challenged me for condemning the event without actually having seen the film, which is fair. I’m a busy gal 💁🏻‍♀️ but thought I should watch Adult Human Female to see whether it’s transphobic for myself. A 🧵: Also decided to take a shot for every time someone makes an argument for transgender women are not women. Let’s see if I black out before the film or survive the night. Here we go #livetweet.
Jul 12, 2022 10 tweets 2 min read
Recently I sat on a promotion panel as an external observer for which I had to read about 100 applications. Here are my takeaways 🧵: 1/ Women - do not, I repeat, do not over-wait on applying for promotion. You are qualified, probably more qualified than any men you work with. I cannot stress enough how I see numerous women's CVs and wonder why they are only applying now when they should have done it years ago. 2/