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a quantum computer is like a bg beautiful cheese grater. to me

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the thing about being a researcher is that sometimes you will have An Experience that falls even slightly out of the ordinary and your first thought is to go "woag that's interesting I wonder if anyone has done a study on this" and before you know it you're balls deep someone's thesis

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butler will hit you with "the feminist subject turns out to be discursively constituted by the very political system that is supposed to facilitate its emancipation" 15 pages in and if you don't get it you're just gonna have to learn

Thinkin about that terf tweet about alleged sexual abuser russell brand thats like "if i understand even 1/10 of what he says I know i'm smart!" like girl read judith butler

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Thinkin about that terf tweet about alleged sexual abuser russell brand thats like "if i understand even 1/10 of what he says I know i'm smart!" like girl read judith butler

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I feel like a complete alien rn. where are all my mutuals

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Hi Tumblr! My name is Molly O'Reilly-Kime (they/them) and I'm a PhD student at Lancaster University in England. I research how Non-Binary people use social media to express identity and build community.

Why are you in my house?

I've been a tumblr user for around 400 years and I didn't want to doxx myself by sharing my research on main. Tumblr is a cornerstone site in the Queer social media ecosystem and I want to be able to freely talk to the people who might be interested in what the research community is up to. Lifting the curtain on academia is really important, especially in marginalised communities where we are sometimes talked about more than we are talked to.

How do I know you're a real person?

Here's my institution profile! If you study or work at LU you can also come and look at me in real life (please email me first).

What's your research?

I'm a sociotechnologist and my field falls under the HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) umbrella. I study Non-Binary users' interactions with social media in a Computer Science context. It's a very niche and new field that doesn't have a great deal of research behind it, so there's plenty to do!

Are you researching me right now?

Nope! All my studies are conducted with the informed consent of participants, and subject to ethical approval from my university. I won't use this platform to conduct research without explicit disclosure. This includes any polls I post or share.

What if I WANT to be researched?

Then you can be!! I am running two studies at the moment for your perusal:

Queerphobia Online Reporting Form

If you have come across queerphobia on social media, send me a screenshot (or a description) of the post and how the platform responded. You don't need to be Non-Binary, or any flavour of LGBTQ+, to use the form!

Non-Binary Social Media Co-Design

What does your ideal social media site look like? Wanna share your ideas? Maybe even design the social media of your dreams? If yes, you can sign up to participate in a co-design workshop using this form! No design or software experience needed. If you're outside of Lancaster, you can attend an online session!

What's your header image?

A deeply unrelatable meme about trying to conduct lit review searches when everyone uses different terminology.

Intro post last updated 22/01/25