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Damon Darling, M.A.
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He/They | Ph.D. Student in Comm @Utah | Queer Ecologies, The Erotic, and Performance
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Hey! An introduction 🫡

I’m Damon, PhD student researching in the intersections of queer ecologies, performance, and the erotic. My current research interrogates how queerness can challenge cisheternomartive ecological and geospatial narratives.

Excited to connect here!

#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
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Everyone who works for ICE is an enemy of the people

Also, someone should explain the word NATIVE to old shit stain
January 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Blaming DEI programs for the tragedy that is the American Airlines crash is nasty work.
January 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Asked my media writing students the morning “why is the freedom of speech and freedom of press important?” and received 25 blank stares for a solid 2 minutes. We have got some work to do this semester, y’all.
January 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Here is a nice mushroom
January 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“The bitch ain’t Roman? The bitch ain’t Roman, the bitch not from Rome, and bitch we ain’t in Rome. So why are we acting like that’s a normal thing to do?”
January 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
To know if something is a nazi salute or not, you need look no further than how nazi’s have responded to it.
January 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Just so we’re clear:
1. Audiobooks count
2. Reading is political
3. The orange man is a piece of 💩

Thanks for stopping by 💃
January 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.
January 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Are we gonna talk about the fact they took the constitution off of the White House website?
January 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Lolol the chair at the Oval Office doesn’t even have his a** sweat on it yet. Get out of here #tiktokban
January 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Well, with TikTok gone, im gonna need yall to start posting brain rot here to distract me from this Ph.D. Thx
January 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Unfortunately timely.
January 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There is something to say about the fact whoever shoveled this plaza very deliberately plowed the majority of this snow in front of and on to #MatthewShepard ‘s memorial bench.
November 29, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Visiting Matthew today.
November 29, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Presenting this one tomorrow 😭 #NCA24 🌈🎓
November 22, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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One wild aspect of elected office is way Republicans use LGBTQ politicians as a confessional booth.

Nearly every day in the Montana House, Republicans would apologize for their votes, tell me they wish the culture war would move on, etc.

But rarely would they actually change their vote.
My GOP colleagues, who privately tell me they don't hate LGBTQ+ people, should find the courage to reject the dehumanizing rhetoric. Your silence is deafening.
November 22, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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If you are at #NCA2024, reminder: Palestinian Comm Scholars are asking folks engage in a pressure boycott. This includes forwarding resolutions supporting Palestine in all divisions, sections, caucuses, and at LA, discussing what happened at #NCA2023 & what’s happening in Palestine at the conference
November 20, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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“The academy is not a paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”

bell hooks | Teaching to Transgress

#academicsky
November 20, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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I’ve begun a starter pack featuring members of Communication Scholars for Transformation. If you’d like to follow comm professors working to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging within the field and beyond, check them out! Certain to be rich discussions. #DEI go.bsky.app/KfMpyoH
November 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
If you’re coming to #NCA this week, Dr. Vinita Agarwal and Dr. Leandra Hernandez organized what is going to be a phenomenal set of conversations about mental health and social justice. Come stop by and say hi!
November 19, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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Good morning, I'm trans.

I'm ignoring news about who thinks trans people deserve rights & bodily autonomy. I'm focusing on being out & supporting trans ppl in my communities.

Here's a list of resources, I forget who made it initially (sorry!) but it looks good.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Collective Trans Resource List 11-2024
Resources for Our Trans, Gender Expansive, & Non-Binary Community, Our Families, & Allies This list is constantly being updated to best support our communities who may reach out requesting support. I...
docs.google.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM
There are 320 flags in this installation. Attached are 320 names. 320 lives lost to transphobia this year, and I know of at least one not accounted for.
The more I think about it, the more I fear the coming years.
#transdayofremembrace
November 18, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Hey! An introduction 🫡

I’m Damon, PhD student researching in the intersections of queer ecologies, performance, and the erotic. My current research interrogates how queerness can challenge cisheternomartive ecological and geospatial narratives.

Excited to connect here!

#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
November 18, 2024 at 3:32 AM