Kat Gupta
@mixosaurus.bsky.social
linguistics, feminism, LGB, queer and trans issues 🏳️🌈🦜🏳️⚧️ lecturer in political communication at Royal Holloway University of London
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Some interesting - and troubling - reading on student loneliness at university. It's important that we set students up for success - and that means building spaces to connect in our programmes, in our buildings and on our campuses
wonkhe.com/blogs/the-on...
wonkhe.com/blogs/the-on...
The one where they still don't have any friends
Amid rising reports of student loneliness, Mack Marshall explores how UK universities are failing to design for connection - and why social isolation is no longer just a pastoral issue but a structura...
wonkhe.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Some interesting - and troubling - reading on student loneliness at university. It's important that we set students up for success - and that means building spaces to connect in our programmes, in our buildings and on our campuses
wonkhe.com/blogs/the-on...
wonkhe.com/blogs/the-on...
The difference between the parrots is that Kira will stand by your bowl and just look like she is contemplating flinging herself into the contents.
Leia will march up and not only will she unhesitatingly stick her beak into your dinner, she will rifle through looking for the best bits.
Leia will march up and not only will she unhesitatingly stick her beak into your dinner, she will rifle through looking for the best bits.
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The difference between the parrots is that Kira will stand by your bowl and just look like she is contemplating flinging herself into the contents.
Leia will march up and not only will she unhesitatingly stick her beak into your dinner, she will rifle through looking for the best bits.
Leia will march up and not only will she unhesitatingly stick her beak into your dinner, she will rifle through looking for the best bits.
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For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Sitting down with a lot of highlighters, a notebook, and text data from a recent LGBTQIA+ staff survey. It's always exciting to see themes emerging from data, but I think the university should be worried about what LGBTQIA+ staff have to say about their workplace
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sitting down with a lot of highlighters, a notebook, and text data from a recent LGBTQIA+ staff survey. It's always exciting to see themes emerging from data, but I think the university should be worried about what LGBTQIA+ staff have to say about their workplace
Was similarly delighted to mark a first year research report on Turnitin with the filename "can't"
Mood, as the kids would say.
Mood, as the kids would say.
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Was similarly delighted to mark a first year research report on Turnitin with the filename "can't"
Mood, as the kids would say.
Mood, as the kids would say.
"hey Kat, what are you up to this Saturday night?"
We are finally getting round to recreating this! because we decided to pre-roast the garlic, the flat smells…less of garlic than it could, I guess.
(eagle eyes will note only 39 bulbs fitted on the tray; we made up the difference)
(eagle eyes will note only 39 bulbs fitted on the tray; we made up the difference)
October 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"hey Kat, what are you up to this Saturday night?"
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🚨 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! 😊
🔭🚨 One more week to apply to the fully funded (3.5 years) PhD position at the Observatory!
💻 Deadline: 2nd November
ℹ️ For more information, see the link below!
➡️ www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
💻 Deadline: 2nd November
ℹ️ For more information, see the link below!
➡️ www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
www.royalholloway.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🚨 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! 😊
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large language model perfec t size for put classified military information in to pl\an! inside very Secure and Reliable put classified information in chatGPT. Alarge language model yes a place for a classified military information can trust chatbot for giveing good love to military. friend llm
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
October 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
large language model perfec t size for put classified military information in to pl\an! inside very Secure and Reliable put classified information in chatGPT. Alarge language model yes a place for a classified military information can trust chatbot for giveing good love to military. friend llm
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"
October 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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
“The films you like to watch are emotionally complex with characters who all look kind of the same* and have incredibly complicated and nuanced motivations, and it’s exhausting. What I want to watch is a film where a big shark wants to bite things.”
* they’re faceblind
So we’re watching Jaws today.
* they’re faceblind
So we’re watching Jaws today.
October 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I'm on the side of the shark btw
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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.
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
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
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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.
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
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
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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
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
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 🏳️⚧️
New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.
It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.
It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.
It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
Reject Trans Doom-Posting
This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…
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September 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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...
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...
September 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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...
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...
September 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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...
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?
September 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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?
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It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
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✨ New Report Out Now ✨
GIRES, in partnership with @hospiceuk.bsky.social and @stonewalluk.bsky.social has published the Being Ready Survey Report – looking at trans and gender diverse people’s experiences of death, dying, and bereavement care.
👉 Download here: www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...
GIRES, in partnership with @hospiceuk.bsky.social and @stonewalluk.bsky.social has published the Being Ready Survey Report – looking at trans and gender diverse people’s experiences of death, dying, and bereavement care.
👉 Download here: www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...
September 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
✨ New Report Out Now ✨
GIRES, in partnership with @hospiceuk.bsky.social and @stonewalluk.bsky.social has published the Being Ready Survey Report – looking at trans and gender diverse people’s experiences of death, dying, and bereavement care.
👉 Download here: www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...
GIRES, in partnership with @hospiceuk.bsky.social and @stonewalluk.bsky.social has published the Being Ready Survey Report – looking at trans and gender diverse people’s experiences of death, dying, and bereavement care.
👉 Download here: www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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I have just submitted a new article on the language(ability) of the collective trauma of witnessing Gaza and the role of language in pedagogy and anticolonial struggles.
Here is the closing paragraph:
#GazaGenocide #Trauma #Language #Pedagogy #Education #KeepTellingofGaza
Here is the closing paragraph:
#GazaGenocide #Trauma #Language #Pedagogy #Education #KeepTellingofGaza
August 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I have just submitted a new article on the language(ability) of the collective trauma of witnessing Gaza and the role of language in pedagogy and anticolonial struggles.
Here is the closing paragraph:
#GazaGenocide #Trauma #Language #Pedagogy #Education #KeepTellingofGaza
Here is the closing paragraph:
#GazaGenocide #Trauma #Language #Pedagogy #Education #KeepTellingofGaza
A week in the hills with 17 friends, hiking and boats and trailing wetly into a pub for a huge lunch. Today we went to Coniston Water to say goodbye to it, and watched the bats swooping over the still, gleaming water
August 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A week in the hills with 17 friends, hiking and boats and trailing wetly into a pub for a huge lunch. Today we went to Coniston Water to say goodbye to it, and watched the bats swooping over the still, gleaming water
I love #LavLang31. I'm so honoured to have been an invited speaker at a conference that's so kind, supportive and welcoming to postgraduates and early career researchers 🥰
August 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I love #LavLang31. I'm so honoured to have been an invited speaker at a conference that's so kind, supportive and welcoming to postgraduates and early career researchers 🥰
Giving a keynote at @lavlang.bsky.social and this genuinely might be my look
August 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Giving a keynote at @lavlang.bsky.social and this genuinely might be my look
The Vatican is one of the very few major voices challenging the dominant narratives of AI.
There's a clear line from Laudato Sì to this stance: placing humanity, the environment, care, respect, and what we owe each other and our shared world at the heart of all we think and say and do.
There's a clear line from Laudato Sì to this stance: placing humanity, the environment, care, respect, and what we owe each other and our shared world at the heart of all we think and say and do.
so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI
here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
August 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The Vatican is one of the very few major voices challenging the dominant narratives of AI.
There's a clear line from Laudato Sì to this stance: placing humanity, the environment, care, respect, and what we owe each other and our shared world at the heart of all we think and say and do.
There's a clear line from Laudato Sì to this stance: placing humanity, the environment, care, respect, and what we owe each other and our shared world at the heart of all we think and say and do.
Pulled a girl in a gay club whose first words to me were "do you speak English?"
I wanna hear all of your worst dates. Lay ‘em on me. I need some laughs.
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pulled a girl in a gay club whose first words to me were "do you speak English?"