Dr. Catherine Strickson

Dr. Catherine Strickson

@brigitteempire.bsky.social

Doctor of Palaeontology. Leftist YouTuber and Podcaster. Transsexual Disaster. SFF Author. She/Her

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A lot of people will tell you ‘fake it til you make it’ and annoyingly they’re right, if I imagine myself the way that I’d be if I were born cis in my head, the mannerisms, posture, even the voice comes easier, if I feel confident or girly at any point it’s second nature

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I won’t lie and say this doesn’t get easier with passing, in particular since I have had big boobs so many more cishet people in my life just see me the way I am, and if anything it’s cis queer people that tend to make it weird

But even then I wasn’t projecting femininity the way I wished to, the way that brings me joy and confidence, and the way that affected my friendships was through my lack of confidence and my disconnect between how they saw me as a woman and how I felt - inadequate, undeserving - self sabotage

A lot of people will tell you ‘fake it til you make it’ and annoyingly they’re right, if I imagine myself the way that I’d be if I were born cis in my head, the mannerisms, posture, even the voice comes easier, if I feel confident or girly at any point it’s second nature

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Weirdly when I think about this I think about Jack Black when he lost a bunch of weight around when the tenacious D movie came out and when asked how he did it he said something like ‘I conjured an image of a beautiful elf’

So much of our stumbling blocks are negative messages from society we’ve imposed on ourselves for protection - I can’t wear that, I can’t act like that, I can’t be friendly with them, I can’t like this - which is why I always put so much emphasis on killing shame as a necessary part of transition

A lot of people will tell you ‘fake it til you make it’ and annoyingly they’re right, if I imagine myself the way that I’d be if I were born cis in my head, the mannerisms, posture, even the voice comes easier, if I feel confident or girly at any point it’s second nature

Getting in your own head is going to make you stumble, you have to embody the person inside you that it is tempting to suppress because you feel like you can’t get away with an outward expression that authentic or that you don’t deserve to do so

Internationalism is right and necessary, this self-absorbed and petty nationalist denial of empathy for anyone suffering outside of your own country is how self-styled ‘liberals’ in the USA justify their continued plundering of the world while claiming to be progressive

This is incredibly important - mass protests are good and necessary but very few take the logical next steps needed to affect real change - we need to learn to channel our rage into organising, so we are strong and united enough to enforce our demands

‪thinking about how when I originally voice trained I had to deal with everyone asking where I was from and not taking Nottingham for an answer until I said my grandma was from NY, which is true but irrelevant cause the only reason I sounded ‘foreign’ was cause of how I voice trained ‬

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You would think if we were elitist I wouldn’t be stuck living with my parents and unable to get a job outside of YouTube at 35 despite having a PhD, guess it’s a new secret kind of elite where you have no money, power, stability, or ability to advocate for yourself

My suspicion is she had a bunch of PR people draw up a plan for her to minimise how much everyone hates her now, ahead of the new potter show, and she has insisted on continuing to be a hateful piece of shit so the compromise is a single essay rather than 100 tweets a day

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The centre of what, a Nazi crime denialism scandal?

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Rowling is funding a state crackdown on trans people and she’s in the centre? How genocidal do you need to be to be considered right wing?

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Another banger📢 This one has given me a little bit of Schadenfreude, ngl. For white supremacists, white poor people are a failure. In their stupid, melted, rotten minds, people of colour and women are naturally inferior, so poor white men have no excuse. That ad was true to their rotten truth.

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This month, the republican party released an ad featuring a white male gamer 'welfare queen'. The most unwashed conservatives on the internet are demanding only black women be portrayed in this dehumanising role. Let's talk about this racist myth and the outrage from freaks like Asmongold

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Her doctorate makes her the most qualified to dissect fragile fossils like Matt Walsh 🗣️🔥

Dr. Catherine Strickson@brigitteempire.bsky.social

This month, the republican party released an ad featuring a white male gamer 'welfare queen'. The most unwashed conservatives on the internet are demanding only black women be portrayed in this dehumanising role. Let's talk about this racist myth and the outrage from freaks like Asmongold

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Mask just fully off from these freaks isn't it. And they are too stupid to not play along. They could just let the Republicans do it so they seem a little more evenhanded for 1 second but no. And if the Republicans didn't feel they needed to soften the message, they wouldn't.

Dr. Catherine Strickson@brigitteempire.bsky.social

This month, the republican party released an ad featuring a white male gamer 'welfare queen'. The most unwashed conservatives on the internet are demanding only black women be portrayed in this dehumanising role. Let's talk about this racist myth and the outrage from freaks like Asmongold