Yesterday, upon asking me for my thoughts on whether or not the supernatural exists, a masters student asked me if I thought there was anything such as a debatable and a non debatable topic.
I went on to say that there are, objectively, matters that aren't up for debate. And since we were on the subject of the supernatural, I said, yes, something like the supernatural could be up for debate.
Lo and behold, she proceeded to ask me if I thought LGBTQIA+ was a matter of opinion.
And so, for the next hour or so I spent my time schooling her on nuances of gender, sexuality, sex assigned at birth, and the non-questionable validity of LGBTQIA+ individuals and identities!
If I don't ever do anything else in my life as a queer person, this one thing makes my life complete!
2 comments:
You have PhD. Are you university professor now? In Malaysia right?
Hey there Rob! Hoping you're doing good yourself! Yes I do have a PhD. No I am not a university professor. It takes quite a while to get there, in my field and in my country at least. There's also an intermediate associate professor rite of passage before becoming a professor and I am not even there yet! I know high-caliber, tenured lecturers who still don't even have the coveted associate professor position despite being in academia as educators for over 10 years. It also highly depends on the institution one works for.
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