kalli ✨

Passionate about gender in digital communities | History and Politics Graduate @UniofOxford | Former Editor-In-Chief @theisismagazine

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

This aged relatively well #ThePerfectMatchNetflix

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

You can’t tell me that none of the women on #LoveisBlind fall in love with each other rather than the men in the pods and vice versa

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

I just want a meal planning app to help me reduce food waste without forcing me to lose weight

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Is the barista attractive or do I just have a Luke Danes complex?

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

As a member of the itty bitty titty community I am torn between thinking that bras for tiny boobs are a great idea and knowing that if I buy one I will never wear it

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

God yes!

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

The amount of sheer will power it is taking me to work on my grad school apps rather than my Taylor Swift short story right now is immense

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Nothing fuels my ego more than all my friends and family being angry I didn’t finish my one Wattpad fic when I was 13

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Taylor Tomlinson in Toronto and @taylorswift13 on Midnights was enough Taylor in a weekend to make my head combust

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Nothing quite like suburban Halloween

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

How often it is that a young person’s pain (self-harm; eating problems) is a violent attack, via the self, on a dysfunctional family, school or wider system; a violent call for systemic change. But we rarely see it like that - instead we pathologise them & treat *their* disorder.

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

You can’t tell me that none of the women on #LoveisBlind fall in love with each other rather than the men in the pods and vice versa

[Ụlọma @ulxma]

Why is male loneliness and inability to get laid a societal issue but “no one will want you when you’re 30 and valueless” and “you’ll die miserable and alone with your cats” has for eons been used as a weapon to scaremonger women and was always treated as a moral failing?

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Every time I meet a new person I have to decide whether or not it’s safe to openly identify as queer - trust me it’s not a whim

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

There’s something that feels really dismissive about saying queer can mean “as little as saying you kissed a girl your sophomore year at college” 🧵

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Publicly defining yourself as queer means opening yourself up to criticism and discrimination, to wondering how your family will react when they hear you identify with queerness, to personally grappling with if you’re queer ENOUGH to match the media’s standards for queerness

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Yes queer theory is trying to do something different - and there’s a long history of marginalization WITHIN these movements that created that desire for something different

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Can we take a second and think about how historically a refusal to come out and identify with a discrete category of gayness could inhibit the participation of those marginalized by their sexuality in the gay rights movement

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Love this! Growing up doesn’t mean ‘getting over’ it means watching your reflections and interpretations of past pain change and evolve

[kalli ✨ @KalliDockrill]

Questions…? may or may not have inspired a short story that’s already longer than I intended it to be