Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

PhD candidate @ncb_anu visiting scholar @statelibrarynsw studying Australian journalists in Republican China. she/her

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

My first ever journal article is up! Give it a read if you want to see how my boy george morrison wrote about his backpacking trip through China https://t.co/ExalCcGeTT

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

@Joshua_Black97 Congratulations Josh!! So stoked for you!

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

Also important stuff when we have roving terf grifters spreading hate in the country

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

Took a break from my silly little tasks at the state library to check out the Pride (R)evolution exhibition and @less_glorious 's exhibit on trans people in the late 19th Century. Worth checking out, it's all incredible and moving

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

Putting up Christmas decorations made much easier by not taking that many down last year

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

It's the little things you notice about Canberra when you're back here after a while, like how the croquet club is right across the road from the British High Commission

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

One of those days where I read things, have a big think, procrasticlean while thinking some more, and then write two sentences. Anyway, tgif

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

Brb gotta start leaving audio logs of the unfolding horrors around my unit

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

Had to run to the bathroom after making questionable lunch decisions and left my notes on a journal article stopped mid-sentence on the coffee table. Can't believe I'm making my own environmental storytelling

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

Shoutout to orville peck for all the dopamine on demand this year

[Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzh]

good compliation here (and the whole thread)...
time to let go the 1989 talk
https://t.co/xIyLJhIXOg

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

@annepgardner Yep, more enraged about the whole thing than anything at this point

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

(tw: transphobia) Got harassed in a change room for the first time which is something to cross off the list I guess

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

@AdrianVickers5 It's on my to read list! Her short history of China was very good

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

Very excited for the journey into history conference today at usyd. Not to toot my own horn but I think my slides today are some of the best I've ever done

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

@AdrianVickers5 Thanks!

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

I am unreasonably proud of this

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

@MichelleArrow1 Oh fun, that's exciting! It was my first conference way back in the mists of 2019, such a good way to get started

[Tess Gardner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @TGardner43]

@eleaud Im okay now, we managed to talk the guy around and I sympathise from my own time in customer service, but still, come on!