Courtney Sheppard

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

K-pop stans are literally the best. I'm a K-pop stans stan.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

Things that do NOT change that:
- Your history as a ciswoman.
- My history as a ciswoman.
- Your misleading "essay", including:
- outdated statistics
- discredited scientists
- methodologically flawed research
- transmedicalism

Transwomen are women.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

Speaking as one of the "the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine", I wasn’t born with enough middle fingers to express how I feel about you, J.K. Rowling.

Transwomen are women.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

@KlagsbrunTO @ctvqp "Hey, I know the cops are murdering people, but let's talk more about money."

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

@aldomaccione7 @ctvqp It's almost as if we could use the money from defunding the police to do those things.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

Today at the park, someone apologized for mis-gendering my kid by saying, "Oh, I'm sorry. I thought she was a boy because she is so brave and independent."

[Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. (he/him) @ajesusjoseph]

This is racism.

A racist microaggression magnified nationally.

Denial, erasure- lazy, willful neglect of lived & documented anti-Black, settler colonial, anti-Muslim, anti-Asian, anti-Semitic racism in Canada now & historically. He cites nothing. Remove this & issue an apology.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

@adr I started my job one week before the lockdown. It's an odd way to start!

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

So:

Here before me: terrorist / drunk

Here after me, and from:
- too far south: here to take my job
- east: ok
- south of that: thug
- east of that: terrorist
- farther east than that: contagious / eats weird stuff

That's a narrow chronological and geological window for ok.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

But yeah, let's keep talking about how tolerant we are in Canada, instead of listening to these stories and paying attention. It's more fun to pat each other on the back.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

Today, I was speaking to two friends. One told me a story of how, yesterday, she went to a print shop to print a return label for Amazon. The person working there asked if she was from Wuhan, and increased the printing price.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

My other friend chimed in that she gets asked at the hospital all the time now, "Where are you from? Are you from China?" For the record, yes, her family is from China, and she has lived in Canada since she was 11. The hospital staff treat her poorly.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

@libraryzombie @winelibrarian So many contradictions. "Don't swear" and "have kids"? Yeah, you only get to pick one of those.

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

That grad student life tho #gradlife #academia

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@ajesusjoseph Strong agree. Also, wtf is with pronouncing it newt-ella? Made with freshly squeezed newts?

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

@klrobson Guarantee you that the IT guy doesn't think you're a moron. You know I'm speaking with insight here.

- your former IT guy :)

[HamOntQueers @HamOntQueers]

Because trans folks have been kicked out or not allowed to use city washrooms.
Because our one yearly park event continues to be disrupted by hate groups.
Because we get harassed on the street.
Because city councillors still don't understand what we go through daily.
#hamont

[Courtney Sheppard @trilo_bytes]

I just invited my husband (and father of my daughter) to my Google Home. I feel like this is a huge step in our relationship, and I worry that I'm not ready for this level of commitment.