You can find me on most socials at the same handle (ThatAnnaMarie). All are compiled on my personal website,
I’m also writing longform essays way more often than I’m microblogging! Subscribe to my newsletter while you’re at it! 😊
Yasmin is at the forefront of the asexual rights movement (because Black women are always the ones trying the hardest to free everyone) and she is CONSTANTLY getting attacked for it (because society hates Black women and refuse to listen to them)
Go show her some love!! 🖤🩶🤍💜
Asexual people deserve to be protected by the Equality Act. We deserve to be protected by the ban on conversion therapy. We should not be pathologised in the ICD. I'm going to keep campaigning for that and wearing fishnet tights, so prepare to be mad for a while. 💜🖤
Left stack: all the samples that made it into my dissertation
Right stack: all my failed experiments, learning experiences, or other samples that I never even tested
Young researchers, keep trying ❤️
#scicomm
I started doing DoorDash last night because I really need the money
If you’re a grad student who needs a side gig, please know that you are not any lesser because of it. I literally have a PhD in chemical engineering and need to do this until my next job.
Broke solidarity ✊🤣
Yeah so I’m not coming to the
#AIChE
conference in Orlando this year.
There’s nothing that the organization can do to protect me when I can be thrown in jail for using the airport bathroom.
#TransInSTEM
DeSantis just signed the most extreme slate of anti-trans laws in modern history.
A bathroom ban will result in many arrests in months to come.
A care ban targets 80% of adult care.
They are getting little coverage.
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To save money on food, I ate an apple and 2 tbsp of peanut butter for breakfast every weekday for all four years of my PhD.
Pay your grad students on time.
Today is my first day as a chemical engineering FACULTY member!!
It’s such a great day to be a PROUD ace trans lesbian ♠️⚧🌈
Lemme see your back-to-school pics!! 👀
I finished my PhD in 4 years, 1.5 of which took place during a global pandemic 🥴
That means I spent more than a third of my degree WFH or masked up!! 😷
It is my pleasure to announce that I will be a Lecturer at
@UMassChemEng
starting this September!
This is for all the other trans/GNC folx out there: you can be a chemical engineer, you can be a college instructor, you can be anything. 🎉
#ProfAnna
#TransInSTEM
I want to create a world where chemical engineering isn’t synonymous with oil & weapons
What if we were known for community care? Not just for clean energy, but for providing clean drinking water, or for creating waste infrastructure that doesn’t pollute poor neighborhoods?
I just won
@UConnGradSchool
’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship award!! 🎓
That’s $2,000 in my pocket to help me finish my Ph.D. next semester 🥺🙏💖💰
#PhDone
#ProfAnna
Grad school pro tip: if you can afford one, go get a massage. I just felt months’ worth of deadlines, revisions, exams, and instrument failures melt away from my shoulders 😌
#PhDchat
I’m in the interview phase for multiple faculty positions and I sometimes worry that my Twitter is “too queer” (my @ is in my CV)
Then I remember that this is exactly why I want to become a teacher; to challenge old notions of “professionalism”!! 🌈
I've just confirmed that I am the first openly transgender woman to have won a CT Women of Innovation award, in its 17-year history.
I can't wait to meet the second one. 🤝
Broke: Four years ago today, I decided to transition. I’m pleased to report that I am happier than ever now 💗🤍💙
Woke: I guess you could say that today is my………ANNA-versary!!! 😁
My sister Julie and I both earned our PhD’s within a week of each other (me from UConn, her from Princeton). So yesterday my bio family got together for a joint graduation party!! 🥳
To celebrate, my dad had
@UConn
versus
@Princeton
cornhole boards made 😜
So I just passed 700 followers and the bird app tells me that it's
#LGBTQSTEMDay
, so perhaps it's time to re-introduce myself! 💁♀️✨
My name is Anna Marie, and I combine chemical engineering education with social justice! 🧵
This is how my university responds to peaceful protest: by sending dozens of cops in riot gear.
How am I supposed to feel safe at my workplace again? How am I supposed to go on with “business-as-usual”?
(This and many other disturbing images via umass_sjp on Instagram)
The fact that these people are also removing the black & brown stripes, which stand for queer people of color, should tell you everything you need to know about them.
Last weekend, for the 2nd year in a row, I helped host a day-long conference for LGBTQIA+ high schoolers to learn about STEM subjects from LGBTQIA+ researchers at
@UConn
.
Here are some of my favorite pics!! 🧵
A reminder for those writing rec letters for their graduating students!
We often, consciously or unconsciously, describe women with words like "caring, helpful, compassionate". These are good things to be, but we should also write their SPECIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS too!
I’m very honored to have received the UMass College of Engineering 2024 DEI Award! 🎉
I’ve done a lot these past two years, from creating courses on environmental justice to serving as critical LGBTQIA+ representation 🌈
And guess what? I’m just getting started 🤝
@umassengin
I applied to several schools for a teaching-track faculty position in chemical engineering. I got asked back for a 2nd interview for most of them, and I even got 3 job offers.
If any aspiring BIPOC and/or trans teaching faculty want to look at my application packages, DM me 👀
Happy
#InternationalAsexualityDay
!!
Fun fact: wearing a black ring on the middle finger of your right hand is meant to telegraph that you're a part of the ace/aro community.
Here's my custom-engraved tungsten ring, inscribed with the words "you are not broken" 🖤🤍💜♠️
Most chemical engineering education is designed to prepare students to work at a refinery, which is not only incredibly outdated given the types of careers our students are interested in these days, but it fundamentally reflects capitalist modes of production & colonial ideology
On Friday I gave a DEI seminar about why STEM needs more trans people.
Paying subscribers to my newsletter are getting access to the recording of that talk, and also my workshop materials from my Tuesday talk about how to incorporate social justice themes into STEM courses!
So who’s hiring chemical engineering instructors? 🤙
I have a PhD and a passion for teaching/DEI, and am ready for employment starting in Fall 2022 (possibly sooner if I get a good opportunity)!
#ChemE
#AcademicJobs
#TransInSTEM
That’s a wrap,
#weSTEM2024
!
As a trans woman who never attended any SWE events in grad school, since I was unsure if my womanhood would be taken seriously there, to have the honor of giving the opening keynote today was soul-healing. Thank you SO MUCH to the organizers!! 💖🌈
It seems Twitter is dying, so here goes nothing:
~Cisgender people groom their kids into being cisgender
~All billionaires are unethical
~Republicans are fascists who want all women to be uneducated, barefoot, pregnant, and dependent on men (and for trans people to die)
To every trans person out there: you can be an engineer too. I'm proof of that!
To every ace person out there: yes your identity is valid, yes you belong in the queer community.
To every lesbian out there: hey what's up wyd later wanna get coffee?
(friend =
@emery_lan
)
I got my teaching evaluations back from the Fall and I'm incredibly happy!
The criticisms were fair & constructive (I'll slow down next time, lol) and the compliments filled up my heart <3
If you need proof that caring about student mental health will have a strong impact... 👇🏻
This proposal sounds like a GREAT way to prevent cis gay men, trans women, etc from having kids via surrogate
Or to just straight-up sterilize Black & Indigenous men 🙄
More state control isn’t the answer. Community-based care networks are the answer. ORGANIZE!!
BREAKING: Oklahoma Democrat announces that he’s planning to introduce a bill that will “mandate that each male, when they reach puberty, get a mandatory vasectomy that's only reversible when they reach the point of financial and emotional stability.” RT IF YOU SUPPORT HIS BILL!
The number of cisgender people who have never seen me as anything but 100% woman has me convinced that transphobes are a very small (if very loud & powerful) minority
Tonight‘s class was amazing!
We talked about the role of plastic in fast fashion, and I had my students collaboratively research & present a life cycle analysis on a polyester shirt 👚
Yes, my students ARE amazing and you SHOULD be jealous 🥰
To those trans people who have been wallowing in doom for months:
Look at how many people are showing up for us.
Look at how many people recognize that what's happening to us is awful, and are choosing to do something about it.
We will win. ✊🏻💜
I don’t normally do this, but I have a close friend in academia who needs legal help.
They are a disabled trans PhD student who is being pushed out of their program due to ableism.
If anyone knows a lawyer in New Hampshire who can take up their case, DM me!! Please RT!!
I’m a transgender college lecturer.
I should not have to fear being physically attacked on a day where I happen to connect my course content to themes of social justice.
I will never back down or alter my teaching style due to threats of violence. But damn, this world is WILD.
Police just determined the stabbings in the Waterloo Gender Studies class were targeted. The attack came directly after calls for an assault on Gender Studies from the likes of Jordan Peterson and Matt Walsh. This is exactly what they want.
If you’re curious about the ways in which asexuals are marginalized in society, I did a podcast episode all about it with the incredible
@Sarah_Cosgriff
!! 😊
Also on Apple Podcasts & YouTube! 💜
My first first-author paper is out!! I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who helped on this, especially my undergrad mentees!
Check out "Polyolefin films with outstanding barrier properties based on one-step coassembled nanocoatings" on
@AdvComposHyMatl
!
Today is the first day of my last semester at
@UConn
! (I defended last year, but have stayed to teach courses and support the Vergano Institute for Inclusion)
By the end, it'll have been nine years, two degrees, eight dissertation chapters & two genders at this institution 🤯
Happy first day of the spring semester, UMass!!
My office is right by the entrance to my building, so this morning I got literally DOZENS of students asking me where certain rooms are.
To help them out, I made a sign...what do we think? 🤓
Registration is now closed!!
**Sixty-three** queer/trans teenagers in CT signed up for our conference. Every one of them is doing to visit the
@UConnRainbowCtr
, meet LGBTQIA+ STEM researchers at UConn (including grad students & faculty), and most importantly, get free swag 🌈🧪