@sandyosullivan @DebBennett6 @IndigFutures Derry Girls I forgot about (though I think it's on our list).

@sandyosullivan @Jonatha61655535 @BlythAJ @IndigFutures I think the resonances with Dr Who put it back into the frame.

@sandyosullivan @JasonNTCheong @IndigFutures 'Sort of' is terrific!

@sandyosullivan @Jonatha61655535 @BlythAJ @IndigFutures Of course!

@sandyosullivan @neryssaazlan @IndigFutures Absolutely. I'm 56 so growing up I didn't even really see that (though weirdly Australia had a lot of queer characters on TV in the 70s). But also if they were queer they weren't diverse in any other way and obvs we're looking at complex queerness, & where we see that represented

@sandyosullivan @BlythAJ @Jonatha61655535 @IndigFutures I dunno if there is a spin off, but that's right they are definitely a fine Victorian Lizard and missus.

@sandyosullivan @StuntLoverAudio @quollhorreur @IndigFutures Ah... I haven't Game of Thronesed! That's an important one!

@sandyosullivan @neryssaazlan @IndigFutures While we've had all of this, it's really important to hear that these are what's on all of our radars... that they matter, you know?

@sandyosullivan @StuntLoverAudio @quollhorreur @IndigFutures Haha I did read it twice before I saw your next line! Fabulous!

@sandyosullivan @MASHFanficChick @keandric Our audit has a lot of 'types' (hopefully less tropes) in it, and you better believe these all exist in there... I hope you'll have a look and let us know which ones we're missing!

@sandyosullivan @xx_che_xx Even before Season 4 gave us ALL THE QUEERs, it had three leads (including Jeremy) and Jeremy's boyfriend (trying to avoid spoilers). Then Season 4, there were more! I mean the local nightclub was called The Glory Hole!

@sandyosullivan @MidgeyKatAttack @IndigFutures I had no idea about that. Thank you so much!

@sandyosullivan @MidgeyKatAttack @IndigFutures There’s 15 queer characters on A League of Their Own. That is an absolute benchmark for us.

@sandyosullivan @nguyen_elissa @crookes_ellie @IndigFutures Yes, and other queer characters.

@sandyosullivan @LilahRPGtt @IndigFutures Animation definitely counts. Because it’s so much cheaper than other products, it takes greater risks. So for this reason, we are seeing a lot more queer characters because we know that there is still a level of risk aversion in the inclusion of queerness.

@sandyosullivan @quollhorreur @IndigFutures Actually Legends of Tomorrow, reminds me that there’s a bunch of CW shows that have queer characters. Of course, LOT has an adult non-animated asexual character, as well. I think I have that listed better check!

@sandyosullivan @quollhorreur @IndigFutures You forgot Willow. Sorry, I’m kidding.

@sandyosullivan @MidgeyKatAttack @IndigFutures Thank you so much for the detail on this. I haven’t seen every episode so I absolutely didn’t realise that.

@sandyosullivan @xx_che_xx WE is definitely in there for other characters too!

@sandyosullivan @Raw_Toast @IndigFutures Oh my god Matthew. That’s exactly what it is! Brilliant!

@sandyosullivan @konstantkaos @IndigFutures It might just be outside of the scope. But at the same time it leads to other work so I think it needs to be included. It’s also doing some very interesting work around consent.

@sandyosullivan @Raw_Toast @IndigFutures Sex education definitely. It’s funny there’s bits of it that are a conservative in their approach and I have to have a bit of a think about what I mean. It’s almost as if it’s made for an audience to shock, rather than be intriguing or something. But really important as well.

@sandyosullivan @RenaeHayward @IndigFutures Heartstopper is definitely on there!

@sandyosullivan @MagpieDiogenes @IndigFutures So, interestingly, I don’t know if I know it at all! I’ll have a squiz!

@sandyosullivan @RenaeHayward @IndigFutures I completely forgot about glow! We definitely have heartbreak high on there! Thanks so much.

@sandyosullivan @majazonjic @IndigFutures Definitely including animation. While we are not doing a number count, we do clock that there are many more queer characters in animation than elsewhere.

@sandyosullivan @MagpieDiogenes @IndigFutures Ahhh. I’ll have to take a look, thanks!

@sandyosullivan @xs_zhang6 @IndigFutures Sorry, I meant when words aren’t used!

@sandyosullivan @xs_zhang6 @IndigFutures That is an important thing to look at. We are looking at when words are used, but they’re implied. In particular, the way that characters describe themselves.

@sandyosullivan @TheArtOfCharts @IndigFutures Somebody was looking at Sandman. I think I found it a bit difficult to watch. Definitely on Gentleman Jack! Thanks so much

@sandyosullivan @AsheRevenge @IndigFutures Wow, is that right? I didn’t have that at all on the system.

@sandyosullivan @redlianak Exactly, and many on Turtle Island use own-community designations or of their choosing. Two-Spirit is obviously an important term for many, but as a recent term (only just over 30 years) it's preceded by other cultural terms. Lots of good writing on that by the people themselves.

@sandyosullivan @redlianak Sure, it's the colonial project of gender (and sexuality). If you don't fit in the container they make for you, you don't fit anywhere. It's all incredibly limiting. Life limiting for a lot of people.

@sandyosullivan @redlianak It's incessant. As an Aboriginal person I've had multiple agencies ask if they should describe me as a 'brotherboy' because their trans understanding can't move beyond the binary. Yes, by all means double-gender me cos I love that. Also it's infantilising; I'm 56 years old.

@sandyosullivan @redlianak I say, we think, because in this continent we have no idea as we don't have stats... so it's going off limited reporting. And on that note, just because something affects two groups, doesn't mean they're affected in the same way, nor should be then treated in the same way.

@sandyosullivan @redlianak Yep and a huge difference to talking about queerness/LGBTIQA+ when it's about queerness. This *can* apply when it comes to gendered violence too, which can affect all genders, but noting that it affects women & non-binary people- separately BTW -to a greater extent...we think 1/2

@sandyosullivan @redlianak The resistance or insistence of people imposing the gender binary by stealth of 'femme' or 'masc' of non-binary people is equally odd. I mean people can be, but the desire for others to corral is odd and flawed.

@sandyosullivan @redlianak In aligning non-binary people with women, it really does (as Yves Rees says) turn non-binary people into women-lite (sometimes, but less often men-lite regardless of assignation at birth). Yep, in making men the jumping off point, it turns them into the absolute focus.

@sandyosullivan Meanwhile I owe myself a note: I keep 'liking' stuff that is entirely about the gender binary and explicitly excluding the rest of us. Gotta stop that.

@sandyosullivan @StigMartyr Dammit, I didn’t get a chance to go today, so I can’t even answer that. Is fine still quite small because I think that might be the one.

@sandyosullivan @Maggiefifty @CWattsie Me either. I've reported both tweets and now blocked them (my mistake I should have blocked them the first time but I was working).

@sandyosullivan All the stationery?

@sandyosullivan @CWattsie The 'death of Indigenous'... what does that mean. It's the death of my brother, and elsewhere you've claimed I'm not... how does this even compute in your brain?

@sandyosullivan @doessheeek @just_plain_Rick @CWattsie Me too.

@sandyosullivan @Swayn @skepticdropbear *block*

@sandyosullivan @CaitTzar Also, no, not really... I mean excluding is excluding. I don't think this is that... I think some people have a strong commitment to the binary, whether cis or trans, and I tend to challenge that, but their reasons are nuanced. Some clueless, some intentional.

@sandyosullivan @CaitTzar Colonial

@sandyosullivan @CWattsie It takes a special kind of creep to decide to respond to a tweet talking about a family member whose died.

@sandyosullivan @pandaporkchop @PythagsaurusRex @hughmurphy00 No. It’s better to not exclude an entire group that are otherwise included in the sentiment.

@sandyosullivan @pandaporkchop @PythagsaurusRex @hughmurphy00 I don’t know what this means, genuinely. Brothers, sisters, siblings are all in common use. If they don’t feel comfortable to you, don’t use them. We say ‘kin’.

@sandyosullivan 2023 work(ish) photo. I’m off twitter for the next few days. Thanks to all who challenged the colonial project and the nonsense that is Jan 26 on this continent. Wish me luck for three days of writing. https://t.co/PpS5cwz5Rf

@sandyosullivan @pandaporkchop @PythagsaurusRex @hughmurphy00 I don’t know what you mean. What would you call me? Obviously I’m suggesting sibling because that’s what I use and what a lot of people not in the binary use. I expect it, and it’s in common use.

@sandyosullivan @HelenRobertson4 So, they’re having a go at another trans person for asking for inclusion.

@sandyosullivan @timidheathen Genuinely, I mean it’s not my fight. I can barely stay on top of arguing for inclusion in this continent.

@sandyosullivan @timidheathen I just mean it’s not my fight, British trans people can exclude all they want.

@sandyosullivan @timidheathen Because there’s a bunch of trans-people arguing with me that everyone says brother and sister.

@sandyosullivan Blockety-block.

@sandyosullivan I really need to stop arguing with British people. It really is a hiding to nowhere. Though I didn’t have on my bingo card, but a bunch of other trans people would be so lily-livered about expecting inclusion.

@sandyosullivan @Gherkin_Fiend @hughmurphy00 You’re included, I’m not.

@sandyosullivan @Gherkin_Fiend @hughmurphy00 Taking crumbs. The shout down against someone that this actually affects is how this always works.

@sandyosullivan @DrJBoseovski @LuRongze @academic_exit Also in America, if this is where the discussion lands, there are massive disparities and postdocs earn half what they do in my country. Academics also a lot less. It doesn’t seem to account for these kinds of discrepancies even across the American market.

@sandyosullivan Does anyone have any recommendations for non-game discord servers that are queer-friendly?

@sandyosullivan @FieldLolo I don’t have dairy, but I do often have it with soy milk.

@sandyosullivan Just a reminder that if someone misgenders me when I’m not present, correct them. Don’t just let it slide because I’m not there.

@sandyosullivan @Frank61pc I mean sure obviously but also it’s a song that I can just listen to no matter what.

@sandyosullivan VU's Heroin is still my favourite song all these years later.

@sandyosullivan @Lady_of_Floors Yeah let’s not leave that to government.

@sandyosullivan It's been almost 3 years since the pandemic began. A lot's changed for many of us. I've developed an appreciation for getting on and doing things that matter for others, and in contrast of living in the moment. Also, more frivolously, for iced coffee. #100DaysOfIndigiQueerCare https://t.co/oFkiEU98qz

@sandyosullivan @Fibee20 @ZoeWundenberg That's fantastic news!

@sandyosullivan @FieldLolo It totally is, but it's a slippery slope (that I would totally fall down) if I am affogato-ing my coffee.

@sandyosullivan @PharaohKatt Nice art and pictures of animals is the best!

@sandyosullivan @AsheRevenge @kristin8X @headkittens Unless I know? It says you're blocked, let's go with I'm blocked, which is precisely what I said.

@sandyosullivan @PharaohKatt Oh... nice!

@sandyosullivan @kristin8X @headkittens https://t.co/AXmesPr0YK

@sandyosullivan @kristin8X @headkittens Probably not from someone who has blocked me, lol.

@sandyosullivan I dunno if there are any writing ones? I know of one that might be being revived, but are there any that folks know about?

@sandyosullivan @Angale_WMuwadda @IndigFutures We deserve it, Wilo!

@sandyosullivan This from yesterday. Be around people who make your world so much better. @IndigFutures #100DaysOfIndigiQueerCare https://t.co/RaKa04b0qj

@sandyosullivan @abstractslug Damn our bodies… magical as they are!

@sandyosullivan @DebKilroy Right back atcha Debbie... I'm so glad you're in the world!

@sandyosullivan Also, I could really do with a haircut! One was booked in but Covid aftermath got in the way (wasn't 100% sure I was finally testingnegative so had to cancel). But I have a booking for early January, worry not!

@sandyosullivan @abstractslug So true. I think because many people feel complex feelings about their bodies they also think it's the same as that. In fact I think I felt it was that for a long time... and you know, helpfully (lol!) you can have both! But seriously it's different and reassurances aren't it.

@sandyosullivan Bodies are amazing. Even as I talk about gender dysphoria in relation to my own body, I still appreciate it for holding up. 56 (57 in a few months) seemed impossible a few years ago and I'm so grateful to be this age, still around doing useful work. #100DaysOfIndigiQueerCare https://t.co/zViFNizjAP

@sandyosullivan @skepticdropbear I need you to focus on feeling better, is what I need!

@sandyosullivan @grotwort Oh yeah, I mean I'm 56! I was talking about another person, lol! I agree... all just numbers!