Rachel ︽✵︽ Thorn

@rachel_thorn_en

She/Her Professor in Faculty of Manga, Kyoto Seika University. Translator, shōjo manga scholar, feminist, transgender, JSL. 日本語は

Kyoto, Japan
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Joined May 2015
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 7

    Manga artist comes home to discover that her art has been stolen along with some cash. Finds note left by scanlator: "Love your work! ❤️ You'll thank me later! 😊"

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  2. Retweeted
    Dec 19

    Don't let the narrative about this be "JK Rowling in internet spat about whether trans women are women" It's not This is "JK Rowling stands with woman who lost court case about her choice to be abusive towards trans people in her workplace, so her contract was not renewed"

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  3. Retweeted
    Dec 18

    I feel like this holiday season, it's important to remind people of the true meaning of christmas: ghosts terrorizing rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees more

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    3 hours ago

    Ahem. ⬇️ Voter suppression isn’t a bug; it’s a feature for the GOP. Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Florida...you name the competitive state, and I can tell you their plan. They’re just finally saying the quiet part out loud.

    BREAKING: A Trump advisor told the WI GOP that “Traditionally it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes in places”—& "It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program, a much…
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    3 hours ago

    ??? They already do. They can afford to cheat their way in, too. It doesn't make sense that y'all oppose free tuition b/c you supposedly care about billionaires paying their fair share but then you also oppose a wealth tax LOL Pick one or the other

    No, I want billionaires to pay for their own darn college
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  6. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    息子のコサックダンス置いておきます。

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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 19

    thinking about that tweet that was like "the only thing stopping men from being pedophiles is the law"

    billie eilish turned 18 today...?? ya’ll know what that means
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  8. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    Y’all... this man is...I.... what .... is he selling anything?? How do I support without having to watch sports?!????

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    D Wade uses “She” pronoun referring to 11 y.o. son
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  9. Retweeted
    Dec 18

    nonblack artist / influencer: I'm sorry for my past antiblackness nonblack fan in the replies: "you don't have to apologize for calling someone a g*rilla m*nkey n*gg*r b*tch 😩😔 you were only 17❗️🙈 and didn't know 🙅‍♀️🧠 racism existed 🤷‍♀️🤥I forgive you 😋🥰”

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  10. Retweeted
    6 hours ago

    Weirdly, only white men participated in it.

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    NEW: Investigation by US service academies finds hand gestures at Army-Navy football game were part of the "circle game" and not racist …
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    7 hours ago

    Many scholars have demonstrated that the origins of the Religious Right can be traced back to resistance to racial integration. "Pro-life" framework came later and took shape within this racial cultural project

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  12. 12 hours ago

    For context:

    Ending my weeklong hiatus a few hours early to complain. I finally splurged on the box set edition of Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (the manga)& was shocked to see 1) I am not credited at all despite…
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  13. 12 hours ago

    An early Christmas present from . This affected me way more than I was expecting. I opened the book, looked at the credits, and immediately burst into tears, much to the surprise of my four-year-old daughter . Thank you, Jane Lui.

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  14. 14 hours ago

    I got another call from the uni, asking me what they should do about the numerous calls and emails they are getting from pedophile fascists. (Weird how the Venn diagram for pedophiles and fascists is almost a circle.)

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  15. Retweeted
    Dec 19

    Transphobia kills people. It’s the same old hate re-packaged and ready to sell, & your prize is getting to deny, turn a blind eye to, or participate in violence against a minority group while eating up every fairy tale horror conjecture about what would happen if they had rights.

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  16. Retweeted
    Dec 19

    Doctor: How often do you exercise? Me: 3 times Doctor: A week? A month? Me: I've given my answer

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    18 hours ago

    42 years ago, a girl sat in a darkened theater and travelled for the first time to a galaxy far, far away. I've chased that feeling ever since. Thank you, , for a life that, if not always wisely, was lived with feeling and a really, really good score

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    17 hours ago

    So now that there is no longer a Honey Baked Ham online store for Japan, where are we buying holiday hams (glazed, spiral-cut) in Tokyo?

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    18 hours ago

    Dear men, Can you just fucking not for a second

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  20. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    Kids are just tiny drunk detectives who see everything but know nothing

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  21. Retweeted
    Dec 19

    Impressive that JK Rowling has managed to completely incinerate all of the goodwill she accrued from creating the most successful youth fantasy series of all time in just under a decade. Anything is possible, folks, if you just keep tweeting.

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    Dec 19

    stop scrolling 🛑 ✋🏾!!! IM FROM THE FUTURE 🤖 🚀🚨i need to let you know 😳😳 that 2020 will be the best year you’ve ever had 🎉🎊🤩🤩! u finna accomplish so much 🥳🥳 & learn a lot about life🌎🌍🤨!! i’m so proud of you 😰😰no cap 🚫🧢 !! ight u can scroll now!! ☝🏾

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    Dec 19

    LRT: Always treat katakana loanwords like Japanese words, not the foreign words they imitate. This is how ビッチ gets mistranslated as bitch so often. KATAKANA WORDS ARE STILL JAPANESE WORDS Y'ALL.

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    22 hours ago

    Ignorance is no excuse, but I liked the tweet without understanding what the last line or hashtags meant. It was the 1st 4 lines I liked & I didn't realize it had any transphobic connotation.

    why did you like this transphobic tweet?
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    Dec 19

    A thing I hope cis people are learning about the JK Rowling thing is to trust trans people when we tell you someone does not have our interests at heart. Same goes for POC and racism, disabled folks and ableism—the marginalized are attuned to the dogwhistles of our enemies.

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    Dec 19

    I’m a cis woman. I’m more scared of terves and transphobes than trans women.

    Replying to @GunshipDiplomat @aToadAbode
    I’m cis woman and trans women don’t scare me. They don’t scare my cis friends either. Stop.
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  27. Retweeted
    Dec 19

    hand over the creative license of Harry Potter to fanfiction dot net

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  28. Retweeted
    Dec 19
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    Meanwhile still the only person to actually be cancelled for expressing his first amendment rights

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    Dec 19
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    So basically this but with JK Rowling?

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    Dec 19

    Prediction: “I was CANCELLED!” JK Rowling will scream on Bill Maher, as her bank account never dips below 237,999,043 £ and she continues to control a lock hold on the imagination of a billion children—all while trying to harm some of the most marginalized ppl on Earth. Neat!

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    15 hours ago
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    It’s exhausting and the best only really get about 30% of the context! Speech or lip reading is very tiring!

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    Dec 19

    Speech. Reading. Is. Awful. And. Mentally. Taxing. I wish research on speech reading and literacy would acknowledge that. Maybe ask some deaf adults how much they hate speech reading?

    We are pleased to be joined in the lab over the next year by Research Fellow Lizzie Buchanan-Worster who is investigating the relationship between lipreading and reading in deaf and hearing children. Read more about her fantastic research in our new blog!
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    15 hours ago

    Now that I've actually seen a Star War, I have the following to say: * it's very easy to understand star wars films, even with minimum context. * Oscar Isaac is hot as fuck.

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    Dec 19

    well its finally happened. JK Rowling has taken the mask off and shown everyone what trans people have been telling you for years: she's a terf. maybe believe us next time we tell you someone is crypto?

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    Dec 19

    To my fellow cis women—let’s get a head count. How many of you love and support our trans sisters and haven’t been fooled by the rampant fear mongering of transphobes?

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  36. 21 hours ago

    Really disappointed by Rowling exposing herself unambiguously as a TERF. I had been looking forward to rereading her books with my daughter, but instead I’ll put them out to be recycled.

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    22 hours ago

    Warren talking about !

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  38. 22 hours ago

    I’m also pleased to report that the university made clear that I have the right express my opinions without interference from the university.

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  39. 22 hours ago

    (Either that or they are a brilliant actor who called as a roundabout way of harassing me. Some right-wing organization also called my university to say they want to “interview” me. It was apparently suspicious enough that the university refused to put the call through to me.)

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  40. 22 hours ago

    I deleted my English tweet about sticking my hand in the hornets’ nest. The mention of the word “ass*ssinated” apparently had someone sincerely worried enough to call my university and ask if I was all right.

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    Dec 19
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    What, exactly, is to be gained by using your platform to be cruel and exclusionary to one of the world’s most vulnerable populations?

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