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If you'd like to introduce yourself you can do so here. What's your subject area? What are your research and/or teaching interests? What do you do to relax?

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I seem to get more and more confused about how to describe my project the further i come along. Does anyone else get that?

Oh yes, that happens to me too. At first it seemed so straightforward but now I kind of flail around. The suffrage movement is something that people think they Know All About so I get to enjoy a fair amount of mansplaining (unfortunately not just from men) - do you get that too?

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for my topic, it really depends on what people think and know about feminism and racism as to how they respond - sometimes it leads to interesting conversations, but i also get a lot of 'oh, so germaine greer and that?' to 'why are you studying racism? - you're white' to 'well feminism is just a theory - men will always dominate the world, you should get over it' (yep that is what someone - a fellow phd student at my uni no less - said to me a few weeks ago)