A recent text sent to my partner read: "I am currently emotionally unavailable due to this conference paper I need to finish writing"
Today, I'm working on the graphics and script outline for a presentation titled "Making Ghosts Work For You". I'm using bits and pieces of lean business planning theory so I had to make my own base canvas for my slides.

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Howdy! My name is Jack and I'm a small business researcher in Florida. I'm trying to finish up my qualitative research thesis in my current degree before gays become completely illegal in FL.

Aside from my thesis work on the management of gay bars, I've also researched paranormal tourism, heritage tourism, and methods of communicating sensitive information in restricted spaces.

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How it may promote this idea what someone has to wear to be seen in a very specific way.
That if you want to pass, you have to wear tucking panties or shape wear boxers. (Or just the idea that you have to pass in general.)
It’s more obviously a market and product research question, but I am in entrepreneurship, and it’s not out of line to talk about how this might impact the creation of new companies. Such as more authentic products being pushed away.

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Back to some actual research posting since it is pride month after all.
I have a lot of conversations with my advisor about the concept of ‘washing’. For me, it’s usually rainbow washing and for him, it’s usually craft washing.
As an interception of these two similar concepts, I’ve been thinking a lot about different ‘transgender’ clothing lines. How these products fit only a narrow view of trans man/trans woman, how they’re largely inaccessible…

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One of the fun little things I had to do recently was submit a list of objectives for my research. Which in this context meant telling my department what could be the possible industry applications could be for all of this work.
*in a John Mulaney voice*
“I will now share for you these objectives.”

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I suppose there's a certain amount of irony in that all of my long term relationships have ended because of academia and that I'm about to spend the rest of my life studying LGBTQ community building.

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Recently, a friend (a cis gay man who works in hospitality and tourism management) said that it had never really occured to him that there might be a difference between gay bar operations and general bar operations. Which was followed by the question, how much difference do you think there actually is in the two operations modes?
And, reader, I don't know. That's why this is my research.

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Some of the nerdiest tattoos I've thought about getting recently but they're all just phrases:

10,000 Hours

πthon

debit = credit

[redacted phrase about business ethics that's the unofficial motto for my professional fraternity]

ALE ( A = L + E )

False == (1 > 2)
True

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Them, people generally concerned about my well-being: what do you want to do with your life after grad school?
Me, externally: research into entrepreneurship in LGBTQ communities as a method of creating more inclusive public spaces
Me, internally: spend the rest of my life writing about, creating, and selling business fashion for queer people

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Creating (yet another!) thread to keep track of choice things I've said items of #LGBTQ pop culture as part of my thesis work.

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The peak of my academic life (up to this point) is really going to come from using classic queer media as sources for my thesis. So far I'm at:
1. The Boys in the Band (1968, 1970, 2018)
2. La Cage aux Folles (1973, 1978)
3. The Birdcage (1996)
4. Paris Is Burning (1990)
5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973, 1975)

They all connect back to the creation of queer spaces...somehow. La Cage aux Folles is even literally about managing a drag bar.

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In the work that has already been produced on my research focus, the face off that I've seen most often is gay bar versus LGBTQ bar.
The argument from one side is that gay bar is unnecessary gendering and creates the atmosphere of a strictly men's bar. The argument from the other direction is that gay has become a more generalized term and is no longer as gendered.

What I'm concerned about is how that impacts the ROI. (joke)

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Today, I'm working on the annotated bibliography that I have to submit at the end of this semester before I officially beginning my research on gay bar management.
With the bit of creative freedom I've been given on this assignment, I've chosen to include several books, plays, and movies as support for the background and necessity of my work.
As I start to post abut my work again, let's go to The Boys in the Band.

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My proposal for a paper on paranormal tourism has been picked up by a gothic conference as a small business management workshop.

Long winded way of saying I’m having a very good week!

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Whoops, am I screwing myself over by applying to a management PhD program at a school where my platonic partner teaches? Even if he was the one who encouraged me to come to his region to do my research? Being a gay in business gets very complicated very quickly.

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Conversations about grad school with someone who works at one of the schools I'm considering:

Me: "Do you think I can safely do a PhD in Dallas with my identity and research interests?"
Him: "I think the gay bars in Dallas need a lot of help."

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To other people at my institution, the weirdest thing I’ve ever done is collect faculty members like trading cards in terms of the connections I’ve made in my field.

To me, about other people at my institution, the weirdest thing they’ve ever done is not bother to learn anything about anyone they’ve ever taken a class from, outside of their last names.

And it’s just: Now who’s the one getting so much offered help on their thesis?

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Using PowerPoint to make memes about #BusinessResearch? Couldn't be Jack.

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One of the best uses of my academic connections is just being able to DM people on LinkedIn about weird research questions about things that bother me in different retail stores.
Feature of this week: questions about supply chain issues for specific dairy products in sustained demand.

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someone way away from me, involved in a conversation I have no business being involved in, lightly whispers, "I'm thinking of investing in crypto"
me, sitting doing research notes, standing up and dashing to their table, against my better judgement to say, in an academic terms, "please don't"

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