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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One of the people I’m interviewing for my thesis: so once you go off and get that PhD, what are you going to do with your life?
Me: well, after going through all that, hopefully I’m going to end up researching more of this stuff
Them: I think you’re going to end up owning a gay bar

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I suppose the pro/con of being a gay business academic currently studying LGBTQ owned businesses is that my work keeps becoming more and more relevant to the concerns of business owners, but I also am becoming less and less valuable to PhD programs.

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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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Do I…do I make a pride month post on my LinkedIn this year?

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“I fear failure more than I fear death because I am willing to die for the continuation of my work” should not be something I am having to see about my academic career in 2023 while living out my 20s. This could have been my time for me to live a carefree life. Instead, it’s become shaping my career around the survival of my community.
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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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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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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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Writing inventory control word problems as a means to explain why I despise Winn-Dixie is one of those other tell tale signs that I’m on the right career path.

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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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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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Back to using this meme format to describe my academic dilemmas.

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I found out this afternoon that I've been given an invitation for a business honors society and they actually used my correct name in the e-mail. Off to a good start with not calling me a fag or tranny as they welcome me into their professional society.

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How To Build #LGBTQ+ Inclusivity Within Your Company
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/01/10/how-to-build-lgbtq-inclusivity-within-your-company/amp/ #Diversity #Queeringbusiness