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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈

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Lecturer in public policy & tech, sociologist, tangata tiriti, feminist, geek, coffee-vampire, lesbian, urbanist, electric motorcyclist, ex-Chicagoan, wannabe Carol Danvers/Clarke Griffin/Kate Kane. She/her ❤️🖤🤍 https://about.me/sarahhendricabickerton/

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · Jul 24

Today in electric motorcycle news...

Nothing really 'news-y' but I put together a playlist of my electric motorcycle POV videos I've been doing on YouTube. Starting off with where I simply had my iPhone in a chest harness, to now where I have a Dji Action 5 on my helmet.
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Electric Motorcycle POV Videos - YouTube

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h

“Living car-free is the most impactful behavior by far in terms of reducing emissions.”

WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 5h

🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 7h

Ver much this, my friend. For all that the motorcycle industry & demographics need to change to survive, maybe these new generations of moto-vloggers are part of solution of sharing our joy of riding with others.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 9h

She really is! 😀

Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 12h

Also, the rain couldn’t just have waited 10 more minutes?!

Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 12h

Ok, I may be a bit of a fangirl … IYKYK #motosky

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 12h

Shush you. We made the Superbowl in 07!

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 12h

Me: this semester has been bonkers, I have no idea how my Chicago Bears are playing this season.

*goes & checks* 😳

(now, admittedly, at this time we haven't played as many games as others - so, caveat - but still, bottom of our division conference?!)

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 13h

I teach almost exclusively masters and phd students, so getting to teach undergrad and even first years really scratches that fun itch :)

Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 15h

Awww, thanks Sam, I'm more just glad to help out where I can. And it's fun to come in and meet a whole bunch of new students and engage with them.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 15h

Gave my last guest lecture of the semester today … at the start of the semester I hadn’t realised how many I’d said yes to. Turned out 8 of them.

Given there’s 12 weeks in the semester, I may need to watch how much I say “yes” to in future, even though they’re super fun.

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 16h

It’s amazing watching so many people choose the wrong side of history while history is happening all around us

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations Joel!

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 18h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 16h

2025 gonna keep on 2025'ing.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 21h

I feel this way about rocket lettuce in everything right now ... can't wait for this particular food fad to be over.

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Graphic Policy @graphicpolicy.com · 21h

NYCC 2025: Ladies of the Knight Brings Medieval Flair to a Queer-Normative Historical Fantasy #comics #graphicnovel #lgbt

NYCC 2025: Ladies of the Knight Brings Medieval Flair to a Queer-Normative Historical Fantasy

Serafina so good that she’s getting bored and reckless in her jousts, but when she takes on plucky George as a squire, she suddenly finds herself in the position she never wanted: a mentor.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 1d

Then there was “sweet chilli” everything in the 1990s.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 1d

They so are! So much goals.

Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 1d

Found these guys btw, tho they seem more active on Insta … youtube.com/@advtravelbu...

ADV Travelbug

Hi Everyone, Sandra & Fiona here! SUBSCRIBE NOW and join our ROUND THE WORLD trip by MOTORBIKE :-) We quit our jobs in 2018 to travel the world. After backpacking through Asia for some time we dec...

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 1d

I have found these women who are awfully cute … www.instagram.com/adv_travelbu...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a reference just a little bit ago (I’m about half way through) to some Aussie outbackers calling her a “dyke” but yeah, that’s been it. Even other women she’s not related to tend to be passing mentions. But maybe the second half will improve.

Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t imagine someone hasn’t attempted to make one :)

Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me about it.

Also, it gets worse. The dominant electric motorcycle crowd on YouTube is almost exclusively men.

So I get to pick either electric motorcycle touring OR women motorcycle touring, but never both, and never sapphic.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, trust me, the dominant women moto-touring crowd on the likes of YouTube is pretty damn straight unfortunately. You just have to deal.