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JIWANDEEP KOHLI.

was scrolling through my Twitter feed on 1 June, admiring a series of Pride Month posts. They caught my attention because until that day, I had mostly been using Twitter to keep up with new science and complain about graduate school. I felt compelled to contribute my own Pride tweet though, so I dug back in the archives of my camera roll for an almost year-old photo and wrote up an alliterative expression of some of the aspects of my identity of which I am proud. I didn’t think much of it – after all, this wasn’t the first time I’d shared this exact photo on social media. For whatever reason, however, this tweet launched me into 15 minutes of viral fame and set the stage for

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