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Lets get this clear! (Updated 2)

As I've already mentioned previously,  you were allowed to ask for help from ANY member of staff. It clearly stated in the department's BA Philosophy handbook 2009-10 (and all subsequent years), under 'Personal Issues', section 5.2 (5.2.1-5.2.2) that students can go to "any members of the...academic staff...in professional confidence". And it's not surprising that as a gay woman I would prefer an empathic woman lecturer! And one I got on with, who isn't prejudiced, and who I was naturally drawn to and 'clicked' with from our very first meeting (the interview) when I wasn't yet a student at BBK,  and one I feel at ease with! It's not something you can force or artificially produce, it either happens or it doesn't. We are very similar to one other. We understand each other.  Like me, she's gender expansive and my kind of feminist.  And no we weren't having a personal relationship, we didn't meet each other in private, and

Personal Tutors: Are they a help or a hindrance?

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To continue: My turnitin account was handled so badly and suffering continual interference even beyond my college years that I've made sure it's cleared. There's nothing on it and neither should there be. No-one can claim that they can see something on it and make an issue out of it for me or anyone else, at any time. As you can see in my previous post, everyone knows that my preferred name is Liba and it was displayed on both my Birkbeck and Turnitin profiles. Liba is the normal Czech shortened form of the name Libuse, after the Bohemian pagan princess Libuse. (Liba is even a village in the Karlovy Vary region, Czech Republic). However, it's also a Hebrew/Yiddish name for girls ( לִΧ™Χ‘ָא ) meaning loveable/loved one/heart ❤. Whatever people's issue is with my name, get over it, and use it properly. It's the name I have always been known by, respect that! At uni, I had to suffer receiving emails from my male personal tutor in which he addresses me using an inappr