i think we should talk about degendering more as a very real form of transphobia. you should not be calling a trans woman “they” when she’s explained her pronouns to you. you should not be calling her a “person” instead of a woman. she’s not too gnc, she’s not too androgynous, you’re not “confused” about her identity, you’re degendering her. I fear we’ve gotten to a point we’ve forgotten the very basics of this movement is “trans women are women” and “trans men are men”, and not just “trans people are someone who’s pronouns you have to memorize so you don’t offend them.” you see her as a man in a dress and it pisses me off
since usamericans take up a large portion of the english-speaking internet when their elections happen, i think it’s only fair that i can put out a reminder to all kiwis out there to vote in our local body elections that are happening now until the 11th of october!! exercise your right to democracy!!!
hello its me again needing to beg for food money + money to cover the cost and transport for an upcoming hrt appointment
still struggling, got sick earlier this month and have been getting destroyed by fatigue and exhaustion ever since. just need some help getting along, getting some food for myself and my wife and affording the various medications i need to be on plus i have an appointment that is necessary for maintaining my hrt regimen next week which i will need to pay for outta pocket since my state insurance doesnt cover it. and maybe just enough to help me get something easy for dinner tonight since we dont have much left in the house. thank you again i loveyou
If you are in a US or other place where abortion is being criminalized, or know people who are, the digital defense fund has talked to lawyers and doctors and care providers to give you some steps to take to protect your privacy.
I live in Chicagoland and have family friends who are brown and undocumented. It’s not good here.
I want to specify that the US government ICE agents rapelled from Blackhawk helicopters to take over an apartment building, breaking open apartment doors in the middle of the night to drag barely-clad residents from their homes and detain everyone in UHaul trucks with the children zip-tied to each other. Regardless of citizenship.
There was too much traffic today, and an ICE agent deployed a tear gas canister in traffic in response.
This is not normal.
From the very bottom of my heart: what the ACTUAL FUCK
It’s not even near me yet, but where I live there’s lots of brown folks so they’ll come.
This is surreal. We’re being attacked by the United States.
meagan has been moved to federal custody, specifically FMC Fort Worth. *And* they booked her under her deadname, because of course the federal government would do that to her. She still has the state charges, but the federal government has decided to press charges before the state of Texas got around to it.
If y'all want to mail her things, I’d really appreciate it. Use Meagan as her name in the letters but the name below on the envelopes, and it should be fine.
Please, more than ever, she needs support as a trans woman. Getting your name changed by force like this is painful, and she needs all the love we can get her
Some tips that might be helpful to those writing from Black and Pink, which helps facilitate pen pals for LGBTQ+ incarcerated people:
To note specifically, rules vary by prison system and are enforced arbitrarily: “Some prison systems, like Texas, have decided to ban all postcards and greeting cards as a way to prevent drugs… Some won’t accept construction paper, or mailing labels, or glitter. Pennsylvania scans all mail in a facility in Florida and then prints it.”
It’s a chaotic world we’re in. The last boat of the flotilla seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza has been intercepted and no boats ended up being able to deliver anything.
What we have now is online donations. Palestine’s citizens are counting on all those who can give. I’d like to ask any of my followers who can contribute to do so as soon as they can.
Y'all I’m so fuckin tired and I’m in A Lot of pain and straight up I dunno how much I get left in me
Sorry there’s been so many weeks and months in between writing updates, I am in excrusis
Hey so like I haven’t been flogging this as much as I ought to have on account of the dip in productivity means less shit to flog, but like I have a patreon! And you can go there and give me money in exchange for stories! You get stories, and I get money, the which will then be spent on stuff like such as Medicine and The Doctor. Jiminy fucking christmas.
