ive said it before and ill say it again, self harm is an incredibly valuable grounding technique and without it i almost certainly would have done far more harm to myself than any cutting or burning could have. We need to stop framing self harm as this ultimate horror indication of damage, why is this form of self harm any different than another?
We should be teaching people harm reduction not that self harm means you’re broken. I’m sorry if anyone has ever made you feel that way. If self harm makes you feel better, even for a moment, why shouldn’t you be allowed to do that? people do shit that harms their body all the fucking time but this one thing is off limits?
I’m edging around the topic because it’s almost certainly ban worthy but like, if it helps fucking do it, id much rather you use a “less than ideal” grounding technique (which im already rolling my eyes just typing that) than have no way to help yourself.
I hope this makes sense and helps at least one person, i love you <3
THEY KILLED AMITY???????
you’re not allowed to tell girls who are in a terrible place that they’re not broken. it’s a bannable offense on tumblr.
Honestly, fuck @staff. This post helped save my life and @staff banned her. Fuck you @staff, when ya’ll are *anywhere* close to the level of harm reduction that this post provided, maybe then you’ll be a real blogging site again
THEY KILLED ESTROGEN BLOOD CHALK TOOO?????
they cannot kill me in any way that matters. Thanks for being here, lovely.
they’ve been very clear with us on this point: you’re not allowed to tell girls who are in a terrible place that they’re not broken. it’s a bannable offense on tumblr.
I’ll do it again.
Do you remember when Amity risked her blog to give love and paid the price? I haven’t forgotten.
caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that’s our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.
You know I hadn’t made this exact connection at first but something in my gut told me that people comparing ice to the gestapo didn’t quite feel right. This comparison does fit a lot better.
if youre ‘monitoring’ a trans woman and waiting for her to 'slip up’, youre a cop, a transmisogynyist, and a stalker. why do you think trans women are so afraid of publicly existing? why do you think trans women are often so separatist? because we’re fucking monitored and instantly pounced upon the moment we step out of line, i.e. do something deemed even remotely unacceptable by a transmisogynist stalker.
you fuckers will exercise fascist behavior and call it 'justice’ simply because you think your hatred of fascism makes you incapable of being a fascist and a cop yourself
on top of this - if you’re meticulously documenting someone’s sex life (whether that’s on a private or “public” blog– indeed the defense that “its publically avaliable information” echoes the sentiment of rape apologia.. was she asking for it? by posting?), exposing that information to hundreds of people, casting aspersions, speculating about her kinks, interests, behaviour, etc… then YOU are the sexual harrasser!!!
my favorite part about the systemic exile of transfems from public spaces both online and off is that the people who gleefully turn the cranks of the social ostracization machine will face you mid-action with a chicklet grin and tell you that you have no right to be upset about any of it. it’s not even real you know. it’s just a blog. it’s just a social space. it’s just an apartment. you’ll be fine, you whiner.
nevermind that an entire class of people determined to be unhireable, unlovable, and unfit for public life might be in the most dire need of social connection. that nearly every single girl i see on here is destitute, holding out a tin cup begging for pennies to keep the lights on and a meal every other day. that the crushing isolation drives us into sexual subservience, substance abuse, and suicide.
no, that’s all unrelated of course. stupid women, getting upset over a blog of all things. how vapid of them. nothing could be more privileged.
