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Hi there again. I'm Casi. I'm a disabled Enby who is the only caregiver for my elderly disabled mother, and we're Homeless.

Mom is 70yrs old and has chronic bronchitis and arthritis and Mobility issues, and I'm chronically ill and multiply disabled myself. Where we live has already had multiple days of 105°F (40°C) temperatures throughout the Spring, its gonna be a hot summer. We cannot be on the Streets.

I have us in a Hotel because its the safest option for us. We have no family that can put us up for even a night and while I'm always on the lookout for outreach groups and programs we might qualify for, at this point we're on our own.[ and incredibly grateful for all the kind and generous support to help us through]

But the rates have gone up to Summer Prices which will make things a little more difficult than they already are. The Current rate is $98.30 a day / $688.03 a Week.

Moms Social Security is our only stable income apart from donations and my Redbubble and Ko-Fi shops where I sell my art. I've been looking for stable work but its always been a joke that there "more people than jobs" in this town and that's even truer now than ever, and without any transportation I can't even do Odd Jobs or Gigwork.[cant doordash on foot, can't to yardwork on the other side of town if I cant get myself there and back safely etc...]

Moms income will only cover 12 days of the month, and that's without putting any of that towards Meds or Groceries. We do get $290 SNAP/Food Stamps, on the 9th, but with the prices of everything between absofuckinglutly ridiculous, that too, only goes so far.

Literally Any Amount of Help would be incredibly appreciated. Really and Truly.

Covid Tests Negative.

Got both Moms checks without Financially abusive sister taking any, got food and meds + additional medications for whatever this bug we've got is.

Extended our current reservation until the 13th

trans women's femininity is treated as contrived and artificial, so every little thing we do to perform it is thought of as a Choice, which means we are Choosing to uphold regressive beauty standards

distressingly few people seem to have gotten it through their skulls that trans women are held to especially high standards of femininity, and the consequences for failing to perform it are especially bad

court decision defending specifically transfems being excluded from from playing on women's teams? no transfems interviewed but here's some trans men we interviewed one of whom just wants to push his new book

panel on the transfem experience? no transfems speaking on it but here's three trans men larping as experts one of whom is just detailing his fetishistic fantasies about them with open contempt for transfem lesbians in particular

so first! can you explain to me how a neutral reaction to something that frequently happens and continues to happen "starting" anything let alone "a fucking fight"

braid practice with my boy Hitch

but , and this is rhetorical , why ? with so many tools of communication and language and advancements in human rights and education about oppression online , are people still so aggressive towards the idea of maybe taking the time to listen to nuanced conversations about the word pedophile ? (a person who experiences attraction towards children . someone who harms children is just called a child abuser) we know , its use as a word has devastated many communities , it has been used as a tool to destroy many lives ... and so , we also know that the danger is having a word that can bring on the image of the most sinful crime , and the danger is in oppressors using this perfect sinful label to point it at innocent oppressed peoples to ruin their lives . why can we not be receptive to the idea that this harms pedophiles too ? the idea (and truth) that not every pedophile is an offender or even dangerous in any capacity, just as not every gay or trans or racialized person accused of it as a tactic of violence is guilty ? can we really not even sit down and listen to the very real and valid points people are trying to share ?

the truth , whether u personally are comfortable with it or not* , is that pedophiles exist . maybe it's even innate (would that be so bad ?) , they are still people who have done nothing but reach out for understanding . if u want to criticize child abuse then just do that but to act as if they are more inclined to act on thoughts to harm children is nonsense and I know that most people trying to talk ab this know that too , deep down , because y'all are defending moral ocd havers with "thought crimes aren't real" !! fathers , preachers , teachers , cops , doctors , employers , I can think of a lot of traits that make people more prone to abusing kids . these are positions of power , not orientation. not every Greek aristocrat who abused young boys were gay because we Know it was about power , why can this not apply here ?

realize that you don't really see him as a man, or :

accept that you can be attracted to a man

Oppressed groups lack the systemic power to oppress their oppressors, which is why they are able to be oppressed lol

Someone can be oppressed along one axis but an oppressor along another axis. For example, trans, Black, and disabled men all experience oppression for those marginalities, while also being part of an oppressor group (men). They cannot experience oppression for being men, as willingly or unwillingly, they remain part of that oppressor group despite further complexities added by their marginality.

As such, an oppressed group saying they hate men, whites, cis people, abled people, etc. is in no way sexism, racism, etc. because these are systemic factors that oppressed groups cannot access within their axis.

And to be clear, when I say “men” above, I do not mean it in the T*RF dogwhistle way of “really trans women”, trans men are men, trans women are women.

Misandry is not real and is not a systemic force. This includes transmisandry, transandrophobia, homoandrophobia, etc. The terms you are looking for is transphobia and homophobia. You are not systemically oppressed for being a man regardless of marginality because misandry isnt real. This is basic feminism.

Racism towards whites does not exist as a systemic force. If you try to say some shit about anywhere in Africa when the entire continent has experienced brutal colonization and imperialism at the hands of whites for centuries, please yeet yourself off this mortal coil.

Bigotry against abled people is not real, and is not a systemic force.

Bigotry against cis people is not real, and is not a systemic force.