Waxing Lyrical with No-one in Particular

So earlier today, I was walkin past the National Museum of African-American History and Culture to get to the bus, and a Black dude was standing at the corner selling his historical fiction alternate US history novel. I have some physical cash, so I think “fuck it, worst case he gets a burger or something and I get a shitty book” and I get it.

Update: it has already begun

she's weird she's gross. if she goes outside too long she gets nauseous and throws up on herself. she's got a good figure but has no idea how to show it off. she wears the same dirty tracksuit all day every day. if you compliment her she gets carried away and ruins it immediately. if she thinks about the future she panics, if she thinks about the past she's depressed. she's just so uncomfortable to be around. intensely awkward in the REAL way broken people are. love my fucked up daughter she's just like me. i hope she never changes

almost 10 yrs into my transition and i still dont have my passport fixed cause its just too hard and there are so many steps and ive tried over and over for years and i just cant do it

i looove when govuk says "dont worry u can just ask ur doctor" then u ask ur doctor and they say no lol

🤓☝️ the library has printers

Let’s have so many fucking issues and problems together

serenely reblogging this once more after deleting responses from white people saying "talking about this is actually unhelpful because im oppressed too" yeah i know. i wrote that down in the post i made, and i also wrote down why remembering the difference is important. did you read it?

Oh hey I wrote a small essay on exactly this back when I was still being kind and calmly explaining things to yakubian devils

wow, look at that, a black trans woman saying the exact thing i said, except she said it a year ago and it didnt get as much traction.

Thing is that I’m not the only Black trans woman writing theory on transfeminism, Black transfeminism, or trans intersectionality - I’m just lightskinned and won’t shut up so I’m one of the most visible ones, and crackers STILL get mad at me for saying the most basic-ass concepts like “white people are still white even if they’re otherwise marginalized”

I wanna toss this link on here because it’s directly related to the whole “lack of intracommunity solidarity when race is involved” thing and has a specific example from my local community.

ct my friend im moving soon whats the scariest painting i can put in the bathroom

!! Help Needed !!

The UK is banning people under 16 from sver social media sites, including Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. While I certainly agree that the modern internet causes a lot of health and development problems in young children, this ban is not about protection, it is about control.

My egg cracked because of a YouTube video. I was still a minor at the time, but it was instrumental in helping me realize that, and was instrumental in saving my life as a result. My love of history, of strategy games, of science and politics, all can be directly traced back to or was facilitated by YouTube. In many ways it was a better parent to us than our actual parents were, something which speaks both to the postive impact it has had on our life, and to the ways the nuclear family failed us.

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

I love when beavers look like they've just been offered an incredibly generous gift and are wondering whether to reach out and take it