Someday, I believe I will hear the sound again

Part of why it isn't talked about is because of the method of detransition isn't always so black and white and it gives prisons a way to hide what they're doing. A devious and immoral slight of hand with the beurocracy.

When trans men are OFFERED to be put into the mens section, it's specifically as a threat. It's "Hey, we CAN put you with the other "men" but you know how men are....right? You KNOW how MEN ARE...right?"

There is a threat of rape and exploitation there far above what other inmates experience.

My pod mates were super chill with me being trans. Rules are different and you can't get offended easily, but it was the guards who kept touching me up, it was a guard who stabbed my hand with a pencil and gave me a scar there, and it was a guard who raped me.

So it's not just that trans men are being denied hrt and forcibly detransitioned.

It's that they are being told they have to pick between forced detransition in an environment where it will be AFAB bodied people exploiting them or they stick to their hrt and are in an environment where AMAB bodied people will be exploiting them.

These kinds of threats are big for trans people who are incarcerated. Many prisons and jails avoid it by just putting the person into lock down their entire stay (like me. My cell was 16 hand by 12 hands wide. I could walk my cell wirh 3 large steps. Sucked)

I have some gigs lined up this month, but if folks are able to pitch in a little bit it’d really take a lot of stress off. A lot of things have changed for us financially in a short period of time and I fear this may continue to happen for a bit. I know times are tough for literally everyone right now, but basically if like 85 or so people chip in $5 each we’d be golden. Which is to say I have a goal of $425, but honestly anything at all towards that would help a lot! thank you!

Uncontacted Indigenous peoples reject contact with outsiders, as an active and ongoing choice. Survival International has calculated that there are 196 uncontacted groups worldwide; some of these are entire peoples who are uncontacted – such as the Sentinelese in India. Some uncontacted groups – such as the Ayoreo Totobiegosode in the Paraguayan Chaco or the Amahuaca in Peru – are sub-groups of bigger tribes with whom they share a language and often a territory. All are aware of the outside world, and reject it. They are self-sufficient and resilient. They live independently in forests, sometimes on islands. They resist intrusion, and thrive when their rights are respected. Uncontacted peoples may encounter outsiders sporadically, or not at all. They are aware of neighboring Indigenous peoples, who may be closely or distantly related. The uncontacted Hongana Manyawa in Indonesia have family members who have left the forest, mostly under duress. The uncontacted Pirititi occasionally encounter their contacted Kinja neighbors in the Brazilian Amazon. The Massaco, also in Brazil, were for decades known only by traces in the forest, including booby traps sharpened with rodents' teeth and placed on their hunting trails to warn off outsiders. Uncontacted peoples’ rejection of contact is often rooted in memories of devastating past contact and invasion, which brought violence, epidemics and death. Their denial of contact is a clear expression of their autonomy and self-determination.

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Hip Hop Songs & Books

Nanami by Blicky B:

Paradise

Everfair

Rapp Snitch Knishes by MF DOOM:

Queen of Urban Prophecy

The Black Kids

Anxiety by Doechii:

The Cost of Knowing

Black Girl Unlimited

Nobody by Nas ft Lauryn Hill:

Home Home

Black Girl, Brownstones

Day by Day by Lonemoon:

Black Cake

Freshwater

Sexy Soulaan by Monaleo:

Parable of the Sower

Wings of Ebony

KFC Santeria by Cain Culto (Sudan Archives Remix):

Afroalgorhythms