emma

i haven't seen anything about this on my dashboard, so i wanted to share. ICE gestapo killed another human being on tuesday. he leaves behind three sons and his wife, who he has spent the last 35 years building a life with

there is a gofundme supported by the league of united latin american citizens set up to help with funeral costs, legal fees, and supporting his family moving forward.

i haven't seen anything about this on my dashboard, so i wanted to share. ICE gestapo killed another human being on tuesday. he leaves behind three sons and his wife, who he has spent the last 35 years building a life with

there is a gofundme supported by the league of united latin american citizens set up to help with funeral costs, legal fees, and supporting his family moving forward.

I need you know that I see you and all the ways your disabilities and illnesses frequently make you feel like less of a femme and how other people outside our community question how you embody being a femme.

We are not less femme because chronic pain and fatigue prevent us from presenting ourselves fully as we'd like to be.

We're not less femme for needing mobility aids and braces and for having indwelling catheters, tubes, and other medical devices.

We're not less femme because somedays it's all we can do to get out of bed. And sometimes not even that.

Struggling with invisible chronic conditions (physical or mental) doesn't mean our struggles don't matter, and it doesn't make any difficulties we have with being the version of ourselves that makes us feel the most authentic any less important or worthy of attention and empathy.

We're not any less ourselves because our disabilities or conditions make it difficult to maintain certain hair styles or nail lengths. We're more than the way people perceive our presentations.

Being disabled doesn't inherently make us frail or weak. Knowing and being able to tell the people who care about us when we need help and care actually makes us strong.

Being a stone or high femme in part or purely because of your illnesses doesn't make our identities any less valid.

I love my fellow disabled and chronically ill femmes so much. I see you and how hard it is somedays to feel like you're enough. But no matter what, we are always enough. Even and especially on the days when we can't get out of bed.