oz is the name, writing's the game

since yall loved the superbat commission thing that dan mora is doing i would like the humbly remind you that marcus to n travis moore did something similar with timkon years ago. take a look <3

The zoo in my hometown posted this picture of one of their cheetah cubs and I'm obsessed

you know i think i’ve come to the conclusion that the answer to “but what if a cis woman is traumatized by men/male presenting people/whatever?” irt safe spaces is this: if you can’t be in the same room with someone you assume to be male or a man without feeling triggered, it probably means you have a lot more solo therapy and healing to do before relying on group therapy or other communal healing.

The thing about the bad faith focus on "but what about cis women who find men traumatizing and don't want them in their safe spaces" as an argument is that it frames trans people as the sole instigators of an otherwise non-existent conflict: as though, if we didn't exist, then there'd be no issue in the first place. When actually, the insistence on female-only spaces has real, tangible consequences beyond trans people: namely, to pick the most pressing example, the question of what happens to the sons of women fleeing domestic violence - because many women's shelters don't accept teenage boys. And this is a real and very heartbreaking consequence of the rigid insistence on female-only spaces: that mothers seeking safety with their children - many of whom are also victims of violence - cannot assume that their sons will be as welcome as their daughters. Though many shelters have rules around teenage occupants regardless of gender, others have gender-specific age caps: no boys over the age of 12, say, or 14, or 16. And shelters, as we all know, are frequently overcrowded; sometimes, you're lucky to find a space at all. Imagine you are a mother of two, a 13yo son and an 11yo daughter, fleeing a spouse who has been violent to all three of you, and the only shelter available is one with a strict no men policy. Having mustered up the courage to leave at all, you are now confronted with a terrible choice: unless you turn around and go home, your only options are to either abandon your son to the care of the abusive parent or to have him put into the foster system. Or perhaps the shelter's age cap for boys is set at 14 - meaning, you have until your son's next birthday to get back on your feet, even if that's only weeks away, and the whole time, he will know that his gender, and his gender alone, is the reason for the deadline.

The professor I TA for asked for things to go in a “pumpkin spice still life”.