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I just wanted to say you're a huge inspiration to me and I have been learning a ton from your blog, so thank you for that. I also wanted to make you a little something too, since you've been going through a lot.

I really loved your OC, Philia, so I wanted to draw some pixel art of her for you!

In South Asia, heat weaves already claim more than 200,000 lives annually. According to a recent study, as temperature rises, the death toll might exceed 400,000 by 2045. India is at high risk.

The study further reveals that over 200,000 deaths are currently attributed to severe temperatures, and this figure may nearly quadruple over the next twenty years.

With deaths increasing and governments lacking strategies to protect laborers from dying, vulnerable workers across South Asia are demanding their governments provide heat wave protections.

Ashok Kumar, forty-two, a migrant worker from India’s Bihar state, has been running a barber shop on a footpath with no roof in India’s national capital, New Delhi, where temperatures exceed to 46 degrees Celsius (114.8 degrees Fahrenheit). With no shaded resting area, Kumar spends nine hours a day in a scorching heat to support his family.

“Where shall I go? I have to feed my family. The government cannot install air conditioning at the roadside for us. We are dying under the blazing sun. We have no options. If we stop work, our families will die hungry,” Kumar told me. [...]

While knowing risk factors, many migrant laborers are unable to do much more than cover their heads with wet towels.

I am completely broken I never imagined reaching a moment where I would have to beg strangers to help save my wife’s life. Every passing day feels like another chance for survival is slipping away from us.

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He's a trans man by the way

"Trans women get all the visibility" but it's 16,913 newspaper articles in the UK mainly demonising trans women, while some trans men have enough institutional power to get on a stage and spout utter bullshit about trans women that is not historically or factually correct.

This is in his biography on the faculty page for the Emory GWSS department.

The argument that trans WOMEN shouldn’t call themselves women. That we don’t get to call ourselves or be called women is frightening.

let's take a look at that "materialism" that's going to smash the "middle-class transgender hegemony" in solidarity with trans women of color, shall we?

well that's not a great start. someone should probably tell Sylvia Rivera nobody was arguing she wasn't gay, for one. also since when were gay people and transgender people thought of as the same? does Amin believe that because it was somewhat fluid and the communities overlapped that means the distinction was nonexistent?

"transmisogynist violence is a consequence of homophobia" is as much a dangerously incorrect and transmisic take as his belief that heterosexuality was invented sometime after gender deviance (?) as if those things are unrelated and not co-constitutive. also could he please stop dropping transmisogynist slurs at the drop of a hat?

and there it is, he's an unironic transgender is taking all our beautiful butches and queens guy. also he seems to think that there was some prelapsarian past where gayness was focused around gender deviance and then gays invented trans people in 1989 to be respectable. needless to say, our conmunities have always been interrelated but distinct. one might even say there are material differences that are in part described by the terminology he's crusading against, that a "materialist" should pick up on.

and the hat trick. it's not transgressive to transition. trans women are taking all our feminine gay men! they're all gone. and it's also trans women's fault that gay men aren't interested in the ones that are left. this is because trans people invented a fake binary and for no other discernable reason. y'all, this is the analysis you end up doing if you think transmisogyny isn't real and read every historical document at face value with no critical lens. this man watched Paris is Burning ten years ago (skipped How Do I Look, naturally) and he's going to make it our problem

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Her mom really needs to stop cussing in front of her.... let's hope she isn't this rude when she grows up

Like I try to be nice about this but I have seen SO many fucking people being like "lol yeah ace/aro discourse was one thing" and that is deliberate erasure of real and important queer history in service of dodging blame on the parties that did this who, for the most part, never fucking apologized or owned up to it, or, in the case of a few blogs I still see going around, clearly still stand by all of it and just hope you don't point that out, and ofc, no one ever fucking does.

I can't offer forgiveness or absolution to everyone, but you don't need me to forgive you to forgive yourself and move on, and I do think most of the people who got caught up in it have more than earned moving on.

However, what I want is for everyone to stop downplaying it. Don't call it stupid infighting, don't go "ace stuff was one thing but this with trans men is too far" don't claim it didn't leave tumblr or the internet, own how bad it was. If you were there you know, and your history is valuable, so even when it sucks please be honest about what happened. This part of queer history should not be forgotten, and especially not for the people who never really changed and have an interest in making sure everyone thinks this was just some silly infighting.

That's what I ask, do right by us, don't let us be erased again.

Especially because when you forget, when you downplay it, you downplay what's happened with truscum shit, with biphobia, and now with trans masc exclusion. You downplay it and you disguise that it's the same people saying the same things about a new group. I found out about the rise in trans man/masc exclusion because I saw someone saying that trans men are collateral damage secondary to the real targets of transphobia, trans women, and I immediately knew the person saying it was a shithead I should NEVER trust because that is exactly what they said about bi and ace and aro people. Word for word.

You do those who were hurt a disservice when you downplay what happened, but you also make our spaces less safe because if we pretend what happened didn't we can't stop it when it starts again.