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children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

a sphinx child based on this post

It may be the last birthday of my life.

For a lot of people, the queer experience is one of powerlessness in all realms but identity. Your parents can make your life hell for being queer. Your school or work can dress code you. Your doctor or therapist or government can bar you from HRT or PrEP. Little can be done about that on an individual basis. But you get to decide your identity. That part is entirely within your power.

So when they see someone online saying "Your identity is inherently part of X category" or "If you have X identity, that means you have Y traits or privileges," that reads as an attack on their whole concept of queerness. Queerness is about responding to people applying labels or categories with "You can do what you want forever," because in their life, that is what queer liberation has meant. The core value of their queerness is that identity is self-determined, never determined by an external party. That has had value and represented a form of personal liberation that is narrow but meaningful.

Of course, this isn't how the world works. Being a man or a woman generally does impact your traits and privileges. Queer liberation also has to be for more than internal personal identity. It has to actually affect the material world and put food and shelter and employment and HRT where queer people can reach.

TME/TMA categorization isn't a tool we use to tell people how to identify, it's a tool we use to understand how we can materially liberate ourselves from the power wielded by our parents, schools, workplaces, doctors, therapists, and governments.

Every single dollar counts!!

when considering the sexual violence against trans women, it's important to remember that "people only view us sexually" does not mean the same thing as "people only find us attractive". it means "people can only conceptualize of our existence within a sexual light" because that's how the majority of our coverage in media has been tinged in the past century. as a result of the chaste and patriarchal nature of modern capitalism, gender and sexuality are inseparable in much public discourse by virtue of propaganda, and as a result, a trans woman is seen as sexual because efforts towards projecting specifically femininity is only categorized as sexual. and when paired with the uncharitable perception of "man", that propaganda can often evolve how people view us directly into "sexual threat" anywhere, for any reason. i could be in the freezer aisle of costco looking down at the ground while i push my cart and i'd still get dirty looks for wearing a dress (this has happened).

when i say "they're either jerking off or sharpening a knife", i mean we're either viewed sexually, or as sexually threatening, in almost all scenarios.

Based on the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison, the film centers on a group of incarcerated men involved in the creation of theatrical stage shows through the program. It stars professional actors Colman Domingo, Sean San José and Paul Raci, alongside many real-life formerly incarcerated men who were themselves alumni of the program during their incarceration, including Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin and Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez.

if you are in the Thunder Bay area, the Whitesand First Nations families who have evacuated their homes burning down in Ontario are requesting supplies or monetary dnations

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