A Random Collection

If you haven’t come across a trusted source before, you’re in luck: you’re reading one right now! I really recommend looking up zines and other publications by and for trans people, which are more accessible than ever online. Some favourite topics of mine include comprehensive hormones information, sexy sex ed, trans dating and blogs or personal essays about why being trans is cool and hot. Trans folk are such a smart, creative group of people, and there is so much information able to be accessed out there without anything other than an internet connection and, if you want to be really fancy with it, a printer.

Even with information bans and digital restrictions today, we’re lucky that there are so many places that talk openly and honestly about trans bodies and lives. We just need to make sure that what we’re finding is correct (such as on Scarleteen, where content is by and for LGBTQIA+ people and edited to ensure its factually accurate), and that no one we don’t want can find out what we’ve been reading or searching, whether that means deleting your history, searching stuff only on public computers, hiding paper copies somewhere that won’t be found, or whatever method feels safest for you.”

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/11/iran-threatens-elon-musks-companies-in-middle-east-iranian-state-media.html

Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costume Parisien, 1 avril 1798, (13): Turban à pointe, orné Aigrette et d'une guirlande de Myrthe. Spencer sans Manches. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

(and if you don't know me, hi I'm reyah and I'm a disabled queer in florida and I make art over on ⤿patreon⤾ when the spoons allow)

For June, I still have $400 in bills to clear before I'm pushing the rock back up the same hill in August. More than half of that is for medical care -- prescriptions are coming back around to need renewal, and I need to see my doctor for updates on medication changes.

Urgently, however, I need to come up with $40 to renew my car's registration which is now officially expired.

direct donations are incredibly appreciated, but only if you can, only if you’re willing <3

The registration has been renewed, thanks to y'all, and that is a relief cuz that was stressing me tf out. *phew*

June's remaining need: $295

July's remaining need: $290

This is a parasite that usually causes about 3000 cases of illness per year in the USA, Michigan currently has reported about 2900 (the confusion about “Michigan outbreak” is because Michigan is the first that caught an uptick in cases and has been very proactive about trying to trace them). Last official update from Massachusetts was 18 cases here centered in Greater Boston. The CDC recommends NOT assuming there are no sources of the parasite in your state even if no cases have been reported.

It isn’t an unknown illness but it is an unusual quantity of cases, and the fact that they haven’t been able to pin down the source after weeks of tracking is what makes it particularly concerning this year (harder to contain).

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