But I watched those same people who copied my in-class work and who barely passed tests and who only understood the material enough to regurgitate it, not to expand on it, graduate while I flunked out. Why? Because I didn’t have the executive function to do homework outside of class. That’s it.

our education system is structured less around an actually well-rounded education (which would look different for different people depending on their needs) and more around conformity to neuro-typical, abled standards that prepare you for being a worker under capitalism, which itself enforces these standards in the attempt to drain as much profit from the individual as possible. even people who are “lucky” enough to be NT and abled enough to survive in these environments deserve more than to be treated like a renewable resource.

And even if you failed out the first time, that doesn't mean you can't try again. If you work a few years in the middle, your grades from the first try tends to be easier to smooth over with talk of being "more mature and able to balance the stresses of life with schoolwork"

???

the repackaging of old misogynistic ideas that younger generations think they’ve outgrown into buzzword-filled tik toks and tweets that will be pushed towards young impressionable people is extremely dangerous. But also extremely funny like you can’t get this anywhere else

So instead of depending on our boyfriend or husband to have that well paying job so we as a women can rest and relax (spoiler: a lot of the housewifery isn’t restful or relaxing), how about we fight like hell to get to the world where we all - men, women, non-binary folks, everybody - have more leisure time. Maybe it’s a 25 hour work week, maybe it’s a UBI, maybe it’s a combination of the two. But joy isn’t found in unpaid labor - it’s found in meaningful labor. And meaningful labor doesn’t remain so if you’re trapped in the feminine domesticity because you have no money to escape it when it becomes monotonous and dreary and drab.

Ooh good question! I can't believe I've never thought about this! No they do not. They don't have a uterine lining to shed because they don't grow their babies inside their bodies like we do. But if they DID get periods, their period blood would be blue because their oxygen binding protein, hemocyanin, has copper in it, which makes it blue (compared to ours, hemoglobin, which has iron in it, making it red)!

What crimes has he committed?

A little bit stinky

i physically cannot stop watching this

we are here to create as we push back against the blank empty void, and we prove love is real every time we fill this blank space with little pieces of us. i will not stand in the way of that, and it is an honor to fill this space with this web of inspiration from one bud to the next. ALL OF THIS TIMELINE is a piece and we are one big writers room. there is no shame in this and it is a group project i am proud to be a part of.

And in Rylan's own words, "My only desire is to keep our community safe. There are so many trustworthy top surgeons in the world. One of them saved my life. Transition is a beautiful process and we deserve safe access to it. I do not regret top surgery. I regret choosing Dr. Gallagher as my surgeon."