Sleepless Chic

A lot of people saying "they're dead" and that's true, but a lot of them are also permanently disabled

Pat Robertson succinctly uses 'oppressors' and 'whip handle' to describe his white followers.

ABSOLUTELY LOSING IT.  “How are they going to explain Grogu’s return, which happened in a completely different show??  Will they make a long as hell recap??  Flashbacks in the show??  A long-winded explanation??  Viewers of only The Mandalorian are going to be so confused, they HAVE to explain it somehow, they have to–” AND THEN THEY DIDN’T EXPLAIN SHIT, GROGU’S JUST THERE, NOT EVEN A RECAP MOMENT, JUST DIN’S, “HE CAME BACK.” You know what, Favreau?  I respect the ballsiness of it.  Don’t explain shit to your audience, they know what they need to know, Baby Yoda’s back, that’s all they’re giving you.  Sink or swim in the narrative, bitch.  That’s some real king shit.

Anthropologist.

When Sylvia Plath wrote “Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…”

an illustrative example for how society treats trans women more broadly. we're gendered whichever way is most conducive to punishment or humiliation

One time when I was a kid, I spent all afternoon building a snow fort with a roof and everything. When I was done I crawled inside, and immediately heard scratching. Approximately .5 seconds later, one of the farm dogs had burst through the side and dragged me out by the back collar of my snow jacket. I was pissed that he wrecked my fort, but touched that he saw me "in danger" and came to the rescue