the sun won't ask the world if it can rise

Quoted by Wokie D. Void @ Voidspace: The only reason it took so long for this is because everyone kept treating it as the "you-cannot-have-kids-disease", instead of acknowledging that the condition was wrecking havoc on the entire body, and infertility was just a symptom

Addicts are not statistics, are not their vices, are not your negative health affects to a drug. Read: a smoker is NOT the embodiment of second hand smoke. They are users without safe use public spaces and I'm fucking begging you all to understand that people being mentally ill and doing things you don't like to cope is not the same exact thing as them choosing to harm other people.

Some of you hate addicts more than conscientious abusers and it shows. Some of you see them as one in the same and it shows.

Some of your opinions on addiction tell me everything I need to know about your understanding of children, offline sex workers and the homeless.

And I'm really fucking tired of sitting here in make belief land with you people as you miss my points deliberately as you preach abstinence and penance for a demographic you do not know and are not even a part of.

#i always notice feminism treated as frivolous in man heavy leftist spaces #god forbid it be treated as a detailed school of thought

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This idea that we somehow have more sex negative people in our spaces than anyone else is just wrong and guess what?? It's aphobic! You saw a post made by someone who was being an asshole and tried to hide behind sex repulsion to do it? That person is an asshole, not our entire community!

Quit talking down to the sex repulsed community because of a few shitty posts!

Sex negativity: thinking that sex is inherently bad/shameful/dirty for everyone

Sex repulsion: being personally disgusted by the idea of sex

Sex aversion: being personally disgusted by the idea of sex when it has to do with yourself

Guess what, I'm sometimes sex-repulsed and sometimes sex-averse! But I'm never sex-negative.

Have all the crazy sex you want! Just please do the things to be safe, get tested, use condoms/birth control/whatever and feel free to talk about it with anyone for whom that's not a violation of their boundaries!

All I request is: leave me out of it. Don't imply that sex is something I might ever be interested in, don't talk to me about your sex life, and do your best to tag any mentions of sex ("#sex mention") so I can just filter them out and we can coexist peacefully.

hi!! I'm TDF and this is what's in my only bank account rn:

I'm multiply disabled and living under the poverty line. My income adds up to about 1/3 of the local minimum wage.

I am stuck in bed most of the time because my physical health is so bad, and I have expenses nondisabled people don't.

right now I'm asking for help with groceries, medication, and hygiene/cleaning items, if any financially secure adult is willing to help!

Many of the items on my list are $5 or less, I just literally do not have $5 rn.

link to food/necessities list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/19QO1LMKKHQ3A

link to walmart cards (for groceries/toiletries etc): https://www.walmart.com/giftcards/

my email is thatdiabolicalfeminist at protonmail dot com

Thank you for being kind about this being on your dash!

last month was SO expensive w all the various problems/emergencies and having to feed multiple additional people who have celiac disease.

I ended up having to borrow money just for necessities, because even for one person my tiny income is not enough. Paying it back will take about half my grocery budget for July.

I'm making do as best I can. I've put off getting many necessities as long as possible and I'm eating cheap stuff that causes physical pain to save money.

But I'm stuck in bed even more than usual rn with a chronic illness flareup, so I need things I can easily prepare without leaving bed. I have a mini fridge and a microwave next to the bed, so that part isn't so bad, but convenient foods (esp those that don't cause pain!) are expensive.

And all the meds and hygiene stuff I've been delaying are making their absence strongly felt. 😅