🇵🇸never again is right fucking now🇵🇸 🧿🧿🧿

And here is a video explaining what’s going on in more detail than I provided.

With everything else going on in the world, it can be hard to keep up with stuff going on at home, but ICE is still out here terrorizing innocent people. We must keep our eyes on them, and keep fighting.

basically, it comes across a lot like instead of being a man who happens to be trans, they emphasize being trans and distance us from cis men in a way that really comes across like they think being a trans guy is somewhere in between being a woman and being a 'real man'. a lot of dudes who make it obvious w/o saying it that they subconsciously don't think of themselves as 'real men'. t's kind of blatant internalized transphobia

i'm not saying that being a trans guy is exactly the same as being a cis guy, or trying to be invalidating here either, but after all the 'but i'm a /trans/ man' like we're a completely difference species from cis men, a lot of it centred around knowing what it's like to 'be a woman' from 'past experience', therefore surely we are more trustworthy than cis men and women shouldn't be as wary of us as they are of cis men, it just becomes kind of obvious that a lot of dudes see cis guys as so much higher above us. so you just end up with a bunch of tguys who just see themselves and women at the bottom while cis guys are at the top leading to this 'we are all experiencing the same level of oppression' stuff i guess.

it is interesting how often trans men seem to pull up their agab as like, a way of misrepresenting their place in a power dynamic. like it very much seems to rely on and reify the idea of... "afabs" being fragile and ineffectual

I think if cis men had a card to pull to go Actually I'm a Safe and Good Person they too would be pulling it all the time, and something tells me they would often be pulling it for the wrong reasons...!

Marginalized men love to use their identity to prove that they must be safe to women who share their marginalization. Outside of trans people, the group I'm most comfortable talking about is disabled people. Disabled men, regardless of whether they're cis or trans, LOVE to pull the I'm Safe card with disabled women. For example, I'm autistic and I've heard so many stories from other autistic women of autistic men in their communities being abusive and pulling the I'm Safe card as a defense.

"This includes prisoners! They are not suddenly property of the state when they're convicted!" - *a little less cheering*

"And that includes children who are not their parents' property!" - *almost no cheering*

2. I confess I have spent money I didn't have on food I didn't really want, just to not feel alone. Just to carry something warm home. Avocado toast sprinkled with crushed peppercorns. French vanilla cafe latte. Yes, what a tragedy to spend it on a half-finished freedom. But some nights, even a little freedom feels like a feast.

3. I understand the urge to say: you can't even get that right. I've said it to myself more times than I can count.

4. These days I am trying to be gentler. Even baptism doesn't rinse everything away. Some things are meant to stay stuck, so we remember how far we've come.

5. It wasn't about the bread. It was never about the bread. I think of how sometimes it's easier to grieve what's missing than say what we've really lost.