be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind

Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower by Taha Muhammad Ali (translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin) In his life he neither wrote nor read. In his life he  didn’t cut down a single tree,  didn’t slit the throat  of a single calf. In his life he did not speak of the New York Times behind its back, didn’t raise his voice to a soul except in his saying: “Come in, please, by God, you can’t refuse.” Nevertheless— his case is hopeless, his situation  desperate. His God-given rights are a grain of salt  tossed into the sea.  Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:  about his enemies  my client knows not a thing. And I can assure you,  were he to encounter  the entire crew  of the aircraft carrier Enterprise, he’d serve them eggs sunny-side up, and labneh  fresh from the bag. 

so. not to doxx myself (i've talked about this here before though) but i live in Kansas. and my license was just revoked very suddenly and immediately because i'm trans and had changed my gender marker.

so hey if you have the means and want to help with any of this, please consider donating to the ACLU of Kansas because they are at least going to try to do something to push back against this, and i'm such a panicky wreck that the only thing i can do to get through my immediate gut reaction to having my license revoked tonight (i cannot stress enough that i received the letter today saying that my license is no longer valid tomorrow) is focus on the fact that there's at least one entity trying to protect me and my fellow trans kansans.

More info on what's been happening in Kansas: