Solarpunk Expeariances

sex work is shown as “sexy” and “empowering” when youre taking pictures of yourself to sell, but god forbid you physically make somebody cum for money. often we are derided, patronized and seen as unwitting victims, or simply left out of the discussion (and trust me the silence is DEAFENING and says a lot on its own)

The continued existence of these species is the legacy of so many people whose names we will never know--some of who never lived to see the impacts of their work.

When you count up the flaws of our species, you have to count the good things too--out of the many species throughout Earth's history that have caused the demise or endangerment of other species, we are the only one that tries to fix it out of our fascination and love for other life forms.

And I'll add some other recent good conservation news.

•Green sea turtles are no longer endangered

•Giant pandas are no longer endangered

•Panamanian golden frogs were returned to the wild for the first time since they were wiped out by chytrid 17 years ago

•The Eastern humpback whale population has exceeded pre-whaling numbers and many other whale species are showing strong signs of recovery

•Salmon and bison have been returned to their former habitat in multiple parts of the US through dam removal, habitat restoration, and reintroduction

•The Western monarch migration was up 60% compared to last year

•Galapagos tortoises were reintroduced to Floreana for the first time in 180 years

•Attenborough's long beaked echidna was rediscovered after being though extinct for decades

•Five "lost" island bird species were documented by citizen scientist birders in 2025

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Other's tags, but I'd like to highlight the fact you can no longer just *find* an article that's giving the actual testimony anymore.

They want to dump trans men on their own the same way cis gays did to all trans people.

I refuse to have it. I refuse to turn on my trans brothers. I will shout it over and over from the roof tops that we need to stick together now more than ever. The discourse between fems and mascs is just about the most stupid shit you can possibly do under a fascist regime THAT WANTS YOU FUCKING DEAD.

Don't be a fucking idiot. Touch some grass. Testosterone is not some magical poison that turns you into an evil misogynist. Trans men have experiences with misogyny before they transition. Teansandrophobia is real. Trans men are real men. Testosterone should be free and handed out at your local pharmacy like napkins at McDonald's.

And the best part is that you too can believe all this and still be completely valid as a woman. Recognizing the rights of trans men to exist and be happy and support them in doing so does not invalidate my feminism nor my own identity.

It doesn't feel like we're on the brink of invasion. It feels like we're being newly occupied by an invading force. Except that the invading force doesn't just want our total submission; they also want to rip half our neighbors out of our arms. They came for Hmong Minnesotans next, and they are also more than 90% citizens. We have a lot of minority populations who settled here because Minnesota prides itself on welcoming refugees; both populations have been here for more than thirty years.

And for all the rest of us US occupants not in Minnesota, it's coming to us, too. Ohio is getting door-to-door ICE today, for instance, and I've seen multiple friends in other states posting photos of big ol' trucks, beds packed with ICE vehicles, rolling in to town.

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1. Florida city installs Pride bike racks after being forced to remove rainbow crosswalks

“The city of St. Petersburg recently announced that it has installed 11 Pride-inspired bike racks along Central Ave and 25th Street, funded through the City’s long-standing public bike rack program. The move allows a public display of LGBTQ+ Pride while complying with the state and federal government's orders to keep crosswalks undecorated. [… T]he bike rack installation is only one of the actions Welch's administration has planned in response to the removal of public art.”

2. Indian Buffalo Management Act Affirms Trust Responsibility, Food Sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples

“The bill directs the Department of the Interior to consult and collaborate with Tribes and Tribal organizations in the restoration of the species and underscores the significance of buffalo as a subsistence right for Tribes. “Buffalo are a treaty right afforded to Tribes in support of food sovereignty and self-determination. This bill recognizes the federal government’s trust obligation to build capacity and access to buffalo on Tribal lands[….]””

3. Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

“Since [2010], the population has rebounded to an estimated 5,574 as of 2023[….] The largest remaining tract of forest in mainland Southeast Asia, WEFCOM encompasses 17 contiguous protected areas that span an area roughly the size of Kuwait. […] The region’s tiger population has more than tripled in response [to habitat conservation], increasing from a low of just 40 tigers in 2007 to more than 140 of the big cats prowling WEFCOM today.”

4. California hospital will continue youth gender-affirming care after families protest

“The largest hospital system in Northern California […] quietly informed those receiving the care […] that the treatment would stop as of December 10. […] Rainbow Families Action, a collective of families in the Bay Area who have trans children, [rallied] outside a Sutter facility on December 8. Less than a week later, Sutter Health has reportedly reversed its decision, and rescheduled the appointments that were canceled.”

5. Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor

““The corridor is about conserving a block of forest between the two protected areas, allowing species to move safely from one place to another,” Bikaba says. […] To establish these community-managed forests, […] communities that have customary ownership of lands, [are helped to] formalize this into a community forestry concession (CFCL) — a formal arrangement that grants lands to communities in perpetuity.”