looks better on me, anyways.

Trumps Gaza comments are obviously insane and absurd and the human cost of them being put into reality would be incalculable, but the incredulity with which they’re being treated by American news publications feels so overblown compared to how desperate they were to underplay Biden’s greenlighting and bankrolling of genocide during his admin

Like it’s the whole “trump uniquely bad” mindset, but even worse because literally for the past 15 months Biden and his admin had an active role in helping Israel create the conditions in Gaza that serve as the prerequisite for trump to say the shit he’s saying. The 2+ million desperate, starving Palestinians lacking adequate shelter and infrastructure didn’t just appear out of nowhere

Hey anon, I’m a 6’4 trans woman who’s built like a linebacker. I was in your shoes, I know exactly how scary it seems. But trust me when I say transitioning was the single best decision I ever made. I’m so much happier now, I don’t hate every aspect of my body, I’m only 1 year into HRT but I’m already so excited about the idea of living and growing and becoming more me. Trust me when I say that the world needs more 6’4 broad shouldered trans women who get to experience the joy they deserve far more than it needs another miserable 6’4 dude who feels hopeless for the future and has dead lifeless eyes. Join me, you will be so much happier, and I’ll be thrilled to have another sister built like me!

it’s telling when people see discussions of transmisogyny as “oppression olympics” instead of like, just factual statements about reality

“we need to be united” i agree! we could do that if you took women seriously :)

Census Bureau data that breaks down the schedules of historical census records? Gone. NIH research into anything containing the word “diversity”? At risk of deletion. I am working so hard to make sure that some glimmer of what we know is preserved before something truly terrible happens to this knowledge.

[spoilers] yes lisa frankenstein is a wonderful, campy, cute good-fo-her adaptation for all the austen/shelley/bronte-loving weird girlies but what I keep thinking about is how it's also a meditation on how society doesn't want/ doesn't want to deal with female trauma (and weird girls). the way lisa's (enfuriatingly) deabeat dad barely looks at lisa but embraces taffy (who is 'successfully' a girl: happy, pretty, and not posing problems for anyone), the way those neighbours literally ignore lisa as she is chased by an intruder (who is literally a parallel to the axe murderer that killed her mom) - lisa's trauma is seen as some kind of wilful refusal to fit into the status quo and even makes her the target of further (gleeful) abuse by her stepmom (who threatens to literally lock her away for being 'weird'). and it's not just a lisa thing; the scene that struck me was taffy, covered in blood, crying, traumatised, and that stranger who looks and then ignores her. taffy as a popular girl and cheerleader and daddy's darling is always looked at favourably, alsways an object of positive attention-- right up until she has a problem. anyway and then something something about lisa finding companionship in another other and her choosing (un)death as a radical escape from and rejection of this status quo that cannot/ doesn't want to accomodate her and many more thoughts but that's all for now thank you

wild as fuck to think of myself as a covid survivor. like literally, and that it means something huge. like that's not small beans, i didn't survive a light bout of seasonal allergies or a mild cold. i'm immunocompromised, bitch. i have hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome. and now my lungs are permanently fucked up. but nobody cares. nobody gives a shit about covid anymore. man fuck ableism, fuck capitalism, fuck covid and fuck america.