Fiona

This meetup is majority transmasc with a handful of cis queers. I've been several times in the past and never seen another transfem there, but I thought I'd give it another go just in case. And I've written several poems since I last went too.

The way it normally works is that you go round the circle a few times reading poems you've written or brought with you. This time the organiser (she/they) mysteriously skipped over me twice, but never skipped anyone else. Sometimes I was on the verge of reading my poem when they gestured to the person who should've come after me to speak.

She wants to organise a letter-writing campaign to our local political representative about transphobia. The only problem: they got our representative mixed up with the neighbouring district's, and when I corrected her about that she became really sulky. (Side note, but the way the transfem/non-transfem dynamic easily maps onto the woman/man dynamic is so striking at times lol.)

At the end they told a joke about how Caitlyn Jenner can't be buried at sea because she has too much plastic in her face so she'll float. Haha, isn't it funny that a trans woman has cosmetic surgery... No no, you don't understand, it's funny because she's a bad person, if you got cosmetic surgery it wouldn't be funny...

My fundraiser from last month fell significantly short and I really need help. I am so sorry that I’m still in a position where I have to ask for help. But I am. I’m an unemployed transgender woman living in wildly conservative Orange County, CA. I had to leave my job because of consistent transphobic and sexual harassment. It’s a hard and stressful time, and I’m so broke that I don’t know how I’m going to keep paying for groceries, let alone medication, therapy for cptsd and depression, paying off the phone I had to buy after my old one stopped charging. I am hoping to raise $500 but literally any little bit you can give helps. Thank you all so much.

C*shapp: $FJstardust

V*nmo: @Fiona-Stardust

P*ypal: [email protected]

The sexuality of a police officer is cop.

The gender of a police officer is cop.

When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.

This country has been having a ten year debate about who is allowed to wear a skirt in public, but Congress didn't even have to approve a whole fucking war with Iran for it to happen.