૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა | 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅ | (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)

You got people running around here with "anti-fascist" "nazis dni" in their bio and "degens dni" right next to it lmao. YOU are the fascist!

The first photo is from 1956. It shows a Black woman watching members of the Ku Klux Klan (a terrorist, racist, far-right organization focused on white supremacy) walking along a sidewalk in Montgomery, Alabama (USA). I couldn't find the photo's author, but most sources state that it was taken in 1956.

The second photo shows members of the Patriot Front group (a white supremacist and nationalist group, formed in 2017, that openly advocates what they call "American Fascism") traveling on the subway during the 250th anniversary of the U.S. independence in Washington D.C., while a Black woman watches them. The photo is by photographer Cheney Orr, taken on July 4, 2026, 70 years after the first photo.

What I am thinking is, "does this mean what the author intends it to mean, and if not, how can we adjust it so it does?" and also usually, "wow I'm so glad I get to read this, what a privilege it is to help people say exactly what they mean to say."

This is one of a thousand things that trans women who sell sex have to deal with that makes them uniquely vulnerable. The issue is not merely individual clients being transmisogynists and targeting trans women, but structural transmisogyny combining with whorephobia that creates worse outcomes for any transfeminine sex worker. It's the laws requiring trans women to disclose their transness, the (relatively) safer brothels who only employ cis women, the prostitutes' cautions and criminal citations given to trans women hooking on the street that keep them out of other work, the support workers who have never been trained to support sex workers who are trans, the fetishization of trans women combined with the objectification of sex workers in general, the domestic abuse shelters that won't take them... we could go on forever.

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.