missing innocence

How people describe worshipping Dionysus is like:

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

Thank u for sharing this with us

happy birthday to Egg Bacon and to the post that fucking destroyed my notifications and shot to over 100k notes in record time, i still don't know who Egg Bacon is

two years later and i still don't know who Egg Bacon is, happy birthday i guess

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

for every note on this post I increase the final boss fights HP by 10 in my campaign

brought nothing to the gun fight. whatever man

This is a huge part of why listening to public trans discourse as a trans biologist is infuriating. 4chan OP is based AF.

Never thought I would see the sentence "4chan OP is based AF" be used and I especially never thought I'd agree but here we are

sex is not (as even many trans people would still insist) separate from gender. sex is the gendering of the body. lines drawn in the sand of our flesh, distinction and meaning forced on to us by the social world. that's how deeply gender is embedded into the dominant discourse. it underlies the common understanding of what it means to be a human with a body. there is no escaping its socially constructed nature, even in human physicality.

lying about a known truth doesn't make you smarter than everyone you know. gender has never been related to sex. it has always been psychological, and thus independent of biological functions and their meaty connections. so go fuck yourself bigot

you've met me at a very "yeah i'm trying to work on that" time in my life