I love you all but you are incredibly (understandably) reactive. It’s making you SO easily manipulated by rage baiters. When you see something without context, a headline or a snippet of a quote, take a deep breath and look into it to see if you really should be upset. Please protect your hearts.
Here are the poems I read yesterday for the @forgeforwardtrans.bsky.social Trans Survivor Zine Showcase. Grateful for the opportunity to share and to experience such amazing art from the other presenters.
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can you guys retire "the right wing / chuds don't know what to do with trans men and forget they exist and will be So Confused by them!!!!" already. they are fully aware trans men exist and the thing they do to trans men is violently abuse and murder them
I actually think that the confusion over this question—the mistaken idea that perverts and preachers have opposing projects—is responsible for a lot of the stagnated and remedial quality of sexual politics discourses.
Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d agoThere’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.
they let me on the internet as a kid and all that really happened was i learned gamehacking and heard a bunch of good music and figured out a bunch of etiquette the embarrassing way which is imo better earlier
aegisiondure @equalnotequals.com · 22h agothis isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again
A young GDwarble who wasn't on forums and blogs and being exposed to different ideas by different people from different places is...probably a GDwarble who never realized she was trans and who didn't have *anything* to fall back on when she lost contact with her friends.
aegisiondure @equalnotequals.com · 22h agothis isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again
Big shout out to all the people who were mad at me for not wanting them to vote labour cause they were “certain labour will be better on trans rights than the tories“, they couldn’t have done it (segregation) without you
This is perhaps the most pivotal legal fight in the UK's corrupt landscape.
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learning that the voices saying 'Connected' when I use my bluetooth headset belong to dorky women that love 2 get a lil silly with it has been so good for my mental health
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I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.
Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · yesterdayI hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.
EA getting acquired by an uncaring, uninterested, wildly stupid outside entity that will inevitably run it ragged, make it produce garbage on impossible timelines, then strip the copper from the walls and shut it down when it doesn’t pay out fast enough is. Well. What more can I say
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterdayEA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
i think it's genuinely important to live each day with the idea that it would be really neat to make new friends or become closer with the ones you have and learn wonderful new things about them
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
Wait, was she banned for this??? This was the trans person who a Ken Jennings mocked. Did Bluesky really ban them for this? Do we have any specifics on this?
Karrid 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterdayWell, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.
I actually think it’s really a bad sign that straight people have managed to erase themselves from conversations about the roots of homophobia.
Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 4w agoEverywhere Republicans gather, Grindr crashes. Or at least, that's what people have told me about 500 times since my video discussing if homophobia is always rooted in secretly being gay. But is it true? Do republicans constantly crash Grindr whenever they meet? New Video: youtu.be/GHeAJPbx0SI
The road to fascism was paved with "Reddit atheist" and "shrill feminist" and "blue hair and pronouns". The vanguard wasn't the rabid reactionaries. It was the "normals", "apoliticals", who tolerate occasional sexist comments but mock the "cringe" of well-meaning and earnest but awkward people.
bald tgirls get to be the punching bag you guys all feel sorry about and wince at for 5 seconds before always without fail going back to making fun of bald people when its "allowed"
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
it’s critically important that you speedrun exorcising every negative thought you’ve ever had about testosterone (ideally in private) so that you stop saying stupid shit that throws flak at trans masc individuals or cis women or literally anyone else on earth who’s not terminally brainwormed about t
the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, for me, but yeah.
Kay F. Atkinson - Perfect Killer Bodies out Nov. 10@tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 3d agothere are a lot of things that at least partially explain why I am the way I am but I think reading Alita as a youth may have been the single most significant contributor
Wow. This is my shocked face,
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
Ten years ago, it started with a game jam. Since then, we've poured all of our love and craft into every single pixel. Now, it's finally here: a wordless point-and-click adventure in a prehistoric world full of dinosaurs. Theropods launches August 20th!🦕
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d agoriley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos
the thing about doing unprompted apologies instead of just weathering the backlash is that if they were going to sue you anyway, now they have a document you created that admits some level of wrongdoing
Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
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聖☆Alex Degen@adactivity.bsky.social · 4d agoWhen the Siberian Bacteria with Stem Placenta Baby Drips $165,000 hits
