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noise. phd. the university of iowa school of music's #1 enemy and hater she/ey 🏳️‍⚧️ https://linktr.ee/emdenney

One of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control.

i have a doctor's appointment scheduled for the first time since i moved to CA thanks to a friend who took 2 hours out of her day to be on the phone helping me. there are beautiful and kind people in this world

It's so fucking bleak that there's so many more posts here about scene drama at a lesbian bar than there is the US government's border Gestapo shooting a guy in the back, kidnapping him, throwing him in a camp, denying him proper medical care, and then torturing him Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

sayonara lara spoilers idk! i feel like there's a bit of Brutal Realism in being a less-than-human girl who is able to Transition and Live Life on her own terms, realizing that there is no Salvation in a Storybook Love for Girls Like Her, but she can Live autonomously & deserves to be loved anyway.

the Goodbye, Lara finale is so beautiful if you aren't cis or a literal child. like. I'm sorry that the show had themes and ideas beyond "comphet bad" that you didn't understand. might i suggest reading a book

New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel

The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women

This paper examines whether hiring discrimination against transgender women arises from gender identity, non-cisnormative appearance, or their interaction. In a

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hey, I was born in the 80s or 90s and I'm looking for a morally acceptable way to continue to like Harry Potter?? you see, I have this special condition where I just... stopped. somewhere along the way, i let the growth inside me die and i gnawed a hole in the past, and there i sit, and there i rot

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

it takes a lot of genuine effort on my part to not be a complete downer about everything all the time and i feel i deserve some recognition for that.

California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System For over 19 months, cops across the Golden State continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.

California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System

For over 19 months, cops across the state continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.

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having siblings is so cool, it's like "hey, you showed feelings and had a personality, i'm going to hit you in the side of the head" for like 20 years and then everyone acts like that didn't happen.

cis society is more or less incapable of acknowledging us as people and instead can only treat us as representations of something else. every discussion about us involves a desire to supposedly decode us and the violence against us to figure out what it all Actually Means

depressioncore@princesscore.meangirls.online · 3mo ago

conservatives: fuck them trannies, eliminate them cis ppl: they are saying this to force cis women to have long hair