Shae 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@shaevitae.ca

They/Any. Intersectional AuDHD Sober GenderQueer. Quiet loudmouth. Union rep. Cat dad. Telecom survivor. White-presenting Metis. Casual safe-space retro-indie-variety streamer. Pessimistic Optimist. FGC oldie http://shaevitae.ca biz: shae@shaevitae.ca

Love has never needed permission from labels 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 My emptiness of gender lets me see that clearly. Anxiety tightens around transgender lives right now. Why must their chosen bonds still pass through someone else’s gate? Why is the soul they claim treated as a request instead of a right?

Love has never needed permission from labels 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
My emptiness of gender lets me see that clearly.
Anxiety tightens around transgender lives right now.
Why must their chosen bonds still pass through someone else’s gate?
Why is the soul they claim treated as a request instead of a right?

Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

transnews.network

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

So I set a goal to be comfortable rocking a crop top by this time next year. An easy (for me) step towards this comes from my early sobriety/detox days, when I was at my heaviest. One meal a day is replaced with veggies and dip. I buy the big trays from the grocery store, and eat until full

Without fail. Every time I see someone not a white, cis man explaining why they feel a certain way about something and it is clearly a thread... Under the first post is a cis white man explain-guessing their reasons and saying they understand. No Tom. STFU and let them speak you dipshit

Today was a day full of firsts. First time buying makeup First time being called she intentionally First time just talking kindly and openly about gender and neurodivergence with someone in public So even though I couldn't sleep worth a damn. Today is a really good day

hey, cis folks! way too often these things end up being trans people passing the same $20 around until they’re the ones on a bad run of luck. if you’ve been wondering about real ways to help right now, this kind of thing truly matters. if you can chip in, please do.

victoria scott@victoriascott.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey I’ve got some friends who have had an insanely bad run of luck and could use some help getting back on their feet, if you have anything you can chip in. Thanks so much 💜💜💜 www.gofundme.com/f/help-two-t...

Okay. Leftists and liberals both. It’s the end of Disability Pride Month, which means it’s high time you learned something. A deeply problematic expression I saw just this morning: “this is why forced sterilization should be allowed”—comes out of people on “our” side way too often. Let’s talk.