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protean trans woman, poète maudit, punk house-socialized Emily Dickinson, cartoon androgyne between fashionable imps, writer. links:

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Joined June 2008
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help my friend Maggie get her gender-affirming surgeries this year! she was hospitalized for half a year and has faced repeated housing insecurity, so she could really benefit from community financial support
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Maggie’s Surgery Fund, organized by Margaret Martin

My name is Maggie and I’m a 25 year old trans woman. I’m currently planning for multiple gender-… Margaret Martin needs your support for Maggie’s Surgery Fund

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@daughter_ion I'd like you to meet my coauthor on this paper we call life
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the hollow cis "so happy for you" vs the hearty dyke "love this for you"
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@tendergf @jaboukie engayged
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this is genuinely electrifying
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it's physically almost impossible for me to cry these days but this article made me cry
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struck today by Feinberg's note on context informing pronoun usage
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this is an entire apparatus designed to aid child abuse; pure evil
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I wrote about 2 kids who have barricaded themselves in a bedroom for the last month to defy family court orders forcing them back into the custody of their father, despite DCFS findings that the father sexually abused them 🧵
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@daughter_ion cis women when a man can't find the clit be like "it's not my responsibility to educate you 🙄"
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cannot a man or a boy "mother"? of course! some of the most motherly people we know are male, & isn't that a great idea? I'll bet some hidebound folks have never even heard of alloparenting, which is common in animal species including Homo sapiens.
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the most frightening type of person to me is someone who's seen 20000+ films and their top 4 is like citizen kane / breathless / tokyo story / vertigo
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how many of you can say this
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this is so homophobic
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did i lie
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guy who refers to a "she/they" alternately as "she" or "they" at every opportunity, switching it up several times mid sentence
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a typology of strategies in a 2004 academic article about lesbian cruising by Denise Bullock
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the use of therapy language here and in the followup really drives home the extent to which this rhetorical mode has grown from & largely left small/online communities mitigating interpersonal harm. now it's part of the toolkit of reinforcing institutional power
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fuck it like this and I'll vaguetweet you
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the funniest thing on that problematic authors list is "wrote about a kiss in Anne Frank's house" for John Green
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@GirlsGutsGiallx
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@rajandelman why do women top in the shirtway while men shirt in the topway
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@lovessmallsong fucked up that he had morphine and I didn't
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@thepplsbottom my gender is Klein bottle
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*closing the gay sex app* "won't somebody think of this guy's wife"
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depressed enough to look into this, so I'll just say that I'll never not be scared of the facility with which people can go into 'inquisitor of harm' mode in response to the most incidental/glancing conflict/unpleasantness/interpersonal tensions if you're a trans woman
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@ScothSenpai her wife is also a trans woman who designed a ton of video/tabletop games. enriched my life to learn about them tbh
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that Lena Wilson watched Bodies Bodies Bodies, a movie mainly about weaponizing harm for interpersonal shittiness and the awkwardness of rich kids relatively new to partying in their parents' palatial estates, and couldn't see anything besides tits is enormously telling of her
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@daughter_ion girl who makes you answer one of her riddles three during each act of the hero's journey while you're boning
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@unit01barbie @la_leere should people start bringing knives with which to slash tires
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found nyc's best lex poster
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@TSTGTVCD this is the only reply that actually gets it
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@introvertedwife the backlash is because it's a reactionary genre that reinforces stereotypes of criminals, feeds into moral panics about crime waves, and exploits the suffering of living families of crime victims.
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piracy is a tool for getting good art into the hands of the (internet-access having) masses, an income-blind means to an aesthetic/historical/political education. that's why authorities are so intent to crack down on it and you're a stooge if you're an artist crowing about it
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head swimming with possibilities about how much we can do for one another
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i'm tweaking out this morning because this post immediately clicked w me as beautiful and twinged w a certain sadness, and the rest of you are either making insinuations or reading it as satire
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having a trans gf is cool because she's just like, a boy that's soft to fuck. she'll play need for speed hot pursuit with you because it was her favorite game growing up too. she drinks the beer you buy and in the quiet dark you can barely hear it when she cries herself to sleep
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cis men are not ontologically evil, and treating them as if they are very easily bleeds into transphobia and ends up hurting trans/gender non-conforming people across the board
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What’s your stance on MEN that would get you in this position?
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this study reinforces my belief that the associations suggested by neuroimaging studies are utterly worthless. they're just a way to provide cheap scientific cover to preconceived beliefs & biases
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all jokes aside, I'm unsettled that they did this study. the Discussion section says the quiet part out loud: "The risk lies in young females developing a romanticized or skewed perception of real-world homosexual relationships and even denying one's own female identity"
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some of you are so horny about how many eggs you've cracked that you remind me of cis sexhavers boasting about body count
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remember when Camille Paglia tried to do a hot girl critical reevaluation of a film and it was Revenge of the Sith lol
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once again, valuing trauma as a sort of social or discursive currency is fascist
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if I was throwing an orgy, there would be a pull-up bar attached to the front door; if you can do even one pull up, you're not getting in
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I scheduled my HRT consult just now to spite Lily Cade
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@daughter_ion at least ftmtf about it
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can't retweet because she's locked
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I do care that he is upset, for the reason that despite the critique of exploitative filmmaking embedded in May December, the film put Fuulaau in a bind in which he's receiving a new wave of attention for the harm done to him, but without any financial benefit
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Where Were You on Grimes Chelsea Manning Day
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@bitchvibrations I've been low-key annoyed by the "so depressed I've been listening to mitski 🤪" jokes I've seen for the last X years, but life really does imitate art
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@SLIMELEVEL afab door bike text car door
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this summary of the texts between Brianna's killers should underscore that even when cis women needn't be repulsed by transfemininity -- they can instead be fetishistically fixated on it -- and either impulse can result in our being killed.
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I am at Manchester Crown Court to report on the trial of the two young people who are accused of the murder of Brianna Ghey. The trial begins today at 10.30am. Follow this thread for live coverage and analysis of the events.
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one of my more controversial beliefs (probably) is that the misery experienced by people upset that they've never had sex is worthy of empathy, though of course none of the cognitive distortions/doomer worldviews/incel ideologies are
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@bimbotheory part of the reason trans women insulting each others appearances is so insidious is that it opens the floodgates for naked external transmisogyny
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game show hosted by Sarah Schulman in which she listens to contestants describing various situations and then pushes a giant, fuck off button labeled either CONFLICT or ABUSE
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@bobby she's just saying that the movie has bad politics bro, it's not that complicated and you can still like it
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Hideo Kojima is getting described as the Abe shooter across international media, and meanwhile on Twitter he's posting like "for the first time in 20 years I listened to the album WEEZER by Weezer (1994)"
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I actually perversely enjoy how much more elaborate/absurd the hypothetical film gets with every single round
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Ellie | BLM | 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️
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What even is the definition of a “filmbro” anymore?
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the specific phrasing of "improved flag" is killing me rn
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*stoned out of my mind* no you see, there's parallels between early lesbian novels and gangster movies -- it matters when more than one of em is alive at the end
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from time to time I'm asked if there are cops on Lex
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getting the salem void harassment is like the baptism by fire of discussing trans issues online as a trans woman or ally
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@TSTGTVCD when making "not like other girls" your gender turns you into this guy
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@fluff_weather I went from never having heard of this guy five minutes ago to him being one of my favorite human beings. Inspiring, heartbreaking, infuriating.
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URGENT: my friend Violet needs your help to escape an abusive and hostile living situation. please share/donate so that a trans woman and her cat daughter can have a safe place to live!
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Help Violet and her cat Esmé move!, organized by Alma Avalle

Our friend Violet is stuck in an incredibly tense and hostile apartment and needs funds… Alma Avalle needs your support for Help Violet and her cat Esmé move!

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oh shit I took both pills and now i'm stuck in the afab colony
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Lux Alptraum 🦋 luxalptraum.com
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TFW you’re queer but also a colonizer
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and while I wouldn't say that he/him pronouns are "appropriate" in that context, I see that gendered honorific use is an internalized expectation of being a non-native English speaking service worker in the city and I have no investment in this kind of transactional interaction
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(it's also regularly used to bully and marginalize people in worse social positions in noninstitutional community settings, but that's a different story)
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look at me.
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just found out about the best film critic of all time
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search “pussy” in your camera roll and post your favorite photo
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this is also not something I hold over the head of TME people specifically; I've seen trans women do this to other trans women, because this is the sledgehammer that we are culturally conditioned to use against any and all nails
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@daughter_ion I didn't get this immediately, but the INSTANT that I did..
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I wonder if they ever explored each other's bodies
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big fish eat little fish
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the Agnes Callard article is the funniest thing I've read in a minute
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perverse miracle that this is still up
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what’s the worst tweet of all time
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@dkolkena @GurmagWangler @StolenDans I would advise you to shrink your brain to about a third of the size and look at the picture again
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@GirlsGutsGiallx I had to count the number of negatives to make sure I was reading it right
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"queer safe spaces" don't exist. there's no ineffable quality that makes a queer space meaningfully different from a non-queer space, and queer people are not automatically safe in a space simply by decree or by virtue of everyone else in the space being queer
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@9BillionTigers I like it when we say we're afab
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@GeneroAjeno @cervixpiercer I don't think it's any deeper than it being the most accessible entry point into theory for a lot of people
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sometimes -- and I know this sounds crazy but hear me out for a sec -- you call yourself something as one of the first steps in accumulating that body of lived material experience
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transmasc noise rock song titled "The Second Biggest Dick in Chicago"
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at the end of dyke march I got sir'd by a worker at a pizza place (nothing unusual for me), and someone in line expressed alarm ("you know he just misgendered you, right?")
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good morning, "Richard Siken" was a 13 year sociological study conducted by tumblr dot com
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there is a top shortage, in that their average height decreases every year
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@ZeroSuitCamus zizek and dmt
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not to essentialize too much, but I find that I am much more likely to be genuinely happy instead of jealous that my friends are doing well compared to before transition
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First date look
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only poem I know off the top of my head to contain "yr" is by a mid-century American guy
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during modernism you had to put phrases like 'impistillate iris' in your poems. sometimes cool. these days you have to say 'yr'. 'yr hands' and stuff like that. i see/yr face. always utter shit. we live on a drooping frond
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at their best, community cancelations and callouts are essentially disaster profiteering. all of the enemies of the accused come out of the woodwork, now given an acceptable object to direct their pent-up rage against, usually with the goal of total ostracism and isolation
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@daughter_ion "hi i'm extremely cool and also incredibly lame"
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my cancellable Sappho take is that while she fucked, she fucked more boys than women. she's like if Phoebe Bridgers fucked
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I mean I also hate the term sapphics. Sappho fucked and most of those invoking her name do not
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the Paul Dano fandom is still just getting warmed up. RT this if you're a proud Danimal
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let's go
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reconnecting with the world right after sex, then finding out Kissinger died >>>>>>>
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why do these guys have the most generic-ass sounding account names. "transmasc takes" "trans guy energy" like a telling disconnection from any particulars of the experience. sounds astroturfed imo
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le whorela
@aromatasemebro
1 year
lmfaooooo
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le whorela
@aromatasemebro
2 years
the decemberists were unironically composing sea shanties, which should have been recognized as embarrassing, but the songs are so good
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le whorela
@aromatasemebro
6 months
it's my birthday, free Palestine 🇵🇸
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le whorela
@aromatasemebro
1 year
guy who is able to use EBT to buy the stuff for this
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