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My gender today is prepping to go work con when my outfit is femme and I'm more in the masc realm today.

Love making gender more ephemeral and complicated. I'm in a bad mood today,so my gender is Jane Lynch in an episode of glee.

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After Ea Nasir notoriously failed in the copper business, he went into computers under the name Ea Games, where he received even more angry letters of complaint than before.

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So this is how I found out about Roe v Wade...

Other than my heart being fucking broken right now and being PISSED - be wary of the Santanic Temple thing being any assurance. Don't get me wrong, I think they are trying something good and I have zero against them, they just haven't been very successful yet. If you count on that you might get burned. Do your own research, don't trust me on it, and be safe my friends <3

stop feeling hopeless, start getting ready

If you are in a red state, your state either has an abortion ban in place or is rated by the Guttmacher Institute as likely to enact a ban. Your focus should be on protecting yourself and others who need abortions.

stop using electronic period tracking apps or software

educate yourself and others about pregnancy prevention and join groups that are making preventative birth control more accessible

learn the nearest and most accessible routes to states where you and your loved ones can access abortion

contribute to mutual aid funds to help transport people over state lines if they are in need of abortion

consider joining The Satanic Temple so you can claim protections under the Religious Abortion Ritual if you are prosecuted for obtaining an abortion

keep a stock of by-mail abortion pills for yourself and/or others who may need them (you may need to travel out of state to obtain them)

form community provider networks and see if you or someone you know can be trained to use manual vacuum aspiration kits or a Del-Em

all of the above should be done in complete secrecy using verbal communication, end-to-end encrypted apps such as Signal, or a VPN

If you are in a yellow state, you currently have constitutional abortion protections but they are in jeopardy. Get active in local political groups NOW to fight back against constitutional amendments to ban abortion. Your focus should be purely on political action.

If you are in Michigan, you currently have a ban in place which is being challenged, and your governor is working to add abortion protections into the Michigan state constitution. Your focus should be on supporting the work that is currently under way.

If you are in a green state, your state has constitutional protections for abortion that are unlikely to be challenged. Your focus should be on helping others to enter your state for abortion care.

connect with abortion access groups such as Aid Access, Abortion on Demand, the National Network of Abortion Funds, or Just The Pill

volunteer to help people enter your state for abortion care, either with transportation help or letting someone crash on your couch

if you live in a green state with no current or predicted primary routes from other states for abortion access, you can focus your efforts on supporting political action in other areas

If you are in a purple state, your state currently has no constitutional protections for abortion but is unlikely to implement a ban. You have two focuses: pushing for constitutional protections AND helping others to enter your state for abortion care (see green state list).

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So yesterday was my first time marching in a band, and it was Pride. This is a crowd of thousands. When I'm dancing, it's a crowd of like... less than 100. And I haven't performed in a good decade. This was very much a test to see if i could handle a crowd as a performer, and I'm very much a trial by fire person.

So after like... hours of waiting around for stuff to happen, they had us line up. Crowds were starting to form, I was surrounded by huge tall buildings that echoed and turned the street into a wind tunnel.

I'm not downtown very often because despite being an extrovert I'm not a fan of crowds. So the streets being empty of traffic but full of us queers had such an amazing high energy like... it cannot be put into words, it has to be experienced. At one point during the lineup I looked up and cried a little bit because it was a beautiful queer day and I was a beautiful queer and we were all thousands and thousands of beautiful queers.

Then I waited for another hour or so because parade lineup logistics are a pain in the ass.

About half an hour before push-off, the protestors arrived. This time they staked their spot in front of the head of the parade. They had a bullhorn and a loudspeaker and an exhaustive list of Bible verses. I heard Deuteronomy being shouted at over the din of the crowd.

Our drum line makes their way up to the front and starts playing their cadences to drown out the protestors. Drums are the loudest part of the band and you can hear the beat bouncing off the buildings. So you can't hear the protestors. And soon you can't even year the drums all that much because people were cheering so much.

The protestors refused to shut up.

About two slots in front of us was a small convoy of rainbow cars that were cheuffering drag queens. One of them lays on their horn. The rest lay on their horns.

One of the melophones in our band goes 'what is that, A-flat?'

And he starts to match pitch. The other melophones join in, then the trumpets, the tubas, flutes, saxes, tubas, clarinets. Either matching pitch or harmonizing. We start waving our flags.

The other band down the way starts doing the same. The A-flat is heard around the statehouse. The dykes on bikes rev their engines. Some folks on kazoo, tambourine... everyone starts making noise.

The cacophony bounces off the steel and glass buildings like rubber balls loose in food processor. The sound rose up like August heat, the gathering crowd cheered down the street, and the group with their Bible verses put down their words because even the people next to them couldn't hear them.

I can't know if they moved or gave up, but I didn't see them as we passed the area where they were.

But I was so delighted to part of that absolute clown show.

I used to be 'gay, but I'm not making it my whole personality like some gays do.' Now I'm 'queer as in fuck you.' There is so much about being loudly your most self and being with others that are so loudly, adoringly themselves- that we can be unstoppable in this way. My best weapon is being myself.

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When we say make Pride more accessible we mean make sure disabled folks can actually enter the gay bar. (We see your doors with a lip on them.)

When we say make Pride more accessible we mean don’t pack people in and make it hard to move in mobility aids. 

When we say make Pride more accessible we mean stop having Pride events that only happen on grass. 

When we say make Pride more accessible we mean make sure all bathrooms are easily found and usable. 

When we say make Pride more accessible we mean make sure we actually can sit somewhere if we need to. If all the seats are bar stools that is not helping or helpful. 

When we say make Pride more accessible we mean don’t expect everyone can dance physically. 

Stop using ‘that’s just how it’s always been’ as an excuse. Intersectionality in the community needs to be a thing. 

Handicapped queer folk exist, too. 

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we need to give this tweet more credit for im pretty sure coining "die mad about it"

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a few things to keep in mind as you talk about the current situation with roe v wade:

women are not the only people who can get pregnant, and therefore are not the only people who get abortions or the only people affected by restrictions to abortion access — sincerely, a man with a uterus

the recent legislation against trans people transitioning, particularly as it relates to trans men and transmasc people, has been justified by the politicians supporting it using the argument that transitioning jeopardizes our reproductive potential, which they see as more important than our actual lives. if you support the legislation against us or have been silent about it, you cannot claim to be fighting for reproductive rights. you don’t get to only care about it when it affects you — if you let them get away with that rhetoric against trans people, you give them the power to use it against you. if you can’t stand in solidarity with us, you will end up standing against yourself

please don’t forget us in these conversations, and don’t be silent about the attacks on our bodily autonomy

all of this is connected — criminalizing transition, overturning roe v wade, it’s all working toward the same goal. if you care about one part of it, you have to care about all of it, or any efforts against it will fail

if you don’t care enough about us to fight our oppression for our sake, do it because you cannot fight against your own oppression without fighting ours too

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some words of encouragement from the gaang <3

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I may have pissed off one of the trickster gods. It took three separate attempts with rooms keys, plus a try with the master, and then whole ass assigning me a new room before I got in my hotel room. Someone knew how tired I am and how badly I needed to go the bathroom.

Wait, does this mean I've pissed one off or that one is taking an interest in me?!

Um....

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I was just there for the first time around 3 weeks ago! I fell in love with The City Museum and have zero desire to visit St. Louis again other than I want to go play again.

Is it okay if I ask which city museum you visited? Answer privately if you don't want everybody to know. Some of your "friend shaped" creatures look vaguely familiar, but I have no idea if it's because my brain is scrambled due to flu or perhaps we've been to the same city museum.

The City Museum is in St Louis, MO and is full of friend shaped creatures

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How does Tumblr know I started Adderall two days ago?!

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they mean so much to me yall dont get it

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I truly love how queer can mean "Eh I'm some flavour of Not-Cishet but I don't care to know the specifics beyond that" but also "I absolutely do know the specifics but we will be here all damn day if we get into it" and like. Everything in between. I think that's incredibly powerful of us tbh.

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What a year this week has been.

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Last year I backed a Kickstarter campaign for The Alleyman's Tarot. I got super excited when I found it because I'm building a chaos deck of my own. I should maybe post about that at some point... but for NOW let me start showing off the Alleyman's Tarot!

The tier I got on the kickstarter came with all kinds of goodies. The book is your typical "here's a summary about the deck and an idea of each of the cards stand for BUT it's done as journal by The Alleyman. The top box is the what the deck actually came in. The box is a "cigarbox" that come from the Alley. There's a whole mythos build around this deck. That's one of the things I fell in love about this. I need to read up about it more, but basically (from my understanding) the Alleyman is someone who collected random cards and made his deck out of those. He made a practice of giving away his cards to querants. This is one of his assembled decks.

Pictured: A tarot cloth, the deck in a neat stack, a bag that I believe is an option for storing the deck (I have other ideas possibly), and two specialty coins.

The full deck! It's ginormous. It's way larger than a normal deck. HUGE. It's a deck made up of cards from many decks and many artists - all used with consent and some made specifically for this project. I've looked through it some and I can hardly wait to dive in more!