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You think you're an introvert because you like being alone, but maybe it's not about solitude. Maybe it's about peace. Maybe it's the quiet you've fought so hard to protect. Maybe it's the safety of your own company, after being around too many people who made you feel like too much or not enough. You smile differently around people who bring you calm. You speak more. You laugh louder. You come alive in rooms where your soul doesn't shrink. You're not afraid of connection. You're just tired of surviving it. So don't confuse your boundaries with isolation. Don't confuse your quiet with disinterest. You're not closed off. You're just waiting for someone who feels like home, not a battlefield.

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Handmade Catepillar Face Pendants by GrizzlyBryce

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This is the best idea in the history of film.

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I’m just going to leave this here

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Posting this one on its own cuz I just really love this image. gently hold your teenage self and tell them it’s gonna get better one day.

Look how far we’ve come.

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one of the other reasons it’s so hard to find someone to genuinely talk to about sa and or abuse is because people have stakes in your survival story and the way that you talk about and relate to it. they’re not interested in your actual journey; their investment extends only so far as what they can find politically useful in what happened to you. listeners who experience genuine curiosity and nonjudgmental empathy are possible to find but first you have to kill everybody who’s only there to project their agenda onto your experience.

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An action being “punishable by a fine” basically means “legal for rich people”.

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“If you don’t belong, don’t be long.”

— Scott Campbell

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reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing

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happy tdov from me daisy your favourite she/they moustache milf

so anyways anyone wanna buy me a pizza because tdov is also buy a trans woman a pizza day xoxoxo

paypal.me/dajojago xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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The best way to get ideas for your fanfiction is to have no time to write it.

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happy tdov to people who don't pass or have no interest in passing, who can't pass because there is no culturally recognised category for the way they want to be recognised, who flip flop and fuck around, who can't hide their transness and have to plan their everyday around being visible, who can't signal their transness and have to come out over and over because the default presumption is intolerable, who don't have the resources yet or the knowhow or the willpower to change what they want to change, whose transness is warped by a hegemonic image of ideal transness that is almost as difficult to escape as the hegemonic image of cisness, who don't have a justification prepared for the assertion that they are trans but can no longer justify the assertion that they are not, who have a million justifications that are all surplus to the fundamental requirement (that society mandated one articulation of you and you chose another), et cetera and so forth across the world and universe forever. your version is right. don't concede.

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The Women's House of Detention

A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Hugh Ryan 

This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.

The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur--were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women's prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher.

Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired.

Winner, 2023 Stonewall Book Award--Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award CrimeReads, Best True Crime Books of the Year

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Republicans want public schools to fail.

Red States will not protect students, and the quality of education will drop off a cliff.

White culture needs so much inequity and exclusion to survive.

Tyrants view educated citizens are their greatest enemy.

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It's looking like spoop wins here even though there's still a lil bit of time so that's most likely what I'm going to go with this coming month of *checks calendar* April. Thanks so much to everyone for participating in this poll and if you want to help cement a nice runner-up category, feel free to keep voting.

Since I have sold exactly zero stickers, I'm bringing it to y'all to tell me what the people want. Please reblog so even if you're not a sticker or poll person, someone who is can see it.