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Oh I thought of something else also for all of first and second grade I had this teacher who forced us say the pledge of allegiance and it was a huge deal to her and I, at six fucking years old, refused to say it for political reasons and I would stand there with my mouth glued shut and my hands literally balled into fists at my sides and GLARE at the flag and it's safe to say that teacher was Not Happy About That. I kept this up for all of those 2 years btw. Also I haven't changed very much

what's the most demented thing you guys got in trouble for in school mine was when an english boy in my class made fun of my name and called my mum a (derogatory word for irish travellers) so i told him my ira uncle was in town and was coming to blow him up after school

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When I was in the 6th grade this dude called me and my friend faggots at recess and I knocked him down and dragged him backwards all the way across the field (midwest 👍) by the back of his shirt collar and it almost choked him and also his shirt ripped like fully in half and he had to go home because now he didn't have a shirt

what's the most demented thing you guys got in trouble for in school mine was when an english boy in my class made fun of my name and called my mum a (derogatory word for irish travellers) so i told him my ira uncle was in town and was coming to blow him up after school

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Because you people are the ones that already know now, my therapist is quite literally forcing me on Monday to tell my mother about this. She said she'll physically bring her into the session. I am not by any means ready to tell my mother about this, can those of you who are older and wiser please help me and tell me what to do to get out of this situation lol

Just putting it out there that if you have been sexually abused by a woman or even a girl, you were still sexually abused. It's extremely rare but it does happen and it doesn't make it less bad or traumatizing and the shame is so awful, especially for feminists and ESPECIALLY for radical feminists. It happened to me. It started when I was nine and it ended when I was eleven. She was 4 or so months younger than me. It's not The Sexual Abuse Narrative in any way you could think of but I'm kind of done apologizing for it, so putting this out into the universe.

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What do you mean I don't know how to flirt, I sent her the text "I have a theory about the concept of God" with no context out of the blue and did not follow up when she didn't respond

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Oh whoops, I'm crying to Brandi Carlile's cover of Helplessly Hoping again, lol

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hey if you’re a federal worker you may want to use a vpn and check to see if the “american accountability foundation” (elon) doxxed you. suggesting a vpn bc there’s an IP logger on the domain.

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Hmmm I WONDER WHY

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Transphobia is the new heresy

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Stop writing Strong Female Characters and start writing strong characters that are female. Stop making it strong* (*female)

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The pattern of default referring to butches as “they” is so transparent and homophobic

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@ms-newvegas does where you live have a newspaper that at least a significant number of people read? My city is small and "everyone-knows-everyone" enough that if you put in an advertisement (which again if it's small enough tends to be affordable) word will get out. When my parents decided to start our local hospice choir they advertised in the daily news and like 20 people showed up to the first informational session

You can reserve a room at the library for community groups that are cultural, recreational, educational, or civic in nature sooo I need to pick a name for the women’s craft group and make it happen I guess. Just tell the library we are a group and I’ll put up posters lots of places and maybe post online and see if anyone shows up! For general crafting and art projects and creativity with other women. I’m telling myself this will work out

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Honey strawberry dark chocolate. Individually and in any possible combination.

sweet edition

are you a honey or jam person… are you a mango or strawberry person…  are you a milk chocolate or dark chocolate person…?

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A co-worker of mine was standing outside with me during a break from customers to share a cigarette with me, and told me about how he had lost his brother that he was close with some years ago. He told me about how they used to be in a band together with some friends, and how ever since he'd died, he hadn't played any music because he'd been too scared and anxious. I told him about how I'd lost my brother to suicide some years ago.

I went home and pulled out an old tiny wooden box my brother had given me before he'd died. I'd been using it to store guitar picks I'd collected over the years, including one guitar pick that used to be his. I haven't played the guitar since he'd died, my hands are too small to play some of the chords, so I play bass and piano instead.

I went to work the next day and gifted my brothers old guitar pick to my co-worker. I told him that it'd been sitting in a box for ten years unused, and would probably sit there for longer if I kept it there. Told him that I thought he deserved to have it, because I bet he could put it to better use than I ever would. Told him I didn't feel like it was coincidence that me and him would cross paths with each other in our lives, and that it seemed suiting that we had these similar experiences but split in two halves. That somehow, I felt like he was meant to have the guitar pick. I told him that I knew he'd not played guitar since his brother died, but that if he ever decided to play again one of these days, maybe he'd be able to honor both of our brothers by using that guitar pick.

He almost cried. He thanked me. Then he went home that night and for the first time in years he played the guitar.

I don't know what the meaning of life is or what my purpose is, but I do believe that love and human connection is one of the most important things in life. It's finding ways to tell strangers you love them and share experiences with others. I think it's all just about love.

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HAHA

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I’ve never understood people’s obsession with corsets I feel like general best practice with garments is like “if only women have to wear it it’s probably insidious in some way”

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like idk when people are like “actually hoop skirts were super freeing for women because it meant they didn’t have to wear layers and layers of crinolines or petticoats and they could actually move around and it kept men away” and they couldn’t just wear pants why?

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We need to erect a statue of this woman

LOL