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Chapter 6 take that came to me in a dream

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it's so epic that we're all supposed to treat speculative or straight up imaginary enemies (roving internet suicide cults, slinking broad-daylight child snatching predators, black mirror style phone exposure brain necrosis, child-honing heroin dealers, etc. etc.) as immediately more dangerous and addressable than the real statistically proven constant threats to children represented in their parents & religious authority figures, to the point of further empowering the latter and giving them even greater control over children as a supposed protection against the former

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actually making this a post on its own because im tired and pissed. stop treating Fucking Trans Women like it’s the holy bible of transfem sex. i do not want to be treated like a vaginaless sub bottom and i DEFINITELY do not want my balls shoved around and fingered carelessly. that zine is great for lots of reasons but many of you have simply traded one narrow and incomplete view of transfeminine sex for another.

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haha yeah man thats hilarious [suddenly lunges at you with my stupid rapier]

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my baby boy, my flesh and blood. i birthed him 💖

just wanted to draw more ralsei. also figure out a design for him that's my own lil spin. idk why i think it'd be cute that he'd have bells on his ankles. i just do. i'll do a more fleshed out drawing with my version of his and a lot of the main cast's designs sometime soon 😛

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If you can eat and drink, sleep in a bed, read these words, and have a bank account—you have the power to help. Don’t stay silent. Do something for Gaza today.

The Sameer Project

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mona's Initiative

Hussein Team

Water is Life Gaza

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What happens after we die?

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obsolete angel

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Neanderthal twinks

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this chapter is very on the nose

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if you wanna know the state of terfism in "transandrophobia", "transmisandry" etc believers circles, look at this

this vile bio essentialism and transmisogyny has 1500+ notes even with 0 reblogs and reblogs turned off. lots of tme trans people in the replies agreeing. this is the state of the "transandrophobia theory" movement.

it's obviously a bio essentialist, transmisogynistic hate movement

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Hotdog debates

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tumblr sucks so bad it turns awesome.

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i dunno, are you guys sure the author is trying to make some kind of political statement? i'm just not seeing the connection between the USA statue of liberty and War personified in human shape.

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if you agree with basic transfeminism on this website, people will say you're a cis male interloper who's only faking your gender for rhetorical points.

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If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.

Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.

We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."

The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.

Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.

That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.

Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.

So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.