#i do not have anyone in my draft i can see winning 😭 ok that’s not true actually i have one that could win i forgot i have 5

[lesbianlenas]

we did a draft for bb for the first time in my house & the way my draft team is def the worst now 😭 my dad didn’t even pick his team he just got whoever my mom & i didn’t want & his team is better than mine……bleak 😔

[elytrafemme]

good evening my beloved mare :D today i bring you your daily Horse Picture... lore for this one is this pony's name is kally. and i love her :3 (...and i most definitely didn't choose my name when i was coming up with it at the ripe age of 12 or something after her ahah whattt... noooo... what kind of idiot would do that ahahh)

WHAT IS UP WITH YOU TODAY THOUGH :D!! are you able to say anymore about your article writing :O??

HI CALLI!!!

oh my god kally the horse the absolute adored. honestly i love the fact that you drew inspiration from her name to name yourself that's SO CUTE. i absolutely love her thank you so much for the horse pictures u have made me like 100x more fond of horses than i was before

NOTHING TOO BIG! struggling to figure out how to count writing in my paid hours when i keep getting fucking distracted by going on tumblr and also neglecting my hw but ! it's ok we win these :D

"are you able to say anymore" call it's more like you don't WANT me to say anymore 😭im not joking there r a few things i can talk about forever and one of them is my student advocacy work (even though it could technically identify me so i have to be careful with it)

i work in a student advocacy organization! and by work i mean that the first two years it was ENTIRELY volunteer, and now it's mostly volunteer still but i get compensated! or, that is to say, i should get compensated. i am extremely extremely bad at remembering to do invoices but thank god the budget student director and the adult ally who also handles that stuff might open up office hours for it

but basically i've worked on our editorial board for a while and this year became a co-editor in chief (along with two other editors in chief!) my specific role is to do external outreach and collaboration-- i am supposed to be responsible for getting pieces cross posted, handling the backends of workshops and fellowships, etc. i kind of suck at my job rn but i'm TRYINNNG (if ur wondering one of the other editors in chief does the general work and is like our point person and the other handles the logistics!)

the piece i'm working on right now is among many in my drafts and it's about how the school system, especially in surveys and standardized testing, incorporate middle eastern and north african into the "white" ethnicity category and also the general problems and transphobia that come with questions about legal sex and gender on these same demographics! as u all know probably i'm Iraqi and also non-binary and though Middle Eastern individuals could be considered an overrepresented minority (North African people absolutely are not and face SO much discrimination and systematic racism in school systems so them being included as white is fucking perplexing to me) there's still a lot of inequities faced ESPECIALLY since i'm extremely non-white passing and i've never been mistaken as white though i HAVE been mistaken as being part of other ethnic groups aside from Middle Eastern (by this usually i mean Latine but i've heard some other strange things over the years. and also learned that not a lot of people know what iraq is. L.)

it's kind of an endless problem and i know how the backend of creating surveys (for another part of the team) and whatnot works and exactly what they're (hopefully) TRYING to get at in terms of equity but it definitely falls flat and it's an issue that i take nationally not just within the state. i think current plan is cross post this and see if i can reach out somewhere nationally to get it posted along with on our organization's editorial board

(didn't touch on the whole gender part because i can but it's a very long tangent so i don't know if anyone else aside from me would want to hear it DFJHDJFH also i hope i phrased all this correctly! i can obviously only speak from my experience as a middle eastern nonbinary (cis-passing) individual.

also when i say i am mistaken for other ethnicities that does NOT mean that i experience the same discrimination as them at ALL. i only note this in this context because it's an indicator of why i take issue in questions that are possibly meant to challenge systematic inequities including me in an ethnic group that i have 0 relation to when i'm hardly even mistaken as them)

anyway i lost track of what i was saying but YEAH. this article is gonna take so much fucking research but honestly i've gotten a lot written already so i'm excited! also trying the APA format on it and i kind of dig it

my student advocacy work is a Big big deal to me and i ramble about it lots so if you ever want to chat with me about it i can (GIVEN i can't hit on many aspects of it! if you ask me about legislature one i only really have what's centric to my state rn which i'm not exposing on main here any more than i already have and also i tried to work on the legislative side for about a week and it didn't end well)

[ please don't RB this ask just because paranoid about advocacy section HAHA love u all and ty for the ask calli :DDD ]