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Replace “what if I regret this?” with “what if this sets me free?”

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These mental health disparities are also exacerbated for intersex individuals due to lower availability of psychosocial resources, including peer support groups (Amos et al., 2022; Lampalzer et al., 2021). Intersex people with intersectional identities, including intersex people of color and intersex people with disabilities, may face even greater health disparities due to the impact of multiple axes of oppression.

—Advancing Health Equity for Intersex Individuals by the U.S. Department of Health and the Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

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i simply do not believe that transgender people with weird gender identities are ever the problem

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Me: I'm writing for myself, I started this fanfic for myself, and because I have a passion for writing

Also me: *doesn't get new comments in a week* Fuck, I should just quit right now

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You know what, despite the horrors, at least there's still butches.

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Mister Rogers

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I lied. I don’t know how to stop the yearning for dumb things like love and hand holding

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Go piss girl

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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For those brave soldiers in the Queer Terminology Purity War, evidence that there's nothing new under the sun.

This t-shirt is on display at the Gerber-Hart Library and Archives in Chicago. It belonged to bisexual and queer activist Melissa Ann Merry, who donated her materials from 1990-1995 to the library.

The shirt was part of the 1991 queer woman activism against the malicious portrayal of lesbian and bisexual women in "Basic Instinct"

Policing each other's language will never lead to our liberation.

Kill the cop in your head and be the slur you want to see in the world!

Queer as in Fuck You!

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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I haven't purchased a HP item in close to a decade - I use the books I already had as doorstops or to prop a laptop up for meetings nowadays.

There is NO "death of the author" with JK Rowling - she controls and continues to profit from her IP, and uses that money to fund hate groups.

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if it's good enough for you, then it deserves to be made. don't let anyone else decide if your story is worth it or not.

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The State department has changed LGBTQ to LGB.

If you claim to care about trans people now is a good time to show genuine ally ship.

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Writing is political.

If you think stories aren't political, you're not paying attention.

All art is political.

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we must protect archive of our own at all costs

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On a fundamental level, I understand that this is a critique of using AI to make something out of nothing, literally writing the essay for you and not relying on the LLM being shoved down your throat by tech bros to enhance the work you would have produced anyway. Enhanced, in this case refering to meeting your esssy word count in 40 minutes.

But, I had some time, and...

Hard disagree, actually. This is just an inaccessible solution for many people and their contemporaries are going to use AI. The crazy thing for me is that AI has a valid use case for burnt-out college students trying to survive an academic environment that does not support them.

Genuinely, why struggle when you could just not? Like of course, the ethics of how and when you use AI is important, but as a general tool for outlining, topic generation, making information more digestible, it's not a bad tool.

The trick is to not over-rely on it, like genuinely you will struggle more than everyone that opted to use it, which could unfortunately be everyone in your class, and the only thing you'll have gained is... dignity? Maybe. Your professor does not care about that though. You walk away from from the experience wondering how everyone else is keeping up it with all the work and it's because you're punishing yourself by not utilizing the same tools as everyone else.

Literally, as someone who chose not to, please do not end up crying on Halloween in full costume because you couldn't digest a full novel and the extra 10-30 pg. readings, and write a specifically one-page paper in MLA formatting, which is not your degree standard, every week, while also reading another novel and doing research for your final project for that one class. Only for your professor to dock points for structure, formatting, citation errors, neglect to tell you that you didn't need the traditional introductory header on those papers, which would have given you more space for your specifically one-page papers, and the solution is to seek tutoring from one of your classmates during the free time you don't have because they write great essays and you are struggling with content, deadlines, the professor doesn't like your answers to the writing prompts in ways that you genuinely still don't understand.

Whatever, not every essay is a creative endeavor that you walk away from proud of, and that's okay. It's literally work, unpaid labor and, presuming you're American, you're going into debt for it, and not every professor is worth that stress.

Fuck AI art and fiction/fanfiction though, sorry, it's ugly as fuck and meaningless garbage. Do it yourself or perish trying. AI was supposed to free up time for us to do the things we love, not replace us in doing them.

chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands