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"You're so funny, but you also get really serious sometimes and seem to know a lot about politics,"

Thanks, I was an openly queer and vocally progressive high schooler living deep in MAGA country during Trump's first presidency and I am now a trans adult living in one of the most trans-hostile states on the map going into his second. Having a sense of humor, staying informed, and still knowing when to take things seriously is literally the only way to survive with your sanity anywhere close to intact.

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Please remember intersex people during these next 4 years. To support and worry about us too, not just perisex trans people. Intersex people are fully affected by the idea of "only male and female allowed" laws. Intersex people are affected by anti trans laws even if not all of us are trans. Many of us can't pass or hide our features, similar to how some trans people can't. We (the systems body) for example are physically incapable of passing as "cis" unless we get surgeries and hormones which still wouldn't change the fact we're intersex. We can't blend in, we get clocked as "queer looking" no matter what we wear or how we act. Don't forget about us when making posts about protecting trans and queer people. - ❔️

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BTW i see these posts all the time like "ohhh i dont know what to comment on fics.." and every response is "keysmashes! or hearts!! anything works :3" and thats GREAT!! thats helpful!!

but: consider. if u genuinely like analyzing writing.. do u know ur just allowed to go through and quote your favorite parts and ramble abt what they mean to u and the author will LOSE IT WITH HYPE?

genuinely. i felt SO WEIRD the first time i did it.. but like. holy shit authors love it. its crack for authors. the first time i did it, it was on a fic that hadnt updated in half a year, give or take, and the author made 3 updates that month BECAUSE OF MY COMMENT.

LIKE. as an author every comment is INCREDIBLE!!! but also, dont feel like your comment has to be short or otherwise ur invasive or smth!! authors ADORE long comments more than ANYTHING.

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Hello artists. Writers, illustrators, singers, anyone who creates anything. Your job is really, really important right now and will continue to be instrumental.

I beg you, create. Write about what you're seeing, hearing, and feeling. Paint about your life story and your dreams. Dare to imagine a good world and bring it to life any way you can. Create art that is joyful, that celebrates your unique place in this world and the people you value.

Fascism relies on a killing of joy and hope. We must combat this in any and every way possible. Go draw that funny little stick figure and show it to a friend, give them a giggle to keep going. Do not ever underestimate the power of creation.

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A better world is always possible, btw.

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So are we ready to admit the world is doomed yet <3

No cuz I'm not a little bitch

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My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

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Never trust a single thing your brain tells you during January.

Mental Illness gets a 500% Damage Buff for the first month of every year, don't forget that.

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Trump and all his cronies want to erase trans, nonbinary, and intersex people because we pose a fundamental threat to the power structures and base lies that uphold misogyny, the patriarchy, and white supremacy. The largest of those lies, of course, being that there are fundamental aspects of how a person is born that naturally determine who they will be, how they will act, and what role they will play in society, and that it is 100% okay to measure worth and treat certain groups of people differently based on those aspects of their birth.

If we acknowledge intersex people exist we must also acknowledge that biological sex is not binary but rather bimodal. If we accept that biological sex is not binary, it becomes more and more obvious that much of the perceived sexual dimorphism and differences in behavior between males and females is socially constructed and that gendered violence or misogyny are therefore completely unfounded. If you realize that gendered differences are largely socially, culturally, and systemically constructed you start to realize the same is similarly true of race. If we acknowledge trans people as being their true gender then you must acknowledge that gender itself is a social construct. If we acknowledge gender and race as social constructs, any justification for systemic differences in treatment completely falls apart.

And most of all, if you acknowledge or validate that people are not bound by the circumstances of their birth you cannot continue to bind them to those boxes and that means you lose control.

They want you to believe that the power structures in place are natural and immutable, that racism, misogyny, and a whole host of other forms of discrimination are justifiable and in fact normal because different types of people are simply too dissimilar to ever achieve true equity.

That is a lie. A bald-faced fabrication. Remember this for the next four years and always. We are more similar than we will ever be different, and a world where everyone is treated genuinely fairly is perfectly possible.

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Hello little American trans people in my phone. Your mission over these next four years is simple: survive. By any and all means necessary. That's your first priority and an order. Thrive in whatever small ways you can- celebrate your wins, uplift your community, find joy wherever you can but most importantly stay the fuck alive.

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Hey so fun fact the fights for trans healthcare and reproductive autonomy/abortion access are pretty much directly linked, and if you call yourself pro-choice but somehow don't support people's choice to pursue healthcare that will improve their quality of life you really need to examine some stuff about yourself

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The trans spirit is eternal, btw. You could round up literally every known trans person on earth and execute us at once and you still wouldn't have eliminated transness. It cannot be eliminated. We are a fact of life. We have been and will always be here. There will always be more of us born, there will always be countless of us hiding in the closet. You can erase the word 'transgender' from every website, burn every book that mentions us, write us out of the legal code, ban the very mention of gender non-conformity, but it will all be futile. We will come up with new words. We will always find language to describe our experiences. We will always carve out spaces for ourselves and our loved ones to be safe and true to ourselves. It is inevitable, it is unavoidable.

So. In short? Fuck you. We aren't going anywhere. And even if we do, we'll be back in no time.

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oh boy i wish someone would notice my cries for help! [someone actually notices] noooo i'm fine don't worry about me

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The trans spirit is eternal, btw. You could round up literally every known trans person on earth and execute us at once and you still wouldn't have eliminated transness. It cannot be eliminated. We are a fact of life. We have been and will always be here. There will always be more of us born, there will always be countless of us hiding in the closet. You can erase the word 'transgender' from every website, burn every book that mentions us, write us out of the legal code, ban the very mention of gender non-conformity, but it will all be futile. We will come up with new words. We will always find language to describe our experiences. We will always carve out spaces for ourselves and our loved ones to be safe and true to ourselves. It is inevitable, it is unavoidable.

So. In short? Fuck you. We aren't going anywhere. And even if we do, we'll be back in no time.

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saying “be safe” like a spell that’ll protect them

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That one republican in the Hegseth hearing (paraphrasing):

"Well senators show up to their jobs and vote drunk all the time and you don't ask *them* to step down,"