Time for some CHRISTMAS MAGIC, y'all. A single mom I know locally has had her electricity cut off for non-payment. If anyone can help out, I'd definitely like to get her squared away by Christmas Eve. PayPal: donnajherren @ gmail . com Venmo: @ DONNA-HERREN-0 CashApp: $totallydonna

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Hmm, been getting really into carrots and cabbage lately, I wonder why... hang on, is my bunny sister @goddessblade.bsky.social having an effect on me??? bunny food creeping into my diet???

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All four colors are up in the shop now! Thank you everyone who went on my creative journey last night as I stayed up way too late finger painting. lol thebrokencircle.etsy.com

I had a very interesting dream last night in which I was taking a test in a class taught by @courtneymilan.com. A cool thing about the dream was that I was conscious of each question and the answers I gave, although I forgot them after I woke up. Unfortunately, I woke up before getting my grade! 😅

Sebastian has been scandalizing polite society with his scientific theories of sexual inheritance. But there’s one small problem. They’re not his theories. They’re Violet’s. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Count... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/...

I missed a lot of email correspondence earlier this year when I was going through psychosis and severe depression. If you sent me an email and didn't get a reply, please feel free to nudge me again if you'd like.

Also, one more time, because why not? I wrote this so I wouldn’t have to keep writing it.

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I sometimes really wish it were easier to put my feelings into words

This is the part. Like someone telling me that she doesn't read m/m romances written by men because they have a bit too much reality, and all she wants is escapism--as if gay men weren't real humans who deserve to see themselves in fiction, but only as objects to fetichize.

Absolutely correct, I'm not only talking about readers. It really is absolutely everywhere. This is not solely a "a few ppl/readers on social media" issue. It would be 10x easier to ignore if that were the case. It's from the top down and from the ground up. That's the part that is so infuriating.

This may be why I feel identified with and protective of both “sides” of this equation when it comes to fictional representation and the way storytelling matters for both groups

I continue to feel that the oppression of gay men goes underrated and often neglected in its range, including in the same ways that women are oppressed and that romance as a genre reflects

When I hear "there's no gay romance" "m/m was created by women" "romance is for women" I think of the number of author bios in the back of "Best Gay Romance" books, or magazines, especially the 90s, ending with notations of when those authors died and I get so fucking angry I cannot even tell you.

reupping because I want to remind my academia colleagues: I did the same training you did and I would be delighted to work with you, but I am self employed and poor and I cannot work for free.

For some reason I find nail polish on people to be really distracting

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For my newsletter, I wrote about how the Democratic Party "Big Tent" fell in on trans kids yesterday. www.burnsnotice.com/the-big-tent...

This is a great insight for writers. It's less about an exact rule—you might feel all kinds of ways when writing a sequence—as much as about having intuition as an author and listening to it. What excites us about our work is often what appeals to the reader.

the trans panic, legislation of transmisogyny, etc. is not "distracting from the epstein files", it entrenches the sexual abuse. transphobia towards trans kids always entails sexual abuse, by families & states. one of epstein's first victims was a trans girl, ava cordero, who was not believed

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One of my editorial takes that might be kind of hot is that narrative conflict theory is really useful for all kinds of story types, and that authors benefit from understanding it, but like with lots of writing theory, it easily gets watered down into a much less useful "pop" version

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Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

I’ve been isolating too much

Honestly, just getting one full color illustration reserved right now would help me immensely~

current prices, good until Jan. 1st.

Absolutely this. Another example is the “transing the gay away” trope of transphobia, which hinges on the idea that changing the *label* you use to describe your sexual orientation in line with your gender identity actually changes your sexuality.

This might be the greatest insight about anxiety I've learned and is such a fantastic point here—that fighting anxiety makes it worse! It can be really hard to sit with it, but meditation has taught me that making friends with your emotions makes a huge difference in life

WHEW. I am so glad that @sfwa.org listened and reconsidered. And I'm thankful to everyone who spoke up about it!

If you suffer from anxiety or panic, what do you find tends to help you the most? Reposts appreciated

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One of the big things I've been learning to feel this year is that I am worth fighting for. I am worth getting up for. I am worth trying for. I am worth being taken care of. I am worth choosing life for.

I do a lot of personal research about mental illness to help myself, e.g. about vagal theory, trauma theory, methods that have worked for others, therapy techniques, all kinds of things. And one thing I find over and over again is that in the end, recovery is not a technique.

i'm very close to 50%! please help me get there before the year closes

I just saw the words "defending women's right to choose FGM" sis they're doing choice feminism about FGM rumors of liberal feminism's death have been greatly exaggerated

Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction. And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake. Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...

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I've seen trans people make the looney tunes backpedal noise as they try to explain to some transphobe why gay people being trans'd in Iran is different instead of just checking whether it's bullshit lmao

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