I sometimes get high and then find the next day I have somehow written political rhetoric in my notes app

This experience of trying to discuss patriarchy outside the West and immediately being talked over by women going "WELL IT'S BAD IN THE WEST TOO" is so frustrating and ubiquitous. We're starting to notice and demand answers as to why we can't discuss our experiences without false equivalencies.

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

I will be a forever hater of the term “cancel culture,” a truly epic tool of context collapse and reductionism that has only benefited the powerful. Folks are always using this term to talk about critique of a celebrity and social campaigns against the marginalized like they’re the same phenomenon.

the problem, as i see it, is not that censoring erotic content is a slippery slope to censoring LGBTQ+ culture. it's that censoring erotic content IS censoring LGBTQ+ culture.

Sitting on a train that is fully plastered in GLP-1 ads featuring women who look like all the women around me and thinking about how a culture of aspirational thinness is essential to both patriarchy and complacency in the face of fascism. You hate yourself and everyone around you, don’t you?

Just saw someone say they use "AFAB" to mean "those perceived as women" and if that just doesn't give the whole ball game away

help i fucked my wife so hard i turned trans and gay :(

I don't think shame is a bad motivator at all. I think it's so effective that the overculture got us not to do it because there's SO much complicity people should be ashamed of, and to atone for it would require them to dismantle every aspect of the society into which they were indoctrinated.

"performative male" ? that's all of them ! ha ha ha ha #judithbutler

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I don't understand why online trans communities do not have a very basic comprehension of the idea that "Folks who circumvents blocks to consistently, incessantly, obsessively stalk and rage about people who want nothing to do with them should be avoided and not listened to." Seems basic.

I think the moment your radical labelfuckery sounds like a confused 50-year-old fumbling through Baby's First Trans Comprehension, you've done the radicalism integer overflow and warped back to reactionary

great time to repost The Charts.

it is a sincerely held belief of mine that i do not believe that one's gender or sexuality automatically gives special inherent insight on writing women, just that barriers to these exist in degrees, and this is a skill that must be cultivated against the grain of ambient misogyny everywhere

This is why common understandings of "patriarchy hurts men too" are so grating. "Being able to express emotions" isn't a privilege when women are called hysterical and irrational for doing so, and furthermore, the 'harm' men suffer is all about reifying sexual difference. "Don't be too womanly."

Hegel was wrong. when two conscious beings first encounter each other, and they are both girls, then they ... then they-- um--

the political instrumentalization of lesbianism that is going to be wielded by the state for its heterosexual nationalism in the next 2-5 years to attack trans women, often against lesbians of all kinds (being deemed as illegitimate for X reasons) will mean very interesting art about desire tension

There is a striking similarity between all the "prelapsarian precolonial non-Western gender utopia" stuff and the pervasive belief in a 'matriarchal' pre-history. I'm finally settling down with Cynthia Eller's book on the subject.

From David Graeber's classic work, Against Economics.

It’s so gross when you see any food still marketed as “guilt-free.” Oh, you’re going to undo all my bad deeds? The exaggerations and white lies told to employers and dates? The lovers I let slip away without telling them how I felt? Oh sorry you just mean you don’t have sugar or something?

I think about this book every day, especially now.

last week there was a lot of "young men" & "crisis of masculinity" Discourse™, so since I'm gradually uploading some of my old slam poems to YouTube, I figured I'd release "Barrette Manifesto", which later became a chapter of my first book #WhippingGirl... youtu.be/auEs_fVvmoU

We need to tread eugenics with the seriousness we treat the most vile forms of bigotry because eugenics is what turns those bigotries into action items.

Anyone can become disabled in an instant, you could wake up disabled tomorrow. The ease with which you will be discarded will be shocking. Not just from society at large, but also from friends and family. If you are abled you should be angry about the rampant ableism, because you're on bided time

Real talk, darlings: Toughen the fuck up. Tighten the fuck up. Stand on business, all day everyday. You are going to be criticized, demonized, misgendered, insulted, threatened, etc, in different ways. Fortify yourself. Some of us *have* been coddled too much, and what we need now is strength✊🏾🖤

You know, it’s wild being on bluesky and just experiencing what it’s like NOT having my posts suppressed because I’m trans. You start to realize how manufactured your (and so many marginalized folks) imposter syndrome really is.

People who challenge you at the right time respect you more than those who go along with whatever you have to say.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

“We keep us safe!” Except WE aren’t wearing masks, only EYE am. A decent swoletariat would know cardio don’t mean shit if you’re allowing airborne viruses to destroy your vascular system, lungs & decay your brain. Like you’re actually pissing me off COMRADE; address your bias immediately!

Eusexua is Perverts for people who’s Sophie is Mitski

Eusexua is really, really, REALLY good

Me and who

In lieu of that nonsense, I have a butch who carefully measures out my dose on shot day, gives me a little kiss on the hip after administering, then fucks my brains out. 10/10 great customer service would recommend

My parents will never understand the irony of fostering an abusive household while also being involved in the infrastructure of a religious cult

all men are betas, the only true alpha is a butch lesbian.

Goddamn.

I truly believe that transmascs are third-sexed a lot more than they realize, their version simply manifests as disciplining rather than the transfeminine disposability we're more familiar with.

False complementarianism--our experiences are asymmetric, and have surprising parallels. Transmascs experience regendering misogyny, but that doesn't mean that transfems are treated like men. We also experience misogyny, due to degendering, and are womanized, dehumanized, and expelled from manhood.

cis people need to be able to see themselves in trans art if trans art wants to survive, first of all, but also: universality is good. the fact that TV GLOW meant a lot more to some cis people in my life than it did *me* is an absolute positive

if you made art this year, you did well. a sketch, even if it was scrapped ; a poem, even if it was deleted — mattered. you put thought to paper, you engaged with the creative alchemy of turning feeling to something tangible. doesn't matter if you weren't productive "enough." or good "enough."

The correct response to "the left is effeminate soycucked beta queerness" is "yeah"

inventing a type of person ... believes vaccines cause autism, which is why they're pro-vaccine

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

"There is still time" is such a strong line- both compassionate & urgent. It says you can still change, still choose compassion—for yourself & others. But “still” carries weight-it reminds us time isn’t infinite. As fascism grows, we must remember: there is still time for kindness, but it is finite.

Increased physical performance and reduced fatigue after personalised physiotherapy and nutritional counselling in long COVID www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4... Comment: good to see symptom-contingent pacing being used in physiotherapy #LongCovid #PASC #PwLC