Portland Update: Palestine peace protestors have blocked Burnside downtown right in front of Powell’s.

Sorry for the zero audience post, but Gus Johnson dressing up exactly like Gus Fring is not ok

sometimes your cisgender friends will just do the most bizarre, inexplicable things. like move to south carolina on purpose

my law alma mater just voted on a new mascot, and I guess we're now the Otters. It wasn't the correct choice (Herons), but as a noted homosexual I can't be mad

It’s very likely your best years, enjoy it while it lasts

As rain season hits, people think not using umbrellas is how you flex Real Oregonian credibility, but the real born and raised move is to keep wearing your berks

whats a little major transgender surgery between friends

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

“War ravaged Portland” where EVEN ICE FUCKING HEADQUARTERS IS CALM AND QUIET BASICALLY ALL THE TIME

got called out the other day for the frequency w/ which I’ve been using “cissexual” in casual conversation. gillll-teeee

Federal appellate courts: “so you see, because this policy is tailored to the condition of gender dysphoria, it is not sex discrimination. Also, what animus? can’t see any animus here-“

I’m not gonna lie outside I’m fine but deep down I really do miss 2014 indie tumblr

Another day, another polemic by a has-been ‘thought leader’ against my life and identity as a trans woman and just if there’s one thing I need cis bystanders to understand it’s that these people know jack fucking shit about our actual lives. Not a single clue as to what my real world life looks like

crushed to discover that Brandon Sanderson doesn't get this at all. bro you're missing the whole point

portland report: went to a new (to me) rock yard, picked up various grades of gravel and paver stone, swung by the nursery for soil and mulch and finally put together that rain garden in my front hard that I've been planning forever

I really didn't miss the "powers that be blatantly lie about Portland being awful and violent and nat'l reporting fronts absurdly framed archive protest shots to back their 'war zone' narrative while the actual city remains one of the most beautiful, pleasant and safe cities in the country" game

War Ravaged Portland. It’s a daily war trying to decide which among the dozens of coffee shops and restaurants to visit each day…so many choices near our nice downtown office! Also, hearing all the tourists from the 6 hotels near our office mispronounce Willamette! It’s brutal out there!

"Portland Oregon or Maine?" I think they mean the one with 10x the population and full city infrastructure and economy and cultural presence. The one that is a city

Ok but why

"Texas bans acknowledgement of [minority group] in schools and universities and will fire any professor or teacher who recognizes [minority], as part of plan to eradicate [minority] from society" "Oh my god, can you imagine if they did this to [other minority who matters]? That would be horrible!"

it's clear that most cis people baseline do not understand how much 'going back' is not an option

just a transgender woman raising her trans femme child to use “dude” and “bro” in a gender neutral way

kinda seems like a pretty big threat in itself, doesn't it

hell of a time to be getting major transgender surgery. real ride the tiger scenario

!!!

Honestly owe a debt to anti-trans philosophers in that it was liberating to realize how many self-important credentialed discourses are just self-important bullshit. The massive errors being clear to those w direct subject knowledge. Like you don’t have to assume they’re doing any more than wanking

As a community we really do need to talk about serious transitions regrets (no longer able to be Mr. Autumn Man)

“There are so many good alternatives to Disney/ABC! I like NYT, the BBC, the Guardian… also JK Rowling’s twitter feed seems pretty sharp”

“That name no longer has any meaning for me” Vader was so real for that

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

"suspect class" as in, if you're in this class, we suspect you. we suspect the hell out of you. just extremely suspect, as a class

“lol” as they say

Cis people, as a trans person i must ask: what is your fucking deal and why can't y'all leave us alone holy shit?

almost makes you miss the old terminology wars doesn't it

Seems bad man

First or second or third they came for Jimmy Kimmel. I haven’t been paying attention so I don’t know what number we’re on. Probably one of the early ones

[through gritted teeth] je suis jimmy

Insane to rollout your billionaire-backed "ditch the trannies and fuck the planet" think tank the same week the most influential voices on the right are calling for transgender people to be locked up and subjected to Nazi medical experiments

the really cool thing about transgender is how nobody who isn't literally one themselves has any idea what they're fucking talking about

LBGTQ rights is the greatest cultural victory that Democrats have won in most of our lifetimes, a cause that went from controversial to completely mainstream and wildly popular, making Republicans look old-fashioned and bigoted. Naturally the centrist Dems are scared of it

“Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences” says the government official using government to punish speech… ok but like, what *does* it mean then

time was an overeager ally boyfriend would have the decency to just rob a bank to cover your surg. what the fuck happened to this country

WAPO subscription cancellations are tough like... glad you're sending a message but why were you still sub'd at all

Lowering flags for Kirk and lauding his work while remaining silent about the slander and scapegoating of trans people is not neutrality. It is very much not a neutral act

they literally want to round us up man. can democrats please get a fucking spine and stand the fuck up for us now? we literally cannot counter this ourselves when they want our voices and rights taken away. please do fucking something

It just feel like some really dark lines have been crossed this last week re: the movement to eliminate trans people. Not just crossed but blown past

The entire "trans shooter" meme is horrific propaganda created by the right, doing exactly what they did here: lie about non-trans shooters to stigmatize their victims. Trans people are rarely shooters. Among trans shooters, trans *women* are rarely shooters. But every time we have to answer to lies

At Sandy Hook there was a "will it every be too much" moment of choice, and Republicans forced us to "just accept this new reality" of ubiquitous normalized shootings. This isn't the world I grew up in, it is one forced on us by the Republican movement. Charlie was fully on board with that.

Really cool how I, and presumably a wide swath of Americans, received a push notification this morning blaming the shooting on my own highly stigmatized and extensively attacked minority, statements that will never be retracted or corrected where most people will ever see or hear about it

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover