to be honest i am rooting for the algae

A beach along the Connecticut river. Hubbard Brook Preserve, Middletown, CT.

The problem with cis society is that they don't see anything wrong with forcing trans kids through natal puberty because they think natal puberty is "normal" and "normal" is the default and therefore good. Just like white people see whiteness as the default and therefore good.

“Today, I stood on Sagarmatha not just for myself, but for every trans person who has ever felt unseen. We belong everywhere. Even at the top of the world.” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ 🏔️🏔️🏔️

Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia), the state flower of Connecticut, is in bloom here this week! Photos are from the Katchen Coley Mountain Laurel Preserve in Middletown, CT. #connecticut #hiking #wildflowers

at midnight it becomes legal to hunt straight people for sport

Did you know that when a plant has both female and male reproductive organs it is called "perfect"? That's the actual technical term for plant bisexuality!

why don't you watch the Monterey Bay Aquarium live jellyfish cam and maybe you'll calm down

I've been struggling with hyperhidrosis since transitioning. It's taken 5 years and a ton of experimenting to get to a place where it seems to be managed. We'll see how well I've done soon. July and August are usually bad months for me.

2 years ago I set a goal of getting a specific position in the company I work for & today I signed an offer letter for that exact position! I get to write all day & work with a team of mostly women in an otherwise male-dominated field. It's as close to a dream job as it gets for me, at this point.

Ahhh, it came in the mail! I'm so excited! Get yours from Transplants: www.transplantszine.org/product/cosm...

Very rich people getting booed during commencement speeches is my new favorite genre of entertainment.

Remember when it came out that Jeffrey Epstein and his billionaire rapist pals had deliberately manufactured modern movement transphobia to make us easier to exploit sexually and no one but us cared?

My favorite part of a non-fiction book is the list of sources at the end, especially when they have notes about how useful each source is & how they had to travel to the ends of the earth to read the only extent copy in a monestary on top of a mountain (or sometimes just at the Library of Congress).

I swear estrogen made me a winter person. Here I am in May, one of my favorite months in my favorite season & I'm thinking about how awesome the trails will be in winter, covered in snow. I miss the frozen lakes and the snow covered expanse. I used to hate winter. Now I dream of moving to Alaska.

Building a time machine so I can give Sylvia Plath birth control, antidepressants, a gun, and diplomatic immunity.

I didn't have a mom for most of my life. She was an alcoholic. When I was 9, she had alcohol-induced aneurysm, ended up in a coma & then had permanent brain damage (could neither produce nor comprehend speech/writing). She died in a nursing home in 2013. 1/2

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

I love spring time in Connecticut!

All this 90s nostalgia is weird for me. I lost my mom and spent most of the 90s being abused. The 90s were a fucking nightmare for some people.

I've been reading nothing but books on the history of polar expeditions. I can't wait to visit Antarctica one day. Hopefully it will involve eating fewer dogs than they had to during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.

Every time I struggle to open the lid of a jar I think, it's good trans women have been banned from sports. I have such an unfair advantage that I can't even open a jar.

The new Kehlani album is out and it's so fucking good (as usual).

Every time I see Hunter Biden's name I always read it as Hunter Schafer first. Sometimes the headlines are real weird for me.

Imagine having friends

It's crazy to think 25 years ago I was injecting heroin and sharing needles and today I'm injecting estrogen (and not sharing needles, obviously!). I have come such a long way and overcome so much. I'm awesome.

Ever since I watched videos of Dean Porter doing highlining in Yosemite I decided I must learn how to do it. Today I bought a slackline! It will be a while before I put the line up high but, I'm very excited for this journey

One thing I've learned since transitioning is how many women don't wash their hands after using the bathroom. It's not what I wanted to learn but here we are. Wash your hands after using the bathroom, that's so gross!

Forget hot girl summer, this summer will be my Gail the Snail summer. "I'm more confident, I've grown into my body". youtu.be/dbbYl-1z7iI?...

Sometimes I feel like the only monogamous trans lesbian. It's a lonely life. I can't recall the last time I met someone like me in person. Tbh, it makes me feel like I'm broken. There must be something wrong with me.

Fun fact, getting a PhD is more difficult than transitioning genders. I did the latter but failed at the former.

I like how instead of talking about TDOV we have to talk about cis people's latest attempts at getting rid of us. We aren't even allowed to experience joy.

As a trans woman who works in a field that is 90% cis men, it's wild to hear the meeting conversations. It's just them talking about gender, basically. One day it's sports, the next it's carpentry, the next it's pickup trucks. Gender, gender, gender. And they say we're obsessed with gender!

I wish lesbian axe-throwing competitions were as popular as drag is

I spent pretty much all of my life thinking the thing I wanted most was impossible, so I taught myself to not want anything at all and it turns out that’s not a skill you can learn overnight.

Ahh, Them did an article about an obsession of mine. Going to Antarctica. One day I will do it, it's on top of my bucket list. www.them.us/story/antarc...

I went on a date recently with another trans woman and she downplayed my concerns about what is happening to our community. What the fuck? What is wrong with people? No second date, I can say that for sure. You failed, girl.

Somehow we're the one minority people can have "an opinion" about. People can say the most vile shit about us and it's their "opinion" in a talkshow, courthouse, or newspaper. When we speak up, we're apparently infringing on their free speech. It's insane

It's so nice to go on a date now and not feel imposter syndrome. That was how dating felt to me before transitioning.

I tried to explain to a cis person today what is being done judicially and legislatively to erase trans people and I was told I was catastrophizing and that I'm "safe here in a blue state". Where do I even begin? I didn't bother explaining, it felt pointess.

First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her

In less than 3 months I went from a lifelong hater of winter to loving it. I went snowshoeing for the first time and walked across a frozen lake. I can't wait to go again.

American survived without ICE from 1776 to 2003

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

In Germany, a lot of houses have these Stolpersteines on their sidewalks or stoops. They’re a memorial to victims of the Holocaust who were ripped from that home. Some houses have a few. Other houses have many. ICE has started going door to door in America.

Incredible photo.

If the entire government and society is desperately trying to maintain your artificially constructed dominance over all other groups and you still can’t hack it the problem is well and truly you

I spent some time watching Canadian geese at the reservoir at sunset (on their way south for the winter). They mostly squawked at each other and made a ruckus about nothing. Lots of fun!

We're 7 months in and Trump and the oligarchs have completely seized control of the media. If you criticize them, your show will be pulled from the air. This is what dictators do. Fascism isn't coming, it's here.