I’d love to see journalism exploring the mass deletion of SWs off X in conjunction with the rise of grok’s porn bots. There’s a certain tech bro fantasy of AI as a tool of economic deprivation against SWs. The deep resentment at the financial independence of online SW seems to have come to a head.

Mardi Gras Community Sentiment Survey For Trans and Gender Diverse People docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... If you have any thoughts about how welcome you feel at Mardi Gras as a trans and/or gender diverse person, please take a look 💙💖🤍💖💙

I prefer no (third-person) pronouns, but they/them is fine. This is an explanation as to what this means for me, because it is confusing. I'm agender and I feel they/them is okay because it's non-gendered - at least in a binary way. It's not too difficult to use, and I don't feel too inconvenient.

Hmm, maybe I'll start using blusky again because I miss some friends who use it more than insta? I am experiencing brief, new app energy, AMA!

Hormones are not gonna make you look like some magical anime girl. Most likely, you're gonna end up looking like you mom if she was a huge lesbian, which is better

me: "You've got to open the door for _me_ because you're the husband!" @amelioratrix.bsky.social: "No! I'm the _bad_ husband!" me: "Sorry for misgendering you 😔"

In other news, my health has improved enough that I can participate in marches again, I'm going to take up the blade, and this week I'm trying to solve the problem of non-reciprocal solidarity in leftist movements. Also, I just bought a denim jacket 🦾

why do they call it a letter box and not a post orifice?

I want people to know what’s going down at one of Maganjin’s oldest and most important queer venues tonight. What isn’t said below - most of this happened with only a few hours of notice. The crowd is choking the venue on all sides. There is a world beyond genocidal bloodthirst and it’s beautiful.

Pond 🐸

One of the most affirming/euphoric things since starting HRT is that bit where I'm putting on clothes but I have to move my body in an odd way to pull my pants/shorts/dress/skirt over my hips because my butt is bigger now.

I have three types of ttrpg characters: - The coolest gender you (I) could imagine - Not being good at communicating and reading social cues can lead to problems - Bird-themed Sometimes (usually) all three.

Getting a Mental Health Care Plan GP: "So, how are you feeling? How is your anxiety?" Me: "I'm doing amazing, considering..." *gestures at everything* "I think my anxiety is actually pretty low." *fills out that quick questionnaire you gotta do each time* "Oh. Oh no."

broad

trans people are the fucking bestttttt

Bringing this energy today

Someone was showing me videos in my dream, but they were obviously ai generated. I appreciate that human creativity (a dream) could perfectly replicate the gross, unsettling, uncanny valley look of objects in movement, while ai tries to replicate reality and just ends up looking like trash.

And to those who cannot be out today, whether you're not ready or it's simply not safe - I want to say that we see you, we are with you, and that this day is also for you. There is so much joy on the other side of fear. 🏳️‍⚧️

Being public in this environment is always going to come at some personal cost. But the only way that we have ever won something as a community is by fighting for it, by being visible, public and loud.

Today!!

Please read and share. This is specifically about cis allies for trans people, but it's also great as a general reminder about communities of solidarity, and how we can show up for each other. The powerful mean to separate us so we are easier to control, and this is the only way we will win 🦾💅🔥🎸💜

I started using the accessible bathroom at work by default because it's also the only gender neutral one. I hate using the men's and I feel even more weird using the women's. I'm drinking more water more often so I'm going a number of times a day.

Definitely in the "find out" stage of "what's the worst that could happen if I pluck out all of my chest hair just before Mardi gras?"

"To put it bluntly, get over the fear of being judged. It does not serve you in the political climate that we're in. Do not let the embarrassment of wearing the uniform keep you from joining the ranks of the revolution": harmonyk.substack.com/p/a-response...

sara ahmed

Loud music and masking makes it hard to communicate on the dance floor. I've been using a text app (BigNote) to "talk" to people. It's much easier, clearer, and saves your voice. Here are some examples of saved messages, using my chosen colour scheme.

Happy International Women’s Day to the most international woman of all: the woman trapped on the International Space Station

this whole thread ❤️

I think I missed taking my meds one day this week and I don't know which day it was? It was probably Thursday. My data shows I had my lowest cognition scores that evening. How did this happen! I have a system!

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

I keep experiencing instances where people meet me for the first time and are all "Oh, hey, I know you!" Either my reputation precedes me, or they've seen me around (I have a distinct look), or they've seen my name (also distinct) places. It's very affirming; I've finally become the local cryptid.

Me: "My tits are so tiny, no one at work probably knows I'm on HRT, right? Also me: *looks down*

The enshittification of government services

One weird thing about my disability: I often struggle to stand, or walk up gradual inclines and stairs and need my stick, but then I can easily dance energetically for 20+ minutes without breaks, and stop simply because I'm overheating. I'm very conscious about how that may look to strangers.

Being non-binary on "feminising" hrt means I am very confused about the social appropriateness of being topless. Friends said it's fine/legal if stopped by cops because: not legally a woman. I just don't want to make others feel uncomfortable by my chest which I personally don't see as sexualised.

I've been out dancing five times in the past year, 3(!) of which were in the Mardi Gras fortnight. This is following a very bad body month so for a while there I wasn't sure I could even go to one. I was also more casual with outfit planning this year. (Positive! Growth!) Outfit thread (1/9)

Last year today my throat felt weird and I tested positive for covid. Since then I haven't gotten sick for a whole year, but I also have been sick for a whole year. I have a lot of feelings about this, but right now I'm just glad I got to dance with friends two nights in a row during Mardi Gras.

I can't get over how Webb casually centres the importance of the police in every discussion of the pain they caused, and continue to cause, queer communities.

With February coming to a close, I'd be remiss if I didn't share the massive chainmaille flail that I made for Valentine's Day! 🩷

If you’d like to get a closer look at how this piece was made, you can find the full process video on my YouTube channel!

fucked up how HRT weight gain is fear mongered when so many trans people i know gain weight because they start experiencing appetites, they start coming out of depressions, they start participating in the world (going to restaurants, eating in front of friends). it's a good thing!

"I got diagnosed with TSGO." "What's TSGO?" "There's Stuff Goin' On."

really fucked how we treat trans women (me) for existing (being really annoying all the time)

Going by this scale, I'm gonna live to be 240!

ambly-coded characters (I am very late to this party.)

Realised yesterday I feel a similar aversion to "woman" as an identifier for me as "man". But also I feel kinda comfortable saying I had a "girlhood" in the same way I had a "boyhood"? Being non-binary is weird ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, here are some photos of me from 20 years ago this week.

got rid of my downloads folder and replaced it with a download folder – it can only hold one download (photo of sonic the hedgehog ultrasound).