Just misread girlguiding as girlgrudging & that’s not not what they’re doing, is it

You know my compliments are real because I simply am not nice enough to fake enthusiasm.

#DecemberTransReadathon day 9, in which Home is a Verb gave me a really good cry 😙👌🏻 [kiss emoji + ok sign emoji = chef’s kiss]

if you want to be an author of any worth, you need poetry. you need to be able to find the divine in the quotidian. if you can't, you might write books, but you won't leave a mark on people.

www.kqed.org/news/1206519... it's going to be a month in a few days which is surreal and wild. I cried reading this, and, got a lot out of people sharing how we are carrying @sfdirewolf.bsky.social 's work forward.

Gross language and framing (thanks, British Establishment) but ideal outcome: The tribunal found that there is no strict legal requirement to exclude trans women from women's changing rooms.

#DecemberTransReadathon day 8! Took a little longer than expected to finish We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow but I had SUCH a good time with it - Nazis don’t go to Valhalla, pass it on. Now starting Home is a Verb by the lovely Kes Otter Lieffe, which I’ve been looking forward to for ages!

The Longlist for Best Fiction comes out tomorrow! There are still books hovering right beneath the eligibility threshold, so make sure to vote now if you want to help build the list 👀

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Day 4 of #DecemberTransReadathon & I’m 80% of the way through We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow at start of day, expect to finish today or tomorrow if spoons allow! Now using @sorrenbriarwood.com’s template!

Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.

What a joy to sit down with this voting form! (Non-sarcastic, I love a fun form!) Last year I didn’t have much to contribute but now I’ve been following TFR for a year, I’ve read more transfem lit & become more aware of non-tradpub releases too, & had loads of options to choose from this year!

still hoping to raise the remaining $370 for caregiving!

I forgot about #DecemberTransReadathon, but fortunately I was already reading a book by a trans author!

this week's post is about why all of us dream of throwing our phones into the abyss. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/you-loneli...

GoFundMe deleted Hammam’s fundraiser & is forcibly returning donations he worked so hard to get. Please send the money back to his new fundraiser - & if you haven’t supported him, please do so now. His mother has lung cancer & they can’t afford meds without our support. chuffed.org/project/1490...

This Black Friday and Cyber Monday don’t buy into genocide. Avoid these brands enabling Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. https://loom.ly/TpPQsDY

a year and 11 months of Crips for eSims for Gaza ;-; waiting for you to see this post, Alice! T_T #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs

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*Just* managed to get my life to a place where I had capacity to occasionally write, and UC comes down with a fucking claim review. Tachycardia: locked in. Stress levels: unbearable. Capacity for joy: eaten alive again by bureaucratic violence. Writing: impossible in these conditions.

Updated: my zine making resources padlet, lists of places to find free images, how-to guides, zine ideas, digital tools, bookbinding information, and fonts padlet.com/penfightdist...

Yup. This is literally how we live. I wouldn’t have made it this far into Long Covid ruining my life without militant crips guiding me through navigating “care” services, supporting me with the massive admin burden, emptying my cat’s litter, sending me memes, treating me like a whole person.

Please support Victoria however you can!

VERY EXCITING NEWS I’VE JUST REALISED THE BOOK I’M WRITING IS TECHNICALLY A FRANKENSTEIN RETELLING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Omg this is such a great herald of Sag season 😂 🫘 [emojis: laughter, beans]

Had a great expression of New Moon conjunct Mercury in my 3H of writing: because I was able to get some care in this week, I didn’t have to spend all my energy emptying the litter tray, & today I got to attend an online writing sprint! Where I actually wrote stuff! For my book! Which now feels real!

llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong... here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

this is a very important part of her legacy, her support for Palestine. one of the things i will always remember is that one of Dr. Refaat Alareer’s last liked posts on Twitter before it turned into x and removed like history is a photo of Alice.

Thank you Alice for being my friend and comrade. You have been a beacon, a badass crip auntie who modelled incredible boundaries and offered the world such incisive wisdom and grace. We are all better for having known Alice. #ConnectingGaza

The FUCK

Good morning/afternoon! As of 5 days ago, our Airalo partner account has started using $1000 of data a day in top ups. We are going to quickly run out of funds to reimburse. With your steady support we can prevent that from happening! #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs

Another thing I want to mention is that eSims are becoming incrementally more expensive over time… #ConnectingGaza

Got this awesome lightning-on-the-ocean tee from @aroomwithaviewart.bsky.social - who adjusted the design to accommodate my body shape AND sent a v charming personalised hanky coz it was a bit later than expected! What a good post day.

the way @scumbelievable.bsky.social writes about fat people is so fucking beautiful. no pity, no lesson about self love, just fat people who are whole fucking people with lives and sexualities.

Hammam’s mother has lung cancer & is in urgent need of medication. I’ve just sent €20 (£18/$23) to Hammam’s fundraiser, can you join me?

Please support Hammam any way you can 💜

as someone who goes outside very rarely, getting online and seeing ppl using ai-generated text makes me really depressed. it was the 1 place left for me to make community. it feels really really shitty coming online to commune w/ others and instead be faced w/ disingenuous or fake lazy shit.

Omg I think I’m female to malevolent

I’m too unwell to read or respond to messages, tags or replies at the moment. I don’t know when (or if) my health will improve enough for me to do this again. If you need help for something urgent, please ask someone else who can help you. I wish I could but I can’t right now.

🚨Rise up and escalate #BDS now! The BDS movement calls for mass mobilizations and civil disobedience on 15 May, the 77th anniversary of the Nakba to end Israel’s genocide against 2.3M Palestinians in Gaza and ongoing Nakba against the entire Indigenous people of Palestine. #Nakba77 loom.ly/2kL7EiU

It’s the middle class equivalent of fox hunting

Having a big crash, won’t be able to respond quickly to tags & DMs till after it’s passed & even then, I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to get back to you. Please be patient with me.

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UK TERFs quickly moving onto their next victims #TERFisland #UK #xenophobia #ScratchATERF #transphobia

I'm glad someone finally fucking said it, because implict to this whole conversation is erasure of the fact that trans women are capable of being harmed or assaulted, and erasure of the fact that these exclusionary laws don't just make us "feel bad", but actively endanger us.

The distillation of campaigns for trans rights into "validity", "acceptance" and "inclusion" has been so virulent that cis people now seem incapable of understanding us on any other terms, even as the government denies our healthcare and encourages discrimination against us.