I even had ideas back when I was 5. I kept indicating that something was wrong to my parents, who were very confused mind you. There was no language for it then.
God I wish I had the chance the trans kids do today. And I'll keep fighting for them to keep that chance.
Whats worse... even with all of this, it's nowhere near as good as it could have been if I had access to care when I was young.
I knew who I was back then. So many of us do.
They deserve the chance I never got to have.
The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.
yeah. I knew I was trans in preschool, whether or not the society around me acknowledged the existence of others like me (it did not).
www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
Parents, pls tell your autistic kids they are autistic: "You may think that an autistic child won’t notice they are different than their non-autistic peers; I have not met one autistic person (me included) who hasn’t noticed their difference early in life."
thinkingautismguide.com/2017/02/pare...
Yes, tell them. Scaffold them & be honest. Then help change the neurotypical-dominated world so it no longer misunderstands or erects & maintains impediments against Neurodivergent folk.
wow trans people are so strong and resilient
I finally finished writing a long, winding piece on "America's distinctive political culture of vernacular fascism." It's about white country music, AM radio, paramilitary camps for Klansmen in 1960s Colorado, TPUSA, and a former chair of the OR GOP. rightlandia.ghost.io/basically-ch...
The prompt was simple: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’” The results were sweeping, and sometimes bizarre. Building improvements at an Indigenous languages archive in Alaska risked “promoting inclusion and diverse perspectives.” Renewal of a longstanding grant to digitize Black newspapers and add them to a historical database was “D.E.I.” So was work on a 40-volume scholarly series on the history of American music.
"The DOGE employees did not appear to question ChatGPT’s judgments, and continued hunting for unacceptable projects."
It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."
But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.
They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.
Just a reminder that we don’t hate politicians and the rich people they protect enough.
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
there is no opposition party in the U.S.
happy women's day, special shoutout to trans women who were honestly such a driving force for me to start testosterone, just found my screenshot from 2 years ago 🥹🩵🩵🩵
All of this is just profoundly evil.
btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)
I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.
I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.
Anti-birth control ads have started popping into my feeds this week. And I can't help but laugh when I hear them promoting the same "natural family planning" methods that led my Catholic grandmother to get pregnant 12 times in 18 years.
Every trans person who insists on being seen is a living map for those still finding their way.
I feel like it would just take one Pokémon looking at Pikachu and asking “why doesn’t he need to live in the ball?” to lead to some fuckin changes in that society
We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.
The Markwayne Mullin appointment proves it without a shadow of a doubt. White supremacy & cultures of oppression REQUIRE the platforming of the transparently mediocre to enforce their systems.
Because that combo of mediocrity & ambition fosters a type of cravenness that is willing to do anything.
Oh god
Dropkick Murphys finish up their set at a benefit show across from Alex Pretti Memorial: “We’ll never forget what we saw with our own eyes, we’ll never forget what we’ve seen here today. thank we’ve seen here today. Thank you all for allowing us to come bear witness with you, thank you Minnesota!”.
Fuck the willful misunderstandings of whites. They just want to circle the same points that they refuse to believe over & over instead of absorbing. Black people know how to speak the standard American dialect of English well. You can understand what we say if you actually want to, & you don’t.
“Enshitification” did not emerge because customer satisfaction is soaring. It’s fucking Ferngully out here and we’re little jungle critters chased into smaller and smaller pens of detached territory by malevolent bulldozers of consumption.
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A “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” meme featuring the word “Friscalating” with pronunciation [fris-kuh-lay-ting] and the definition: “Of dusklight, shimmering on the horizon at sunset.” To the right is a detailed antique-style engraving of a tropical shoreline at sunset: a low sun glows near the horizon while a small rowboat with several figures approaches the shore and a tall sailing ship rests farther out on calm water. Palm trees and dense foliage frame the scene. At the bottom, an example sentence reads: “Just as the sky began friscalating along the western hills, Algernon quipped that the sunset looked like a particularly lobodocious batch of raspberry sherbet.”
Friscalating [FRIS-kuh-lay-ting]
(adj.)
- Of dusklight, shimmering on the horizon at sunset.
Used in a sentence:
“Just as the sky began friscalating along the western hills, Algernon quipped that the sunset looked like a particularly lobdocious batch of raspberry sherbet.”
Wrote about that Kansas mess
