driving through the Appalachian mountains and admiring the view and my dude says “you know about the mountains, right?” and I say “you mean how they’re older than dinosaurs?” and he says “about how they’re the same mountains as the Scottish highlands” and I can’t stop screaming
people can’t just be creative on demand it is a skill and a craft and can take a lot of rest and emotional safety to be in a space again to create regularly so artists need to be given some grace when things take time, but not me tho - title of my memoir
this is just in case you come here by way of poetry and want to find more of that...chapbooks are available here in PDF with link to Pilsen Community Books for paper copies while they last
and if you can spare one dollar a month
I’m honestly losing my mind about how a trans woman was beat nearly to death in my city earlier this week and I haven’t seen any follow up about it and don’t know what her name is or if she survived
being non-monogamous is cool because it gives me a lot of opportunities to work through my anxious attachments because there are three people not texting me back
I just think there’s something funny about a person in Edina with a house five times the size of my parents tipping $4 on a $45 chipotle order but not funny in a haha way more like an I will remember your level of generosity when the revolution comes for you kinda way
Yesterday in Minneapolis in daylight while he knew he was being watched and recorded, a police officer knelt on a black man’s neck until he stopped breathing, stopped moving, and died. Police exist to perform violence and must be abolished.
Just for some perspective, this is four years on estrogen. I’m 31.
I really really do feel bad for the people who feel harmed by their transitions but I won’t pretend for one second that it justifies the cruelty and backlash against trans identities and especially trans kids
This is always true but needs repeating: If you are donating food, don’t just raid your pantry for the stuff sitting around that you haven’t eaten. Donate food that you eat. Donate food you normally buy. Go shopping as if you had to restock your empty pantry, and donate that.
I used to be an attorney and today I’m interviewing to be a barista at a boba/ice cream shop and I just think that if you’re not happy you should always be allowed to change your life until you are
I been having a lot of feelings lately about being trans and stuff how we live in hell and all that and I wrote a poem I don’t know I’m tired of fear and stress and our loved ones dying I love my trans family so much I love you I love you I love you
hi I’m josie doordash here reminding you that the best way to thank people for delivering you food in the cold and snow is not a kind word but in fact two-five additional dollars on your tip
If you are an out of towner talking about how this is a great organizing opportunity for the twin cities, I’d like to point out how great of a shutting-the-entire-fuck-up-opportunity this is for you
A few weeks ago, I did a photoshoot to celebrate that today is two years on HRT. Being trans is a gift. It’s good to be here. It’s hard to live in this world sometimes, but there’s nowhere I’d rather be
The fact that apparently like 50% of our national economy is now this (girls with BAs working a pretend email job that pays them 60k a year to swim in the pool and go to sephora) has lowkey got me a little nervous
thinking about when I came out to my grandma a year ago today and when I started crying she said to me “hey, big girls don’t cry” and I wish all trans people that level of clear and absolute acceptance ok
entirely devastated right now about the loss of a friend and comrade and massively furious that because of this pandemic I can’t even remember the last time I saw them
Much respect for
@TheElliotPage
for coming out as trans. I still wonder where all the lesbians are going...
Two things can be true at once.
1. Some people are actually trans.
2. Some lesbians are internally misogynistic and want to be anything other than a woman.
Growing up, there was a tree growing in our front yard. The tree got sick and rotted for years on the inside until it had to be cut down. My parents saved slivers from some of its thickest branches and now I’ll always have a piece of my first home no matter where I am.
It’s important that my therapist thinks I’m funny, my tattoo artist thinks I’m brave, the taco bell drive through worker thinks I don’t come through too often, and that the lady at the cat food store thinks I’m a good cat mom.
You’re allowed to joke about your own trauma and in fact when someone victimizes you, you’re allowed to knock them down for it if it’s what you need to heal. Fuck this it is too early on a Saturday for me to be this mad
I’m legally changing my name next month and the things you can call me moving forward are: jd, josie, doris, dory, cutie, babe, gorgeous, the love of my life, etc
One funny thing that happened while we were being teargassed is my roommate asked me if I’d ever seen anything as useless as a cop and I told her “yeah my dick” so like I’m handling this well ok
@dessadarling
We tried barricading the doors. He got though. We fled to the woods. He followed. We crossed the sea and everywhere we went, there was Dan Smith, guitar in hand. “Learn,” he cried unceasingly until we succumbed to the madness.
personally, if I didn’t want to be viewed as transphobic, I would simply not try to sell a novel in which men and trans women are treated as functionally identical in a country where parents are being prosecuted for loving and caring for their trans children
the decision is finally out in the case I argued at the state supreme court and I did win it just so we’re all clear here that I am smart and capable and persuasive even tho I don’t practice anymore and am an ice cream bimbo now
I know it’s my fault for who I follow but I keep seeing tweets about whether or not polyamory is queer and I just don’t know if that’s a conversation that matters in this moment bestie it’s like illegal to be trans in some places now like can we have one (1) priority
If you don’t love, support, and respect masculine presenting non-binary and trans people who were designated male at birth, you don’t love, support, and respect non-binary and trans people and if I get the chance, I will chisel this message into the moon (who is my gf and agrees)
I tried to write a love poem tonight to myself before I transitioned and the sadness was unbearable.
I’m so grateful to all of the people who showed me I could do this and who have supported and held and loved me over the past few years. Truly wouldn’t be here without y’all
People act like Scalia was this fascinating super intellectual jurist, when in fact all he did was crack jokes, be racist, compare gay sex to bestiality, help George Bush steal an election, and die
not accusing op of this because I don’t know anything about her other than this silly bad tweet, but there is a current of queer women who act like it is bad and shameful to be attracted to men and it is deeply harmful to bisexuals, gay men, straight trans women, and trans men
Bi women with straight boyfriends who feel like you as a couple aren’t welcome in queer spaces, I would simply encourage you to have a cooler boyfriend
I woke up with a lot of anxiety this morning and dealt with it the way I always do: writing a poem so my brain will temporarily shut up. I fucking called it “love in the time of corona” and you can feel whatever way you want about that