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she/they |🏴, ᚫᚾᛏᛁᚠᚫ | memory worker | essayist, poet, performer | author of Hall of Waters ( @the_OS_ ) | animist, devotional polytheist, heathen

Lenapehoking (Philadelphia)

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Joined March 2009

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@theCBGrass

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11 months

Wrote about memory, settler-colonial memoricide, and why you need to resist the state's attempts to remember for you. Wrote about the olive trees of Palestine and about memories of the post-9/11 years. Mostly what I wrote here was a plea.

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The State Wants to Remember For You. Don’t Let It.

I need you to remember that Palestine is a land of olive trees. I need you to remember that where every settlement is, there were ancient olive trees, cared for by generations upon generations, olive...

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Mom, can you come pick me up? The entire country is rehashing the cultural discourses of the late 1980s/early 1990s as if we're having satanic panic and feminist sex wars for the first time & I wanna go home and eat Golden Grahams

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Kamala Harris saying that "'women's' bodies are made to propogate the human species"...she keeps telling us who she is, so please listen

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Testosterone needs to be descheduled literally as soon as possible so that people can actually stock up in advance of what's coming

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"This whole thing smacks of femme labor paradigm!," I holler as I overturn my foster child's trust and turn his 18th birthday into his 18th shitday

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I literally just saw a twitter interaction where someone was like "you can't say dyke, you're bi" & she rightfully replied "lol have you ever BEEN to a dyke march?" & the person said "we don't have those where I live, also I'm 16 and need my parents' permission to go anywhere"

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This is going to be the most transphobic television show to ever exist

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“Live from London… It’s Saturday Night”? A U.K. adaptation of NBC’s iconic late-night sketch show #SNL is in early development at the Comcast-backed pay-TV operator Sky.

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a show that's like Succession, only its about a middle class family who runs a Chrysler dealership in like an Indianapolis suburb. Just deep familial abuse & powerplays for no real stakes whatsoever, by people who aren't insulated from the residents whose labor they exploit

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workers 🤝 pagans 🤝 anarchists May 1st

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You need to get yaypilled. Yaymaxxing. Go "wheeeee!" when you're having fun. Giggle once in a while.

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hey man @jessesingal just wanted to tell you before this app goes down that I hope you have a miserable rest of your life

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so much bonkers queer discourse could be avoided if we all allowed for a pluralistic conception of queer embodiments & practiced solidarity across queernesses instead of trying to achieve a discursive monoculture

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@gittelspawn truly nonbinary = zero sex characteristics. just smooth

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This is a story of how Center City landlords & for-profit healthcare tag-teamed to close down another space. The owner's gofundme for uterine cancer expenses is linked to in the article.

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Philly's only lesbian bar is shutting down, adding to a somber nationwide trend

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If only there was a way to prove a claim of impersonation...some kind of verification process maybe

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literally any white house press reporter could ask the press secretary about this any day, but that would require them to actually care & consider the lives of the people who have republican state legislatures putting their full weight down on them rn

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maybe you shouldn't deputize yourself as Master of Terminology then, kid.

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called my dad b/c its his birthday & had to break it to him that becoming a public school teacher in Missouri is not wise for a trans woman to do at this historical juncture

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"trans twitter," aka a million people with unmet needs of having their pain recognized by each other, crammed into a single trenchcoat of bad discursive incentives

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"MY NEW BOOK Everyone with a Y chromosome suddenly, mysteriously disappears. In the months that follow, the world gets better: safer, kinder, more egalitarian. But the book is about women who can't let go of the men they've lost, and devote their lives to getting them back"

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@rkatz00 I feel really bad for all these late-Gen Z teens who have come into their sexualities amidst a deeply unliberating & ahistoric conception of queerness

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pegging is short for margareting

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I never know how to feel about these posts, you know? The general point that medical transition isn't the only way to "be trans" is one I certainly agree with, but seeing almost 30k likes while bills are being passed in U.S. states to cut off & deny HRT, surgeries, etc...hmmmm

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mail rapid tests to everyone & mail The Matrix Resurrections on blu-ray to everyone who is trans

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Diving back into 90s trans zines, as an act of regular spiritual guidance.

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as I said,

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the united states federal government rn is like if a mcdonald's ice cream machine developed a psychological death drive

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the NYT dropped an anti-sex work op-ed from Catherine MacKinnon AND a glowing review of Helen Joyce's transphobic conspiracy book by Jesse Singal? They are really outdoing themselves with the sex wars moral panic stuff lately

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the united states federal government rn is like if a mcdonald's ice cream machine developed a psychological death drive

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trans men who go by "the gay she" have perhaps the most powerful vibes in the known world

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gentle reminder that if you are setting the U.S. flag ablaze today with direct heat then you are not barbecuing the flag, you are grilling it. Barbecuing the flag requires offset heat maintained at low temperatures for many hours.

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Retweet to prove this statement wrong. Retweet to say "Yes, trans women in suits!"

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@rkatz00 Its not even their fault. They are the first generation to grow up immersed in the neoliberalization of lgbtq issues & acceptance.

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of course we're in mass scale collective denial about post-viral covid. we're in mass scale collective denial about everything: anthropogenic climate collapse, systemic anti-Blackness, a queer cultural genocide, the normalization of mass shootings, authoritarian police, etc etc

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Kamala Harris was literally pandering about "my pronouns are she/her/ & hers" on stage less than a week ago, & then pulls this

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I'm going to be screenshot tweeted for this by people who happily identify as "exclus"

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there should be like "jewel heist gyms," where you can do laser tripwire courses & harness acrobatics

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me after experiencing a single unkindness

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Luzon bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba luzonica.

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I retweet this not to imply that every trans person should have this attitude, but to share that I have this attitude. I will not dishonor myself or dishonor the truth that I forged myself from.

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I wanna see some schmuck boss in a patagonia vest have a breakdown at Wegman's

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I think a lot of us white trans people haven't sat long enough (if at all) with the concept that Black trans masculine folks have had their lives severely impacted by systemic misogynoir & degendering both before and after transition. Please try & consider the complexity of that.

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Some people seem to think that I took this line out of context to make it seem like Harris is anti-abortion. She's clearly pro-abortion. But the spiritual bioessentialism speaks to why she's against other forms of body autonomy (particularly her crusade against sex workers)

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the question of "is there actually such a thing as a trans child or a gay child?" is so unimportant compared to the question of "why are we violently disciplining children against certain ways of relating?"

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A show that takes its depiction of U.S. petite bourgeoisie culture as seriously as the real members of that culture say they do. & in doing so shows them, reveals to them, how fucking pathetic they are.

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@tom4tmr there is a deep sadness in his eyes. the sadness of knowing he is not serving

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an underdiscussed aspect of the Grants Pass ruling is that 28% of lgbtq youth (& nearly 40% of trans youth) in the U.S. experience homelessness. The criminalization of homelessness is part of the project to ensure that abused youth & wives can't escape abusive families & husbands

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"'Women' have been given the responsibility to perpetuate the human species. Our bodies were created to do that..." -- Kamala Harris, totally a feminist

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also, when I came out to my [big Aerosmith fan] mom as nonbinary, this example is what helped her to understand me & gender under a spectrum framework. Anyway, here's me at like 15 years old, my mom, & steven tyler

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sometimes i still sit in amazement thinking about four seasons total landscaping. probably the most genuinely hilarious thing in the modern history of american politics

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I'm not QTing this to dunk. I'm QTing it because I want to express that tweets like this are insulting. Its offensive. In the plainest senses of those words. Trans women have been putting their bodies & resources on the line fighting for abortion rights from the start.

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LGBTQ+ Rights will be next. Gay/bi men and Trans women, will we stand with cis women and trans men during this fight for their body autonomy or will you stand on the sidelines? Their fight should be our fight. Do not tolerate injustice.

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A bottle episode that's just the prick patriarch dealership owner man, in the seats of the high school gym listening to his nephew's clarinet recital but he'd really rather be anywhere else but he has to be here, shot in real time.

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"$200,000 is not life changing" motherFUCKer that is TWENTY FIVE times what I made all of last year

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thought-provoking speculative fiction about certain kinds of people suddenly disappearing hits different when those same ki ds people are being actively disappeared by the state in real life. how do novelists not realize this.

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in which JK Rowling responds to a child's drawing with an accidental copy/paste about a piece of terf lore from 2017 & also deliberately misgenders a trans woman (Wolf). Rowling is deep fried in transphobia & the oil has gone rancid

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@cyreejarelle @rkatz00 I'm talking about this w/ my butch right now & they are drawing comparisons to music fandom, & how identity functions under neoliberalism is a consumerist dynamic. & how sexualities & genders are being fought over like fandom spats

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sorry, I meant "This whole thing smacks of femme labor paradigm, bro!"

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The Sopranos was this, but only if you are good at watching tv. If Buddy Garrity from Friday Night Lights was played three notches more seriously is more the type. A booster for High School football as major hobby kind of punk bitch.

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In light of having to block dozens of accounts today (from a network of people who circulate screenshots of [mostly] butch trans women to say nasty things about them), I thought of this poem from the classic zine Gendertrash From Hell

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I am fatigued by Takes. Even good analyses are draining the moisture from my skin, like a reverse hyluaronic acid. Please do more quotidian microblogging, I beg of you. Selfies, albums, what you cooked, animals, non-topical jokes. Please.

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Helen Gym is OUR city councilperson. I love Philadelphia

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seeing this makes me feel so happy and full of light. trans people, i love us so much

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Trans men in love, 23 years apart: “To Survive on this Shore,” Jess T Dugan, 2016 “Mike and Sky,” Catherine Opie, 1993

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"nonbinary people don't owe you androgyny," while certainly true, is also funny b/c as an androgynous person I'm not trying to give you anything. I'm trying to take from you! I'm a gender antagonist!

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The dialoguing & sharing of advice and strategies y'all have been doing in the replies is lovely. This is good tweeting.

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I don't understand how y'all can possibly actually care about any of this nonsense

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I know its tiresome to hear "its all one big fight" all the time, but its one big fight. The political & financial incentives of policing will always throw a wrench into equity and justice in even nationalized healthcare. Abolishing prisons & police is part of fixing healthcare!

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defend the internet archive! information belongs to the people! authors complaining about their profits misunderstand that its not readers denying them their labor's value, its the publishing industry. Publishing is NOT a "cream rises to the top" meritocracy, its extractive.

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@zefrrrrrrr did you time travel to the 1960s

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when you build a career out of incorrectly interpreting studies in order to defend conversion therapy but you suddenly have to save face when people see you for the cartoon villian you are

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i'm not gonna chastise rn but centering the word woman as synonymous with capacity to give birth is a foundational pillar of the forced birther worldview. Its difficult but I think women need to try & not further marginalize our (C)AFAB siblings in our expressions of pain today

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there's no such thing as an "official lgbt wiki," & even if there were it wouldn't be the one hosted by a for-profit company literally called FANDOM, INC. Please just go on a date with another lesbian. Flirt with someone on a discord or whatever. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

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Literally nobody needs to know or consider what a transgender corrections officer has to say, about anything. No you do not gotta hand it to em.

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the reason why the new lana del rey album is so good is, & I mean this totally complimentary, that it sounds like Fiona Apple drank a glass of dumb bitch juice

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he means well, he's just a dumbass who forgets all the time that I'm a gender nonconforming trans woman

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@gee_justy I found the original designs

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one of the few prominent trans women in american letters is the incoming president of PEN America, and in the screenshots she's invoking trans people to pinkwash genocide ("we need--as we say among my peope--to reject the binary"). I reject transness being invoked in this way.

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this complicit bullshit, from the incoming president of PEN America, is some of the more abject, insidious normalization I have seen so far.

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People need to be naming CeCe Telfer as part of this discussion on olympic testosterone policy today. Her ineligibility is *just as* disgraceful & ideological as the ineligibilities of Christine Mboma & Beatrice Masilingi that we learned about today.

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Hey, the thousands of you reading this, please go yell at Arkansas' Governor. People are going to die for no other reason than GOP bigotry

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HB 1570 was just passed through both chambers in the Arkansas legislature, banning trans youth from accessing health care and health insurance coverage that we deserve and need. Our rights and lives are under attack. Governor Hutchinson must veto this bill.

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I had to look up that "A Trans Man Reads Detransition, Baby" thread y'all are subtweeting about & wow y'all weren't kidding about how sexist that thread is.

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Allow me to reintroduce myself: my name is Camellia! 💚

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this current wave of people making psuedo-dialectical attempts to say nonbinary people aren't who they describe themselves to be is very grating. identity is barely a prefiguring of anything, let alone a praxis, and one does not need to be doing either to describe themselves

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I don't really think anyone will be convinced by me or convinced in general by me saying this, but I feel like given my solid follower count I feel the need to say: you can refuse these orders and laws, & moreover you must.

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NEW from @eklib : A 16-year trans boy tried to kill himself after investigations of families ordered. He was admitted to psych facility. When staff learned he was undergoing hormone therapy, they turned his family in for child abuse #txlege #tx2022

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the stochastic terrorism targeting lgbtq community spaces & services in the U.S. is increasing

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Gas can arsonist turns popular LGBTQ+ bar in Brooklyn into fireball, destroying everything in about 30 seconds, authorities say

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Last month me & Laura became each other's wives. On our own terms, making marriage only & exactly what we want it to be. 📸 by @ shawnee_custalow on Instagram

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giving the lesbians a sports panel show is the best innovation in broadcast television this century

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"It's a game of inches, just ask the Cocks" DIANA

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abolish the nuclear family & abolish the state

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@deleteevelyn 100% confident that Chelsea was like "mom, we have to include one trans woman in this. All i'm asking for is one of them."

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Life is pain

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If you feel pressure to "alter" your body in ways you don't want to have your transness validated, I support you & I'll cuss out anyone disrespecting you. But let's not lose sight of the fact that such social pressures are tiny compared to the pressure to NOT medically transition

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Its so disheartening to see notional democracies become more fascist by the day over parents' stubborn, cruel refusal to see children & youths as individual people who have knowledge about themselves & their desires & their social ecosystems that merit listening to

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literally how do "transfeminine bodies show that womanhood has value that transcends subordination & degredation"? I don't understand...how do our bodies alone show this? & even if we consider our whole personhoods, our lives are full of subordination & degredation. idgi

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despite our varying strong, valid feelings on terminology, it IS useful for trans ppl to think about the political drawbacks of largely abandoning a radical expansion of "sex." Our enemies are winning, legislating us into material precarity using the "sex, not gender" falsehood

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@theCBGrass

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feels like every single concept that we oversimpilfy & popularize for the sake of mainstream political understanding ("gender identity;" "privilege;" "born this way;" etc) comes back to eat us alive as sites of reaction

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@theCBGrass

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3 years

I don't think that I care for a framework that suggests transsexuality is something to be advanced beyond! A framework that would thus render the state making medical transition illegal as a *progressive* measure

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@theCBGrass

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3 years

I was like "dad, the christofascists got my book pulled from like four area school districts. What do you think they'll do if I were a teacher in the actual building?"

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@theCBGrass

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2 years

@EmberOfTheNorth Sure, I'll translate: "Other queers being cringe doesn't actually reflect on your own queerness. Everyone should stop trying to tell other queers that they are doing queerness wrong."

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@theCBGrass

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4 years

The landlord was charging Toasted Walnut $11,000 a month in rent, & was unwilling to negotiate that even though the building was fully paid off, & even though it's a pandemic, & even though the owner has cancer.

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@theCBGrass

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4 years

Rush Limbaugh was arguably the single-most effective & charismatic amplifier of proto-fascist ideology in the last few decades of American life. It kicks ass that he's dead. Fuck that guy forever; what a blight upon the world he was.

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@theCBGrass

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@mollyhc

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@theCBGrass

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9 months

bright pigeon you are my revered neighbor

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@theCBGrass

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3 years

Its always a mild surprise when somebody in poetry world doesn't know that Adrienne Rich counseled Janice Raymond for The Transsexual Empire, yes, but its a more hurtful surprise when someone hasn't even heard of The Transsexual Empire.

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@theCBGrass

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3 years

For the hundreds (?!?) of you who don't know me liking my op, the context is funnier if you know that I've been teaching at the college level for the past 11 years

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