live well

Sarah. 28. all my hobbies give me carpal tunnel it's all jokes folks

[joyorder]

Lindsey Jordan aka Snail Mail 🐌🌈

[panoramaaa-deactivated20250601]

[irlactualhuman]

They should get a baby to eat. As a treat.

[fatsexybitch]

What is their crime? Trying to eat a baby? A succulent human baby?

[captain-price-returns]

[fraddit]

Haunted house horror movie where the humans are house flippers and the audience is rooting for the ghost to kill them before they tear down all crown molding and paint all the wood.

[wetheurban]

Close July gently.

You did enough.

You showed up enough.

You are enough.

Allow that to be true.

[guerrillatech]

[sundae-meringue]

I'm gratitudemaxxing rn. I love my comfy bed and chocolate chip cookies and my weird gay friends and blorbo from my shows. I love libraries and parks and movie theaters and restaurants and festivals. I love bubble tea and hip hop and honeysuckle. I love everyone who's reading this.

[segamascott]

[segamascott]

[longseasons]

when your coffee tastes good today and you start thinking god has forgiven you

[thedorkdionysia]

the thing is that the way people treat trans women they don't like is that the behavior they're engaging in is like as old as (and even older than) the modern generation of transphobic backlash against the trans liberation moment

[thedorkdionysia]

Beth Elliott is a transfem folk singer who was involved with West Coast lesbian political movements in the 70s. her inclusion was debated for a while, partly because she was transgender, but also because a lesbian who she used to have a relationship with was involved with a separate lesbian group, who protested against her inclusion at a lesbian conference that she had helped to set up. the conference took a vote that resulted in the majority saying she should be allowed to stay, but the trans-exclusive lesbians refused to allow the vote to hold. she performed once on the first night, and then didn't return, and the next night one of the speakers delivered a speech that was changed from her original notes to be more of a transphobic screed against Elliot, alleging her of having "the mentality of a rapist". this incident certainly didn't *invent* the idea of trans women being rapists, but it does predate The Transsexual Empire by several years and was definitely a contributing factor to its creation.

and i say "is" at the top of this story because Beth Elliott is still alive!!!! this incident was not that long ago!!!!! it DID damage her career, however, and it practically made her a social pariah. but it's the same type of shit people do to trans women to this very day. these tactics are relatively recent overall but they are still time honored traditions with trans-exclusive feminists.

[thedorkdionysia]

this isn't even about michfest is the crazy part. this incident happened in 1973, and michfest as an event started 3 years later in 1976. the first michfest where trans women were explicitly removed from the event took place in 1991, after it had already been running for 25 years. the type of thinking that caused the organizers of michfest to push trans women out of participating in an event they had long been a part of was the same type of thinking that had caused lesbian activists to push Beth Elliott out of the event she had organized as well as her career, and it's the same type of thinking that led to writings like The Transsexual Empire coming into existence.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[willgrahamscock]

nature is beautiful

[antarcticajoy]

I think we're good on engineers. All the programs to get kids into stem is great, but I think half my graduating class became engineers. What we really need are poets because idk if anyone else is reading recent poetry but so much of it sucks. We need to get kids into writing interesting things. No more "little life" shit

[drops-of-universe]

poetry fans be like i love that poem it made me feel fucking awful & horrible & scared

[nondelphic]

writing tip: put words on page. hope this helps. i will not be taking questions because i have not done this

[generaljenobi]