Are you a trans woman living in the US? Do you have complicated feelings around celebrating the 4th of July this year because the country is actively trying to kill you?
May I suggest instead doing what I do every year? One of my oldest and best friends was born on the 4th, she’s a badass trans woman and every year she throws a party to end all parties where we celebrate her, instead of this genocidal imperialist capitalist hellscape.
Traditionally ways of celebrating my friends birth include, but are not limited to:
- Spending time with cool trans people ( @mystery-incorporated-whore and I first got physical with our QPR on the 4th a few years back, I do highly recommend cuddling with your local transfemme goth)
- Eating a bunch of delicious food (I bake over a hundred cookies usually just for the party)
- drinking or smoking if you like (I will not be sober tomorrow)
- blowing shit up
Some assorted shit that happened at last year's 4th of July transtraveganza:
One trans woman put out a lit blunt on the wrist of another trans woman, who responded by moaning so loud that her cry of ecstasy could be heard over the explosives overhead
A trans woman who isn't car-savvy mentioned that her car was giving her trouble, so all 6 cis men at the party grabbed beers and stood around her car as she revved the engine and tried to diagnose it for her, while I pounded a blunt in the passenger seat
Lesbian sex of a few different degrees
Sonata got everyone blackout drunk and then took over grilling burgers and serving them to the aforementioned intoxicated women
