everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs
“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*
It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.
Is it any wonder that the female crossdresser hesitates to come forward? It would be quite a stigma to be known as the world's first and only woman who gets off on jockey shorts! [...] Until recently (and in many places still today) it was not socially acceptable for a woman to admit ANY of her sexual desires. Women could not comfortably admit that they wanted sex, enjoyed sex, or that they masturbated. While it was "naughty" for boys, girls (we were told) simply "never did" such things! The eroticism women may find in men's clothes has been overlooked because society found it improper to believe such behavior could mean anything sexual to a woman. Our society still is struggling to accept that women DO desire sex and find it pleasurable. It will probably take a long time to accept that some women are sexually stimulated by men's clothes, or by the fantasy of being a man, or of being a man in a woman's arms.
— Information For The Female To Male Cross Dresser And Transsexual by Lou Sullivan (1990)
nobody talks about how Instagram’s algorithm is killing mentally ill teenagers anymore. my entire feed should not be videos of people mourning their loved ones that killed themselves. I did not follow these people. why are you programming me to associate killing myself with recieving the reward of love and attention. STOP IT!!!!!
Me: if you performed a digital autopsy and retraced the activity of people who killed themselves in the last 5 years how many of them were being led down an algorithmic funnel where they were taught to associate suicide with being important, loved, remembered, and valuable?
Please call your representatives: VOTE NO on the FEDERAL BOOK BANNING BILLS HR 2616, HR 8705, and HR 7661!
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There are currently THREE FEDERAL BOOK BAN BILLS aiming to ban all TRANS BOOKS from U.S. public schools! HR 2616, HR 8705, HR 7661
June 2026 / Maia Kobabe (a trans author, for three years in a row the most challenged author in the U.S.)
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HR 2616 threatens to cut federal funding from public schools if they “teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology,” as defined by an Executive Order signed by Trump in Jan 2025. It would also cut funding from schools unless they require “parental consent before changing a minor's gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form.” HR 2616 HAS ALREADY PASSED IN THE HOUSE! Please call your Senators to say NO ON HR 2616!
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HR 8705 threatens to cut federal funding from public schools which teach “discriminatory equity ideology or gender ideology,” as defined by two Executive Orders aimed at suppressing “critical race theory” and trans representation. This bill is named after the late far-right activist Charlie Kirk, “The Charlie Act.” HR 8705 has passed out of committee, but has not yet been introduced in the House. Please call your House Reps to say NO ON HR 8705!
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HR 7661 threatens to cut federal funding from public schools which offer material deemed “sexually oriented," treating any LGBTQIA+ identity as sexual content. It specifically forbids “gender dysphoria or transgenderism,” and “lascivious dancing” (drag). This bill, titled “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act,” has 22 co-sponsors and has passed out of committee but has not yet been introduced to the House. Please call your House Reps to say NO ON HR 7661!
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CALL SCRIPTS
“My name is [name] and I’m calling from [city, state, zip code]. I’m asking [Senator] to vote no on HR 2616. I oppose HR 2616 because it would restrict student’s access to books and it would specifically harm trans, nonbinary, and intersex students. Please stand against book bans and protect queer students!”
“My name is [name] and I’m calling from [city, state, zip code]. I’m asking [Rep] to vote no on HR 8705 and HR 7661. I oppose these bills because they would restrict student’s access to books and accurate history, and would especially harm BIPOC, trans, nonbinary, and intersex students. Please stand against book bans and support public education funding!”
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Author Maia Kobabe: If HR 2616, HR 8705, or HR 7661 pass, it would be almost impossible for any public school in the U.S. to offer or teach my books, unless they’re willing to risk their federal funding. Students would be even less likely to learn about trans stories or accurate U.S. history.
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Please call your representatives: VOTE NO on the FEDERAL BOOK BANNING BILLS HR 2616, HR 8705, and HR 7661!
Follow AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS on insta & bluesky for updates on these bills!
insta / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my books / print store / bluesky
Maia always makes these actions clear and accessible and I so appreciate eir work.
If you don't know who your Senators or Representatives are, you can use Ballotpedia's Who Represents Me tool! (Note: there's a field for you to input your email address on their page, but it's not necessary to get your results. They just need a mailing address to confirm who your reps are.)
Once you've got names, you can look up and save your Reps' phone numbers in your phone. I find this makes it easier when I'm wavering about feeling brave enough to place a call. Just pressing a button instead of going and looking up the phone number all over again makes it just a liiiiittle easier, and sometimes that makes the difference between calling and not calling!
i stand in front of an audience. okay so there’s this epilogue to a fantasy/sci fi series about the psychological decline of a protagonist who spent his entire life solving everyone else’s problems as fantasy protagonists often do and now he is confronted with the reality that he does not know how to solve his own and this destroys him completely. his mental health spiral is the focus of the story and is just as gradual as it is intense. no one knows what to do when the one that does all the saving needs to be saved and they all go about helping him horribly. incredibly claustrophobic in tone. most episodes end on a sour, open note. everyone is gripped. i say it is steven universe. the audience erupts into fury
there’s a scene about that exact moment in your mid teens when your parent is talking and you realize you’ve spent all your life looking up to a person who knows nothing and is telling you things you definitely don’t need or want to hear and all you can do is zone out because you’ve never been disillusioned like this before. and it’s so good. and it’s steven universe.
im going to be sick. Mississippi police shot and killed a 1 year old baby boy. Kohen Wiley. he and his mother were just playing.
"someone ended it all before it could even start." - Carlos, Kohen's grandfather.
"Family say the aunt was driving the car and the mother was in the front passenger seat holding her child when the shooting happened."
a mother went to the grocery store with her 1 year old child and. the cops. murdered her baby boy. he was in her arms. in her arms. in her arms.
the cop who did this does not deserve to live. Kohen should still be alive. despicable. beyond words. there are no words anymore. the hatred of Black people is a plague on the world.
may Kohen's spirit find peace and be reborn to his mothers arms in another life. may his family grieve together in peace. fuck the colonial entity known as the United States.
please spread the word about the murder of this baby and the injuring of his family. if anyone can find the name of the officer, add it in a reblog please. same with the mother and aunt, and their current condition. i will update this post if i find it first.
Child was fatally shot and his mother’s friend is wounded after Senatobia police responded to shoplifting call
Kohen Wiley, the slain child, was in the car at the center of the shooting on Sunday alongside his mother and her friend, said Marquell Bridges, a local community advocate who is helping the family find legal representation.
Kohen’s mother was physically unharmed, but her friend was seriously injured, said Bridges, the president and founder of an advocacy group called the Building Bridges Coalition.
Apparently a community rally was organized in Senatobia (video of protest included at that link) & the family has legal council.
The community gathered outside Senatobia City Hall on Tuesday evening as they remained concerned after a police officer shot and killed a 1-year-old over the weekend.
Dozens of Senatobia natives were present at the rally, calling for justice for Kohen Kartier Wiley.
“Today it’s in their community, tomorrow it’s in mine, tomorrow it might be on my doorstep. I have a child. I have grandchildren too,” Aretha Lester said. [...]
Wiley’s family has retained prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump to represent them.
“A 1-year-old child is dead because police officers in Mississippi opened fire on a car in a crowded Walmart parking lot,” Crump said in a statement. “Kohen Wiley was a baby. His mother, who has not been charged with any crime, says she was trying to communicate to officers that there was a baby in the car. They fired anyway, leading to the death of an innocent 1-year-old. We intend to seek justice for baby Kohen and the life that was stolen from him.”
Also gonna add that Marquell Bridges livestreamed the protest on Facebook, and the cops fucking tear gassed the protestors (seen around 17:20, or see here).
They tear gassed protestors, at a protest over the murder of a 1-year old and the potentially fatal injuring of another woman, and the traumatizing of an entire family.
And the police department has the gall to ask for "patience." There is no saving the United States.
there should be a term for characters you personally don't care about but you defend them anyways because the way people treat them is really uncomfortable. like ok this is a very middle-of-the-road character for me but the fandom's either been super misogynistic, racist, etc. about them or harassed innocent people who try to genuinely explore that character warts and all, and i find that more annoying than the actual character.
the term should by 'my client', like you're a lawyer defending your client that you are completely indifferent to but you are obligated by your job (or your morals) to defend
“I’m just doing what I’m told. If I am ordered to remove gold fillings from refugees theeth then that’s what I’ll do”, says police officer Michael Hansen.
Just thought I’d add this since not a lot of people outside of the nordic countries seem to have seen it. This is a danish police officer discussing a new danish law that says the police should seize the possesions and money of refugees to finance the integration.
we don't credit rebecca sugar enough for making the episode with the first gay wedding in a kids show extremely plot relevant so it could not be skipped or cut.
#rebecca sugar has gone on record saying that they knew from the beginning they wanted ruby and sapphire and they put every inch of planning#in to make sure that the studio could not take them out. sugar has said they’d compromised on hundreds of things they’d wanted for steven#so that they had the bargaining power specifically to keep ruby and sapphire’s relationship#and a number of ‘filler’ episodes were created just to establish counter-arguments that might come up when they pitched the wedding episode#the one that comes to mind is the episode about steven and connie getting lost in rose’s room steven’s central conflict about liking their#fave book series’ romantic ending was later weaponised when producer’s were like ‘oh but steven’s a boy he won’t be too interested in them#getting married’ sugar was able to be like ‘no. in this episode it’s established he loves romance and specifically weddings. and in these#episodes it’s shown how much steven cares about ruby and sapphire and their relationship and happiness. you cannot convince me this is not#good and necessary plot development#and they wrapped it up in the season finale and the big climactic point of the diamonds finally coming to attack earth to make the#episode integral to the series no skipping it without confusion. and had ruby wear a wedding dress because international censors took#advantage of her design to give her a masculine va#and sugar made certain that everybody knew This was a queer love story that an entire town supported and admired and that any child watchin#it at home would know they are not alone and that that support is waiting for them out there somewhere#sugar sacrificed the wider story they wanted to tell for that and it was a horrible decision to be given but they made the right choice
I would say you can "WAIT I'M (AGE)" your way out of many unhelpful thought processes. wait I'm fifteen I don't need to act like an adult. wait I'm thirty I don't need to care about this fandom discourse. wait I'm forty five I don't need to act how I did two decades ago. wait I'm sixty I don't need to care about this fandom discourse
Wait I'm sixty nobody's expecting me to be in a rush or change my habits unless I want to
Wait I'm sixty I'm allowed to be weird because now it's just eccentric
Wait I'm sixty people actually listen to me
Wait I'm only sixty I still have time
(I am 30 and my main experience of being 30 so far is that people, including for the first time my actual family, now cannot argue that I am a child who doesn't know what ze's doing.)
I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
the principal aim of lying is to accomplish your goal in as few lies as possible, and with the least amount of effort necessary to keep those lies going. It follows naturally that the world’s greatest liar speaks only the truth.
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