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Ah yes, a content label on an image with just my face, on trans day of visibility tumblr? You’re gonna be transmisongynistic on any day? Our censorship is why there’s no safe space for trans women on the internet do better tumblr
no for real what the actual fuck @staff explain yourselves. now.
feels like a real step back that with all the sexual freedom available to us we moved to Hookup Culture instead of Having Sex With Friends Culture
I find it weird, actually, that today it's more common to have sex with casual acquaintances you meet on the Hookup App than to have sex with people you already know and like and have fun with. and how if two friends have sex, there's an assumption there must be underlying romantic feelings. because apparently casual non-romantic sex is fine, but only with people you don't already like and care about?
I feel like the hippies and people who lived through the Free Love movement would be rightfully disappointed at us for these made-up lines we're drawing between Sex/Romance and (gasp!) Friendship. shockingly, it's fine to have casual sex with people you enjoy hanging out with and do not want to date. fun and healthy even!
Ahhh... i dunno why but this feels like a result of purity culture.
Where 2 concepts clash:
You can have sex outside of marriage
But also sex is bad and you shouldn't do it.
It's not actually okay to have sex and it's shameful to do it and it'll taint your relationships if they know about it.
But also sex isn't bad and be free to do it whenever you want!
That turns into:
You can have sex but it's bad for your relationships.
So it's okay to have sex only if you're either planning to Marry them or Never seeing them again.
HUH.... Society really fucked us on this one (and not in the fun kinky way ☹️)
ID: A wheelchair symbol edited to have the anarchy A in the middle of the wheel. Text reads: Protesting as a Wheelchair User: Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Accessibility and Direct Action.
new zine just dropped! this link has the version for print and the version to read online. should be screenreader accessible--let me know if the formatting is fucked up and you can't access the alt text.
feel free to share, print, and distro wherever <3
This is awesome, thank you! Reading the portion about practicing dearrests as a wheelchair user/teaching comrades how to dearrest you, I was wondering if you have some additional suggestions for safety?
I try to grapple as safely as possible and be aware of head/neck and limbs but usually my #1 priority is getting the person back on their own feet so they can move under their own power, which obviously is different with cases of limited or nonexistent mobility.
Should the priority be returning the person to their mobility aids or getting them out of dodge first and then reuniting them with aids? Are their common mistakes made you wish people were aware of?
Obviously the situation depends on the aids, whether the person still has them and they are undamaged, and other factors, but any advice you could provide to help dispel room for people being timid about jumping in wrt touching aids like chairs or worries about doing damage to the person would be great.
At the end of the day, I want people out of cop hands, but any tools/advice that make it safer are always welcome.
hi! definitely have a few thoughts. it's hard to give universal advice about this, because a lot of what works is really going to depend on what kind of wheelchair someone has (manual or power, self propelled or not), and also on what health variations people have, whether they're ambulatory, if they have other medical devices like a catheter, etc. so disclaimer that all of this stuff is not absolute advice + best practices is just to ask people what their needs are when it comes to dearresting them. ik that dearresting is always chaotic and fast paced, but listen to any instructions people are yelling at you and work together with your comrades to try to make it as functional as possible.
list of things to consider in no particular order:
in general, I think most wheelchair users do not want to get lifted out of our chairs by people that we don't know, and who don't have experience in safely lifting people. If possible, first option should always be to de-arrest someone while we stay in our mobility aid instead of separating people from our chairs.
when i've been arrested as a manual wheelchair user, there's usually been 2-3 cops arresting me. one or two cops in the front to zip-tie my hands and physically push me against my wheelchair, another cop in the back holding onto my handles to move me wherever they want.
in that kind of scenario, best way to de-arrest is to try to get in the way of the cop who's trying to use my push handles. if you're able to get a hold on the handles, you can have more options of where to move--backwards away from other cops, forward into the cops to shove them off the person and then backwards, etc. if you have multiple people you can push from multiple directions (ie someone pulling backwards on my wheelchair handles while someone else is pushing directly onto my legs/knees/wheelchair frame from the front.)
if you're putting your hands on someone's wheelchair, try to only grab on to places that are more stable like handles, wheelchair frame, maybe backrest. avoid things like wheels and spokes, footplates, headrests, anything removable, and anything that's bracketed on instead of solid.
ending up with a broken wheelchair is absolutely a worst case scenario--i actually worry more about my wheelchair breaking then about myself getting injured, because my wheelchair cannot be easily repaired, my insurance won't pay for it, and it can takes weeks or months to get repaired. it is very, very important not to break someone's chair.
For power chairs, it can be incredibly, incredibly dangerous if the power chair tips over and people get caught underneath it. This can cause severe injury or even death. So if you're trying to help dearrest someone in a power chair--number one priority needs to be making sure their chair doesn't tip.
many wheelchair users have unique seating and positioning needs. keep an eye out for things like headrests, neck support, cushioning, seat belts and harness, etc. this can be a sign that it would be a lot more dangerous for someone to be removed from our wheelchair because we might need supports in order to avoid neck injuries.
if the cops have already grabbed us out of our wheelchair, that's a different scenario. in that case, priority should be to get us out of the cops hands and back into our wheelchair as soon as possible. one person should always have direct hands on the wheelchair and make sure it doesn't get into the cops hands. if you're grabbing someone out of the cops hands and they're nonambulatory, keep in mind that you're going to need to keep lifting them back to wherever their wheelchair is without dropping them. you might want to do a two person lift, and ABSOLUTELY listen to the person you're lifting about whatever the safest way to hold them is. you can look up resources about safe lifting techniques designed for physical therapists and nurses to get some ideas about what that might look like.
if you don't have enough people with you to safely lift someone, carry them for long enough, and have someone else to grab the chair then it's probably not a good idea to try to de-arrest through that means. at that point you'd probably want to switch to something like trying to block the van from moving instead.
if cops arrest a wheelchair user and leave our wheelchair on the side of the road, it is SO important for someone to grab our wheelchair, keep it safe, and coordinate to bring it to jail support so we have it as soon as we get out.
that's all i can think about rn but generally just reiterating that this stuff is going to be so individual for every wheelchair user, so whenever possible, finding out this info beforehand and also just asking and listening to instructions in the moment is important.
if any other wheelchair users have thoughts about best practices for de-arresting please feel free to add on!
reminder that diy hrt is not only objectively safe, but in a deeply transphobic world, is imperative to the safety and longevity of trans people.
Second time I've heard about diy being safer, so, in what way (s) is non-diy dangerous?
a few things:
pedantic, but the claim wasnt that diy is safe, wasnt that it is "safer", but in many ways it is.
doctors are often (read: almost always) uneducated on transgender health. from Continuing Gaps in Transgender Medicine Education Among Health Care Providers "few of [the endocrinologists] (11%) rated themselves as very compotent in transgender care. Consistent with their self report, only 5% correctly answered knowledge questions. Further, only 36% reported training in transgender care during endocrinology fellowship."
because of this, trans women are often prescribed doses of estrogen so low as to have very little feminizing effect. for example, the common dosing of 2mg daily estradiol tablets with 50mg daily spironolactone is generally not enough estrogen to dominate a woman's endocrine system, but is enough to strongly weaken her testosterone, which is likely to cause harm (your body needs a dominant hormone, it doesn't care if it's estrogen or testosterone, but not having either is directly dangerous). these doses also fail to meaningfully decrease risk of depression and its symptoms (self harm, suicide, etc).
in a deeply transphobic world, where trans rights are constantly under massive threat, anything which can give care to trans women is imperative to their safety.
the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw
a very interesting terf objection to this one boils down to "but how would the state know who to protect?" because it speaks to the incredible privilege of being in a class the state actually ever remotely wants to protect. most oppressed groups do not want the state to have a registry of them, lol
the patriarchy has done a great job convincing white cisgender women that it's in their best interests to maintain it
Researchers can do studies that track disparate impacts across genders just fine without the government storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They do this with race and orientation and disability and so on just fine.
A census can understand population level trends just fine without storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They can ask for this information in the census. The census tracking population level data is not the same as your assigned sex being permanently part of your legal identity. (At least, the way my country does a census.)
Your doctor can know your anatomy by you communicating it to them if/when it is relevant. There is never a time when they might need to know something that could only be conveyed by your assigned sex being officially relayed to them via government documentation. You can just use your words. The same way you tell your doctor any other part of your medical history.
People respond to "the government doesn't need to store your assigned sex as part of your legal identity" as if they are hearing "no one should ever acknowledge gender or sex at all" but that's not what's being said.
Your birth certificate conveys important legal information about you. Your name, as a designation. Your parents, as they have a legal obligation to you. Your place of birth, as that place has a legal obligation to you. Date and time of birth, since age is important for application of some laws.
And sex. That's on there too. But what is the legal relevance? What laws is the government going to apply to you differently based on what sex is on your birth certificate? I can only think of one thing my government really uses that for, and that is to determine who has to sign up for the draft. And guess what, fuck that shit anyway. The government also used to use this to decide who is allowed to marry who. They don't do that anymore. For now.
There is literally no reason my assigned sex needs to be part of my legal identity. My government is not using that for anything (important). It doesn't matter. If the gender markers on everyone's IDs vanished tomorrow nothing (except maybe the draft) would be significantly negatively affected. Data collection for research could continue as usual since researchers usually have people self report these characteristics rather than checking their government IDs. My doctors would still know which organs I have and if they forgot, I could tell them. I don't want anything to be part of my legal identity that doesn't have to be.
i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job
listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. i don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion
my live reaction to this moment
Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):
Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."
And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):
While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model. Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.
And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:
When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites. Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions. Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers. Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.” “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.
The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that
"AI is smarter than a human!" -> AI is smarter than YOU. YOU feel it is smarter because YOU lack the free-thinking needed to recognize its errors and your own dependency
What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?
When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.
There’s something so uniquely terrifying about memory issues. I feel like my self is slipping away from me.
Here’s the thing I feel like a lot of folks don’t get: I’m not trying to forget what you said. Honestly, I really tried not to. I can’t control what I do and don’t remember—forgetting things just happens. It’s annoying for you, I know, but for me it’s distressing as hell and when you make a big deal out of it rather than just reminding me you make me feel ashamed. I’ll remember that, at least.
It costs you nothing to be kind to people with memory problems. Please. It’s scary enough without people treating memory lapses as a personal failing.
Hey, reblog this version instead, please!
Recipes from Portland's famous but long-closed Rheinlander restaurant. This cookbook was produced in a limited window before Chef Mager's death. All of these fucking slap.
For my fellow vegan/vegetarians, these sound scrumptious and look pretty simple to make substitutions!
just to be clear
certified soup post
It's sooo good
The lentil soup post is yeah beyond amazing. I know lentil soup doesn't seem like it could be that good. You simply don't Know how beloved the rheinlander lentil soup was. This was a famous soup here.
porn is bad because [christian talking point] and [alt-right study] and [misunderstood neurochemistry] and of course [feature of capitalism]
thank you SO MUCH for reminding me about [feature of patriarchy] and [problem caused by lack of kids' sex ed] random tumblr user in the notes! louder for those in the back!
The adult content warning on this post is really just the icing on the cake
who up in a kafka-esque rut sleep deprived, casually malnourished, socially awkward, painfully self-conscious, struggling financially, lacking community, altogether anhedonic
Got a great ad encouraging people to dismantle surveillance equipment and then sell the guts at a pawn shop
