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@magratpudifoot
I am actually making an effort again to be on Bluesky, and it occurs to me that perhaps it will work better if I'm following friends and fandom folks instead of just people who give me news about The Awful Happenings.
This is going to remain my primary online presence until or unless something major changes, but please find me at magratpudifoot.bsky.social if you feel so inclined.
Aw, what a good girl. That’s right, kitten. You’re going to come back to my house and. Wgat was that.
Grief grows long after you’re gone, 2022 - by Brooke DiDonato (1990), American
Hey, friend! Just popping by to remind you that you are awesome ❤️
Omg hiii, I'm giving you a scoop of this orange curd I just made
It looks amazing 😍
[Image is of a New Hope Church sign that reads, ‘God says homosexuality is in’ and two men in the foreground holding the S from the sign]
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how does this have under 10,000 notes in spite of my having seen it regularly for the entire time I’ve been on here?
hear me out... jadzia with lisa frank style rainbow leopard spots instead of her regular trill spots. please?
feels appropriate for pride month!
Oof. I just put a batch of vintage clothing in to soak, which is a whole big production requiring putting a plastic tub in my bathtub (because they’re going to be soaking for at least a full day and I still need to shower in there tomorrow) and filling it up with yellowed dresses and Retro Clean.
This time I decided that historical laundresses probably knew what they were doing, and grabbed a metal pole to stir my DIY laundry cauldron and poke the floaty bit back under the surface. Historical laundresses were right, it works great.
As I stood there, I had a moment where I though, ‘oh wow, so many women in my family tree must have done this exact set of motions throughout history.’ Which should be a humbling and heartwarming feeling of connection, right?
Wrong. I swear I could feel twenty generations of shtetl women going “For this you went to college? You want to work with old shmattes all day, fine, but you could have saved the tuition to buy a house.”
And like. They’re right, but hey.
fans of classics of the literary canon are the most lucky ppl because we have boatloads of high quality "meta" (journal articles) written by the most insane unwell "stans" (professors of literature) in a massive ongoing "fandom" (academic conversation) going back like 100+ years depending on your book. typically very high-toned argument and structure as well which satisfies my personal tastes exceedingly. the amount of preposterous unsupported reaching and rate of offensive/borderline evil takes is the same as regular fandom meta though or even more maybe which is what makes it extra delightful
sticker design for pride this year! 💞🏳️⚧️
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.
so our doctor's notes used to have a 'patient sex' marker but changed it to 'sex at birth'. which. fun fact since i changed my legal sex designation. it now says my 'sex at birth' is 'male', which i think is really funny for a lot of reasons. mainly because it highlights how fucking pointless the marker is in the first place AND despite the “progressive” language there's no actual accounting for trans people in the system, even though the wording was very clearly changed because of us.
turns out the only relevance it has is now the pharmacy techs call out 'monsieur transgothmog?' instead of 'madame' which hey. hey. i also have a first name you could use. just a thought.
I had a dream about Columbo at a drag show. This is what came from it.
I'm waiting for him to explain to me how his newfound love of drag allowed him to prove I killed my business partner
yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.
I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.
When I was in high school, I lived in a small progressive city in a spot of red. Our GSA threw everything into observing the Day of Silence, and blanketed the school in big, visible, bracelets for people to wear in support of their silent classmates.
On the bus one spring, on the Day of Silence, I overheard two girls talking about the fact that one of them was wearing a support bracelet. She said, "I don't actually support 'them', but, you know, it's basically socially suicide to say that."
And I was so, so glad. To know that I went to a school, in a place and a time, where people needed to conceal their hate, instead of needing to conceal their love.
French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Attended a rattlesnake conference yesterday and one of the presenters was talking about public attitudes towards snakes, specifically how showing them in a non-aggressive context helps to create more positive attitudes, and. Y'all. I NEED to show you the image he used as an example
Look at him. Look at this smiley newborn sidewinder sitting in a bottle cap. He is so small and so happy he is EXACTLY the right size to sit comfortably in a bottle cap
we noticed the position its actual limbs were in and spent a few minutes aggressively squatting at each other with our arms out
that's goddess pose
holy shit it sure is
