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[notririreal]

the only thing that makes me feel better about how regressive the world is becoming in terms of xenophobia and misogyny is that we've clawed our way out of that hole before. we can do it again.

[nonaferatu]

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result

[notririreal]

Air raid sirens and explosion sounds to round out the day. god im so stressed my chest hurts

[notririreal]

lmao again. so tired. fuck trump and fuck this war

[notririreal]

Air raid sirens and explosion sounds to round out the day. god im so stressed my chest hurts

[notririreal]

gracie abrams released hit the wall for me btw. in fact I'm pretty sure the entirety of daughter from hell is abt me

[shitter]

absolute gold on Reddit today

[notririreal]

I actually think I prefer the blood...

[notririreal]

woke up to the sounds of air raid sirens and explosions in the distance again. when will this stupid, useless war fucking end?

[notririreal]

im a big believer that some things should not be shared with people who dont know you. like I can vent to my best friend about something that happened a few years ago bc she knows exactly why it upset me, what angle I'm looking at it from, and wont assume the worst abt me (even if she does call me out for being in the wrong). but if I post it on the Internet everyone will just be making all of these assumptions based on their personal experiences & beliefs and that's like so understandable but you WILL be misunderstood and no one's gonna be happy

[chekhovsglock]

it's scary the amount of people who wholeheartedly believe that men and women are fundamentally different creatures

[nikoisme]

i imagine being medicated would feel good as fuck. unfortunately i have to rawdog whatever's wrong with me

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[notririreal]

uhhhhh im only halfway through this month's book in the kind of book club my friend and I have together and she's finished 3. and ive got a week left. AND her birthday is soon too and I'm still stumped on the birthday present I want to get her

[notririreal]

nvm I figured it out hehehehe

[closet-keys]

when thinking about how oppression works, on a structural level, my guiding principle is that I must spend at least as much time looking down as I do looking up.

what do I mean by this? here's an example. when my surgery is delayed multiple times, I spend a little time looking up (there is only one surgeon in the entire area who will perform this surgery on trans people, so every trans person's surgical timeline is bottle-necked and delayed by months every time he goes to a conference or takes a vacation or experiences an injury. in other words, if I was cis, I would not encounter this difficulty in accessing surgery). and then I spend time looking down (due to nonstop harassment and legal threats, this practice now only treats adults and will no longer perform surgeries on minors. in other words, my access to surgery is predicated on adult privilege I have at the direct expense of trans youth's lack of access).

if you do not build a habit around thinking in this way, you will become the person Audre Lorde describes as "so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face." If we are seeking to dismantle structures of oppression, rather than to simply use and climb them, then we absolutely must make a practice of looking in both directions, especially when we feel like we're on the bottom.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[busket]

you cant hope to do ANY good progressive work as a feminist if you think that body shaming is a valid tool at your disposal. yes, even against men. any trait you can insult a man's body for there exists a woman with that trait who knows you arent in her corner. there are women who are fat and women who are hairy, women who are balding. women with penises and testes. women with acne and neckbeards. these traits are not exclusive to the misogynistic creep cishet men who you are trying to insult.

[chilewithcarnage]

sorry gotta get my ‘friend that’s too woke’ on but I don’t think the solution to misogyny is more misogyny. like by all means rip into republican/right wing women but your critiques should be about how they’re evil soulless people not ‘haha they’re ugly/visibly aged. they don’t know how to put on make up!’ like i don’t fucking know man I don’t think any woman at all should be required to wear makeup or be made fun of for not wearing it ‘properly’ also let’s stop doing the ‘not conventionally attractive = morally bad’ thing. that last part especially be kicking y’all asses.

[notririreal]

I think i wanna start experimenting with a more gothic style. ive already got the politics down and my hair is fully black again for the first time in 6 years so it feels like a good time