Honestly, it’s been a pretty exhausting Pride Month.
I’ve had to deal with a lot of grief with how much disability, chronic illness and neurodivergence means that so much of Pride is just inaccessible to me and most of the community just isn’t bothered about that fact.
I’m not closeted to my parents but there’s this gulf where I don’t know how to even start discussing gender with them in a way that I can remotely convey how important it is to me to be nonbinary and what it really even *means*.
The fact that a UK general election is coming up and both of the “main” parties are vying with each other on how much they can oppress trans folk.
I’ve completed my Masters, which I’m really proud of myself for managing and proud of the research into disabled history I’ve produced, at a university which is actively empowering transphobes through the GCRN. And everything we’re doing to fight that is incredibly energy-sucking and mostly just gets actively ignored.
I’m so damn tired.