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identity overview
cate (she/her)
misc identify stuff
trans lesbian
🐱 (literally me)
mid 20s
white USAmerican
Euro-American and Vietnamese
pretty damn disabled
disability
full-time wheelchair user ♿️
autistic with medium support needs 🎧
episodic cognitive impairment 😖
schizophrenic, ocd, severe depression/anxiety/etc ☹️
blog tagging notes
general
#cats: 🐈
#cat hall of fame: 🐈 !!!
#laugh tag: anything that audibly made me laugh
#ranting into the void: complainin
#my_post: my original posts
sagas
#the nightmare of may 2026: the period of time i became homeless (but sheltered) and very disabled
#adventures in leaving your polycule: the period of time i left a living/social situation that did not serve me
#adventures in bottom surgery: 🍆✂️
i try to tag major triggers but lmk if you would like me to tag anything specific or yo use any specific tag format
interests past and present
special interests
magic the gathering 🧙♀️
lotr/hobbit/silmarillion 📚
the mechanisms (band) 🍺🚀🏴☠️
college football 🏈
competitive youth robotics 🤖
cars 🚗 🏎️
resumes 📄 (not joking. also unemployed. go figure.)
major media interests
folk-inspired music (the mechanisms, charming disaster, the longest johns)
other musical artists: bright eyes, orange culture, car seat headrest
movies: lotr, the empty man, baby driver, mean girls (2024)
frankenstein by mary shelley
poetry and music of leonard cohen
academic/professional interests
electronics engineering (hardware and software, especially embedded)
high-quality wiring jobs
automotive (booo auto industry)
laser and plasma physics (booo idealistic tech that's truly absurdly expensive and probably won't pay off this century)
english literature and poetry
k12 education
cats past and present
the cats
august 🐱 🍁
smaug 🐈⬛ 🐉
nami 🐈 🏴☠️
i am not taking up space to post pictures but that is an incredible loss. you should get to see them. you should get to know them. these are some incredible cats and your life is less rich for not knowing them. they're also very small
politics
irl theory/etc
aspires to militantly oppose capitalism, imperialism, and white supremacy
materialist transfeminist
antipsychiatry. the mental health field was not built to help us, and is often incapable of doing so, or really doing anything but coercing and abusing us
it is all our responsibility to learn about the disabilities of others and how we can be better to each other. listen to people with mobility disabilities, sensory loss disabilities, cognitive disabilities, incontinence disabilities, chronic pain, etc, etc
youth liberation. children are people and largely have few rights. support their autonomy and ability to leave abusive situations
politics apply at home too. treat your housemates well, divide domestic labor fairly, pursue legal protections against forcible removal for all housemates
action items, irl, regular basis
support the most vulnerable people in your community through aid and activism (especially the unsheltered, undocumented, dispossessed of land, and/or experiencing severe racial injustice)
support the most vulnerable people globally through aid and activism (especially in Gaza and in the Global South broadly)
build movement capacity
tumblr
tumblr is fundamentally anti-Black and transmisogynist. both userbase and staff. both. we need a workable alternative. i'm not aware of one that meets my needs yet. yes i've probably considered that one
censorship is bad, but shipping discourse is largely unimportant
transmisogyny is a real social force and understanding how it affects people and who it targets is often relevant to being able to do feminism at all
stop dogpiling the Black trans women in your online spaces as soon as you get the feeling they view the world differently than you. also listen to them. but certainly stop dogpiling them.
no faith in community. our community is who is good to each other and stops when we are not good to each other. our community is who we help and who helps. if you want queer community, spend time at the homeless shelter before you spend time at the dyke bar
















