Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

This essay helped me when I was questioning my gender, so I'm sharing it here for anyone who might not have seen it.

"Shouldn’t we be looking for proof that we’re trans before gambling our whole lives on that being the case? Well, maybe… if proof of being trans was even really something possible, beyond the simple proof of subjectively experiencing your identity and gender as such. But more importantly: we never ask ourselves for “proof” that we’re cis."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2012/04/17/the-null-hypothecis/

Hey how's this for a hot take: You are not entitled to gawk at "evidence" of other people's trauma fuck off

read about abuse. learn how it works. there are patterns to it. you'll start recognizing it at all levels, from your own inner critic, your family and friends, your community, all the way up to government policy and international relations. it will make a lot of things make more sense

same goes for trauma, read up on it. you'll be that much better equipped to support your friends through hard times

I look forward to the rest of this essay but this is how i feel about white passing and antiblackness as a social currency

"What is the relation between “seeing like a cop” and “getting your piece”of neocolonial urban territory? To what extent are these practices racialized as white, even if those who participate in them are not exclusively white?How do property, personhood, and race intersect with the security apparatuses that serve and protect some people while exposing others to lethal and nonlethal, but exhausting, forms of state violence? " LisaGuenther

Ignoring racism is what whites do best, pretending that antiblackness isn't a social currency for non black poc is also what ppl do best

pretending that it isn't a thing will not save you

this convo in G's mentions reminds me of the person a few weeks ago saying that if you ignore how the Queen's Gambit has a Black women in the show simply to save and serve the white lead...then its a good show...

"If you *ignore* the blantant misogynoir that is essential to the show's plot then like its good!"

No

Reading this article on leftists using politics to justify their shite behavior is just :kiss:

"On social media, users who post far-fetched “leftist” justifications to cover what looks like shitty interpersonal conduct are frequently ratioed within an inch of their lives — a phenomenon that seems to be on the rise as young people move leftward and nuclear leftist takes proliferate more generally."

on my to-do list for this year: install Surge and put some proper effort into it

https://cdm.link/2021/01/surge-awesome-free-soft-synth-gets-major-1-8-update/

Just a head's up for my writers out there, Nervous Ghost Press has been promoting a poetry prize being judged by Michale Graves, a member of the Proud Boys who publicly took part in the attack on the Capitol. He, yes, also happens to have been a former frontman of the Misfits. The press is absolutely aware of this and has lost staff due to it and refused to make a change. Not only should you not enter this contest, please send your regular work elsewhere - it deserves better.

#Poets #Poetry

there's really people out there who will finally hear about some racist abuse that's been going on and genuinely be all like ~oh gosh i don't want to take sides, i don't want to lose friends or make enemies~ like excuse me? I Sure Fucking Do

Hey folks, it has come to my attention that a bit of my past ableism, that I had been working to address and diminish, had slipped through in a message a few days ago.

I apologize for that, and I will keep working to make sure that it happens as rarely as possible. If it happens again, don't hesitate to call me on it, I appreciate it.