"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
#HannahArendt

Surreal being a trans person on this website this week. Every single one of my trans friends is making emergency preparations in case Trump bans our health care while fighting off existential dread and depression, and 99% of the cis people i follow seemingly have nothing to say about the trans EOs.

Let me assure everyone in the U.S. that you share far more in common with your trans and immigrant neighbors than with the billionaires that have seized control of our government.

From "Parable of the Talents" by Octavia Butler

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

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I like to think I’d be tough to break during an interrogation, but also I will literally cry if I accidentally think about what a good boy my dog is too hard so honestly idk