Thank you for calling this out offline, where it’s much harder for people to ignore the gravity of it. Kia kaha!!

She doesn’t want to ‘gossip’ when it turns into fact-sharing about her behaviour. She’s happy to when it’s defamatory about you, though.

What a wholly dismissive and insecure response on her part!

That said, I’m sorry you have to contend w rising hatred at the same time you’re stepping into a stronger authentic self. The pain of accepting yourself in a society that prefers you dead > being yourself is excruciating.
No matter how high the tide turns, we’ll always be here. You’re not alone ❤️

This is always the point that gets side stepped in these bullshit “both sides” pieces. The effect of anti-trans campaigning is heightened violence in a direct attempt to force detransition/staying closeted.
Pretending these arguments serve any other purpose is complicity in transphobic violence.

I know the City Mission off Hereford in town had a huge stack of art history magazines a few months back, and I remember seeing a decent few piles of ~pre 80s Nat Geos. Burnside op shops also had a surprising amount.
Good luck!

Their passing made me cry a bunch, too. They’ve been such a huge influence on how I see myself and choose to see the world/others. I hope their legacy gets the love it deserves

By neglect or design, depending on how generous you're feeling. We won't get far by accepting it as immutable, though - we could have a much more rigorous media environment with some obvious changes.

I saw that, too. It's accelerating the already steep decline into sub-feudal living standards for anyone outside of the corporate nepo pool. Not like accessible drinking water is an essential human right or anything, right?