She was probably responding to the alien as anti-hero who comes from a gynarchy and, not coincidentally, destroys the on-board patriarchy with the help of a human woman. And ofc the biting satire of a man unwillingly giving birth to this alien against his will. Or, in 7yo, “Aw, it’s cute!”

Girl - blood draw for levels, jab for HRT, laser on face, electro on … other places. Same day. Some days are extra.

Attending a sapphic NYE and CAN NOT WAIT.

you’ve developed a refined taste, my dear. Nothing wrong with that. Hard to turn off tho when you’re not trying to work.

I don’t wanna “polyanna” this cause this has been my least fav Christmas, but in the interest of gratitude I had a lovely Sunday with queer family from AM to PM. It reinforced my belief on day 0, a year ago, that chosen family would be central to my survival.

Wow. The ripple effect in action. I’m so sorry.

I feel good about this one

I think of “Jess” in Stone Butch Blues lamenting how they felt excluded in feminist spaces for being “too butch” in the 70s. More women were coming out, more conversations were being had. Inter-sectionalism was being introduced by Audre Lorde. Maybe this is a consequence of there being more of us?

... sigh ... I'm not sure if we share exactly the same problems, but my biggest, heart stopping concerns have been trans related.

Subsequently, I think you just inspired a movie night with my trans family 📽️💜🏳️‍⚧️

Oh fffu - things make more sense now

The Buddhist philosophy of non-attachment helped me release all expectations and step across the threshold to come out. I traded internal conflict and external acceptance for internal peace and external conflict. And babe, a million adoring fans will never feel as good as loving myself

That was my internalized hot take, we just had a debrief a few months ago about academic freedom vs free speech from the State AGs office. One of our professors was doxxed. While I’m open about being trans, all my subjects are highly technical with not a lot of intentional social critique.

LOLLLL, In what dream do I get to "retire"? If I play along, however, I'll be that gal in mid-20th century "analog only" lifestyle. Typewriters, snail mail, and tea parties with the girlfriends.

None of it ever felt like "me", it felt more like searching for "me" in these male-dominated spaces. Mine is the same story as so many others - we're told from childhood that anything that's not cis/het is wrong and a lot of us believe it and try so hard, for so long to fit into a box others made

I will say, coming out has given me SO much more internal peace and resilience. I’m constantly astounded by how much stress I’m now able to tolerate and even brush off after a year into transition.

Don’t have TikTok 🤷🏻‍♀️ I can feel the stress daily, and it’s frustrating how hard it is to get cis folks to comprehend what it feels like. I’m about to lose my cool when white cis folks be like, “yeah, things are hard for a lot of ppl”. At the end of the day, T4T is about more than romantic encounters

Oof, I had some pretty intense transphobia to work through which led to a lot of bargaining “anything but trans”.

Took me a bit to unpack that and dispense with it. The process did teach me about why and where it came from, which has helped me understand where we’re at today.

This journalist is laughing her ass off - thank you for that inverted triangle ref 😂

I kinda figured it would probably be some weird power move, “were the department of war now” mission alignment thing