Thank you🫡

Lmao, that's me!
Hahahaha

As a thought exercise, what do you imagine someone with no familiarity with Ballroom or Dollhood would think after reading that essay with little to no other context except the fact that they had seen other trans people use it?

It isn't a good impression, I can say that for a fact.

That is detrimental to all trans people, and then claiming that Dollhood isn't inclusive, when it always was.

Placing trans poc at risk with her essay because of how she portrays Ballroom culture and those who use the term doll creating yet more biases against us.

Of it's original culture to make a point in an essay with only passing after-thought mentions.

There's not so much a missed connection, as an obvious and wilful choice to use Ballroom culture and Dollhood as a scapegoat by positioning those who use the term doll as perpetrators of an image->

Back of a Barbie box without any further analysis, or true recognition of where the term comes from, setting up false equivalences and whilst doing so panders into the self-same thing she says she's against.

She *is* whitewashing the term because she is taking it and removing it from any semblance-

So thank you for this, and I get where you're coming from, but what Abigail is doing in her essay is using Dolldom to prove a point. She positions herself as an authority to discuss what the term doll means without any connection to Dollhood, and uses the definition of it as written on the->

Yes, there is.
Originally, the treaties were purposefully worded differently in order to get Māori people to bow.

Basically, the current government is a bunch of old white fascists and racists who have been taking money from Xtian groups and donors so things have been getting heated, recently.

That this is happening in my country, to irawhiti Māori, as well as pakeha New Zealanders is not only a travesty but completely against everything Aotearoa is meant to stand for.

This is disgusting.

Ko taku tumanako ka pirau katoa ratou

Thank you so much!

And it's honestly sickening how often this happens, especially by people who should know better as minorities themselves.

She makes me sick to my stomach.

I will always defend Ballroom.
I grew up in it, was raised by it, and my life is owed to it.

There will never not be a time where I won't defend the culture that made me who I am, and I fucking hate that hideous cunt.

I don't fucking give a shit.

Let her see.

100%.

She's the definition of a privileged, entitled, coloniser.

She's the epitome of WHITE (trans) woman.

I hate this timelinee😭
What do you meannnn😭😭😭
How did I miss that?!

@theabigailthorn.bsky.social
You fucking suck, cuz

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CATCHING THAT HOLY SHIT

HAHAHAHAHA
Thank you.

I love you so much for this.
Hahahaga
Omg😭😭
I'm so overwhelmed