TRANS WOMEN: HERE'S SOME SHIT YOUR DOCTOR WONT TELL YOU ABOUT HRT
1. Progesterone: not for everyone, but for many people it may increase sex drive and WILL make your boobs bigger. Also effects mood in ways that many find positive (but some find negative). Most doctors won’t prescribe this to you unless you ask. Most trans girls I know swear by it.
2. Injectible estrogen: is more effective than pill or patch form. Get on it if you can bear needles bc you will see more effects more quickly.
3. Estradiol Cypionate: There is currently a shortage of injectible estradiol valerate. There is no shortage of estradiol cypionate. Functionally they do the same shit.
4. Bicalutamide: This is an anti-androgen that has almost none of the side-effects of spironolactone or finasteride. The girls I know who are on it are evangelical about it.
where do you find articles or personal essays to read? and also do you have any favorite sources for news? i want to read more but i’m having a difficult time finding sources 🤍
I've answered this just recently but here's a more complete list for essays from places I visit most often (favourites are marked **)
LitHub**
Electric Literature**
Guernica Magazine**
Hazlitt**
Longreads**
Pangyrus
The Dial**
Bloodknife**
Aeon **
The Marginalian**
Asymptote Journal
N+1
Nautilus**
Quanta Magazine**
The Believer
Ordinary Plots**
The Point Magazine
The Baffler
Paris Review (Redux newsletter is good for things usu behind the paywall)
The New Yorker
The Artifice
The Collector
The Rumpus
Catapult
Tin House Archives (the online section is no longer running but past publications are still available)
Additionally, highly recommend switching to Mozilla Firefox and trying the "Pocket" feature on their homepage: it collects links to articles across the web on topics that are either trending or based on the Pocket suggestions you usually click on. I'm on private browser 99% of the time but there's still 2 or 3 articles at least that I'm always interested in and I love it!
Some other places I read things: Poets&Writers, Atlas Obscura, The Guardian, The Independent, New Scientist, Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, BBC, National Geographic, Wired, NY Times, GQ, NPR, The Irish Times / Independent, etc., I don't have favourite news sources as a rule since I usually read 2 or 3 articles on the same topic from different places depending on what it is (I don't like relying on single sources). But on the whole this covers most of what cross my orbit unless I'm looking for something specifically 💗
It allows you to search for your school’s textbook, pick the chapter you’re on and pick the problem you’re trying to do and gives you a step by step guide as to how to solve it.
So don’t thank setupspawn on TikTok for providing this information
These are links to free ebooks because we’re broke from paying full tuition for online classes. Just search your textbooks in one of these links and you can download a free PDF version of your textbooks! We love to pirate textbooks and save hundreds of dollars. :D
https://b-ok.cc
https://www.pdfdrive.com
http://gen.lib.rus.ec
http://www.gutenberg.org
http://slader.com (for textbook answers)
https://openstax.org/ (FREE textbooks on a variety of subjects groups)
Please share this with your fellow classmates because we love to save $$. Help a friend! This is totally legal. Happy studying!
I don't want to reblog the whole media accessibility post, so here's just the books part:
Books:
Library Genesis: a good all-in-one ebook finder. Has books, magazines, scientific papers, etc. Well organized and able to sort by Author, Genre, etc etc. Almost all books in .epub format
Calibre: Not piracy but a free software for reading said .epub files, and other ebook formats. Good for sorting your books.
Sci-Hub: Research papers, academic books, pdfs, etc. Helpful for collage students.
IT ebook: eBooks about learning programming languages.
Sierra used to be obsessed with the 'Warrior Cats' book series before Total Drama. And before that she was obsessed with horses, and before that she was obsessed with Barney the Dinosaur
gwen got arrested for assault and joined Duncan. when Courtney found out, she got so jealous she murdered Chris,filmed it, sent it to the police to join Gwen and duncan. turns out they were in different sections and Courtney got a life sentence.