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It really do be like that.

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Releasing cockroaches on a transphobic conference sounds like such a romantic date 🥺

Also I've been advised to say to not actually do this despite how fitting it may seem to mix disgusting creatures and cockroaches together, but cockroaches tend to spread diseases and spoil food.

Terrorize responsibly 😊

Also will say once again that this comic is just a funny silly little joke and i don't condone attacking other people 🤗

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Not really sure what to say for this one.  We all know what’s happening in America right now and it’s not even a “put your ear to the ground to hear what’s coming” type of situation, there have been executive orders that specifically target transgender people.

The writing isn’t on the wall, it’s on government documents.

The phone call described in this strip happened a few months ago, before I came out publicly.  As you can imagine, it only made me more fearful of coming out.  If this person who I love and trust so much that they were one of the first folks I came out to over five years ago didn’t understand why what’s happening is so terrifying, why this bigotry needs to be completely shut down immediately, how could the bigots themselves understand?

Part of my position was that there were television ads being run showing transgender folks as these disgusting people, something less than human that are deserving of ridicule and are a drain on the country’s resources and a danger to children.

According to them, my terror of seeing me be advertised as that way was just me being alarmist, that the people that I’m afraid of aren’t going to do anything and that there shouldn’t be any fear of danger.

We’re two weeks in, and already there’s legal action being taken to strip me and people like me of not just their rights, but their humanity.

It’s hard.  On one hand, I do understand their position that I should try to be a source of education, to try to bridge the gap to these people.  I agree not in the sense that it should be my responsibility, but in that it feels like the only practical thing I can do.

On the other hand, what can I possibly do in the face of so much hatred?

I have family members who’ve voted for this.  People who might say they have love in their hearts but voted to label certain people as sub-human. 

I don’t know how they can reconcile that.

I don’t know how I can reconcile with them.  I’m not just disappointed, I’m genuinely frightened.  I don’t want to sound like the world is crashing down around us, but in a way it really is.  Many of the folks who’ve voted this way don’t even realize what they were doing, the rest of them knew and didn’t care.

I don’t know which is worse.

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It's funny how women are called misandrists for refusing to interact with men in their personal lives, creativity (books, music, art, and so on) and in politics, while the vast majority of men have always consumed exclusively male content. absolutely consciously.

they avoid friendships with women. they avoid women's books. they avoid films directed by women. they avoid women in gaming communities. they avoid women everywhere, hiding behind the fact that "it's not masculine!", but continue to be considered just... ordinary people? not anti-feminists, not misogynists, but ordinary people. this is considered the norm.

If for a man avoiding women is a choice, then for women it is always an encroachment on male dominance.

because how dare you not listen to men's music? how dare you intentionally reduce your consumption of content with male characters or written by men? how dare you watch exclusively female videos and trust exclusively female words? there's definitely something wrong with your head! you stupid misandrist and man-hater! go get treated!

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“If a movement declares that a man can define what it means to be a woman based on his feelings, but a woman cannot define being a woman based on her material reality, then it is a movement for the interests of men.”

—Tasia Aránguez

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Honestly just try to shrug off transphobia, not worth your time.

But what if we held hands while we blew up transphobes cars 😳😳😳

In minecraft

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I think it's important to recognise that

Transitioning doesn't have to fix you,

We talk a lot about being miserable before coming out/transitioning and then being so happy once we have but I want to stress that

If that's not how it works for you, nothings wrong with you, not all your problems may be to do with gender dysphoria,

I definitely am happier than I have been since my mum told me I had to start wearing something that covered my chest at the swimming pool when I started developing breast tissue (she tells this to anyone who may even begin to question my transition)

but that's not the only thing going on in my life, so while my quality of life has drastically improved, it's not magically fixed and its not because I was wrong or whatever,

So don't worry if that's how it's working for you, these things happen in stages, and in the end you'll barely notice the time passing between them

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It’s uncanny how similar Trump is acting like Hitler. People are now doing the Nazi salute. They’re drawing the symbol. The KKK was seen in Kentucky asking people to join them. ICE has been ripping families apart. Companies have pulled back Diversity Initiatives. We’re no longer part of WHO and there won’t be any communication from the CDC at least until February 1st. We’re being censored and the news can’t be trusted. Thousands of Americans didn’t know there were protests against Trump yesterday outside the U.S. Quotes from The Handmaid’s Tale and Anne Frank have been compared to what’s going on right now.

According to The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention the U.S. has officially been given a red flag alert for Genocide.

I’m exhausted but I will never stop being angry.

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Gender affirming care for minors banned in the US

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I touched up this old art a little

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in light of Trump's inauguration speech declaring multiple national emergencies that require him to take god-knows-what executive actions immediately, I'd like to remember this chapter of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder:

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Trans women exist within the Madonna-Whore Complex as the epitomical whore, we're only "the best of both worlds" when we're being sexually debased and fetishised, and we are considered to be the worst of both otherwise.

The intensification of our marginalisation comes on the back of the acceleration of this Complex, each positionality is being taken to its logical conclusion, the public and private woman are each being maximalised.

The rise of the modern anti-trans movement is inextricably linked with the emerging popularity of neo-masculinism and its resulting misogyny.

As always, it's all one struggle

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oh my god...

so the first screenshot is trying to look this up on tiktok normally, "donald trump rigged election" and it says that search violates community guidelines.

the second screenshot is looking up the same exact thing, but with a (australian) vpn on. canadian vpn didn't fix it fyi.

THIS is exactly the type of censorship to be looking out for on tiktok. this actually is crazy.

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now that trump has tiktok, twitter, facebook and insta in his pocket, get ready for a massive wave of internet censorship. one of trump's greatest weapons has always been misinformation; it's going to become harder and harder to spread facts and criticism going forward. posts that aren't made invisible will be magically ignored by the algorithm. dissidents will have their accounts deleted and voices erased.

this is a suppression tactic. this is another stage of fascism.

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Biases being broken down on both sides

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the statements "clothes don't have gender" and "clothes can and do invoke gender dysphoria and euphoria for many people" can and should coexist.

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A trans man coming out as a man is never a loss.

I don’t care if he went into a male-dominated field. All fields are cis dominated.

I don’t care if he’s a straight man now. He should be allowed to be himself and happy. He does not owe it to you to be a miserable lesbian for your comfort.

I don’t care if you thought he was hotter before. His happiness is worth the price of your desire. Also you’re wrong and I’m giving him my number.

More trans men is a good thing. More trans men means more closeted trans men are feeling safe to come out. That’s a good thing.