I'm going to throw a stone at a hornet's nest and say that the TERFs who like to claim Alison Bechdel as one of their own lack basic reading comprehension鈥攁nd worse still, they lack shame.
There's an actual, honest-to-goodness, authentic, genuine strip of Dykes to Watch Out For in which Mo gets called out for her transphobia when she whines about sharing a restroom with a trans woman. Moreover, she then becomes the victim of bathroom policing herself, because butch women don't fit the cis-hetero-normative mold. It's all right there in the text, plain as day.
Just because Bechdel is a butch lesbian, and prefers that identity over "trans man" or "nonbinary," doesn't mean that she rejects the theory and rhetoric that produced those labels. That's child logic.
Cherry-picking her work to support their bigotry, just so they can claim lineage from a distinguished queer writer, is not only stupid and easily debunked, but it's deeply insulting. It betrays how little TERFs actually care about LGBTQ rights, feminism, or literature.
Any so-called "radfems" interacting with this post will be blocked鈥攖hereby cleaning up the "Alison Bechdel" tag for my browsing, so I don't have to wade through a bunch of bigotry every time I scroll through it. Thank you in advance. 鉂わ笍
if you are depressed and feel life has no meaning / you feel like you have no identity and life is overwhelming - check if you have anchor points.
what are anchor points? they are what make us human, and allow us to perceive time and self. humans are not, alone, able to identify ourselves without building upon our surroundings and interactions. we are our reflection, not just ourselves. so, anchor points are any sort of routine that allows you to look forward to something and keep track of time. it is why stress comes with change and lack of schedule.
anchor points can be as little as keeping a calendar, doing a weekly thing for a certain day of the week, talking to people on certain days, any ritual of some sort to identify what day is which and give it some sort of meaning and routine.
if you feel like you were stable before a huge change that ruined your routine or sense of self, you are most likely lacking anchor points and struggling to look forward to things because of the uncertainty. You may become obsessed with finding things to occupy yourself in fear of nothing sticking and giving you the ongoing feeling of existing and having meaning to exist.
you do matter, you do exist, you never changed. you just need to regain your grasp of time and work your way back into routine. we are herd animals, always ready to find a buffalo.
My friend Mona has asked me to share her story with you all.
Here's the link to the evacuation gofundme. They're very close to their goal. They legitimately only have less than 10k USD left to go before all 9 of them can evacuate.