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If you as a leftist can understand that

the Trump administration is using the concept of violence against women to oppress transgender people and strip back civil rights

AND violence against women is a real societal issue that needs to be taken seriously, especially when women's safety and autonomy is directly attacked by the same right wing politicians claiming to care about it to further their agenda

Then you can also understand that

the Trump administration is using the concept of antisemitism to perpetuate oppress activists and strip back freedom of speech

AND antisemitism is a real societal issue that needs to be taken seriously, especially when Jewish safety is directly attacked by the same right wing politicians claiming to care about it to further their agenda

Right? ...Right??

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like, okay, consent does literally just mean agree. which is what enables this little rhetorical trick. because there's all this cultural emphasis on sexual consent, which is just expressed as consent, a lot of phrases whose intended meanings are "rape is bad" can be taken literally to mean "i should get to agree to everything that happens in my vicinity."

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If your privilege relies on you passing 100%, and being completely stealth, and closeted about your trans identity, then it's not really privilege.

It's a restriction.

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selynn lee

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what's a book you read as a teenager that was so magical and personally profound to you it literally changed your life, doesnt matter if the book was actually well written or not. mine's probably the catcher in the rye

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Gender essentialism is still cringe if it is directed against cis people btw. Ive basically had someone say to me that cis people are biologically incapable of understanding less normalized gender identities because "their brains work differently". If anyone has this opinion please come forward now so i can block you thank you. The reason cis people dont understand gender in the same way trans people do is because trans people are naturally more exposed to the discussion about gender because we have to think about it a lot. Cis people, who have never doubted their identity, obviously dont think about it as much, if at all.

Cis people arent inherently more stupid than us, or less capable of talking about gender on a biological level. What would that even look like???

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just so you know i wrote a poem one time that i hated and i was so so so embarrassed about but i had to post it as part of a whole situation with some friends and it got like 3 million likes across my socials and people made zines about it and adapted it to songs

and then i wrote a poem a month ago and i was like "this is my best work yet. it's the most important piece to me i've ever written and sharing it will be self actualizing." my friends didn't even like it.

and the point here is that i talk to so many artists who make something successful and then they're so scared to follow it up and they say "what if the next thing i make sucks?"

it might! that's art babbeeyyyyyy!! so make a third thing!

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she was seriously worried that the city would get rid of the grafitti before she could take a picture with it

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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

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dogs might look like their owners but cat people always have a cat with the same mental illness as them

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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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did you know public libraries are free and beautiful

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overheard these two guys talking and they're like. very obviously cowboys and one of them goes "man when I was young I used to think everyone had horses I didn't even know there were ppl w/o horses" and the other one goes "shows how horseified we are"

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i love having the hubris to go 'sure i'll try that, how hard can it be' about every creative skill under the sun. jack of all trades master of shit fuck but who says you have to be a master??? maybe i want to sew a mediocre plushie and code a janky mod and write a bland song. im having fun. im in my lane. im learning and im thriving.

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I have done the smart thing and test glued a bit of homemade bookcloth to a spare piece of board! I even did two swatches, with different amounts of glue. I have exactly enough of this fabric for the two books I am recovering, and cannot source more because I have no idea what the fuck it even is (found it at a thrift store) so I REFUSE to fuck up with glue seepage again. I will not have it!!!! I am going to be so careful with these!!!!!