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Dandelions have a symbiotic relationship with little kids who make wishes

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help me escape homelessness and live with my lover!

If you can't help me with donations, reblogs are always appreciated!

Also I have hella bad waiting mode anxiety that is made better by knowing what to expect after what I'm waiting for happens, so if anybody wants to tell me how this process will go, I would greatly appreciate it.

Bonus points if you give me some ideas in the notes of mundane things to do with my wife!

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i would like to see the ode pls!

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THE DANDELION ODE

REMEMBER THE FUCKERS FROM CRACKS IN THE PAVEMENT,

WISHWEEDS, SURVIVORS, FIGHTERS AND FLIGHTERS,

BRINGERS OF HAVOC AND COLOR AND HOPE.

REMEMBER THE ONES WHO GREW UP UNWANTED,

CUT DOWN AND DUG UP AND YET BACK EVERY TIME,

OH, THE GARDENER WANTED THEM ALL TO BE LAWN

BUT THESE BASTARDS KNOW WHO THEY ARE.

REMEMBER THEIR TRAVELS,

SNOW IN JULY - ANARCHY THROUGH CONTRADICTION

THEY SAY WEEDS DON’T DREAM AND THEY SAY WE’LL ALL DIE,

BUT THE SEEDS DO NOT LISTEN AND NEITHER WILL I.

LET THE LAWNMOWERS BUZZ AND THE LANDOWNERS CURSE,

AND LET THE TOWN GOSSIP THE SOIL GOT WORSE,

THE FIELD WILL BE YELLOW NEXT SPRING.

Remember the fuckers from cracks in the pavement,

wishweeds, survivors, fighters and flighters,

bringers of havoc and color and hope.

Remember the ones who grew up unwanted,

cut down and dug up and yet back every time,

oh, the gardener wanted them all to be lawn

but these bastards know who they are.

Remember their travels,

snow in july - anarchy through contradiction

they say weeds don’t dream and they say we’ll all die,

but the seeds do not listen and neither will i.

Let the lawnmowers buzz and the landowners curse,

and let the town gossip the soil got worse,

the field will be yellow next spring.

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STOP KOSA(and cie) MASTERPOST 2024

Both KOSA and the Earn It Act bill are dangerous for the future of the Internet.

In a nutshell, KOSA would allow states to sue any websites that host content deemed “harmful” to minors. With such a vague wording, its expected that any NSFW stuff, educational ressources or LGBT content, will immediately be taken down if govts dont approve of it.

Plus, it will be made mandatory to use IDs to confirm your age when going online, to so called “protect kids” but all that will cause is a huge potential data breach and endanger more kids.

As for the Earn It Act bill, it would allow the governement to spy and filter out anything they dont like in private dms for any users,as well as blowing a hole into Section 230 : The thing that prevent websites from being directly liable in case a user post something illegal,instead of the user being punished directly. The comics I made about KOSA and Earn It Act are old but sadly still relevant. All the info you need are in this post.

•KOSA Comic •Earn It Act comic

•KOSA update : Call in day + script ! (Made the April 11, 2024)

•When contacting your reps, you may also add that they should support better bills that will make kids (and anyone) safer by focusing on data privacy legislations instead of KOSA • Contact Congress through here https://www.stopkosa.com/ • House Energy and Commerce are the best to contact for the hearing of 17th April 2024 https://energycommerce.house.gov/representatives • Find all your Congresspeople here http://badinternetbills.com/

• Find your House representative here https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative •Never forget to make tweets, posts, tiktoks, or use any social media you can think of to talk about this : Spreading the word will be crucial. As always, if you wish to help us fight against bad inetrnet bills,and have the latest infos about KOSA, consider joining our Discord server (if not, please just share it around) • https://discord.gg/pwTSXZMxnH

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Dandelions c:

agree!

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heres to the other dandelions out there

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heres to the other dandelions out there

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The 2023 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 10th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 9th May 2023.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Avery at Tradescantia Hub

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And of course, when they do that, the law will (in far, far too many places thanks to trans panic laws) take their side.

As someone who's seen both sides of this (a perisex-passing transmasc, somehow, despite my chin hairs being very clear evidence of higher testosterone, who is intersex enough to feel personally the effects of these discussions), the shit we're doing is allowing them to divide and conquer.

It is not revolutionary to turn hate on your own just because you don't think they get enough of it already. It's quite the opposite, actually. Fuck respectability politics, fuck the right wing, and stop doing their damn work for them by driving people apart.

We do this together or not at all. Because you are ours and we are yours, whether you like it or not. You are just as bad as one of us to all of them. And that is even more true in general or when it comes to any and all good faith identities that you push out.

Get your act together and stop tearing us apart. Find a non-anonymous way to talk to real queer humans, face to face, whatever you need to be reminded that yes, they exist, and no, it's not a threat.

You're going to disagree on certain things, but you need to be able to distinguish between family that's a bad ally on certain topics and genuinely unsafe people. Some differences can't be set aside and I understand that.

But if the woman-hating Nazis can ally themselves with FARTs, then we need to be able to work together on relevant fights now with people that we might need to then work against later.

There are queer people in this place with me who have differing views on politics, but I recognize that in queerness, they are my allies at minimum, and my family by default. I recognize that, despite us not being a homogeneous demographic, we absolutely must stick together to make it through this.

Intersex people are, at minimum, allies to and cousins of queer people, if not queer themselves. Include us in your activism. Fight for us and fight for each other, not against. I will say it again and again either until it no longer needs to be said or until the day I die, whichever comes first.

Stick together, because if they drive us apart, they will pick us off one by one by one until the last of you have nobody left to protect you. Do you really think they'll just leave you be? They're not hand sanitizer, they're Nazis. The goal is eradication and they will not stop until they have reached it or have been stopped.

Every day I get closer and closer to no longer identifying as trans, and simply being a genderless intersex person. Because the average trans perisex person is just as fucking intersexist as the average cis perisex person, and I'm so fucking tired of it.

Y'all try to split hairs and decide which experiences are "trans man experiences" and which experiences are "trans women experiences," and you try to cram nonbinary people into "transmasc or transfemme," and you insist on splitting trans people into categories based on their birth assignment, and you fucking wonder why you're not making headway in any actual gender liberation.

Assholes.

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okay let’s try again

intersex people!! my fellow members of the intersex gang!

please reblog this version so I can get a decent sample size! thanks!

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If you’re worried about child genital mutilation- don’t focus on trans kids. They aren’t having surgery on their genitals. You know which infants, toddlers, and children are having genital surgery? Intersex children born with “abnormal” genitalia. If you’re against genital surgery on a child you should be against that too.

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hello, intersex person here! sorry about the shithead(s) in your askbox. most intersex advocacy actually focuses on the demedicalization of intersexuality, so them insisting that intersexuality is a medical condition is very suspect.

in fact, it's the medicalization of intersex bodies that results in IGM! the doctors that perform IGM do it to force people that fall outside of their view of what is acceptable and real into antiquated boxes, which sounds hella bioessentialist and gender essentialist to me - some core beliefs of terfs and transphobes.

if they were to bring up issues with how trans people talk about intersex people, i would think that they'd mention the fact that many trans people will claim that nobody is doing surgery on or medicating children, when in actuality they should be raising awareness that the only doctors mutilating literal infants are the people that terfs/transphobes are, at bare minimum, hella buddy-buddy with, if not outright the same people.

much to think about! anyways, you're hella sexy and cool and cringe culture only lives for people like the idiots in your askbox. take care and have a wonderful evening!

<3 <3 <3 <3 Much to think about indeed, Anon, you're appreciated

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im just wondering, what is the argument against pcos being considered intersex? its commonality? the fact some people with pcos dont consider themselves to be intersex? because neither are valid arguments as to why pcos can never be considered intersex, theyre just personal qualms.

if the argument is "pcos only shows signs in puberty," i think those people need to learn about more intersex variations. NCAH is literally required to only start showing signs at puberty but it is inarguably an intersex variation.

is the only difference that pcos affects about 10% of women? who cares. not every person with pcos has hyperandrogenism and not every person with hyperandrogenism is going to identify as intersex.

theyre not ~taking our resources~, because firstly what intersex resources ARE there? hormones? i got news for you, pcos is treated with hormones just like most other intersex variations that cause hormonal imbalance.

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if you need help writing an intersex character:

My form of intersexuality is PCOS with high levels of androgens, and I'm fairly dyadic-passing, so I can't speak for all intersex people. If you have any questions about intersexuality, if you want to write an intersex character, hell, even if you're just curious: feel free to throw something at the askbox, feel free to reblog with whatever, feel free to comment.

Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert on intersexuality. I'm simply offering help with understanding general intersexuality and specifically my condition. For general resources (not writing stuff), @intersex-support is your best bet.

Thank you to @terminalerror for pointing that out to me, that's my bad! I'm glad you caught that before this got reblogged. As terminalerror said in the replies, intersex-support is by intersex people, for intersex people, so don't go asking them for writing advice. That being said, their resources page has lots of information on intersexuality, so feel free to browse!

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are you by any chance aware of any resources i could use to help me accurately and inoffensively write intersex characters?

I don't from the top of my head.

Anyone?

If I find anything I will add it here.

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you dont owe anyone your gender. you dont have to be perfectly androgenous to be nonbinary. you dont have to have a beard to present as a man. you dont have to wear makeup as a girl. you express yourself and your gender however the heck you please and if anyone says you owe it to them to be “normal”, theyre not worth your time

this is to my girls with awesome beards they love

my guys who spend an hour before school on makeup

my nonbinary siblings who wear skirts when they skateboard

the drag kings who dont use a binder and the drag queens who dont stuff their chests

your gender expression is yours and nobody gets to decide that for you

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To anyone using "basic biology" as an argument:

There's a difference between basic and incorrect. The most basic of biology teaches that there are two sexes, and even then, the concept of intersex people is still only a high-school class topic - and that's if you don't already know an intersex person (you probably do - we're more common than you might think, although they might not even know that they're intersex either).

It does not teach that there are ONLY two sexes, nor does it teach that sex and gender are inherently the same.

If you ever learned biology past the assumptions you can make on what you think you know, you would understand that.

Only biology based on outdated, archaic, and incorrect views/information teaches your pseudo-scientific shit.

yes i know this is tumblr and most of us aren't stupid enough to be transphobic based on this despite sharing like 3 braincells

i know posts get passed on to other sites so im making this anyways