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Call trans people by their correct pronouns. Yes even if they’re the worst person ever. 

Because being a bad person doesn’t make them not their gender. And when you misgender bad trans people you tell ALL trans people that you think we have to earn our pronouns through good behaviour in a way that cis people don’t have to. 

When cis people do awful things that doesn’t suddenly make them not their gender. You don’t call a man rapist “she” or a woman murderer “he” So why should it be different for trans people unless you think our genders are less real? And you hurt all of us through that.

My pronouns are not conditional. I don’t have to earn them through good behaviour. You’re not doing me a favour by using them for me. It’s just basic human decency.

Misgendering a bad trans person is disrespecting all trans people because you are showing us that you think our genders are less real than cis people’s genders and that you only call us our correct pronouns as a “reward.” 

Use the correct pronouns. No matter what the person has done. 

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I’m so ready for Halloween so I drew my cat 🎃

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8/31/19 Lake Linden, MI

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Ice-Trapped Rocks, Calumet Water Works

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Partridge, Somewhere in the Keweenaw.

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Lake Linden, MI

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Lake Linden, MI

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Lake Linden, MI

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Lake Linden, MI

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Lake Superior, or The Mother

Marching up and down the coast of the mother Feverishly drinking up the swells as they beat the shore

Like I’ve finally found the Fountain, Or some other healing cure.

I need the crashing to sleep And the wind to breathe– I need her very blue to give my eyes color.

These undulating waters Give me life, Like the rise and fall of my chest Or the beating of my copper heart

I’m not home Until I smell the frigid air Or feel the tranquil numbness Of going under.

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Little Presque Isle, Marquette, MI

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White City, MI

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Black Rocks, Marquette, MI.

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Cliff Mine, MI

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Twin Lakes, MI.

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Marquette, MI