Ruth (aka Red), 32, she/her. English by birth, Scottish by choice. Everything fine to reblog unless otherwise stated. I don't reliably tag triggers or spoilers because I forget, so if that's an issue for you, be careful/avoid. Bi, cis, VERY white, sorta disabled, polyamorous, illustrator (art @ongoingart), Quaker, lifelong dork. My first word was 'Zaphod'. According to my dear friend Kofi, "a notable wit and raconteur." Probably NOT an octopus, several cats and a large snake in a human suit, but it's best not to check.
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It really fucking is all misogyny isn't it
Every fucking thread of transphobia goes back to a fundamental need to cement completely immutable sex categories so cis men can assert themselves as superior on some level
Trans women are seen as perverse degradations of the male ideal, people who "chose" womanhood, who are read as women for persecution but not for protection, who are sexualized and assaulted the same as any woman. "Choosing" womanhood is so unthinkable in our misogynist society that brains scramble to think of why anyone would do it, and every trans woman is living proof that womanhood is empowering
Trans men aren't allowed in the club, because if masculinity can be "earned" instead of granted, it implies that men aren't intrinsically superior but made and maintained, and that someone who could have been a good little baby maker housewife realizes that that's not the fate they want
It's so fucking like. Basic shit. 101. How is it difficult. I'm sorry but I just. Fuck. How is this hard.
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it has been Too Goddamn Hot today and to be wholly clear I DID go to jiu jitsu and I DID lose a match because we were both so lubed up with sweat that trying to get my partner into an arm lock was like wrestling an eel. s l i c k.
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It’s 3.9°C at 9:43am. Please reblog and share in the tags what the temperature is right now sr your location
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I miss Otis a lot :((((((
#red said#sometimes i just get hit with it. i miss his face i miss how he smelled i miss how he liked to dig#i miss how much he likes people i miss that he was there when i got home miserable and needed to hold a friend#every night when i went to bed i said goodnight buddy i love you and i still automatically do it sometimes even though it's been months
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also maybe this has changed as lesbianism has got more mainstream scripts attached but this just does not reflect my experience

I've seen a lot of both frenetic ecstatic transporting and also a solid amount of hostile indifference among dykes if I'm quite honest
Struggling here with a very 1949-straight-woman physiological conception of lesbianism. I was with you up to here Simone but we're really existing in very different contexts when it comes to deciding, hem hem, what causes otherwise ✨normal✨ women to make the Choice of Homosexuality
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Struggling here with a very 1949-straight-woman physiological conception of lesbianism. I was with you up to here Simone but we're really existing in very different contexts when it comes to deciding, hem hem, what causes otherwise ✨normal✨ women to make the Choice of Homosexuality
#red said#to be clear i think for her time and place she's taking a progressive position#she recognises and explores a wide variety of flavours of lesbianism and i think there's a lot that's fair and accurate in that#but at the same time. the assumption is still that homosexuality is a psychological deviance which needs to be explained as a neurosis#the second sex
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hello I'm in the bathroom trying to calm down because I've spent an hour being talked over by someone in my team about our intranet setup which is Literally Nothing To Do With Her Job Any More.
and she is being so fucking dense about the idea that if the systems set up for lockdown aren't being used any more and are creating clutter, we don't necessarily need to Convince People To Engage With Them we could just. Rethink whether we need them or whether that need can be met in a less cluttery way.
#red said#shut UP SHUT UP it was meant to be a 30 minute chat and we're well past the hour mark#and i don't think this actually answers IT's questions!!!!!
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#for me as someone raised in the country and living in the city they're mostly flip sides of the same skills.#eg in the country you need to be able to read and respond to everyone you meet. in the city you need to make it Not Your Problem
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so per Glastonbury we're all agreed that Death Death to the IDF is the new hit chant for future protests, right?
#red said#love bob vylan fr#although. i mean. uk media pretending their biggest crime is calling for death to the idf#and not the sheer amount of songs where they sound like if Jamie Oliver made grime. like i get that at least one of them is vegan but#have never fully got on board with the degree to which their music positions junk food as equivalent to crack#like look i don't know these guys. but when you make like 20 songs about how people should stop eating chips#i start thinking you're really annoying to be around at parties if we're being 100% real#anyway that's MY beef with bob vylan. all things considered though they're pretty fucking rad
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THIS IS LITERALLY ANOTHER VERSION OF HOW THE TORIES DROVE THE NHS INTO THE GROUND ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
#NHS is devolved so feel like i will get bupkiss from my mp if i write to him about this#i probably still will but if you're in England...
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Trans women are women, Indian court rules

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has issued a landmark ruling affirming that transgender women are legally recognized as women in India, irrespective of reproductive ability.
Justice Venkata Jyothirmai Pratapa dismissed the notion that womanhood is defined solely by the ability to bear children, calling it unconstitutional and contrary to fundamental rights.
The case involved a dowry harassment complaint filed by Pokala Shabana, a transgender woman, against her partner and his family.
Although the court ultimately dismissed the case due to insufficient evidence, it firmly established that trans women have the right to protections under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which addresses cruelty by a husband or his relatives.
The decision builds on the Supreme Court’s 2014 recognition of a “third gender” and strengthens protections for trans women against domestic violence.
See Blade for more: Indian court rules a transgender woman is a woman
Photo of Prithika Yashini: India's first transgender police officer
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June 14, 2025 - Palestine Action raided and destroyed the inside of Permoid Industries Ltd. The intervention came ahead of a planned shipment of ammunition boxes from the Durham factory to an Elbit Systems weapons plant in Israel. [video]
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WE WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER. GIVE HER TO ME.

I'm suffering cause there's this place that I've been obsessed with for years. it's called Гастроном Ахтамар, it is an old police station opposite the Palace in town which in the 80s got took over by an order of Armenian monks called the Monastery of the Holy Cross of Aghtamar in Exile, who were pushed out of the island of Aghtamar in 1917 in the Armenian Genocide. for decades it was an Armenian "restaurant" but all accounts of the restaurant describe basically being met at the door and invited to eat with the brothers in a refectory. apparently for the last decade or so it's no longer been active as that but the brothers have used it to store clothes for charity efforts in Armenia.
anyway it went up for sale this week. it consists of the station, a pumphouse and an orchard up to the railway line, and I want it. I want it so badly. somebody give me half a million pounds with which to bid on the Гастроном Ахтамар I DESERVE IT I WILL TURN IT INTO A DYKE BAR AND COMMUNITY SPACE FROM WHICH WE CAN YELL OBSCENITIES AT THE KING AND HIS BOOTLICKERS. IT WOULD BE SO GOOD. I'M LOOKING FOR A £750K INVESTMENT TO BUY AND CONVERT THE BUILDING. GIVE IT TO ME.
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