I'm 24, and uncomfortable being followed by minors.
the meme has been beaten out but it is oldest lore and they forget it at a cost
I am a trans woman, and I use she pronouns. Please tag anything on my blacklist '#madison don't look'
My name is Tamarind and my partner Jack and I are trying to find stability in our lives. Im unable to work due to disability and Jack has no legal documents making it impossible for them to get a job at the moment. We are two queer homeless PoC trying to live our lives and have a home/framework for community services and organizing. Your donations will enable us survive and get on our feet so we can help others in kind. Please donate whatever you are able, we appreciate every bit. Thank you.
please help them out or spread this around if you’re able!
full disclosure: I don’t think a system exists in the world that could meaningfully be called aphobia, and I think ‘the search for aphobia’ has seriously warped the way we talk about how people relate in different ways to sex and romance (and, in particular, why people relate to those things in different ways) in a way that does no-one any favors:
not gay people who don’t identify as a-spec (despite very possibly sharing many of the experiences that lead other gay people to identify as a-spec, because heterosexist trauma means that gay people often are alienated from sex or romance in ways they struggle to explain);
not a-spec people who aren’t gay;
and least of all gay a-spec people.
that said,
I’m reacting way less to the word ‘aphobic’ than I am to the suggestion that there might be two distinct systems of oppression called biphobia and panphobia, can you fucking imagine
not to step in the discourse but i think there’s a big fucken difference between “being in fandom” (past a certain age) and “interacting with mostly kids in fandom and not setting any boundaries whatsoever because you think thats someone else’s problem.”
Dr James Barry, the first doctor to perform a successful C section wherein both mother and child survived, was a huge champion of handwashing at a time when most doctors didn’t wash their hands. For this reason, many of the chilldbirths he delivered resulted in healthier babies and mothers. He was also a gay trans man, who specifically wrote that upon his death he wished for his body to be taken in its nightshirt, wrapped in his sheets as a shroud, and placed into the coffin so that nobody would see his body. His wishes were not respected, and as a result he was outed at his death.