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Yareta (Azorella compacta) in Bolivia (elevation of 14,000 ft.).

This may look like a moss, but it isnt! This is a broad-leafed plant in the carrot family, Apiaceae.

These plants can grow to bve over 3000 years old. This large specimen may be over 1000 years old.

photographs by Mark Dwyer

#i love this plant!!! #wow!!! #yareta

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sometimes u will be the only person fagging it up. sometimes it'll be hard. but u gotta do it. u gotta show all the fags that fagging it up is the way. u must strive to fag it as much as possible. u have a limited time. fag it up and dyke it out

#tay dont look #tay don't look #fag #tranny #queer #i <3 fagging it up at the function

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Shout out to those who have to be carried or dragged around their house because their house isn't accessible to their mobility aids

Shout-out to those who have to crawl and scoot around their house because their house isn't accessible for their mobility aids

Shout out to those who have to use a office chair with wheels around their house because their house isn't accessible to their mobility aids

It's fucking tough having a inaccessible house

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[“Eight months into transitioning as far as I could get from male, I developed a strange interest in power tools and short hair. But I was too scared to say I was butch. I learned otherwise by dating a femme.

We’d met years before in student organizing, but only shared tea after I’d started transition. She was a big bi femme; a broad who fucks who and how she wants. Her mum and dad thought that it would be kind and freeing to raise her as they would a son. She disagreed and out-femmed this attempt. But even though her femininity was, from the start, a rebellion, in queer spaces, it started the process of her erasure; the men she dated finished it. Consigned to the “quiet ally” seat, she was left dating bi-curious women, whose curiosity she offered to satisfy, sans underwear. Her dates declined, remaining bi-curious rather than bi-informed. She remained frustrated.

Dating a tranny—a girlfriend with stubble and a necktie—made her smirk. She clarified my doubts and explained to me that I fuck “like a girl.” She was my anchor in women’s circles where I would not be welcome were she not beside me, calling bullshit. Dancing with her, fisting in washrooms, it felt right, intimate, honest. Together, we were bold. We were femme and butch.

Still, I was scared to call myself “butch.” Wouldn’t that be a contradiction? An Eddie Izzard joke? But she saw the butch and named it. I owe her.

I encounter femmes who shepherd friends and lovers through the FtM spectrum. When they see the butch and smell the trans on me, they discreetly offer a rolodex of gentlemen and genderqueers, friends and exes, to whom I can talk if I, y’know, need to talk. I explain that I am changing the other way. They are happy to hear this, to know that I can honestly be myself right now.

I see how many butches lean on femmes, whether we know them romantically or platonically. I feel like a bulldagger Lois Lane to their Superwomen. Escorting us through everything from washrooms to transition, I wonder and marvel at how femmes save us over and over and what they get in return. Visibility? Help moving boxes? Someone who is not femme who will say, “People see butch and expect male, but I am not. People see you and expect conventional, and you are anything but.”

I wonder what we can do so that they could openly lend their help at dyke gatherings, rather than catching our ears in private.”]

amy fox, from changed sex. grew boobs. started wearing a tie, from persistence: all ways butch and femme edited by Ivan Coyote and zena sharman

#amy fox #butch #trans literature #gender stuff #queer #trans #tay dont look #tay don't look #lesbian literature #writing

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Ending the stigma of drug use will save lives.

#drugs #addiction #harm reduction #tay don't look #tay dont look

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Today I got to see a solar eclipse with my friend and a dinosaur named Captain Slushie.

#jasper's adventures #partial solar eclipse #solar eclipse #sun #moon

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thinking about how to balance

people who because motor or nonverbal nonspeaking communication or otherwise, cannot show how much they understand & want same level education as same age peers

&

people with intellectual disability especially severe profound intellectual disability who can’t learn same level as same age peer & won’t understand those & will get frustrated if made to do that, who need alternative

like both group deserve education & dignity & support & presume competence but their education needs very different

don’t know how meet both population needs without giving too little to first group and give too much to second group

an exaggerated dichotomy maybe but

don’t know answer

people from first group who finally now get access to communication, adamant about give everyone same level education as peers bc they presumed incompetent & given 1+1 drills

which important for many & do not deny

but am worry about pendulum swing opposite direction but equally unhelpful, leave people whose ID is not misdiagnosis behind

neither gets good education right now

#i have a lot to say about this but it'll take me a while to get my words right #but yeah i agree this is a very complex issue and it's difficult to know what the right answer is #even looking at stuff on a case-by-case basis leaves a lot of people struggling #will reblog again later

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The communication bill of rights by Tobii dynavox

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“we have enough awareness of autism we need autism acceptance!!”

ya know. a lot of you autism/autistic advocates. not very aware of all spectrum of autism. so.

#autistic #actually autistic #autism #disabled #autism awareness #autism acceptance

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I don't really care if someone uses the term "autism awareness" instead of "autism acceptance" and I honestly think both are important

a lot of people, including myself in the past, say that people are now aware of autism and we just need acceptance but I disagree.

me and my mom were having a conversation a while back and she was talking about the fact that people know the word "autism" but don't know what autism actually looks like. when my mom was raising me people were very aware that autism existed but would constantly chastise her about how she was being a bad parent when my autism was visible. multiple people suggested that my "behavior problems" could be solved with a belt.

those people knew about autism but they didn't see my autism. my autism was visible but they saw it as "behavior problems" and "defiance" and "disruption" not autism. they didn't know what autism actually entails.

being any level of visibly autistic will put you in this situation even today. people might be aware of autism but not aware enough of autism to know that the way I'm acting is just autism.

we do need autism awareness. people need to know what autism actually looks like. people need to know more than just the word.

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why yes I AM making boop gifs from screen recording

#gif #gifs #boop #moving image

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My boyfriend is 21 today!!! It makes me the happiest person in the entire world. Every single day i wake up and I am so proud and happy and in love with it. Ghost, if you see this I love you more than the whole wide world and I hope you have the best birthday ever. You deserve every happy little silly little thing in the world and then some. I love you <3

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#sight sound and touch #but sight especially #flashing lights or crowds of people or clutter can be very overwhelming #touch is another big one for me. #sometimes just a little bit of accidental touch or a bad texture can send me spiralling #sound is also difficult #people talking over each other or body sounds or breathing and things #the sound of my own footsteps or breathing or heartbeat can be very overwhelming #one of the reasons i struggle with wearing noise cancelling earbuds is that i can hear the feedback of my own body too clearly

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Has anyone made a "30 Days of Autism Acceptance" post yet?

I haven't seen one but want to participate!

#autistic #actually autistic #disabled #autism #autism acceptance #autism awareness #30 days of autism acceptance #questions

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A paw print boop banner!!!

#boop #boop o meter #paw print #paw prints #banner #header #footer #boop! #autistic #actually autistic #jasper

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boop!

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Happy Autism Awareness

and Acceptance Month!!!

#autistic #actually autistic #disabled #actually disabled #autism #autism awareness #autism acceptance