JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.
Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.
However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.
But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.
It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.
We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something
A lot of brewskis have noticed my slow down these last few months and this is the major reason for it. Yes, a person at my work has been following me at the beginnings of my shifts and has not gotten any repercussion. I don't feel safe anymore. My partner and I are moving, but even still we don't feel comfortable with me working at that place, however it's difficult as I don't have a college degree and this place pays more than most jobs around here.
We have some plans in place, but I'm financially struggling. I hate to do this, but I created a ko-fi to help with relocation and to help stifle some of the burden of quitting this job. All the money would go towards things like rent, groceries, and car payments. I do have a Patreon, but it isn't bringing in enough to help with this issue and I'm debating about deleting it due to me not being able to keep up with things over there.
Anything helps, but don't donate if you can't---reading this and sharing it will be a massive help still <3
This art was created by Shay and KC. Both are self portraits in their own way. Both are filled with emotions relevant to their creators. We wanted to share them with you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for existing.
My friend, @koalaphoenix, does struggle sometimes, and that's okay, because @tresenellaart, is there to help her. I just wish I knew why Gem and @prettiestplatypus, are glaring at me so hard for. Probably nothing.
fr though, Christi. We adore you, we're not going anywhere. just uh.. Hope the headache after that fall wasn't too much.
Tress' animated gifs are posted with permission ♥
Captions:
Panel 2
Gem: "Oh my gosh, is she okay?"
Lari: "I think she's just unconcious."
Panel 3
Lari: "Gosh, Gem! What were you thinking? You can't just throw people like that!"
Gem: "Excuse you?"
Panel 5
Lari: "I uh... I guess we'd better go down and check on her, right?"
New draw, including a version where I messed with line weight a little and the version with the notes i doodled in the margins while trying to figure out how teeth work
Ok so based on the fact that Matt now appears to be randomly sharing videos made by transphobes on his account it looks like his takeaway from this whole situation was not "wow I really hurt my trans users, I need to do better" but instead "wow, trans people are so mean to me a self proclaimed ally for no reason that I can think of. Time to ally myself with transphobes because they are so much nicer to me".
Things are about to get so much worse on this site, especailly when his holiday ends aren't they? Here's hoping bluesky pans out because it's looking like tumblr is about to get a whole lot worse for trans people than it already was.
Musk facing no consequences for his actions at twitter really has given every social media CEO the confidence to just drop the fake support and go full mask off transphobe huh?