may all of you remember this pride month that the fight is not over. we are still fighting against a world that would rather see us dead than out and proud in their streets. so protest peacefully, protest violently. protest anyway that u can just dont be silent this month or ever. protect trans' lives and queer lives with ur own. we must show them now more than ever that they will not silence us, that they cannot break us apart. fight this pride and remember who our enemies are. love will win because it always does
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five years ago i checked in to rehab and stayed for thirty days, at the end of which i emerged 30 days sober and politically radicalized. i had made fast friends with the other addicts there and several of them had been kicked out because of their insurance; maybe they had none, or their plan wouldn't cover rehab, or any number of reasons.
i had no idea what to do except that i was furious with the american healthcare system and for the first time in years i could care about something other than getting wasted. i searched online to see what sort of politics wanting universal healthcare was, and i wound up in the PSL. They had a twitter, so i made a twitter.
Once I had the account, i followed some of the people they retweeted: anti-racist activists, soup kitchens, and that sort of thing. I followed more and more generally-left sort of accounts until i realized my timeline was composed, essentially, of transgender people and their hangers-on (i had long since given up on the political discourse one can find on twitter). One of those accounts was you.
I went in to my therapist, a kindly older man who had helped me very much in my first year of sobriety to reconcile my own budding spirituality (I was, and am, a devoted atheist -- but the program of Alcoholics Anonymous demands some amount of spiritual belief) with the violence I was becoming more and more aware of as I engaged more in political work.
I suggested maybe the reason I identified so much with trans people was that I was transgender. He suggested that I should delete twitter.
I've now been on estrogen for approximately four years. I've been sober, on and off, for about five -- with the last three being back to back. I've finally re-entered the world of social media, and lo and behold -- it's you again.
I'm not sure you even did anything in particular, but it's fun that your account, isawken, has appeared to me both in the prelude of my transition and now in its full swing.
oh beloved anon, i can't even begin to express how warm this made my heart. you've had such a journey, and it makes me so happy to hear how you've fought and persevered and grown. i love meaningless synchronicities, weird and fun coincidences that could but probably don't have any real deeper purpose to them, and i am genuinely honored to be one of yours :o)
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Heyo :)) reminder that I have an INPRNT now! A bunch of stuff is already up there, and if y’all ever want me to add anything to it just let me know <3
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thinking about how i can write characters as queer.... literally no one can stop me im literally writing MtF!Lily Evans rn im not even kidding
like..... agender he/they sirius ?? fuck yeah
i know this one is gonna go over the heads of all my followers bc no one is here for starkid content but like, the ENTIRE dikrat family i can write as trans bc i want to and literally no one is gonna stop me
i can write fics and make the characters as queer as possible and ill love it <3
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