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Right now I'm seeing a huge outpouring of support for trans people in the wake of the news that HHS is going to be mandating us out of existence. What I expect to see soon -- and what other people may be seeing already -- is word that this is a "distraction".

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Alexandra Erin The Meadow We Can Build A Snowman
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Hey, if I can be breathtakingly real?

I am not doing well, personally. First holiday season without my mother.

Last year I took December off social media due to burnout and I am thinking of taking a couple weeks off as a break, focusing on my newsletter but ignoring Twitter.
Doing so is going to nuke my income from orbit, but as long as I'm being real: I've been so scattered lately that my income is well down from its normal levels anyway. I think better to seek a clean reset and come back strong than try to limp along.
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Alexandra Erin The Meadow We Can Build A Snowman
@AlexandraErin
One thing I'm interested in about the Ghostbusters: Afterlife is the question of if it's "realistic" that 30 years later, Kids These Days wouldn't know about the almostpocalypse.

Until recently, I would have cried foul. Now I'm less sure?
I don't think we have an actual real-world event that can stand in 1:1 with "the Manhattan Crossrip of 1984", buuut right now today we have people arguing about what a report that came out yesterday, that anyone can read, says.
People who watched the towers fall on 9/11 argued about what they saw. And now there are eighteen year olds walking around who were born after it happened, and older adults who were tiny children at the time.
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Alexandra Erin The Meadow We Can Build A Snowman
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Here's a weird thing to contemplate.

You know how so many people hate the idea of ~*quotas*~? When it's award season and people start tabulating the nominations demographically, somebody pops up and goes, "What, you want there to be quotas?"
And they'll explain - without anyone actually proposing it - that having a certain amount of awards set aside for, say, Black actors or Asian actors would be unfair and insulting because they're fundamentally doing the same job as white actors and so everybody should compete.
So here's where it gets weird: every major acting award I can think of off the top of my head has separate categories for men and women. Which, the way our society recognizes talent, is tantamount to setting aside X many awards per year for women.
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People wonder why I'd want to appear--especially appear naked--on an unscripted documentary series (aka "Reality TV"), when #trans people have had so many negative experiences in the media, our stories given shallow treatments and exploited for dramatic effect. 1/?
But if I'm honest, I wasn't drawn to appearing on @NakedAndAfraid despite the nudity requirement--it was an alluring feature.

I felt, as a trans guy, that stripping down would be a relief, a way to get it over with & just finally say the unsayable, widely and publicly.
So often our bodies are under scrutiny, spoken or unspoken -- whether at work, at the doctor's office, around the family of a love interest, etc.

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Right, so buckle up: this is going to be a long thread about #trans representation in the media, trans responses to said media, and some thoughts on what we're doing wrong and what we could do right.

Ready? Okay.
There are two facts which are staggeringly apparent in the online UK #trans landscape at the moment:

1. The mainstream media is still in a transphobic backlash, and it's been getting nastier and more dangerous every month.
2. In our online communities - twitter and facebook in particular - we are spending WAY more time and attention responding to and magnifying these instances of backash than we are in promoting not only our successes, but even mildly positive or neutral works.
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Jessie Opoien
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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So, straight off the bat, first page of text, the use of #language is . . . well, yeah, see for yourself:

"It is important to remember that transgender is not simply an issue to be debated;" - p5, #Transformed

*sigh*

When such language gets reinforced by insisting...

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@SakuraNoSeirei
So, the other thread I was talking about at the beginning of the week and, sadly not about Vagrant Story or Farscape.

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