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Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 @cmclymer
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This weekend at a party I got: "So, how long did you identify as an openly gay man before coming out as a transgender woman?"

We were not discussing either gender identity or sexual orientation, nor my sexual history.
There was then defensiveness when I calmly explained why sexual orientation and gender identity are two different things.
Anyway, yes to what @MarcieBianco said: could you not?
This weekend, I thought to myself about all the shitty interactions I have as a trans person that I will never talk or write about. Because that's all I would ever do. It's the art of picking your battles while somersaulting through a minefield.
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Every rational adult who's from the south knows the only generic name for any carbonated, sugary beverage--regardless of brand--is "coke".
"Hey, can you grab me a coke?"

"What kind?"

"Dr. Pepper"

"Got it."
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If you had told me a plot point of a movie was the villain attempting to ruin the career of an elected official by showing a video of them quite capably recreating the dance from “The Breakfast Club” in college, I’d have assumed it was some really bad Disney Channel flick.
Like... a kids movie where the villain is written like a 2x4 plank to the head in crayola.
The end of the movie is a big musical number and features Ally Sheedy—whom the producers have ironically cast as the villain in a wink to adult viewers—experiencing a redemption arc and leading the cast in a group dance.
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I can honestly say this has been the most productive year of my life, by far, and I'm really proud of that. I wrote a *lot* of things, but here are three things I wrote for which I'm most proud. (very short thread)
In April, I had this exchange with some transphobic religious folks, and the moment became something that has meant a lot to me.

In August, I got upset over a lot of the ageism I've seen seeing toward older folks, so I wrote this.

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10 THINGS MEN CAN DO TO PREVENT GENDER VIOLENCE @threadreaderapp 1. Approach sexual harassment & forms of #gender #violence as a MEN’S issue involving men of all ages & socioeconomic, racial/ ethnic backgrounds. View men not only as possible offenders, but as empowered bystanders
2. DON’T REMAIN SILENT
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this pride month, let's stop mythologizing about who threw the first brick/punch/moltov cocktail at the stonewall inn in 1969 because marsha p johnson, sylvia rivera AND stormé delarverie have all denied being the initial catalyst for the uprising
marsha p johnson denied being the "first" to fight back that night in 1987, saying she arrived at 2am when "the riots had already started"

source: makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episod…
sylvia rivera said in 2001: "I have been given the credit for throwing the first Molotov cocktail by many historians but I always like to correct it; I threw the second one, I did not throw the first one!"

source: advocate.com/commentary/201…
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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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“All servants not being Christians, imported into this colony by shipping, shall be slaves for their lives."

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