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Sami Schalk 🏳️‍🌈
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Sometimes therapy feels like ripping out my insides, slicing them up, rearranging them, & putting them back. I know I am better, braver for it but damn it’s a lot. My therapist gives me homework & my type A overachiever ass meets every request even when it makes me heave.
Tonight I talked to a loved one about something that deeply hurt me three years ago in an attempt to move forward in our relationship. It was so fucking hard but opened up something new for us after years of our relationship dying off.
Here’s to personal growth, authenticity, & bravery, friends, no matter how exhausting.
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Sami Schalk 🏳️‍🌈
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Why do monosexual people (in my experience particularly cis het men) ask pan/queer/bi people which gender they prefer? Men keep asking me this on dating sites. I truly don’t understand what they are trying to uncover with this question.
If I say men, does that make them feel more secure? If I say women, does that make them feel like they have to work harder or do they feel special to be a man dating a woman who prefers women? And what if I said I prefer non-binary folks? Would they even get it?
I think this question baffles me too bc I’ve had more sex w/ men, but more sustained intimate relationships w/ women & prefer the company of women & non-binary ppl socially. So are folks asking about a sexual, social, or romantic gender preference? Do they know the difference?
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Sami Schalk 🏳️‍🌈
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On a daytime coffee date, a man told me about how he cured himself of epilepsy by using The Secret™️. At the end of the date he asked where I lived & I said, half jokingly “don’t be a stalker.” He replied “When you say that you’re telling the universe you want a stalker.” 😳😳😳
I walked the opposite direction of my house to a well-lit public park where I called a friend and sat for a while until I was sure he wasn’t following me. He texted me every day for two weeks after.
This is all to say: worst dates for women often mean harassment & violence rather than funny stories. #partypooper #MeToo #feministkilljoy
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Sami Schalk 🏳️‍🌈
@DrSamiSchalk
Don’t talk about #Stonewall50 if you’re not going to support trans ppl.
Don’t celebrate #Stonewall if you’re not going to fight for queer & trans ppl of color.
Don’t claim OUR history if you don’t intend to continue to struggle for freedom & justice for ALL queer & trans folks.
This means supporting sex workers.
This means fighting for disability justice.
This means condemning the prison industrial complex.
This means recognizing cis privilege.
This means no fucking cops & corporations at #Pride.
This means not being content until ALL OF US can live our lives free from racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, classist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamaphobic violence in a nation that provides the food, housing, education, & healthcare we need to thrive.
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Chris Arnade
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If goal of that NYT's op-ed was to channel Obama to Trump voters, I am not sure where the writer got his understanding of "what those want" from

In working on my book on addiction/poverty I spent a lot of time in counties that flipped from Obama to Trump (some featured in book)
Those counties are more diverse than most imagine (Alexander county IL for instance is 35% black & where Cairo is. Robeson county NC is very diverse).

What they do have in common is low percentage of College graduates. Or in language of my book they are back-row
I ended up visiting them & talking to people there NOT because of politics, but because of addiction. Which tells you a lot about them. Many of them are counties that have been "left-behind" or haven't grown.

If they are seen by the elites it is usually as problematic.
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@PeopleValues @iseult @andykturner Thanks. I'll look into it. I've actually found quite a bit of stuff just scouring the #ACEs hashtag, and following links from there. I have my work cut out for me!
@PeopleValues @iseult @andykturner BTW something I've become aware of recently since looking into #Aces & other trauma/recovery articles & books is how Twitter keeps me up to date on stuff I'd know nothing about since I'm out of academia & any form of social work [it would be volunteer or unofficially w/students].
@PeopleValues @iseult @andykturner I would be SO out of the loop & probably making uninformed comments to traumatized friends [tho not as bad...something happens when you experience it yourself]. And how sad it is that my big brother [& the rest of my family pretending I don't exist] didn't know about any of this.
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I've seen the "10 RPGs that most influenced you" thing floating around. Here is a stab at it for me.

Dungeons & Dragons
Pathfinder
Marvel Super Heroes
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Ghostbusters
Monster of the Week
Fate
Edge of the Empire
Mutants and Masterminds
7th Sea 2nd Edition
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I also don't lump Pathfinder in there because despite being a similar rules base, I learned completely different things from how the game was supported.
Standard disclaimer--I tried to pick the top ten, but I've definitely been influenced by more games than this. Sometimes, in retrospect, but there have definitely been more than these 10 that had an impact.
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