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Sep 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Today is #OrangeShirtDay, and even though I am not in Canada, I want to take a moment to acknowledge how, as a white person in North America, I have benefitted from genocide. Today should be a day of solemn reflection and reparations on the parts of those like me.
For today, I plan to boost as many Indigenous need posts and fundraisers as possible. Please, if you are able, donate and boost these as well. As always, a great place to do reparations is to look at the tag "SettlerSaturday" here on twitter. Need posts will be linked below.

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Sep 27
This is an EMERGENCY out of Oklahoma right now. We NEED everyone in Oklahoma to contact their representatives about HB1007, a bill that threatens to deny funding for CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS unless gender affirming medical care is no longer practiced at OU.
Here is a joint statement from Freedom Oklahoma and ACLU Oklahoma on the issue: acluok.org/en/press-relea…
IF YOU LIVE IN OKLAHOMA, please follow this link to take action as well as contacting your representatives about this gross manipulation of political power.
secure.everyaction.com/aldyzMTQJkWzv7…
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Sep 3
The lack of outcry from general trans twitter and queer twitter at large over the violent murder of a trans man defending lesbians IS anti-transmasculinity.
Invisibility doesn't happen by accident, it happens by apathy.
This happens every time a horrific crime is committed against a transmasc, and transmasculine people NOTICE. We notice how you devalue our lives. We notice how you look the other way.
I am not interested in any conversation seeking to compare whether transfems or transmascs "have it worse". I am not interested in oppression Olympics.
But this community is LONG overdue for a reckoning about how we devalue transmasculine lives and experiences.
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Aug 31
In another lifetime, I would be a water scientist. It's what I'm trained in.
As someone who studied water inequalities, please know that the situation in Jackson, Mississippi, is not going to be alone for long.
The drinking water and sewage infrastructure in much of the United States is crumbling. As with all environmental disasters, racism means that people of color, especially Black people, will be abandoned by institutions, funding networks, and relief efforts.
As climate change worsens, droughts and flooding are both likely to get dramatically worse, both decreasing access to clean water.
Water tables are drying up. Rainfall is becoming more unpredictable and dramatic.
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Aug 26
This is a really important point because scientifically, life doesn't "begin" at any point in pregnancy. What discussions about when life begins are trying to capture is when a fetus can be considered to have a soul, in a very Christian sense.
Abortion, which is a form of healthcare, being banned at all is evidentiary that the Christian mindset of a soul entering the body to grant that body the legitimacy of being considered human is being utilized to legislate real lives and livelihoods. That should scare you.
There are countless examples in the past and present where those perceived to either not have a Christian soul or perceived to have tarnished their Christian soul are perceived as less human, and thus undeserving of the protections of society at large.
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Aug 25
The scientific consensus, the bulk of scientific evidence, and the majority of scientists confirm that trans people are real, that gender-affirming care is effective, and that trans people deserve access to such care. This is becoming less and less deniable as more data comes out
An interesting (and chilling) response by anti-trans activists is to pivot from saying the science is not settled to saying that the science is biased by the "trans lobby". The new narrative is that a secretive group is manipulating the science to suit their narrative.
This kind of misinformation is deeply concerning and deeply conspiratorial, but it also shows us something important, which is that our enemies are perfectly happy to move the goalposts. While good science is good, it will not convince those who dedicate their lives to bigotry.
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Aug 21
Tw CSA

The Holden Caulfield discourse is really interesting to observe as a CSA survivor, because so much of what's chalked up to Holden being "immature" or "annoying" is very clearly him struggling with trauma with little or no support as a teenager.
Salinger being an abuser himself is an entire other conversation (and something I learned today, unfortunately).

I don't talk about my PTSD or CSA very often here, but I viscerally remember being a teenager and reading Catcher in the Rye and feeling overwhelmingly less alone.
I saw a lot of my own confusion, aimlessness, and despair reflected in Holden Caulfield in a way I'd never experienced before as a young person. I also saw a lot of people's reactions to my struggles with my trauma parallel the reactions they had to Holden.
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