The Ever-Honest Lying

Update!

Thanks to all of your wonderful support, today I received delivery of nearly FOUR MONTHS of medication. The generosity on display in the first week of this campaign alone has been far and away so much more than I ever expected and I cannot thank you all enough. There’s still a fair way to go to hit the goal, but because of everyone chipping in and spreading the word so far we’ve got plenty of time to get there now. Thank you all so much.

The good news: Thanks to the generous support of 23 people, this goal is 65% complete! It’s far more than I’ve ever received or even hoped to receive.

Thank you all so incredibly much.

The bad news: This goal was made to cover a year’s worth of medication expenses and we are roughly 65% of the way through the year.

At the present time, I have about 2 months of oestrogen in supply. If there aren’t enough donations within the next few weeks, given delivery timeframes, I’ll be off-meds by Christmas.

So if you are able to support the fund, please do! If you aren’t, I also greatly appreciate spreading the word! Reblogs, retweets, re-whatevers help so much in making this goal achievable!

The REALLY good news:

Thanks to everyone who has supported or even just shared this campaign, I can ensure medication through to the New Year. Definitely to February, possibly even to March or April.

The support I've received on this campaign is more than I've received for any shortcoming in my entire existence, I am constantly floored by it and I cannot begin to express my gratitude. It's been astonishing.

The bad news:

Whilst the goal has now not only been met but exceeded, I've been waiting 218 weeks to have even 1 appointment with the UK gender service. Legally, they can only make me wait 18 weeks at most, but no trans person in the entire country realistically expects to actually hear from them within the first year let alone within 18 weeks. Estimates go as high as 22 years just for your first appointment, not even for a prescription.

Which is to say that we have ensured I won't go through Menopause 2™️ anytime this year nor early next, but there's still plenty of time unaccounted for. Potentially years. I might get lucky and actually hear back from them late 2024, or I might still be waiting next decade.

I therefore will be adjusting the campaign's goal to cover medication for the next year. You've all already been more generous than I can ever hope to repay, I only pray I continue to be worthy of your continued support in this matter.

Hitting the goal however is still a tremendous achievement and I'll be beaming all through the holiday season with that news. Santa could break in through my living room window, smash my favourite mugs, and fill my bedsheets with coal, and I'd be smiling all the while.

Thank you and very happy holidays!

The curse never sleeps

This design collab between 20XX-Video and myself is making a return for one day only! Grab if it you missed your chance before theyetee.com

I'm so glad that y'all are so into Monkey Man and the badass hijra priestess army, but friendly reminder that hijra are NOT trans women. Hijra are their own distinct gender; trans women are women. India has both :)

This is really...weird to post if you yourself are not a trans woman or hijra, op. Many (I would even say most) hijra are women. So many of us use the term hijra women instead of just hijra to emphasise this point. A lot of the hijra identity (and other trans identities in India like Jogta/Jogtini, Aravani etc.) is tied to the arts and religion in a way that the modern term "trans" does not fully encompass or represent, but that doesn't mean that these non-secular (i can't find a better word rn) trans people are not. Well. Trans. Hijra, Aravani and other transfeminine people and women have been active in LGBT and esp. trans activism at the grassroots within India for the longest time. I'm Indian and trans myself and I'm really so tired of this constant third-gendering (and thus misgendering) of trans Indians. (Not to say that many trans people don't view themselves within the third gender framework, but that that term has done more harm than good in the practical sense.)

Here's an excellent thread by an Indian trans women tearing apart the seminal anthropological text that has cemented the idea of Hijra "third gender"ness for its racism, orientalism, and transmisogyny.

https://twitter.com/talia_bhatt/status/1779895088266592638?t=HKXcxNoIXgo0pgWcMR-mzQ&s=19

Hijras are primarily considered "third gender" (which is similar to many other culturally embedded trans women in the global south being seen as a third gender) because western anthropologists and later Indian anthropologists uncritically accepted the degendering and marginalization trans women experience as ontological evidence of a third gender which was later taken up by state policies.

This has been done by ignoring hijras for decades who have self identified as women and using transmisogynistic talking points such as a lack of their wombs making it impossible for them to be women, their forced prostitution and begging because of their exclusion from the formal economy as "cultural practices", and their experiences detailing how despite their wishes and efforts society refuses to see them as women as evidence that they are not women. The vast majority of hijras are women; they exist as women, they take HRT, they get their legal names changed, etc. Calling them a third gender is structural transmisogyny.

Christine (1983)

I wonder how many people assumed the gif was a CG sequence just because they don’t have a solid mental timeline of when conputer effects actually took off or became that realistic?

My insane friend told me there are gendered ways to have buttons on a jacket and now im insecure about how I draw buttons like God forbid people think my ocs are girls because of how they have their buttons, not a single person on the planet thinks about that but him apparently. Because I draw with my right hand I always add buttons to the left subconsciously. Wish he never brought it up because I'll take half a second to think about it when I draw

This HAS to be a joke. Talk about pointless gendering

ATTN: Just popping by to say that if you are purchasing the new kits today - particularly the Urban Homage kit - be sure to use the creator code "EBONIX" at checkout!

Collab creators do not make any percentage of the revenue after release, they're just paid a flat rate up front, so if you want a little of the proceeds to go to the creator, use code "EBONIX" at checkout (it costs you nothing!!!). Also worth noting that because they had some issues with codes in the app today, creators will apparently receive 10% commission instead of 5% commission the next 48 hrs. (LilSimsie shared this in her overview video!)

Again, code "EBONIX" at checkout. Support black creators!

Keep protesting, keep boycotting, and keep talking about Gaza. This headline (from March 27th) would have been unthinkable a few months ago.

Pointing out that the Rapture as a concept is a little less than two hundred years old - it's originally from the 1833 - that really buries the lede on how recent it is. Bc the modern evangelical take on the Rapture is from a book published in 1970. That predicted the Rapture would happen no later than 1988.

House M.D. | 6x19 The Choice

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

I'm just saying, if there's a curse that runs along your family line and you don't tell your kids about it, how the hell are they supposed to go on a quest to stop it?

Tell your children about your medical history.

oh yeah forgot to post these guys

for when you're definitely very normal about Things

that’s a hard yes

picked a bunch of mandrakes the other day