Unholy Vestige

It’s okay if your label changes. It’s okay to change your mind. It’s okay to come out as different things. It’s okay to have phases.

We’re all on our own journey to figure out who we are, and that journey is long and confusing. It’s okay if it takes awhile to figure it out. It’s okay to be questioning. It’s okay if you’re always questioning. It’s okay if you and your labels change.

You can take as long as you want, and try out as many different labels as you want. And if you never find a perfect label? That’s fine too! This is your journey. Your discovery. You can figure yourself out in whatever way suits you. Your journey is yours and yours alone, and no one can take that away from you.

we should hype up bottom surgery more i think. both twitter transphobes and chronically online trans people really like to be disgusted at phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, ext. and i really think we should treat them as cool and sexy and neutral like top surgery scars or whatever

As of tomorrow I will be 49 weeks post bottom surgery. And lemme tell you...it's pretty great.

There was a level of constant dysphoria from having a dick that I didn't even know I had until it was gone.

Vaginoplasty is pretty amazing. I'm very, VERY happy about having gotten it.

Some things to keep in mind:

I say this because a lot of the negative shit around bottom surgery hinges on people NOT knowing about the healing time and using the shock value of not-yet-healed surgical wounds. Bottom surgery is FUCKING AMAZING, but yeah, it can be gross and painful at first.

I had my surgery done at GRS Montreal. The staff there are AMAZING. They were kind, patient, and helpful.

Here's some bottom surgery facts:

Dilation is a pain in the ass for the first 4-5 months. Not because it hurts, but because you have to do it so often. After that it becomes more like "here is an hour a day that I set aside for me time". At the end of the first year you will only have to do it once or twice a week, at which point it definitely becomes more like just setting aside a bit of time to get in touch with your womanhood, just to relax.

Dilation doesn't hurt (though it can be uncomfortable in the first month or so while the swelling comes down). Your new vagina is a part of your body and your body takes care of it. It is honestly pretty neat!

Bottom surgery is legitimately AMAZING. It has been practiced for almost 100 years. It is established medical practice. Do not let transphobes dissuade you from it!

i may not be gods strongest warrior but there is all sorts of bullshit that he makes me deal with and i hndle it not very well usually

Can you guys stop calling grown ass adult trans men ‘boys’ it’s getting weird. I just saw someone call a 40 year old a boy and I think I’m going to go insane.

That isn’t a soft little uwu boy that is a grown ass man.

This also goes for reverse for trans girls. The amount of times I’ve seen a 13 year old be called a trans women instead of a trans girl in the news is kind of crazy. That’s not an adult women - That’s a child. That’s a girl.

If you're really, truly, genuinely passionate about your work, you'll get paid less because you think it's a privilege just being there.

the brutalist public bathroom is definitely a top one tourist attraction across all of the US

Here's me (6'2) in front of the Women Monolith for scale

Why is it that every Borzoi dog I’ve seen looks like it’s on the verge of crying from being bullied by a very mean 12 year old?

For those who need visuals

He's got a long face.

WAIT I HAVE AN AWESOME HOUSE DESIGN

I am architecture

If anyone is looking for a new name, I can't recommend cemeteries enough. You'll find names new and old, common and unusual. Maybe even you'll come across something you hadn't considered before. If you take their name it's also an heirloom of sorts.

Me n my mutuals logging on

preserving this video at all costs to teach future generations what twitter was like

FACTS!

Additions: if your viral load is suppressed by medication to the point it’s undetectable, it’s considered untransmittable, even without condoms. Children with HIV+ carriers are usually given medication when they’re born, to make sure any of the virus doesn’t take hold (which we also do to adults who fear they’ve been exposed, it’s called PEP ((Post Exposure Prophylaxis)), which is a month of medication and must be started within 72 hours of exposure).

(There’s also PreP - Pre Exposure Prophylaxis, which is taking medication if you feel you are at risk of being exposed to HIV, whether through sexual partners or sharing injection needles)

This is why we need universal free healthcare - so people can go on and have happy, healthy lives despite the HIV diagnosis. Nobody should die or live in fear when the treatment is so damn simple and effective.

HIV is not as deadly as it once was in the 1980s-1990s. 

There’s been a lot of progress in this. So long as you’re taking your medications (anti-retrovirals), it’s essentially become another chronic disease like diabetes or COPD etc. HIV patients nowadays are living into their 60s and 70s and are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease rather than opportunistic infections or AIDS defining illnesses. 

If the HIV viral load is undetectable, then your CD4 counts (your white cells that are affected by the virus) should normalise. Such that you’re no different to the general population when it comes to infection risk.

Yes, we should all still be precautious, but it’s no longer a death sentence. 

Stigma remains because of how it is transmitted.

We need to share this information as widely as possible.

Silence still Equals Death.

[image description: a widely smiling black woman hugs a black man and their two children, who are also smiling widely. The woman holds a sign reading “HIV+” and the man and the children hold signs reading “HIV-”. This image is on a tweet by bucci jenkins @/Glorico who says “bruh what”.

There are 2 replies to that tweet, by GEM @/Rozthecreator reading “the woman is hiv positive, she takes her meds which makes her count low, she can’t pass it off to her husband which makes her still able to live her normal life and reproduce. The stigmas of hiv has to stop, and as Blacks especially we have to educate each other.”

The next reply is by t a y l o r @/G14_Classified_, reading “people on this app talk about sex 24/7 but are completely ignorant when it comes to stds and how they can/can’t be contracted. Yikes”.

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And by real Americans I mean the Noble Marmot

Today I have become the Noble Marmot (I rode the train)

And by real Americans I mean the Noble Marmot

Today I have become the Noble Marmot (I rode the train)