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These so-called "philosophers" clearly haven't had drunken conversations about gender with 6 different kinds of tranny now have they?

As someone with a philosophy degree who has published in gender theory... this is absolutely true. Worse, some of our universities in so-called Australia still have TERFs teaching there. Looking at you university of Melbourne. The discussions I have with my friends are decades ahead than some boomer who somehow has tenure but whose understanding of gender is stuck in the 70s. The essay I published ago was based on these discussions too, as reading through what the academy had to offer was piss poor.

the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

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I was just beaten, stabbed, and shot all in just the matter of a few days, each day a different incident or attack by an individual in my family and outside of my family by ppl around me, I had to get several stitches in my legs, arms, hands and even some in my face after being jumped and beaten and stabbed, I had a bullet pulled out my leg and my side, I was shot 8 times, 4 times in the legs and 2 times in my right lower abdomen and another 2 times in my left lower abdomen, I been in and out of the hospital including the mental hospital for suicide attempts as well as being harmed by transphobic ppl, I've been struggling paying for costs of a vet visit after my kitten was killed by my moms dog after she had her dog kill her, I've been raped, molested and abused by my family and ppl in my schools and neighborhood and I just get tired of being in this same situation surrounded by poverty, I live in a neighborhood where I'm constantly threatened for being a black trans woman and I have NO ONE TO TURN TO, I've tried getting help finding a new job but it's harder after constantly being fired for molestation at work and sexual harassment and constant work abuse I've been thru whether it was employees or managers targeting me with harassment and bullying within the workplace and it's been hard in general trying to get help with financial situations, paying for medical bills and get med assistance from the government and the city as well as mental health help for therapists, psychiatric help, and safe space havens or shelters, I've also been from mental health facility shelter to homeless shelters and been harassed, abused, raped and molested in EVERY SINGLE ONE, i am currently living in a rundown home surrounded by poverty and bad conditions, rusted bursted pipes, i have no plumbing, no water, no way to get anything to drink, to clean stuff with, i dont have water for dishes to be cleaned, laundry to be washed, or to bathe or shower in or to take a piss or shit in either and there are several dead cats in my basement as well as raccoons from all the holes in the walls, I had to freeze in the winter and was trying to get help from the city with some government assistance and I'VE YET TO GET ANY HELP, ANY THERAPISTS FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH I'M STILL ON A QUEUE, I HAVE NO HELP FOR MENTAL HEALTH MEDS, OR PSYCHIATRIC HELP, I can't seem to afford to get help with much even after succeeding my Gofundme goal because I had to use most of that money for food for me and my cats and keep cleaning products to get my home clean WHICH IS STILL A MESS. so what i need anyone to do for me if yall POSSIBLY CAN, is reblog this as much as you can and please share my links to donation help with pet food, water, meds, med help, mental health help, finding an apartment, getting a bed or mattress, and any daily needs and necessities IF YALL CAN.

My goal is to get at least $2500 to $3000, I know it's alot but rn I need as much as I can possibly get, yall can send anything, nothing is too small it's ALL APPRECIATED. IF PPL CAN SEND AT LEAST 25 OR 30$ EACH IT WOULD HELP OUT SO MUCH, BUT AGAIN ANY AMOUNT IS APPRECIATED. THIS is REALLY IMPORTANT!!....I'M TRYING MY BEST TO SURVIVE RIGHT NOW!

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Still struggling with getting some food and being able to afford comforts like a bed and heating, the temp has dropped to the lower 10s and 20 degrees, housing is so run down and the condition is so poor from all the holes in walls and cracks and holes in ceiling and roof, also the basement has tons of holes that i have been trying to cover, it is hard to get every section, nearly impossible to get them all filled, it's very cold in my home and I really need help getting propane and kerosene for my heaters in my home, of you guys can help whether it is by donating or even simply reblogging this IT WOULD BE A HUUUUGE HELP!!!

Hey y'all since you're suddenly acting invested in trans women's safety maybe show up for Black trans women PLEASE

Thank you so much ❤️ ALOT OF YALL HAVE SUPPORTED ME WITH FINANCIAL AID AND ASSISTANCE AND HELPED ME GET THRU ALMOST THE REMAINDER OF THE MONTH. BUT THE DONATIONS I HAVE GOTTEN SO FAR HAVE ALL WENT TO MOSTLY WENT TO SOME BILLS HERE AND THERE, SOME LAUNDRY TO GET DONE, AND SOME DEBT AS WELL AS FOOD FOR ME AND MY PETS, MEDS, AND SOME HYGIENE PRODUCTS AS WELL, BUT I STILL NEED ABOUT 1200$ TO GET THE REST OF MY BILLS PAID, I'VE BEEN FAR BEHIND ON PAYING SO I HAD SOME BILL DEBT PAID OFF BUT STILL HAVE MORE TO PAY AS WELL AS SOME COLLEGE DEBT I'M TRYING TO GET TAKEN CARE OF SO I WONT HAVE TO PAY IT, AND SOME HELP GETTING PSYCHIATRISTS AND THERAPISTS FOR BPD, PTSD, CHRONIC MAJOR MANIC DEPRESSION, AND MORE.....ALL THE HELP IS SO APPRECIATED, THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH. ❤️❤️❤️

I really need help getting a bed, bed set including sheets, pillow and pillow cases, and at least a throw blanket or cover ASAP.....i've been going to pantries for food and have been trying to get help with getting some donations for a bed set and a bed, PLEASE IF ANYONE CAN SEND AT LEAST 350 - 400$ FOR BED AND BED SET AND OTHER ESSENTIALS IT WOULD HELP ALOT, OR JUST REBLOG IF YOU CAN, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

I still really need help, I have no bed to sleep on or no way to catch the bus to interviews or a job fair today, I have no way to get water in my house cause my water was shut off cause I couldn't pay the water bill, and I'm literally struggling to feed my pets and myself cause I can't even get on the bus to go grocery shopping with my food stamps, PLEASE HELP ME!!

I'm currently in the dark with no electricity because of a past due bill on top of everything else just paid with that comes up to over 3,000 dollars, i was able to pay off 612 dollars worth of it thanks to help from quite a bit of ppl and I got some energy assistance but I'm still in need of help getting some of this paid off, I need at least 1400$ and energy assistance is helping with the rest. I appreciate the help so far 🙏🏾 PLEASE CONTINUE TO HELP ME REBLOG THIS AND SPREAD IT SOME MORE SO I CAN KEEP GETTING SOME HELP. THANK YOU ALL.

I'm currently getting help from energy assistance and out of the 3,345 dollars I owed for bills they covered most of this and I only have to pay 624 dollars by April 28th, the energy assistance company are taking care of the rest due to my medical and mental health situation as well as being disabled physically as well with my back and some physical injuries I was born with like scoliosis.

enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

I saw this book entitled "Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask" by Mary Siisip Genuisz and i thought oh I HAVE to read that. The author is Anishinaabe and the book is all about Anishinaabe teachings of the ways of the plants.

Going from the idiotic, Eurocentric, doomerist colonialism apologia of that "Cambridge companion to the anthropocene" book, to the clarity and reasonableness of THIS book, is giving me whiplash just about.

I read like 130 pages without even realizing, I couldn't stop! What a treasure trove of knowledge of the ways of the plants!

Most of them are not my plants, since it is a different ecosystem entirely (which gives me a really strikingly lonely feeling? I didn't know I had developed such a kinship with my plants!) but the knowledge of symbiosis as permeating all things including humans—similar to what Weeds, Guardians of the Soil called "Nature's Togetherness Law"—is exactly what we need more of, exactly what we need to teach and promote to others, exactly what we need to heal our planet.

She has a lot of really interesting information on how knowledge is created and passed down in cultures that use oral tradition. The stories and teachings she includes are a mix of those directly passed down by her teacher through a very old heritage of knowledge holders, stories with a newer origin, and a couple that have an unknown origin and (I think?) may not even be "authentically" Native American at all, but that she found to be truthful or useful in some way. She likes many "introduced" plants and is fascinated by their stories and how they came here. (She even says that Kudzu would not be invasive if we understood its virtues and used it the way the Chinese always have, which is exactly what I've been saying!!!)

She seems a bit on the chaotic end of the spectrum in regards to tradition, even though she takes tradition very seriously—she says the way the knowledge of medicinal and otherwise useful plants has been built, is that a medicine person's responsibility is not simply to pass along teachings, but to test and elaborate upon the existing ones. It is a lot similar to the scientific method, I would call it a scientific method. Her way of seeing it really made me understand the aliveness of tradition and how there is opportunity, even necessity, for new traditions based upon new ecological relationships and new cultural connections to the land.

I was gut punched on page 15 when she says that we have to be careful to take care of the Earth and all its creatures, because if human civilization destroys the biosphere the rocks and winds will be left all alone to grieve for us.

What a striking contrast to the sad, cruel ideas in the Cambridge companion of the Anthropocene, where humans are some kind of disease upon the Earth that oppresses and "colonizes" everything else...!...The Earth would GRIEVE for us!

We are not separate from every other thing. We have to learn this. If I can pass along these ideas to y'all through my silly little posts, I will have lived well.

“a medicine person's responsibility is not simply to pass along teachings, but to test and elaborate upon the existing ones”

i feel this so much as a cultural practitioner/artist working with plant material ! there’s so many times when i teach things to my students and i say “i’m showing you this way because this is how my teachers show me” and then in the next breath “this isn’t what i was taught but it’s what i like and prefer, so i’m going to show that to you too, and you can choose what works”

cultural traditions need to evolve and adapt over time. i think the less they are updated to reflect today’s world/generation, the less of a chance they have of meaningful survival. keeping things up to date means keeping them alive. “tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire” etc etc

as a black dungeon meshi fan, it's really interesting to me how quickly some reactors immediately take marcille's side in the argument against the orc chief. like i understand why, considering the way we meet them, but it feels so highly intentional. like cheering on marcille for standing up against the orc chief "because the orcs probably started it in the first place!" but ignoring how quickly chilchuck and laios balk once it's brought up? that wasn't fear of their captors, that was very blatantly guilt.

even when marcille, an elf (a proud people, according to world building and general dnd consensus), talks back, she says "I remember your people doing your fair share of killing too". not "first", "too". if the orcs started it, im POSITIVE she would have said as much then. And I can't really blame the reactors because most of them are anime-onlys, so they don't know the reputation elves have in canon, but its just wild to me, considering all thats going on rn and frankly historically, to see a very blatant racial allegory and immediately side with the fair skinned blonde woman without even pausing to consider why the orcs are in this position. even AFTER they've explained that theyre desperate and being pushed to the edge.

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I promise you, relationship anarchy is a good thing. Tell your friends you love them. Go on dates. Domme them. Take them to weddings. Have a relationship with the sub from the dungeon where she does your taxes or you mow his lawn. Help your neighbor plant begonias and become their honorary granddaughter. Become friends with your partner’s partners. Cuddle with your book club and talk about Polysecure or something, idk.

I don’t care. Just stop expecting every relationship to follow a specific pattern and instead find the beauty you both want in your specific relationship with that other person.

Life is more than the nuclear family and strict pseudo-Christian mythological ideals.

Well, it's official! According to my surgeon's office, I'll be getting GRS this year! Still waiting for an official word from the scheduling team but I should hear back by the end of the week

To make sure that I have all of the money saved that I need to be ready for San Francisco and to recover, I've set up a go fund me.

Please only donate if you're comfortable financially right now.

Thank you in advance to anyone that's willing to donate !

hey everyone, my gf has a gfm set up for bottom surgery expenses. pls donate if you can <3

btw even if you can't donate, reblogs always help. please don't scroll past this. if all my tummy posting and silly jokes and positivity posts have earned me enough for a favor from the community, let this be it. please.

i love you polyamory i love you open relationships i love you situationships i love you queer platonic relationships i love you friends with benefits i love you uncommon demonstrations of love i love you complexity of the human emotion and experience

The social attitude regarding age is consistently getting weirder. You’re not ‘pushing 30’ you’re just in your late 20s. 30 is not old and neither is 40 while I’m at it. Growing older is an enormous privilege and displaying that age is a gorgeous component of life. Spending your days trying to reverse that grace breeds an eternally wasted life.

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

please feel free to share your experiences in the tags!

i'm asking because i had a massive outlier of an experience (i went to a film and theatre-centered high school and had an excellent experience where almost everyone around me was or ended up being some flavor of LGBT and/or neurodivergent), so i'm curious to hear what everyone else's experiences were like.

if you're still in high school, just vote for how it's going so far! if high school is called something else where you live, just vote for how your high school-aged school experience was!

edited to add: this was prompted by the fact that i saw a post that said "only cishets have good experiences in high school", so i'm trying to find out if that's true because it certainly wasn't true for me.

Just a Glass of Water - Olesya Dzhuraeva , 2022.

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Linocut , 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 in . Ed. 21/30.