makaʻāinana

Detransition, Trans Youth, and Misogyny A conversation with a trans man and detrans woman about transition for youth in 2015, 2025, and beyond.

Bit of a change of pace: New Interview! open.substack.com/pub/transcar...

mainly posting this because I forget this cover on a yearly basis and it drives me nuts. For some reason, I always think it's Alison Krauss then go through her whole discography before a lightbulb finally clicks. This cover never comes up on google

YouTube video by Benito Jesus Ance Emmylou Harris - The Wings Of Horses(1992)

Anyone else grow up on this album? It was really good
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYQO...

The most frustrating thing about being on T is I miss being able to sing so bad. I want this part done asap

there should be more fiddle and mandolin in Hawaiian music

My brother has a new gf who’s from NYC and she’s fangirling over my uncle and apparently he had no clue he was a NYC legend lmaooo

I think when students first experience research, they are surprised by how tedious the process is and by how much you fail

I am sensing something out my window in the valley and am working so hard to not even accidentally glance towards my window

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

MCR
Primus
Earth, Wind, and Fire
Gorillaz
THEESatisfaction/Sleater-Kinney (yes, it was one concert lol)

He’s just like me fr

No one talk to me, I’m catching up on Shawna the Mom skits

Wednesdays really are full of woe

Being non-binary is confusing af ngl

“I don’t get this neither a man nor woman they/them nonsense”

Yeah, me too, bud, so be nice.

free skoden

My fixation got reinvigorated but unfortunately I have no time 😭

People are so weird when I say I’m from Halawa, they’re like, oh whoa you must be hard core, and it’s like, do you think I was born and raised in the prison or something? It’s still just a regular old neighborhood lmao

Wish I had time for my hyper fixations and hobbies again

Viola Ford Fletcher, oldest survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, dies aged 111 The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is regarded as one of the worst episodes of racial violence in US history.

Travel well and rest easy!

the most my bass gets played now is when my cat licks the strings 😭

Long ago, when I had this mythical thing called free time, I learned the bass part for whirling in rags (8 pm). Now I don’t even know if I remember how to play bass lmao

Disco Elysium makes me physically ill, it’s too good for its own good.

Disco Elysium soundtrack album cover on my lap. It features the thought cabinet art

Completely forgot I preordered the Disco Elysium soundtrack on vinyl like idk a year ago until I got the email it shipped a few days ago lol

I keep attempting to propagate crown flower and will be successful until some dumbass butterfly lays her egg on a fucking sapling tree. I’m sorry, but down with the monarchy.

She escaped and immediately went to eat everything she could as fast as possible 😂

the students were very upset too 😫

I’m so pissed off like it was so clearly a planted patch of land

A bunch of tree trunks and branches scattered around. You can see some pumpkin flowers sticking out

Omg I want to cry. They hired people to come clear the trees and they just demolished our pumpkin patch

It’s so weird that our brains can be like, I can understand this language but I can’t speak it. This must be what being a baby is like.

Bluesky refuses to remove this post, I've reported it many times. 3rd time in a week they won't remove a racist or transphobic skeet or even slap a label on them....

sometimes I'm like, whatevers, I'm fine being alone, then sometimes I'm like, omg I'm going to be alone forever, idk if I can live with that