alycatalycat

ive been saying a lot recently that transitioning feels like moving into some1s old place n they left all their stuff here. i have all these memories of experiences n feelings but it feels largely like as if id found some1 else's journal as opposed 2 being thoughts feelings n experiences of my own.

“Hi, welcome to Applebee’s! How’s your day so far?”

i’m not going to discuss that with you

“Go ahead and choose any open table you like, we also have seats available at the bar!”

am i free to go?

“Can I get you started with anything? Our Famous Boneless Wings, perhaps?”

lawyer

HRT - Harm Reduction Toolkit A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. Distribute Aid Logo Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.

@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.

Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

Every rich person that sees this should find a Trans person on. This website and send them a thousand dollars because you can and we all need it.

Being a leftist is fun because it's mostly you and your buddies very loudly saying "this system doesn't work and if we don't do anything about it shits gonna get bad" only to be told "shut up don't be unrealistic" and then shit gets bad and those same people are like "wow I hope you're happy."

YouTube video by Lily Alexandre Notes on Vanishing

My new video, Notes on Vanishing, is out now.

I keep returning to an unthinkable question: is it time for trans people to make ourselves disappear?

Enjoy 🌃
youtu.be/cqhiup5qSY8

Oh also this idea that it's our fault for calling u out that's causing white doods to turn fascist & support systematic violence against us, is ya'll as yt men having essentially a domestic abuse relationship with the rest of society. Literally your politics boil down to Look What You Made Me Do.

You want to be seen as good? Do the work. Use your privilege to do good for the people who the safety & comfort you are afforded come at the price of. The ugly truth you dont want to look at is men like you's complicit participation in systems that oppress us allows them to exist.

If you listened to anyone that's not another white man, you'd know a thousand paths toward a better model of masculinity. That's not what you want, though. You want to be able to be seen as a good man while sitting in an "apolitical" status afforded to you via the violent oppression of others.

We know conversion therapy doesn’t work because the society we live in is conversion therapy. It is deeply rotted through with oppositional sexism and attendance is considered mandatory, no small infraction unnoticed. Not everyone can find the exit door, a deep injustice that often goes unnoticed.

Mister Darcy, I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to get knotted, let alone boypreggers.

ordinarily the rigging of nominally independent public bodies would be a scandal, and a line of attack for opposing political parties, but hey ho it's only the trannies.

Since tomorrow is another day of protest/action/being around a lot of other people & chanting & being mad together, here is your reminder to MASK. Mask to protect others. Mask to protect yourself. Mask to show disabled people that they are welcome & safe in your activist spaces.

Please. Mask.

‘It left me traumatised’: The barriers to accessing transgender healthcare in Ireland The HSE has admitted that transgender healthcare is ‘limited’ and is ‘not meeting people’s full range of needs’.

🧵 Were you one of those straight Irish people dancing in the streets, after the same sex marriage referendum?

Time to start campaigning again. This time so that trans adults & kids get timely & best practise healthcare.

Scarily the HSE has signed up to the widely dismissed & inhumane UK model [1]

as a rule i am very much in favour of picking our rhetorical battles, at least in terms of public comms. but we cannot cede a single fucking inch on the "biological woman" framing without accepting permanent status as second-class citizens

Hedges absolutely killed with this opening.

Short. Sweet. Correct.

Hold water is a funny figure of speech to use to discuss the mass plagiarism machine made by the super duper wealthy that uses more water to process people saying "please" and "thank you" in a day than a household will use in a month. It is fundamentally a tool designed to immiserate people.

But real talk, if you can't bring yourself to mask anymore to prevent the spread of now several illnesses and a pandemic, then you don't have the discipline to do anything of note, much less run some kind of revolution.

WIRED article screenshot: Is generative Al introducing new stereotypes to different languages and cultures? That is part of what we're finding. The idea of blondes being stupid is not something that's found all over the world, but is found in a lot of the languages that we looked at. When you have all of the data in one shared latent space, then semantic concepts can get transferred across languages. You're risking propagating harmful stereotypes that other people hadn't even thought of.

It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...

how many of us got busted for reading books under our desk in class, too?

and we doodled

and all our pencils had bite marks

Don't care, didn't ask, goodbye, plus my tits have those beautiful blue veins

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

A tale of two movies:

Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.

One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.

The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.

And yet this is the coverage.

It is almost time… HAPPY EASTER!

Thanks nyt for deciding that for everyone. Also works well for you since that’s the position you’ve pushed for four years now.

Pretending to raise trans issues in good faith, then immediately settle them against trans ppl is a long-time bad-faith nyt tactic

this probably feels so good if youre a metal canister, oil drum etc

While it's nice to see more noise about how terrible JKR is, as a trans woman I would appreciate it if there was less focus on "here's what you can read instead" and more "here's how you can materially help trans people".

We're the victims here, please stop centring the purity of your bookshelves.