Bronwyn Douwsma

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

👇🏻 this

Purity culture, neurodivergence, and late realized queerness is a bad combination.

It's dehumanizing too. We're just labour.

my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy

This is a good response.

I feel like he thinks the province and its people only exist for resource extraction.

the US right is completely dedicated to the proposition that children are chattel.

Been thinking about this too. I've seen therapists since I was about 6.

People want so, so badly for children to just "grow out of it." Whatever it is.

I "waited" till I was 25, because that's when I finally had a path to affordable HRT. My family still thought my decision was "sudden."

Pastor of Muppets is this anything

Coming soon from Warner-Paramount-Skydance...

Bronwyn, a bald trans femme wearing a blue sweatel, standing in front og a painting of a closeup of their cat's face

Not much going on, mostly just tired. Trying to sort my thoughts for the newsletter when my brain isn't fuzz and have time to focus.

My younger sister made the art in the background. Yes, that's Autumn.

The Internets are full of Sickos these days ...
@theoddkepple.bsky.social

Why are people so afraid of experiencing the full range of their humanity?

Autumn, a grey and white tuxedo cat, laying in a covered cat bed with her right front paw hanging out.

Autumn speaks for all of us.

Just want to lay in bed tonight.

YouTube video by Laser Time Mr. Show - Blow Up the Moon

All I can think of is this Mr. Show sketch. youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA?...

I told you so

forward.com/opinion/4316...

religiondispatches.org/2019/09/23/t...

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

I think the takeaway a lot of people are missing is that the state is keeping a database of trans folks by tracking everything from gender markers to name changes and attaching corresponding flags to their record.

It should be pretty evident where they're going with this:

it's on youtube!

Pete Hegseth would call Jesus a slur.

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

150+ countries admit what we already know: endless GDP growth and sustainable biodiversity cannot coexist.

GDP growth = more extraction, more land use, more pollution.

Death by GDP is a choice. We need a Wellbeing Economy!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Many alleged suicides of Black trans women are in fact modern-day lynchings, report finds Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

This is terrifying

www.advocate.com/news/crime/b...

Football players will pay no taxes in Mississippi on their licensing deals, which can sometimes be very lucrative in the millions. Teachers, cops, firefighters, construction workers - they still have to pay taxes on their income.

Between post-work fatigue, a slow computer, and a cat that will lie down on it, it's hard to find the time and motivation to work on the SNL reviews.

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.

The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

SCTV has a few pieces that haven't aged well, but that could be said of most sketch comedy shows of the time. I still would be surprised if the streaming release included the Alpro Dog Food and Family Crisis sketches, though.