The potato farmers have a gofundme set up to help the farmers offset the expenses of having all these potatoes cleaned and bagged for folk on top of not getting paid for the potatoes themselves, so if you are in a position to help the potato farmers out in return for their kindness, you can do so here apparently (linked from the official potatoes.com blog, actually): https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-washington-potato-growers-feed-those-in-need
ADHD resources
the tail of my #ADHDReadingList resource thread from last year
Disability activism, a free thing you can do and learn (cw reclaimed slur)
Crip Camp 2020: the official virtual experience
Disabled activists presenting all kinds of great stuff, no activism experience necessary. Weekly videos with ASL, captions, and downloadable transcripts.
and more black death
Covid19 is not the only reason black folks are dying disproportionately at hospitals. We're disproportionately infected but lo and behold the "treatment" is ALSO disproportionately killing us wow look at that
okay i cant find the post so im just going to re-write it. trans masc pol
I appreciate all the rallying behind trans masc people today but i want to make something abundantly clear
i dont need people to "not all men" for me. i internalized this before i transitioned, but i have always understood jabs at men not meaning that all men do [thing] but simply that 99% of people who do [thing] are men. it does not offend me. i really dont care. most of the time, i agree.
and instead of getting mad at random people for venting about men, i would much rather we put our energy into reshaping trans spaces that are so hostile to masc folks. say cis men when you mean cis men. dont say that T is poison. dont conflate "trans" with "trans woman." dont create dichotomies in the trans community to exclude trans masc people. i could go on and on you get my point.
we're in this together, and everything i do is to try to bring us together without pretending we're the same. we can acknowledge our different needs and experiences without excluding eachother.
@junebug Honestly, given what I know about him, he definitely didn't know he was doing that, but that almost makes it more important in terms of trans representation, like, this old British dude just also came up with the idea that people can be trans and stuck it in his book and was like "This is just how things are"
important quote from article, intersectionality, black trans men, feel free to boost
"[T]rans men’s relationship to gender cannot be understood by adding the privilege of maleness to the oppression of transness; the interaction between these axes substantively transforms both such that it generates an experience qualitatively different from either alone.
This qualitative difference is particularly salient for Black trans men and transmasculine people, whose experiences at the intersection of race, gender, and trans status are especially ill-captured by a sex-class approach. The assumption that masculinity necessarily means freedom from gender oppression ignores how race/ism is always gendered, and in particular how Black masculine people are gendered as inherently dangerous (and targeted for anti-Black violence on the basis of that “danger”)."
a piping hot take on transmasc support
"we support trans mascs!" really just comes across as "please don't forget we support you too haha" when like. we wouldn't be out here forgetting if non transmasc people actually engaged with us on issues or took accountability for when their behavior hurts as lmao
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own