transphobia, unnecessary gendering
My masculinity is considered marked and excessive, whereas cis men with the exact same presentation are considered ordinary, or even somewhat unmanly and soft.
I could present in an absolutely androgynous way, or as a super femme twink, and it would not matter.
Because I'm rejecting that little F they put on my birth certificate without asking, I am inherently masc and butch and blahblahblah, when cis men doing the exact same things are not considered as such
Study concludes that the best way to disrupt hate groups online is to fucking ban them:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/tracking-online-hate-groups-reveals-why-theyre-resilient-to-bans/
You cannot separate your race from your queerness or your queerness from your race. Black people don't suddenly stop being queer when speaking of black issues. Queer people don't suddenly stop being black when speaking of queer issues.
Identities cannot be spliced into chunks or conveniently ignored.
For those who missed the news, #GIMP got forked big time:
#Glimpse is the rebranded version. It will also bring changes in other areas of the program (while staying based on GIMP as it evolves of course)
https://getglimpse.app/
I wish it didn't come to this but I'm game for switching.
immigration, anti-latinx racism, cops
"Staff at the sheriff’s office explained that they had a policy of detaining all Latinx people for immigration review."
He had a passport, state ID, and social security card on him to verify his identity, but they still held him for 4 days.
The ACLU is suing.
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.