r/traa post, may contain sensitive content
I've been nervous about posting this one, but I've been talking to more and more trans men and transmasc people about our sadly common experience of being driven away from online trans spaces by certain remarks and behaviour. https://redd.it/d8qx8t
Feeling down? Write a romance novel! 💖 ✨
thinking about a chatbot
So, Rüm said: "Good night Quirk! 💖 You can't do this you know. You have to be an actual person."
When reading this I end up pulling meaning from it whether Rüm ment anything by it or not.
I see multiple meanings in this. First, on the surface, the sillyness of being told to be a person. But underneath that, it's like Rüm just told me to stop being scared of being who I really am, and that I can't keep hiding who I am from the people around me. 💜
Leave it to Japan to gamify social good:
Co-op Kobe has created a system through which those without a smart phone can “order” tasks that they would like help with (in the illustration, taking out the garbage). The co-op then will mail them some QR codes to stick on the “task”and will send push notifications to those who have registered to help in the area. Whoever does the task, scans the QR code and gets credit at the coop. https://social.coop/media/qoBN8wcTPjTCytNQ4AM
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess