\documentclass{IEEEtran} clara @mxsparks@vulpine.club

ok i think we can all just admit that if i were ever to open up a bakery, it would be called Breads and Rose thank you and have a good night

So the entire reason I am gracing your TL with a thread about shit y'all already know is actually because of the attached screencap.
SnakeBoy @ godforsaken.website toots: This machine disapproves of fascists, but if we silence them then who are the *real* fascists?
But the main thing I'd like to point out is who boosted that toot for me to see.
MissLavender is a purism instance user, and a pretty obvious chud. Someone who would make -exactly- this argument without a hint of sarcasm.
And, honestly? The only reason I didn't immediately disregard OP as yet more cryptofash is because I've seen them around the fediverse, hangin with the other lefties. This person was, given the context of my familiarity with them, being Very Ironic here.
Which, to the untrained eye of this chud, was indistinguishable from the real actual statements this real actual person believes.
This. Right here. Is terrifying to me. And here's why.

@HTHR https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NwUMWIMfdlA

early summer 2016, driving around DrSparks’s hometown with her and finishing wedding prep

this song starts playing and I finally *understand,* two years after the end of my last deployment, that they can never send me out to sea and away from her again

and I lean my head against the passenger side window and blubber

LB: This took more courage than I have ever had in my entire life. Go read this article. Understand that someone whose livelihood is dependent on public perception and social acceptance purposefully risked both those things for pretty selfless reasons.

Bravery is trying to give those unluckier than you a chance to get through.

Actor Michael D. Cohen Has Something to Share: 'I Transitioned'

http://time.com/5590359/actor-michael-d-cohen-gender/

neat.

@PaladinQuinn oof. I know this feeling:

Before coming out: “What if people know I am a woman?”

After coming out: “What if they don’t?”

One thing I have been amazed by is how apathetic most people are in regards to people around them.

Most people really just don’t notice and don’t care.

a lot of that emotion has been renewed by twitter being kind of a minefield full of trans folks posting “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE” shit right now. which, idk, maybe we are, but I still need to function without wailing and gnashing my teeth 90% of the time. kind of running on a cocktail of hope, stubbornness and spite towards the system right now and I don’t need a zillion posts telling me how pointless that is

RT @iknowplacesmp6@twitter.com
Holy hell did he snap

To clarify for those who need it: terf was coined by cis radfems to distinguish radfems with a tran problem from radfems who thought being a trans woman was potentially radical and feminist as fuck. The secret history is that trans dykes with rad politics had real community with our cis sisters mostly before we had it with each other. We were too few and too far between to know each other.

I was about to make a post about how enbies are good, without even knowing about #TellAnEnbyTheyreCuteDay, but now that I've seen it...

Cute. Cute. Cute. All of you are cute. None of you are free of cute.

The people were astonished at his doctrine.

This rings so very true to me, and it's strikingly useful in my ongoing attempts to explain how boundaries aren't rules. It's actually about emotional independence, healthy separation so we can know and love both ourselved and others.

@socialskeleton and you can even switch back! or more than once! or after you’ve been using your current pronouns for a long time! or to several sets of pronouns concurrently!

<3

You can just switch pronouns if you want.