http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html Humanity faces complex & catastrophic global interrelated problems which need to be taken seriously & dealt with quickly, and hopefully with as much compassion as possible ---> A leftist led government is the only way to make that happen ---> Punch nazis directly in the face at all times

The thing about dog whistles & frog memes is if you use em it's like you know, at least on some level, that your politics are worthless shit. You feel the need to hide what you're saying cuz you know it's fucked up. Imageboard neofascist culture thrives in secrecy. The idea is that anyone you interact with can be a nazi, since they mostly don't wear swastikas anymore. That shit's too subtle for my taste. I want people to know my politics. I want anyone who sees me to understand that I've got their back, one way or another.

Ok, so I'm seeing a lot of people using this symbol without really knowing its history. It's political, and it's got kind of a problematic past. It was originally used by the SPD (Social Democratic Party) a German group opposed to monarchies, communism, & fascism. They supported Germany's involvement in WW1 & allegedly killed key communist activists. The SPD & their offshoot/ sister organization the Iron Front (more militant, same politics) fought nazis in Germany. In the decades since WW2, groups calling themselves the Iron Front have used the symbol, but have been more focused on militant antifascism. The political meaning evolved & focused. The symbol does have functionality in its design- try this now if you want, grab a pen & paper- if you draw the three arrows over a swastika, you cover it up really well. It's excellent to combat nazi graffiti. So anyway. Use the symbol if you want, but maybe know it has some anti-leftist history & be able to defend your choice. Personally, I use it. Because! Fucking! Symbols change with time & historical context. And right now, people who use it are clearly doing so to demonstrate that they're antifascist. Honestly it's my opinion (this is possibly getting slightly off topic, sorry) that the type of person who would misconstrue this antifa symbol today as anti communist or anti leftist is probably the same kind of person who would get really amusingly embarrassed if you were to bring up the fact that Karl Marx would classify most if not all of my friends and I as lumpenproletariat. Sooooooo, personally, from me as a flawed individual, fuck off with that noise. Tl;dr use the symbol but know its history

There's that undercut hairstyle on men that's popular among queers but also nazis, & when I see it out in public I'm always thinking "haircut like that, dude had BETTER be suckin some dick."

I made a novelty item! This is for a Walking Dead- themed gift basket containing cosplay gear for Negan. The gift basket is in support of the utterly dashing & flawless Teagan, who is running for Southwest Bootblack this weekend. Send her love!

I wonder if I've misled you? A lot of what I've posted to this account has been fairly sensational- trans! queer! sadomasochistic!- possibly leading to a false idea that my life is some wild charnel-house carnival of the decadent & bizarre. A titillating fantasy. But it's just not true. I'm a (possibly disappointing) normal person. I'm in my early 30s. I work 40 hours a week at a job I actually love. I worry about health insurance because of my preexisting medical condition. I live with my spouse and two cats. I prefer riding the bus over driving because I rarely leave San Francisco anyway & parking tickets suck. I'm just the same as anyone else you'd pass by on the sidewalk. Being trans, honestly, isn't a huge deal to me personally. I mean! It's a big deal when cis people make it a big deal. Which is fairly often. But like- for me, at this point, being trans is like having a certain color eyes, or being right handed. It's simply one aspect of who I am. No more or less.

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I just received a message asking if I still want cis people to die. The person asking requested that I reply privately. Instead of that, I am going to reply to your question publicly but let you stay anonymous. About two weeks ago I was waiting for the bus, going home from work, when a large man who had been staring at me for a while started to let me know that it was all the faggots and dykes that were the problem with this world, and that he and his crew would be wiping us out. Incredulous, I asked him what the fuck he was doing in San Francisco. We both got on the bus and he continued his loud, explicit, and increasingly specific death threats. In the end it just panned out; this guy was all talk. He got off at his stop and I made my way home. Last Thursday I had gotten off work early and was poking around the Stonestown theater near SF State when some dude started talking with me. He was quite insistent. When he asked how my day was going, I muttered "It was alright up until now." His eyes got very large when he heard my voice, and he exclaimed "Shit, you're a fucking dude!" I said "Well, but not really, though," and he looked puzzled for only a moment before he took a swing at me. Things happened & I ended up running to the back entrance of Stonestown and taking the M out of there. I was upset about that whole encounter, but knew that if I shared the story with someone I'd have to deal with their reaction & emotions and that just seemed like a whole lot more trouble than it was worth. So, until right now, I kept it to myself and just increased the distance between myself and those who might care about me. Mostly when I get assaulted I don't talk about it, for just that reason. So you want to know if I think cis people should die. And, you know, I've had this conversation countless times. I know all the branches of this particular dialogue tree. I could explain the obvious and painful joke of a trans person threatening harm against a cis person. I could point out that being visibly marginalized does not mean that I am a saint with limitless patience and forgiveness, and I that I do feel anger and resentment at how I and my siblings are treated every day. I could challenge you to teach me something about violence. But frankly it's been kind of a rough couple of weeks and I'm not terribly interested at the moment in correcting your misperceptions. Maybe ask me again later.

PSA: transsexuals can fly? (by Aria Klein)

reason 572934 why I don't talk much

I generally don’t engage in substantial conversations with people who do not recognize the validity and relevance of agender and nonbinary gender identities.  I mean, honestly, how could I?

When someone tells me that they don’t think being agender is a real thing, what they are saying is:

“Well, Char, you certainly think you’re pretty fucking special.  You just gotta be you, hm?  Too damn good to just choose between female and male like the rest of us.  No, you clearly need to stand out, grab some more attention, rebel from basic foundational facts of life.  How sophomoric.  How inane.  Look, Char: I know you better than you know yourself.  I know this shit you say you take so seriously is all an act.  It’s a ploy to win some oppression popularity contest.  The truth is, you’re just fucking delusional, and you should probably lay off that fake estrogen and get some serious counseling.”

The best, most concise reply I can think of to all that is “Fuck you,” but that would of course only be seen as immature.

For me, an agender identity is vital.  As a child, I never felt any connection with the gender that I was assigned.  While I experienced crushing body and gender dysphoria and began to experiment with different presentations and affectations, I never identified with either my assigned gender or the other commonly recognized gender.  This lack of gender identity led me to believe that I wasn’t actually trans*- after all, I was taught by the internet in the ‘90s that trans people are defined primarily by their gender identity.  So it wasn’t until I realized that I fit comfortably into the trans identity of agender that I was able to take substantial steps in my transition, such as hormone replacement therapy and genital reconfiguration surgery.

Gender is terribly important.  It influences how one perceives the world, and it greatly influences how others perceive and interact with you.  The fact that I am agender plays out constantly in each of my encounters with others.  Being agender is a core, foundational aspect of my identity and my experience.

So when someone takes that fact and tells me to my face, “You’re delusional and making up bullshit,” I find myself disinclined to continue discussion.  I just am not confident in the quality of communication that might possibly occur when the conversation opens with “I think your lived experience and your hard-won lessons are entirely void and meaningless.”