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BiCon peeps - if I ran another Bi Carers meet, would people be interested? You can DM if you would prefer -
Yet another post about Teh Trans.
(It feels really presumptuous to be writing about this as a cis person and I am really interested to hear if trans people think I am way off base here but people seemed to like the previous posts)
Hester Tidcombe asked a question in response to the last post which I thought deserved a longer answer than I could fit in a comment.
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A couple of FB rants part 2 - Transphobes arguments are utter crap
Following up on my earlier post, I wanted to talk about why most anti-transgender arguments are either outright lies, unfair comparisons or else subtly require trans people to stop existing (or stop existing in public) for other people's comfort/convenience.
( Cut for transphobic BS ) -
A couple of ranty posts from FB - part 1
Buzzfeed reports on a bus which is touring the US, emblazoned with a message asserting that "Boys are always boys and girls are always girls" and the hashtag FreeSpeechBus.
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Charities and donations.
After the election in 2015, I knew that life was going to get much harder for vulnerable people in the UK. I do not have much time or energy for campaigning or protesting so I have been gradually increasing the amount of money I give to charities to fight on my behalf or to support vulnerable people.
I am pretty well paid and we have a reasonably ( Read more... ) -
Biphobia shows up in all sorts of places
I have been listening to an 'advice column' podcast called Dear Sugar (by the two people who previously wrote the Dear Sugar advice column at The Rumpus). It is similar in tone to Captain Awkward (who I adore) and I always find it interesting, even when I don't agree.
The latest ep I started listening to was about a woman who was devastated after ( Read more... ) -
Things the LJ revival has taught me so far
1. LJ has implemented FI style 'likes' in an unhelpful way ( Read more... ) -
While I'm on a roll, some old fashioned memesheepery
Borrowed from Sfred
1. How do you like your coffee?
Coffee doesn't like me, it gives me stomachache. But before that, I drank it white with two sugars.
2. How do you like your tea?White, one sugar, not too strong. In extreme circumstances (i.e. Lack of milk), black with two sugars ( Read more... ) -
LJ Revival / Posting more
With all this discussion of the LJ revival, I have been planning to write more here. I still post a lot across various media but Twitter and Facebook are horrendous for finding stuff beyond a few days/hours back and I would really like to have more of a record of who I am and what I am doing ( Read more... ) -
My Grandma's life (as written by my mum)
Grandmas Life
( May Alice Elvis, 1922 - 2016 )