Cis people are friggin’ stupid sometimes. Jeez.

You have to balance the risk of accidentally sexually harassing someone against the benefits of asking people out—to you and to the people that you’re asking out. Most of the time, the benefits are larger.

Equal parts hilarious and quite serious. Applicable even for me, an aroallo. Will save this for grad school.

The modeling of polycule dynamics is an open question, but it can be best approximated from the Erdős–Rényi model of the random graph.

In this blog post, I have tried to list off every anti-trans policy done by the Trump administration as of January 2025.

sometimes i wish i wasnt aroace but not because i actually want to date anyone its just because the structure of society makes it rly hard to be single😭

Here is the counterbalance to all that writer’s block and self-protective silence, the reason to keep swinging and missing: If you don’t speak, someone will speak for you. Trans people may rip ourselves apart or drive ourselves mad trying to communicate our existence in some well-reasoned and responsible way, but cis people have no such compunctions. Cis people never stop talking about trans people, because they never have to; cis people can just make shit up, and someone will pay to publish it, pretty much every time. That’s what unconditional privilege in patriarchy looks like. It is the freedom to define someone else’s reality on your own terms.

Gotta keep fighting for the right for all marginalized peoples to be heard.

A Plural 101

An informal handbook for systems and their aspiring friends.

It would be wrong to say this is the clearest explanation of plurality (especially the addenda), but it is definitely human.

This is a good introduction to hate speech as a legal phenomenon, with emphasis on social media and college campuses. Exposed me to a lot of useful viewpoints.

Found this in Industry City’s bookstore. A nice read about the trans Filipina experience modulo the occasional typo and kinda loose overall structure. I blame the author’s editor.

Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services: For a prima facie case of employment discrimination under Title VII, a plaintiff who is a member of a majority group does not need to show background circumstances to support the suspicion that the defendant is an unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.

Worst Supreme Court case of the year. KBJ is a coon confirmed. Thomas has somehow been rendered reasonable. A hearty RIP to procedural affirmative action.

“Pro-DEI” is one of the dog whistles of all time.

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_WUmHxtGI

Which coming-out, which medication, which surgery, which friendship, which sex act, which relationship, which instance of survived bigotry, will ever make me feel like enough?

Half of falling in love is timing. I didn’t meet the right women at the right times. I can count the missed opportunities […] but time only moves one way.

Too many good quotes to leave here.

Yeah, I really think I don’t get having children.

In this sharp manifesto, veteran author and activist, Jude Doyle, reunites feminist and trans politics through a common belief: that all people deserve to have the final say about who they are…

An excellent book on transfeminism from the transmasc POV. A terrifyingly easy read: I zoomed through its 200 pages in about a day.

Yet again, cis men ruin a neat thing for everybody.

The right is trying to turn Pride Month into Shame Month.

worst rhing about being aro is losing friends like “sry ur into me and that made it weird”

My research is situated in the interdisciplinary field of sociocultural linguistics and takes a mixed-methods approach to the relationship between language, identity, embodiment, and social power. It also grows from a community-based agenda that centers the experience of transgender people, broadly defined. Major areas of investigation include the gendered characteristics of the voice, trans-inclusive language practices and linguistic activism, the discursive construction of “biological sex,” the changing status of singular ‘they’, and the relationship between gender and race in drag-related media.

via: Montell, Wordslut