Erica 💜🦊 @packetcharmer@witches.town

You’re not alone in this.
Stop acting like you are.
You are loved. You matter.
People care about you,
No matter what some
Dramatic incursion reveals.
The components of your
Soul shine through the
Darkness that covers it
If you know how to look.

https://dev.glitch.social/media/GfHqxtCbi1i9V4ZsFvU

J. Jennifer Espinoza is one of my absolute favourite writers. Her poems painfully and superbly convey her experience as a trans woman.

Which is to say, she is extremely little-known, even by poet standards.

Happy International Women's Day!

The Best American Poetry just published a poem by J. Jennifer Espinoza:

...

That I am a woman because there are stars
and water and air and trees and dirt and flesh and
words and dreams and love and feeling.
That I have less than forever to hold myself.

http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2018/03/where-my-dreaming-and-my-loving-live-poetry-the-body-joshua-jennifer-espinoza.html

Poster for Intenational Women's Day demanding women's voting rights, radical enough in 1914 Germany to get banned.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frauentag_1914_Heraus_mit_dem_Frauenwahlrecht.jpg

Everybody remember that International Women's Day originated from socialist feminism, because capitalism will give us nothing
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/international-womens-day-2018-the-history-of-iwds-black-feminist-and-socialist-roots?mbid=social_twitter

Hey, I'm a trans girl attending DigiPen who needs a place to stay, at least for April but possibly over the summer as well.

I need a queer-friendly place that allows me space to work in peace. Having a bus route that goes near DigiPen, or being within a mile or two of it, is also necessary.

Please let me know ASAP if you have or know a setup that MIGHT work for me. Things are tight for me right now, so anything you can offer me is really appreciated. 💜

https://t.co/GRD6CpXI19

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Howdy fedifriends, I'm a trans broadcaster and metal vocalist, and if you're into those kinds of things you can check those out at the links below~

I can't be employed (disability) so this is what I do for a job, I hope you enjoy my work ♥

Patreon (YT and SoundCloud links are here): https://www.patreon.com/amothinamber

Mixer: https://mixer.com/SilviaFox

Boosts encouraged!

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Heads up: if you're in the US, and either have EBT or Medicaid, you can get Amazon Prime for $6/mo (as opposed to the usual $13/mo or $99/year). https://www.amazon.com/l/16256994011?ms3_c=f97ca5dc305e732cc305ccacac882b88

Speaking as a history major: History is FULL of cases where things seemed inevitable, then changed. Sometimes the shifts take time. Sometimes they can be surprisingly sudden.

And in all of history, there were people on the periphery. There were those who didn't agree with those in power. There were those who resisted, and those who spoke on the periphery, well away from prying ears. But radical ideas have never died.

I'm pretty radicalized, but I think I have reason to be. We collectively need to rise up and *do* things about the way things are. This isn't just revolution in the conflicting sense, but *also* supporting community organization and culture that's better than the system.

We are all stronger together than not, and anything that helps us helps all of us. If you best want to resist, do what you can to provide support for others. Help each other. Help yourselves too. What helps you helps us, too.

@clarkinia there are sometimes army VR tents set up in theme parks. You go in, stand on a fake (or converted?) humvee and shoot at a screen.

I played it once and saw the same people who joked about it being a recruitment tool talking to recruiters after we left.

tired: "anyone who ____ is a cop" jokes are about undercover cops revealing themselves
wired: "anyone who _____ is a cop" jokes are about how capitalism enlists all of us to discipline and punish the behavior of our peers and ourselves, installing a cop within each person