I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
my solution has been to get really busy with volunteer/mutual aid type stuff and it really does help the despair. I recommend it! unfortunately I was already bad at remembering to ever see friends and now I’m worse at that than ever before!
I haven’t been on here in months, other than the obvious ongoing despair about the state of the world, what’s up
My state has the highest utilization of Medicaid in the country. At my clinic 60% of our patients have Medicaid. We’re soooo fucked.
Much like at my last job, where suddenly tons of people wrote in with suicidal ideation after the election, we immediately started getting people writing in wanting to die rather than have their healthcare taken away and die slowly. Soooooo cool.
So, we live in hell. At least I have the day off, I guess.
Yayyyyy!!!!! Good job!!!!
Needless to say I’ll be sticking with my current gym
I did a trial pass at a gym today where they proudly boasted about their “gender neutral changing room” but when I got there it was literally a janitor’s closet full of exposed pipes and a massive floor waxing machine. It’s just me and the non-binary floor waxing machine against the world I guess
If you are a journalist interacting with RFK in any way about “finding the root cause of diseases” can you please always qualify it with the fact that he doesn’t think HIV causes AIDS, thinks that pesticides from food production are turning frogs and children gay, and thinks that WiFi causes cancer?
this is great but can we just say they’re permitting 12 month stockpiles of estrogen & progesterone? It doesn’t cover testosterone so it’s not all HRT, just feminizing HRT. I got my hopes up for a minute which feels a bit cruel in this landscape. Truly stoked for my transfemme pals though! Stock up!
Or maybe they were overcompensating bc they understand the many ways in which our federal government wishes me to die and they wanted to give me a win? Either way
Happy #TransDayOfVisibility I made a joke to my cis coworkers that this is the one day of the year when you can see me, and they laughed so hard I knew they had very few if any other trans people in their life, bc we all make this dumb joke
The Trump admin is trying to get rid of the CDC’s division of HIV prevention (!!!!!!), which could have obviously disastrous consequences! PLEASE call your reps!!! Here’s a script you can use that also helpfully outlines the possible consequences of this:
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believe me, I will definitely let you know if any provider spots open up! my boss did tell me they were trying to add one but I’m sure that process takes ten thousand years. it’s such a lovely team though, you would fit right in
the world is a fucking total nightmare but the good news is that I absolutely love my new job 🥰
ok I did it :)
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i have to believe a better world is possible. what’s the fucking point otherwise
man i am just straight up not interested in people who will be perfectly okay in the next couple years moaning in public over and over and over again that we’re all cooked and doing nothing else. fuck off man! some of us have things to live for
hearkens back to a simpler time
With CDC removal of trans data, its important I use my platform to support research in this space.
Emory is doing a virtual study on HIV+ trans-fem individuals and working on shaping viral load testing for this population, with some compensation.
If it applies to you, here's the link to enroll:
Johanne sacreblu on the other hand? Highly recommended even if you barely speak Spanish or French (I speak a tiny bit of each and it was still extremely funny)
I watched johanne sacreblu, it was incredible… so do I really need to watch Emilia Perez to fully enjoy it? it’s truly the only reason I would watch Emilia Perez bc it sounds god awful on like ten different levels
hilariously, my CPR cert expires while I’m in between jobs so I have to pay for it myself, AND… bc apparently I hate myself… I scheduled it for the first free weekday of my break, at 9am (tomorrow) 😭
finally, a silver lining! 🌈 🙃
god please PLEASE it would be the one good thing to come out of all this current bullshit
we saved up to take the trip of a lifetime to Ireland last summer and didn’t take it bc we had to use the money for something else. we just finished saving AGAIN to take it this summer and now we’re canceling again bc I have to give all the money to the government. we live in hell
So it turns out I owe the government $13,000 bc the “full scholarship” I got for nursing school counted as taxable income even though I can’t write off any of my tuition or school expenses. soooo cool, I actually LOVE that.
Reductress headline that reads “‘Joy is an act of resistance!’ Says wow woman who engages in no other acts of resistance” With the caption “and ALSO pleasure!” The photo is a white blonde woman smiling in a big floppy hat
The problem is that whenever I’m like “yeah! Self care is the best thing I can do for the world right now!” this is how I feel:
My therapist had to talk me out of starting a new mutual aid project bc APPARENTLY my day job is “really hard” and “so important” so actually the best thing I can do as a side project is “self care” which somehow does not feel adequate.
