YOUR TRANS SIBLINGS ARE STILL HERE WAITING FOR YOU! it’s okay and reasonable to be afraid, but not a single one of you will EVER be alone.
I’m here for you! Seriously, all my readers, I’m sure there’s at least some of you out there and I’m here for you. As a a trans adult who is out and living the life I want to live. I’m here if you need me.
Same. Here for adults, too.
The online trans community still exists. We are all terrified, but we are still here, and we are here for each other. If anyone needs someone to talk to (especially trans kids), just send a message to myself or someone else who is willing to help. We can and will fight this, but first and foremost, we need to make sure that we as a community are safe, and that we can still help each other.
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Reblog this if trump becoming president will have a negative effect on you or someone you know
i would try to make a joke but we just got a vice president who openly, proudly admits he would subject children to psychological torture if it meant there was even a chance that they wouldn’t grow up to be like me. a specific kind of psychological torture that is so traumatizing it often ends with children taking their own lives. we have a vice president who would rather have a dead child than a gay one.
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world’s greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn’t mean you let it trickle away. it meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.
-Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Anger is an important tool. We can do this.
Stay angry.
Organize angry.
Protest angry.
Build angry.
Help angry.
Aid angry.
Fight angry.
Always remind yourself that you will not let this shite stand. That, in the face of oppression, you will provide for your community with an gentle hand and defend it with a clenched fist.
At the very least, it’s what Sir Pterry would’ve done.
Just because Lord Rust is in charge doesn’t mean there are no Vimeses.
media shocked. “how did trump win” they said. “how could this bombastic fascist become president after we gave him more than half a year of completely free airtime until his momentum reached critical levels” they said. “we’re so surprised”
“how did clinton lose” they said. “how could this qualified woman who we spent years tearing apart, focused on fake scandals rather than her accomplishments or her policies until it reached a level where voters were convinced she was absolutely evil” they said. “we’re so surprised”
Siyanda Mohutsiwa on the rise of the alt-right.
vox:
Obama: once out of office, I’m gonna stop being polite and start getting real
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has a great new interview with President Obama in Vanity Fair. In the wide-ranging interview, they discuss Abraham Lincoln, Obama’s biggest regrets from his time in office, and how a visit to the pyramids reminded Obama that cable news doesn’t really matter.
But perhaps the most intriguing bit was when, in a brief discussion of Obama’s plans for his post-presidency, Obama hinted that he planned to start speaking out more like an activist than a president.
There are “things,” he told Goodwin, “that in some ways I suspect I’m able to do better out of this office.” He elaborated that because of the “institutional constraints” of the presidency, “there are things I cannot say.”
He went on to essentially say he wanted to use his post-presidential bully pulpit more like an activist than a venerable elder statesman. “There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about,” he said.
And while vague, this is an intriguing hint that Obama is thinking about being a very different ex-president than we’ve been used to.