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Roxanne Lovel

@phoenyxwrite

Hi. I go by Phoenyx now, Nyx for short. I prefer they/them pronouns, but I also go by she/her.

CPD just killed a fifteen year old child.

a fifteen year old black girl was shot four times in the chest by columbus police in columbus, ohio.

as derek chauvin was found guilty, a black child lost her life to police.

we still don’t know her name, but we’ll scream it the minute we do.

“well that can’t be worse”

except it is.

except this child got jumped by the other girls present. she was afraid for her life enough to grab a knife and call the cops herself.

let me repeat that.

the black child that they killed was so afraid she called the cops herself.

they killed the very person who asked for their help.

and before you flip over the knife, they didn’t even ask her to disarm. they got out and immediately opened fire on her and shot her four times with deadly intent.

her name is ma’khia bryant.

i’m such a small blog but i’m begging y’all to spread this story. i can’t speak directly to this- no matter how hurt and angry and thrown by all of this i am, my voice isn’t the one that matters. i recognize that. but i’m still begging for this to not be overlooked. say her name, remember her- remember that this fight never ended, and keep fighting it.

derek chauvin being found guilty is a victory, but we can’t let that blind us to the fact that this has kept happening and never actually stopped. even if the protests went quiet, that doesn’t mean things changed. we have to hold them accountable and we have to remember those who have died and will continue to die beneath the shadow of everything else that’s happened this year.

my heart is going out to her family.

rest in peace, ma’khia.

Janus: *trying to be nice* Sorry I forgot about your birthday here, have this

Logan: *staring at the thing Janus gave him* ...But I don't drink.

Janus: oh... Okay

Logan: But I will keep it, and just let Remus drink whatever is in it.

Janus: I don't think he'll like it, I gave him glasses and he uses them to drink pickle juice...

I’m so mad because this worked

help me roger

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

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………my friend has made me curious

help me roger

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director

These never work for me, but here’s to trying.

  1. I don’t believe in these things
  2. But last time I reblogged one ten/fifteen minutes later I got a call offering me a job
  3. But I reblogged it because I was waiting on hearing back from the job. So there you go.
  4. Roger is cute.

Eh Roger is cute I might as well

That fish is so happy it makes me happy.

!!!!!

I need this

I can always use good luck. 

Roger your my bestfriend

I love this fish. Just makes me happy.

He’s back

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Let’s talk about xenogenders

Definition: A nonbinary gender identity that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender; more concerned with crafting other methods of gender categorization and hierarchy such as those relating to animals, plants, or other creatures/things. It’s mainly an umbrella term for genders with themes such as nouns, archetypes, synesthetic experiences, neurodivergences.

Are xenogenders serious? Usually, yes. (But at the same time… What if they aren’t? To be fair, being trans/nonbinary doesn’t always have to be this imagined experience of constant suffering. We’re allowed to describe our lived experience of gender in flowery ways, too!)

Do xenogenders hurt real trans people? No, but if you’re asking this question, I want to ask one in return - What are you defining as a “real” trans person?Is someone only really trans/nonbinary if they can pass? Or have dysphoria? Or get surgery? Or are accepted by cis people? It’s important to understand that what one might think of when they think “real trans person” might be rooted in excluding a majority of the trans population.

But MOGAI genders/xenogenders/neolabels are why people don’t take us seriously! Trying to blame other people who’re trying to find terms to describe their gender/orientation/etc is a slippery slope, and trying to guilt people back into the closet to appease cishet people is never going to work. We do not exist to be palatable to them. This line of thinking is extremely dangerous, and it’s been applied to every other identity. As a community, we need to stand together against transphobia and it’s actual cause: Transphobes.

While xenogenders can be hard to understand at first, these terms are coined because someone out there was genuinely struggling to find a label that felt fitting, and found that their actual life experience couldn’t be described accurately by more common descriptors like “male,” “female,” “neutral,” and that describing their experience by relating it to something else truly helped them! Sometimes this will be things that seem “silly,” like media, aesthetics, and other unique things.

You may not understand how something can be a gender, and that’s okay! Sometimes we won’t be able to completely understand an experience because it’s one we will never have, and that doesn’t mean that the experience is invalid. It’s just how being a human works!