Let's also not forget the intersex kids who are forced into surgeries and hormones with no ability to consent.
Trans and intersex bodily autonomy NOW.
This. There are many intersex children who go thru puberty early, and most of the time intervention is chosen for us, not by us. Cis intersex children deserve autonomy too.
This is so fun try it
Also if you finish reblog with your kill count
[ID: A hand pointing to an edited poster from the Simpsons with text in all caps that says, "Don't forget: Theythemming trans women and men and non-binary people who dont use they is still misgendering" /End ID.]
And like, intersex people. Pls start including us in this kind of stuff.
This will be amazing, though!
Just think about it:
We are in the era after it caused SO MUCH, and caused so many sites to put in blocks and other restrictions to stop it from scraping everything
If they are forced to wipe their entire dataset then they won't be able to get even a fraction of it back!
Deciding to do a poll for fun
I just like this things
some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them
emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says
but I will still kill these ppl
hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.
unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.
the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.
and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)
so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.
EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.
of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.
source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)
"This isn't giving me any political benefit anymore, so can I please just not face any consequences for my actions? Thaaanks"
Like to charge reblog to cast
dude nearly every source on ur "transandrophobia faq" is tumblr posts 😭 how tf do ppl take u seriously. bet ur gonna try and turn this around and say it's cuz trans mascs arent allowed in academia or some shit.
as we all know tumblr posts are incapable of having any intellectual content
like seriously do you think conversations between people that take place outside of an official academic context are devoid of any meaning or importance. this is just silly
“bet ur gonna say it’s bc trans mascs aren’t allowed in academia” i mean like unironically yes??????? historically, people who were assigned female at birth and forced into the societal role of woman were quite literally not allowed in academia. and because of, you know, transphobia, it’s hard for any trans people to access the resources needed to get published. so idk why ur presenting this like it’s such a silly and ridiculous response when it’s just like?????? literally fact????????
also, related to the above, it’s a really shitty precedent to set that real queer and trans theory should be published. bc if you lock legitimacy behind a paywall, the only people who will be able to access it are the most financially well off in that group. so then what you get is queer and trans theory written by wealthy white people that doesn’t take into account any other perspectives or experiences.
though actually that’s pretty in line with what y’all think of as legitimate anyway.
I think often about how in one of Abigail Thorn's videos I think it's a pre-transition video, because I hear it in her pre-transition voice, but I cannot for the life of me remember which - possibly, ironically, the early transphobia video, she backs up what she's saying once with "This is street philosophy, and it gets dirty", and it's stuck with me about how people have conversations about oppression. Some conversations are had in locked rooms and some are had on the street, and the street conversations are often way more important when it comes to queer theory because they're about us and how we live.
Do they think words like butch, femme, stud, ect. come from academia? Do they think queer or gay do? No. They came from queer people living queer lives and defining their words thusly, often by ripping them from the mouths of people who hated us first. Now it's called Queer Theory. If you dismiss that, what do you really have?
Well. Mostly medical texts that villianise, sanitise, insult and destroy us, littered with the occasional faux-scientific screed about how unnatural we are. Mein Kampft is published - are we gonna give THAT more credibility on queer lives than our own damn words?
Alternatively, if that's not good enough - I've actually given an interview to an academic about transandrophobia in his study regarding the online trans movement, talked a bit about Tumblr and how the effort to define our struggle under a single word started, about the abuse and witch-hunts, and you know who he's gonna quote as a source? Me. I am the primary source. And where I wasn't quite enough, when he asked me to point to where it started, you know what I did?
I sent him @st-dionysus's posts where he defined transandrophobia to begin with. Because we're the primary fucking sources academics quote.
Not only am I a literal primary source (I have been interviewed by several academics for their dissertations and I am quoted in multiple accredited journals), I am literally a queer academic with published theory under my dead name. (And you can bet your bottom dollar, it's because I was writing as a "cis woman" that I got published in an accredited journal)
I mean, I should be taken seriously when I talk about being abused, hate-crimed, queer-bashed, isolated from cis and queer spaces, rejected in female and male spaces, ignored in trans spaces, assaulted by TERFs, and have my body used as a political tool to ban HRT in several states, coping with my HRT being a controlled substance, everyday sexism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, lesbophobia, and more, regardless of if I have published theory and have been quoted by academics: Because when a large group of people from a minority group say "Hey, I'm being discriminated against for these reasons and this is how it affects my materially, socially, physically, and mentally" you're supposed to listen to them and not call them liars.
I am also actively working on a literal book about transandrophobia that is set to be published early next year, because I know that people don't take trans men talking about our issues seriously unless it's been approved by a group of therapists and doctors, cisgender feminists, a group of non-ftm trans and gnc people, a publisher. Since in the minds of so many we are hysterical over-reactive delusional self-obsessed little girls boys who don't know what we're talking about and/or testoserone-rage-filled MRA gender-traitors with delusions of grandeur committing the feminist sin of talking about icky bad gross disgusting oppressive evil men.
"If I actually listen to people talking about their lived experiences I might have to change my point of view, so let's quickly look for a way to dismiss those things."
Tumblr is a wealth of primary sources. 100 years from now some archi ist will be doing a history PhD on pre collapse us history leafing up toand referencing social media content. The way we reference reconstruction era letters( I have two boxes of those. Somewhere.
Also the deligitimization and exclusion of marginalized voiceess in academia is literally a tool of the oppressor DeSantis is literally promising to institutionalize that deligitimization if elected president in 24 its one of his core points. Antiwoke and all that just code for white supremacy
Source: DeSantis is running on an antiwoke anti transgender anti black platform you can just listen to what he says he's gonna try and do, and I for one believe he'd try.
need a bi4bi t4t m/f pairing where the girl is a giant freak and not in the "cute manic pixie" way but in the "unethical experiments in my fucked up laboratory" way and the guy is a golden retriever who thinks he can fix her. and he brings her cute bento lunches and she's like "bradley shut up put on your fucking gloves and hold this possum down so i can graft these giant grasshopper legs to it"
your brain is unfathomably colossal
As soon as it looks like Trump is headed to jail, Fox News suddenly discovers American prisons can, in fact, have inhumane conditions.
Look at who now cares about the well-being of inmates.
Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your "nature reserves" every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form
i know bad faith takes on the bad faith website are par for the course but like. you do realise there haven’t been wolves in the UK since the 16th century. There haven’t been bears in the UK since around 500AD. There haven’t been lynx in the UK for around 1,300 years. In other words: since before the USA was even a country. That’s not a gotcha, it’s just like. The UK is roughly the size of Oregon state (and Oregon has 6% of the UK’s population) so of course a newer country with hundreds of times the landmass and vast swathes of wilderness would have greater biodiversity just from the get-go, but the extinction of our major predators is not recent history. It’s really not about upperclass dandies (and frankly the USA has just as much of a questionable culture surrounding hunting & associated firearms as we do...) it’s just. You’re comparing apples and oranges here and trying to make a whole thing of it.
also: rewilding efforts in the UK are very much a thing.
The ecocide is still ongoing in the UK sadly and many people in power have ties to these practices or call it tradition, and it's considerably worse and more nature depleted than continental europe.
Humans inhabited North America for tens of thousands of years and the industrial purge of fauna and logging didn't happen until the very same people we're both I'm assuming descended from arrived here. Since then North America has tried to embrace more conservation efforts (well at least as radical as is allowed within neoliberalism) and we still have brainrot over wolves but at least we don't have members of parliament fearmongering over the presence of eagles and our animal shelters won't deny adoption to people who refuse to let their cats free roam outside.
North American hunting and British hunting are very different industries, we don't farm raise game to be released for shooting or heavily interfere with the ecosystem of hunting grounds anywhere to the extent of moorland management. We have people pissy about wolves potentially eating the deer hunters want to shoot but we don't have gamekeepers systemically eradicating any other species that might possibly compete with game, in general many hunters here have a more nuanced understanding of harvesting responsibly and conservation.
Both our countries suck ass (I am Canadian) but the UK is objectively farther behind if a bobcat sparks debate over whether they are too dangerous and controversial to reintroduce
also as a 22yr old who has been on tumblr basically daily for the last six years or so
i’m thinking it’s time to start weaning myself off of this goddamn shitstorm of a website
how’s that going bestie
Sometimes time stamps really do add to the joke
Apparently the first hurricane since 1939 is expected to make landfall in California this weekend. It’s expected that an entire year’s worth of rain will fall in 24-48hrs. Don’t you love climate change?
It’s expected that the hurricane will weaken to a tropical storm before making landfall in Southern California.
Still, as someone who lives in LA, this is deeply concerning. Anyone who lives in Los Angeles knows that the city is DEEPLY unprepared to handle any amount of rain, let alone a TROPICAL STORM. The tiniest amounts of rainfall cause floods in LA, because the city has no drainage systems in place. I’ve seen DRIZZLES cause floods. It takes so little rain to flood LA.
If a tropical storm truly does make landfall in LA, it will have a devastating effect on the city’s very large unhoused population. LA (along with NYC) has the biggest unhoused population in the United States, and these people will be stuck on the flooded streets.
Deeply concerning.
FEUDALISM RESTARTING IN 10 SECONDS. CLASSES WILL BE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED
i got merchant
Also, here’s the assigner link for convenience
I have bad news :(
We celebrate the purported geniuses who discovered the cure--but we don't acknowledge that discovering a cure means nothing unless and until we get the cure to the people who need it--an enterprise we've failed at to a remarkable degree over the last 70 years.
Also barely any people know that one of the biggest contributors to preventing and tackling tuberculosis was a trans man named Alan Hart. He was able to save countless lives in the 1900s despite an onslaught of transphobia that followed him wherever he went.
[OP’s image is the office whiteboard meme with the text: Since 1958, when tuberculosis became curable, the disease has killed more people than died in World Wars 1 and 2 combined. And yet we don't study it in our history textbooks, because we do not want to reckon with the reality that the most important historical forces are not generals or kings, but systems of resource extraction and distribution that we all participate in, and that rob the most vulnerable among us not only of quality of life but of life itself”]
Wikipedia gives an excellent little summary of Hart’s impact in the detection of TB:
Hart became interested in their [X-rays] potential for detecting tuberculosis. Since the disease often presented no symptoms in its early stages, x-ray screening was invaluable for early detection. Even rudimentary early x-ray machines could detect the disease before it became critical. This allowed early treatment, often saving the patient's life. It also meant sufferers could be identified and isolated from the population, greatly lessening the spread of the disease.... By the time antibiotics were introduced in the 1940s, doctors using the techniques Hart developed had managed to cut the tuberculosis death toll down to one fiftieth.
In 1937 Hart was hired by the Idaho Tuberculosis Association and later became the state's Tuberculosis Control Officer. He established Idaho's first fixed-location and mobile TB screening clinics and spearheaded the state's war against tuberculosis. Between 1933 and 1945 Hart traveled extensively through rural Idaho, covering thousands of miles while lecturing, conducting mass TB screenings, training new staff, and treating the effects of the epidemic.
An experienced and accessible writer, Hart wrote widely for medical journals and popular publications, describing TB for technical and general audiences and giving advice on its prevention, detection, and cure. At the time the word "tuberculosis" carried a social stigma akin to venereal disease, so Hart insisted his clinics be referred to as "chest clinics", himself as a "chest doctor", and his patients as "chest patients." Discretion and compassion were important tools in treating the stigmatised disease.
... In 1948 Hart was appointed Director of Hospitalization and Rehabilitation for the Connecticut State Tuberculosis Commission. As in Idaho, Hart took charge of a massive statewide x-ray screening program for TB, emphasizing the importance of early detection and treatment. He held this position for the rest of his life, and is credited with helping contain the spread of tuberculosis in Connecticut as he had previously in the Pacific Northwest. Similar programs based on his leadership and methodology in this field in other states also saved many thousands of lives.
By now, thanks to people like Hart, we know how to detect and treat TB. We could invest in a worldwide campaign to eradicate it, but the rich countries that are able to fund this are not willing to do so because the people dying don’t live in rich countries. In the words of the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – Mark Dybul: "we have the tools to end TB as a pandemic and public health threat on the planet, but we are not doing it.". Before covid, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death worldwide from a single infectious agent, and it looks like it will reclaim that status in 2023.
sometimes neurodivergence questions will be like ‘do you find activities more enjoyable when they are activities you enjoy’ and it really makes me wonder if this ‘neurotypical’ thing has just been a big practical joke all along
‘do you find it disruptive to your focus when your focus on a task is disrupted suddenly and without warning’ this CANNOT be diagnostic criteria. they are playing us for fools
to paraphrase a mutual of mine: the big reason people seem to be increasingly neurodivergent is not because anything actually changed about people in general, society has just become more and more hostile to normal human behavior over the years meaning that increasingly anyone who isn't a perfect cog in the machine will slip through the cracks
The neurotypical is more a platonic ideal than a person who actually exists. It’s a societal concept we’re all taught to live up to but few actually can.
Y’all… what do you guys do for a living… but describe it in the worst way possible.
