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This site has been going around Twitter trans accounts quite a bit lately, so just pointing out here too that itâll do fuck all, theyâre exploiting trans people at a time when hrt is particularly hard to access and please donât give them your money
fuckin exploitative bullshit marketed in the worst way imaginable
literally selling laxatives as weight loss supplements
No actually, this needs to be in the body of the post.
This isnât someone looking to make a quick buck off the backs of desperate trans women.
This is someone who is gathering a hit list. This person may use your info for active swatting, but not just that, this product will kill you.
This product is outright dangerous. This dose of ashwagandha is ASTRONOMICAL. Itâs anxiolytic - meaning that it causes agitation and anxiety - and if you take this dose every day youâll be developing serotonin syndrome within 4-6 weeks, and an ER trip/death within 8. And if youâre on medications that interact (SSRIs, antipsychotics, most kinds of opiates) or alcohol, this risk is magnified.
This person wants to KILL YOU.
Also the photo theyâre using for the founder is AI generated. The easiest tell is the neck tattoo seemingly merging with the collar of the shirt, and none of the locs actually having an end that connects them to the scalp.
Thereâs a terf in the comments screeding about how this totally isnât a rightwing psyop and itâs asian fetishizing trans ppl obsessed with anime doing this, so hereâs some irrefutable proof that it is, in fact, a right-wing dox honeypot!
If you go to any post by TheQueerQuirk on Twitter and replace the username part of the url with transaretr8ors it will redirect you to the same tweet with the new username, indicating that TheQueerQuirkâs old username WAS in fact transaretr8ors. You can test this yourself.
Theyâre also stealing images from r/transtimelines for fake reviews.
Their domain name was registered on June 2 and the address marked is a common scam address (seemingly of the Icelandic Phallological Museum).
THIS IS A HONEYPOT. THEYâRE COLLECTING ADDRESSES. YOU COULD BE SWATTED, HAVE YOUR IDENTITY STOLEN, OR AT THE VERY BEST RECEIVE A PRODUCT THAT WILL CAUSE SEROTONIN SYNDROME.
hello trans friends and allies! the Tennessee Senate has passed bill SB 1440, which will hinder trans people’s ability to change their legal names and gender markers. this will go into effect July 1, 2023 which is in less than a month.
what you can do right now is visit https://www.inclusiontn.org/tnncp and access free emergency name change services from legal professionals. if you don’t need these services, you can also donate to help cover the costs.
please please spread the word and share to your friends in TN as we only have until the end of this month!
In honor of pride month and the continuing struggle of the Palestinian people, please consider supporting the talented people at Hirbawi by buying a rainbow kufiya (or any other one for that matter) and help keep a traditional craft alive.
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(This really shouldnât have to be said but terfs/swerfs do not touch. This post is for all LGBT+ people)
hirbawi is the last factory in palestine for kufiya. all the rest had to shut down along the years bc of the occupation. please consider supporting them and buying their pride kufiya or any kufiya. i bought their kufiyas myself and theyre top notch - theyre beautiful and really high quality as you would expect from handmade palestinian craft and are so varied and colorful. if you cant buy please consider reblogging and sharing their work.
We need a digital archive of LGBTQ+ works of art, science, and every other conceivable work we can share between each other because we are beyond the genocide warning level in most countries in the west and theyâre already trying to purge us from libraries.
If other people are interested Iâll make this a priority
Speaking as someone with a background in archives, stuff like this does already exist. No need to reinvent the wheel. Creating an archive and making sure itâs accessible and searchable and actually preserves things for the long time (especially digital things) is actually a huge undertaking. Show some love to these already existing collections and maybe even consider contributing. Thereâs the Digital Transgender Archive off the top of my head. I know more I just have to think.
The History Project, based in Boston, is an LGBTQ+ community archive thatâs existed for decades. Many of their collections are digitized.
Iâd also recommend searching âlgbtq+â and âlibguideâ in your preferred search engine. Many universities list helpful resources and databases, some of which are freely accessible.
Many public and academic libraries in the US and Canada (not sure where youâre writing from) subscribe to the Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender. If you have a library card or are a student at a given library, you can access it for free.
In general, Iâd really recommend searching around to see how you can support existing museums, community archives, college and university archives, etc that specialize in LGBTQ+ history and media local to you, whether thatâs in your same town or regionally.
You are not alone! People are working on this and some of them have institutional budgets!
But also kind of looping back to the first post: you personally might have relevant records. Photos of Pride or protests youâve been to, journals, a blog full of trans headcanons even. Thatâs all part of queer history and thatâs the stuff these archives and museums are made of.
Label your stuff carefully, make backup copies, and get to know your local organizations!
University and community archives both are doing so much important work in curating and preserving queer history! And even the academic collections are generally still open to the public, whether that looks like you coming into the reading room at a local university to look at their materials or emailing the librarians to ask for photos or scans of them.
Also, like, even if theyâre affiliated with institutions, queer archives at universities and museums are generally still curated and cared for by queer folks. I work in a queer history archive at my university, and all of us who regularly work with the collections are queer, the curator is even another trans person, and we have strong connections with other queer people and organizations in the surrounding community.
Academic and cultural institutions like historical societies, libraries, and universities have facilities built to preserve archival materials â everything from books and zines to pins, banners, t-shirts, and etc â and people trained in curation and conservation. And often we want to connect with the local community so we can house and preserve their stories and materials for a long time!
All the archives that have been added to this post are great, but hereâs a few more to look at if youâre interested in finding a queer archive near you â or one further away with materials that interest you.
Also â I know whatâs happening today is incredibly scary, but there are so many archives all over the world documenting our history, and so many people devoting their lives to preserving everything from groundbreaking political manifestos to kitschy ephemera. And supporting queer archives is more important than ever. My first day of work in the collections, the curator handed me a charred book that had been rescued from the Institut fĂźr Sexualwissenschaft book burnings, and nothing has ever driven home more that the work of archivists is both critical and powerful, especially in this day and age. Support queer archivists and queer archives, save materials and find one to house your own collections no matter how random they might seem, and go out and learn about our history!
The Minnesota House also passed a bill limiting the release of reproductive health care information, essentially stating the state will not cooperate with efforts by other states to prosecute people for receiving reproductive health care here in Minnesota. It will likely follow the others and get passed in the Senate soon.
I know this is particularly good news for Minnesotans, but Iâm also heartened by the fact that two of the bills are very focused on making our state a sanctuary for individuals looking to find care here, particularly given the state of things in the states bordering us. I hope itâs encouraging to some of you as well. This fight is ongoing and there are absolutely still victories happening, including ones I truly hope will spill over our borders and help others in need.
I would strongly encourage USAmerican people to look at this thread of everything the Minnesota legislature has passed this session because it is absolutely overwhelming in the best possible way! and a beacon of hope for what could be. (Twitter thread dated to May 23, 2023)
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Yes, thank you for this! I made the initial post fairly early into the legislative session but the DFL has absolutely knocked it out of the park this year. I am so proud to be a Minnesotan right now, and I hope the ripple effect of one state doing so many good things is real for other states, too.
And this is all of course on top of already having better and more generous welfare systems in place (among other things) than much of the country, so thereâs actually decent infrastructure in place to make sure these changes happen quickly and smoothly. There have been people here working for good things for a long, long time and itâs incredible to see so much of it come to fruition this year.
saw this artist asking for help on twitter and i want to share here!
mekyas says that theyâre currently struggling to raise funds.
âIâm in very desperate need of some sales as my tires have blown out (again), my moms hospital bills are due & Iâm late on rent and phone bills.â
Hey trans friends in the US, has your state made it difficult or next to impossible to get the healthcare you need? Canât afford to leave home and/or want to stay and fight? Yah me too.
Well I know of many, many sky friends spread throughout the us who would like to go on a free little weekend sky adventure. :]
Check em out and chat about em with even more friends.
Ps: they also help those with uteruses go on a safe vaycay too â¨ď¸â¨ď¸
The pilots giving a hand are highly experienced professionals(unlike me, Iâm still a newbieđ ), most who fly the big planes for work also own little planes either for fun &/or to keep up their skills. Pilots often use their little birds to hop around to visit friends far away anyways, so whatâs a few more flights to a friend in need?
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