Alli @alli@fedi.ajl.io

Alright, I wrote a long thing, and I am going to publicly post the link.

This started as a two sentence mastodon post...and then I just kept going.

It isn’t a sharp polished piece, but merely a look into my head right now as I exist as a white trans lesbian in the PNW of the US.

If we sat down and had a conversation, and you just let me talk for 10 or 15 minutes, this is what I might say, except I would say “like” a lot.

Content warnings for fascism, transphobia, cults, GRS, USpol, and just general darkness.

I am not really even sure who the audience for this piece is, beyond people who are interested in what I think.

I do want to say that yes, this country has always been terrible. Yes, every president was bad (a children’s book I want to write someday, btw). But I don’t think that any of the awfulness of history precludes the possibility that we are hanging on a new precipice now.

https://write.as/audreyjune/the-surrealness-of-being-trans-in-2020

my mom used to yell at me for spending too much time on the internet. "how are you gonna make friends if all you do is hang out in front of the computer?!"

like

uh

FUNNY, THAT

what people think programming is: beep boop i do precise calculations using the power of brain science

what programming actually is: somebody asked me to do something stupid so now i have to think of the smartest way to do the stupid thing that wont get me fired

you: “catlike reflexes”
my cat: (falls off the couch while lying down)

it's okay to take up space in other people's life and in conversation. is okay to ask for attention. is okay to initiate contact.

proposal: one week of summer every three months, winter is just december, and other than that it just switches straight from spring to autumn