Have a look at that list and tell me again that we can talk about one issue, when these people where killed because they sat at margins of the margins, these people who where violently beaten down because they dared to be often poor, often of colour and transgender, some of them where sex workers, some of them where assumed to be sex workers simply because they where trans. Some who dared to go out as their true selves while not passing, and others that dared to live their life, and where killed because cissexists felt it was in their right to assume everyone else was cis.
Their is nothing I can say to honour their lives, no words can right the violence done to then, but I will not forget them, and hope for a year when no names are added to that list.
I'm not sleeping, except when I am and then I am sleeping though classes and work.
I am being weirdly self sabotaging, putting of work till the last minute beyond my usual laziness, I need to work out why and stop it really fucking soon or I am going to be in big trouble.
( my dreams suck. )
Their are good things in my life, I have recently started a relationship with one of the most amazing people I know. I have a shrink who I like, who seems to know what he is doing and who seems to think that T would be a good thing for me, and is working on me to get me into the best mental health space possible before I start fucking with my hormones.
So sleeping with the boss/sleeping with the underlings, it happens, I am not even going to say it is always inethical, my thoughts on this somewhat mirror my thoughts on close to of age relationships with older people when they are "consensual" that is, that they are not always harmful but they are more likely to be harmful because of the power imbalances within them.
I have read that most people relationship start in the work place, and hey not all of those are going to be same level. I have had several bosses who I would drink with, bitch about my social life with and generally have person non work based conversations with, I have never sleep with a boss, and while I would be wary of it, I am not saying I never will.
I think, to make a relationship like this ethical then the person with more power needs to be aware of the risks and limit their power over their partner, this might mean finding their partner another line manager, or having both members of the relationship report to the person above the boss.
No, no no no no no no. Let me rewrite that for you. Some people are attracted to other people, particularly other people who they spend a lot of time with *like their boss*
I've had a crush on one of my bosses. Genius, scrawny nerd boy very pretty in a slightly scruffy way. Not father like, fuck I dough he was that much older than me, anyway, he was really hot, like damn it I should be concentrating on this meeting not your tight shirt, oh did I mention he was a gymnast and a rock climber, who wore tight shirts... yeah....
Some women are attracted to father figures, some men are attracted to father figures some people who are neither are attracted to people with really hairy backs. It happens, womens lib will not be held back by decent sexual harassment and abuse of power laws.
She does get better, for a short while, before falling back into the assumption that women just love that balding in a suit look.
It contains the line.
I[autism] will make it virtually impossible for your family to easily attend a temple, a birthday party, a public park, without a struggle, without embarrassment, without pain. - link
Ebony, who had three siblings, was excluded from every family celebration and was absent in every family photo taken from July 2006 onwards because, according to her mother, the girl "would make a nuisance of herself on such occasions". - link
– man: I am a father…
– woman: A mother…
....
– man: We will spend every waking hour trying to weaken you.
Child rapist - outcry when he was taken into custody, after he plead guilty and leaving the country against the court rules.
Moral: Be a great artist.
One day, if I get really bored I might do just that. But for now, stupid doctor of the week/month/whatever
"The thing about panic attacks is just to realise that nothing bad is going to happen and to sit though it"
my actual response was "yes doctor now could I please have the letter I need"
What I wanted to say was that only someone with no empathy and no experience of panic attacks could say that, because plenty of bad things are going to happen, my heart rate will go up, my stomach will twist into nots and I feel like shit. I
Is depressing the hell out of me, the aus system is far from perfect but god, if I get hit by a car I will go to hospital, and it will be covered, my friend is getting his bad knee fixed, he had to wait a couple of months but it is getting done. An ex of mine spent a week in hospital because of complications with a throat infection, the total cost to him was $16 for the month of antibiotics they put him on after he left to make sure it wouldn't come back.
Each of these people are middle class, and yet we all do better under a public system, I listen to the compromises that would never be accepted in Australia, that Obama is currently making and I just want to flail and scream. I just want to run down, find a teapartier and tell them about how scared I was when S was in hospital and how I can only imagine how much worse it would have been if I didn't know that I could take him into A&E and get him treated on the basis of need, without them even requiring any information about him. Hell, if we had been low income that $16 would have been $4.5.
Depression
Panic disorder
Dyslexia
ADHD
Dyspraxia
2. I was diagnosed with it in the year:
Depression: 1997ish
Panic disorder 2009
Dyslexia 1997 ish
ADHD 1997ish
3. But I had symptoms since:
Depression : 1990 ish
Panic disorder 2004ish
Dyslexia 1989
ADHD Birth
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I am declaring you not-women, because my definition of women has just be changed to include not an arsehole.
Please stop stop speaking about feminism you non-women.
Assuming that I am infact a XX person, which is probably the case, but as far as I know no one bothered to test before declaring me female.
- Mood:cranky
He he, black intersex women doesn't do femininity right.
Fucking funny isn't it.
not feeling a whole lot of love for humanity right now.
Update: In their women who look like men fail, chaz bono, you know cher's son
But I said all this because I didn't say what I thought of first, that is "but you look perfect" because she couldn't possibly want to decrease backpain or increase flexibility, she must want to be thinner, and because I think she looks hot, clearly she is thin enough, whatever that means.
I hate my brain, I wish I hadn't absorbed this shit.
It's seeing the kind of body that I have, when I have to fucking fight to be ok with, portrayed with such disgust that I want to scream, get your fucking poison off my screen, I don't ever want to see it again.
Their is only so many times I can see myself as disgusting.
Before you comment, I'm at work, which is why I don't have ad-block.
I am also insane, well managed for the time being but that is only as good as the next pill, and the one after that, and sometimes they stop working for no reason at all and right now I am too scared to move to the US, am scared of being lost and poor and unable to navigate a medical system.
It is possible to have a working health care system, I am quite fond of Australia's one.
You can do it.
"It accepted the medical evidence that each was, and would remain, infertile for as long as he continued testosterone treatment".
link
Yay I guess, definitly yay for those guys, and I don't want to take anything away from that.
But..
But.....
Yay that their wont be any pregnant trans men in our community, confusing everyone with beards and babies. And god, those people breeding, I mean think of there children, I mean even if they weren't genetically messed up, being raised by some gender trash dad like that!
Yeah, ok I am cranky
Transitory Life Trust is a not for profit organisation that assists with the medical and related costs for the transgendered community in Australia.
Our aim is to assist one individual a year with out-of-pocket expenses. This can include medical expenses not covered by Medicare or private health insurance, psychiatric care, prescription medication including hormone treatment but can also encompass travel and accommodation for those living in regional areas.
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