Art. I found some cheap acrylic glitter paint I bought a while back and I’ve been making sparkly erotic paintings. Some mixed media with mutilated copies of mass market christian books, random wooden trays. I have a bunch of leftover scraps of t-shirt from making yarn and other fabric remnants, so I make quilts.
They are deliberately trying to force Charlie Kirk’s assassination to be a trans related thing. The current narrative is that the “roommate” who wasn’t his roommate and isn’t trans, was his trans lover and thus he was angry about anti-trans rhetoric.
They’re going to find some excuse.
The media landscape minimized it and deemphasized him as a human being. Lots of outlets wouldn’t even call him a man.
A straight white Nazi is someone who matters. A biracial trans man doesn’t.
Related - some day I hope people will fucking realize that the Oklahoma state government lies through its teeth and Nex Benedict was murdered, with his death covered up by Owasso state police.
Sam Nordquist was tortured for about a month before he was murdered. I’m sure he would have preferred a more quick shot in the neck.
They didn’t bother with hate crime charges, despite the fact that he was clearly targeted as a transgender man. Did he get the flag at half mast? I’m sure he was a much kinder man than Charlie Kirk.
I got my dream job offer rescinded two weeks ago BECAUSE I AM TRANS.
I have experienced sexual violence BECAUSE I AM TRANS.
I am terrified of being pulled over by a cop and institutionalized or incarcerated because the government says that my license is wrong now.
The problem is not my mental state. The problem is the discrimination.
If I killed myself, it would to be to avoid becoming homeless - because, like many trans people, there are substantial barriers to employment. It doesn’t matter if the Supreme Court said it’s illegal to fire people for being trans, it fucking happens.
My mental health would be peachy fucking keen if I were not part of the marginalized minority group that the government is so slavering to make a target that they tried to pretend the Kirk shooter carved trans propaganda into his bullets! They want to kill us or institutionalize us - how the fuck would your mental health be if you were walking around with a target on your back?
Will there be refugee programs for those of us in red states? The second you give these fuckers Gilead, they’ll start culling LGBT people and life will get a lot worse for anyone with the wrong amount of melanin in their skin.
She got hired by the Oklahoma State Department of Education to help monitor for “woke” in schools.
To the point where fuckers online did post a picture of a random trans kid and claim they were the shooter. Which they do after every single major shooting now.
The lies about the bullets having pro trans messaging on them were deliberate. Misinformation travels fast in the conservative hate sphere, and it sticks once it’s there.
It’s part of the stochastic terrorism. There will be people hurt in retaliation - but they won’t be MAGAs. They’ll be democrats and trans people.
In Mormonism, all adult men have the priesthood.
If the fascists get me, some stranger will have to clean out an apartment full of a ton of sparkly colorful paintings of penises with random passages from the Left Behind series modpodged on.
It makes life worth living.