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Jenna DeWitt's avatar

ngl as a queer person, it sometimes feels really exhausting and pointless to try to communicate big, complicated ideas like liberation from amatonormativity and the gender binary and how those are tied to oppression and heteropatriarchal white supremacy when I get on social media and so many people (outside of my circles) are like "Men! Do you let your woman work outside the home?" and "My boyfriend says I can't disagree with him in public. How can I be more submissive without letting it bother me?" and "Poll: Should women be allowed to vote?" Like, we can't get on board with the very bare bones 101-level concepts of equality of HALF of the population after literally hundreds of years of public discourse, how on earth can I communicate "actually your unexamined self-concept is being weaponized as a tool of great harm and everything you think you know about others is wrong too" ha

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D.L. Mayfield's avatar

yes when you realize just HOW MUCH needs to be unpacked it is . . . too much.

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bea's avatar

Double dose of Prozac these days 💪🏼

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Kat B.'s avatar

On reflection, I am doing much better, physically, now. Being an active part of mainstream society was exhausting.

Spring has sprung here! I see red bud trees in full bloom, daffodils, and dandelions. The gardening centers are fully stocked and overflowing onto the parking lots, a sure sign of spring.

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