[ID: A Facebook post by Patty Kennedy dated January 9 [2019]. It reads:
This past year we all watched the media portray a white land owner well within his rights, to shoot & kill a young Aboriginal youth, for reasons the white land owner was protecting his land from a trespasser.
It’s Ironic, that today the media plays out another portrayal; Aboriginal land owners protecting ancestral, traditional land being forcibly removed by heavily armed military & tactical units. The same whites who thought it was ok that white farmer was well within his rights to kill for his land, want the government to forcibly remove, and even kill Aboriginals for protecting their land.
Oh what a fine line
Nothing logical here /end ID]
To all binary trans & non-binary folks born in Ontario
Accept the fact that you will grow apart from people you’ve had significant relationships with. Understand when someone no longer positively affects your life. Let them go. Don’t hinder your growth.
Nostalgia will have you believing you need to cling on to every significant relationship you make. Dont fall for it.
help two trans women debate together and fuck up cis people
Hey yall!! The reason I am making this post is because @saewol and I have been working on a year long project to be able to debate together!! We come from different debate programs and so the decision to be a ‘hybrid’ team, and compete on the national circuit, is one that is quite out of the ordinary. We have chosen to do this because we are both tired of being forced to debate with cis or non-trans women partners and want to be the first all trans woman team to win major tournaments!! We want to expose the vicious transmisogyny within the debate space and at the very least debate for the last of our years in a way that is most comfortable for us. Create seconds, minutes, or hours of survival where we can both bask in the power of trans joy and watch in glee as the cis lose to such power.
The problem with this sort of plan is that it costs a lot of our own money to be able to do. This is due to the fact that we do not have much support from the programs that we originally come from and thus airfare, housing, and tournament costs are all things that we have to fully or partially fund ourselves. Added up these cost upwards of 400-500$ per tournament, which is money neither of us have. Due to this fact, it would be incredibly amazing if any of you could donate even a little bit to help us achieve this project. It would mean the world to both of us and go a long way into allowing for trans women to thrive in a space that has done everything to lock us and others out. Also, we are both pretty good at debate so helping would go directly to us bringing home those trophies and we would be forever thankful of whatever you can give, even reblogs would help immensely!! Anyway, below will be places that you can donate and thanks again in advance!! We love you all :)
I think about the economics of heterosexuality all the time. So many men I know act like prison wardens over their wives for spending anything because he makes more money than her and is therefore the default Keeper of the money. Like even in non-abusive relationships I just see this tremendous ache from women who want/(ed) more from life but don’t feel like they have a right to want because they are financially dependent on a man in their life.
It’s like I know so many bi and straight women in financially abusive relationships with men and it kills me. I know lesbians financially dependent on their abusive/fathers and I know gay women struggling endlessly against the economics of heterosexuality for existing it’s really like why the abolition of patriarchy seems impossible without the abolition of capitalism to me
there are a lot of people on this website who are incredibly, flamboyantly wrong about things, but theyre also like……clearly in gigantic amounts of pain, and arguing with them on the internet isnt going to change the situation of either their wrongness or their pain
We’re two trans women struggling to keep our heads above
water.
Yet another month has rolled around and we still don’t have the money
for
rent, bills, or food. The good news is, this should be the last month I have to ask for this! But first, we need help to stay in our
home and buy food, electricity, and hot
water. For the month, to cover everything, we need about £1400.
