One of the most profound things I read in my original journey to ADHD diagnosis was what Dr. Ned Hallowell calls “the cough drop sign” in the book, Driven To Distraction. I’d never felt more seen before reading this quote. It comes from one of Hallowell’s ADHD patients:

Lizzo plays a flute and one day later everyone's an expert on flutes. They should keep handing her instruments until we accidentally bring back music education

I’m glad California is doing this, but I hate that they even had to in the first place.

Notice how the right has jumped straight past trying to refute any of Stewart’s questions and fact and straight to “Jon Stewart must be a groomer”. They have nothing. It’s moral panic.

Sept: "someone needs to do something about these perverted drag artists grooming our children" Oct: "someone needs to do something about these perverted drag artists spreading gayness" Nov: "the massacre at the drag night was an utter tragedy but we mustn't politicise it" ...

as a pre-emptive fuck you to the genocidal transphobic shit everywhere this weekend, earlier this week i went out in public as me for the longest time yet. lunch with a friend at a queer-friendly cafe, and it felt so good to just be me. i need to do this more; not less.

cis folks: please understand that there is no such thing as "transgenderism." being trans is not a system of beliefs, it's a state of being inextricably tethered to one's sense of self. if you're calling for it to be eliminated, that is calling for, at best, forced detransition.

Texas has released a bounty hunter drag ban. $5,000 bounty for hunters if a person performs while "exhibiting a gender that is different from gender recorded at birth" and "violates the community standards of decency." Anti-abortion techniques now target drag and trans people.

This is how you do a genocide of trans people. This right here. It is happening.

🧵A common part of the Trans experience that I feel doesn't get discussed enough is that many Trans people have, effectively, two or more genders. I don't mean this in the sense of being bigender or multigender, though both of these things are valid, but in the sense of 1/n

i have a crazy theory - is this why corporate management boomers want everybody back in the Office? because they still have this desk. maybe not the same computer, but this same uncomfortable furniture in a room they don't like? "well, uhh, this can't possibly last for anybody"

This just played at the DNC 🔥