I'm your dad, Jackson. I'm back from getting milk and cigars and I'm very disappointed in you.

'Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance—no matter how improved—as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children.' - Ta-Nehisi Coates

material reality

like disliking beets

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Notice how he doesn’t distinguish between the trustworthiness of self-reported mental health and self-reported physiological health?

These two things aren’t the same. Using subjective perception for a metric that’s inherently subjective is… normal.

lol ok

You have no idea how much trans people deprioritize our own comfort in order to make sure the cis people around us feel comfortable.

It's all attached to bodily autonomy, which is why cross movement solidarity is so important. I no longer have a uterus and I want everyone to have the right to make any decisions about their bodies that make them happy.