A Big Link Ball - Early April 02023
Apr. 17th, 2023 09:14 amLet us begin with the way in which Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day does not provide a moral, a lesson, or any other situation where the author or illustrator instructs the reader on how to feel about a bad day, and in fact, may be subtly undercutting the narration of Alexander and whether or not his day is exactly as bad as he says it is.
It's Autism Acceptance Month, and so it's worth checking to see whether you're contributing to the distress and unhappiness of an autistic person, or whether the people around you are ticking the boxes on the checklist of doom.
The Onion disguises their entirely warranted attack on mainstream journalists' coverage of trans people as a satire piece about the sacred duty of journalism is to endanger trans people and create as large a trans panic as they can.
If you identify somewhere outside the gender binary, the Gender Census would like to hear from you. There's also some good news, a poll saying that most trans adults who have done some transitioning are satisfied with that decision. The bad news is that and a fair number of them are doing so without the support of trusted adults or their families, and many of them are being dscriminated against or attacked for being trans. And that's without the institutional attacks that are going on.
( There's so much more inside )
Last out, you may try out any pronouns you like, and keep the ones that fit and you want. You do not have to be trans to use different pronouns. Offer opportunities for others to share and model the behavior you like yourself, but don't force anyone to out themselves or feel like they have only one opportunity.
And a seies of shorts about a romance writer and the character they want to have all sorts of trope-y fun with who is mostly refusing to go along with the tropes and would like to do something else, thank you. Which we think might work well with Stiffed, a podcast detailing the existence of Viva magazine, which was supposed to be a feminist answer to publications like Penthouse and Playboy, but despite the all-star cast, often ended up with the men trying (and succeeding) to control the content so that it wasn't as feminist as it aimed to be.
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It's Autism Acceptance Month, and so it's worth checking to see whether you're contributing to the distress and unhappiness of an autistic person, or whether the people around you are ticking the boxes on the checklist of doom.
The Onion disguises their entirely warranted attack on mainstream journalists' coverage of trans people as a satire piece about the sacred duty of journalism is to endanger trans people and create as large a trans panic as they can.
If you identify somewhere outside the gender binary, the Gender Census would like to hear from you. There's also some good news, a poll saying that most trans adults who have done some transitioning are satisfied with that decision. The bad news is that and a fair number of them are doing so without the support of trusted adults or their families, and many of them are being dscriminated against or attacked for being trans. And that's without the institutional attacks that are going on.
( There's so much more inside )
Last out, you may try out any pronouns you like, and keep the ones that fit and you want. You do not have to be trans to use different pronouns. Offer opportunities for others to share and model the behavior you like yourself, but don't force anyone to out themselves or feel like they have only one opportunity.
And a seies of shorts about a romance writer and the character they want to have all sorts of trope-y fun with who is mostly refusing to go along with the tropes and would like to do something else, thank you. Which we think might work well with Stiffed, a podcast detailing the existence of Viva magazine, which was supposed to be a feminist answer to publications like Penthouse and Playboy, but despite the all-star cast, often ended up with the men trying (and succeeding) to control the content so that it wasn't as feminist as it aimed to be.
(Materials via
adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
