patience, doing up live 🎧🎚📻 @patience@cybre.space

“ok, patience, you old boomer lmao, why are you still talking about this”

i’m talking about this cos i know most folks weren’t pre-hardened (i guess “annealed” may be a better word here) early on & brutally in the ways i was during the ’80s

being hardened like that is another form of structural violence which folks today treat as if was a “long, long ago, before history” thing

it wasn’t.

this came up in in a chat a couple of weeks back when me & two other hens who hatched in the early ’90s got a chance to see each other face-to-face (ok, by video) to lament how many folks we’ve known in which we were the “survived by” & how few living peers/hens remain

one of us had just lost a hatchling-daughter just two weeks before & she was still in heavy grief,

her grief has cut esp. hard cos she’d been optimistic that her daughter wouldn’t have to know some of the shit we fought to keep from happening ever again,

but it’s still happening

she also wrote about it:
https://medium.com/@dirtycitybird/rest-in-peace-rose-wong-6acffa42c44d

[BOOSTS OK!]

i cant find my last poast about it, so i’ll re-post:

if you have a dead mac laptop that just sits in a closet or box somewhere, send it over my way so i can tinker with it and, if it’s truly le dead, can be used as a donor for other computers

and if you’re in, like, the GO Transit area, and you have a bigger Mac that’s dead and wanna donate it to a trans woman who likes to take apart and fix computers, find me and send over a post (before getting the OK to dm me)

#introductions
[boosts: OK]

[i’m/we’re]
– 91yo trans af old hen, hatched in ’91
– Melungeon & white-coded
– living w/ semi-healed cPTSD & anti-D-managed clinical depression of >35yrs)
– undoc’d immigrant in a settler state
– child-survivor of *clinical* trans conversion therapy in the ’80s
– named plaintiff in MN Sup. Ct ruling that was first anywhere to confront trans folk’s access to washrooms (I lost, sry!)
– ND, on spectrum
– came up w/ stuff like “deadname”, “voicing”, “first/second puberty” & other shit maybe
– mum to Frida, My Amazing Calico
–do floral wifery on brownfields

AND
– music archivist & DJ
– film photog (DSLRs: too much 💲)
– retired bike msgnr, graphic artist & web designer
– committed to destroying whiteness
– communist (anarchism: 🆗)
– urbanist trained by uni & Black womanism
– ardent abt public spacing accessibility/equity, taking back neoliberally-privatized/stolen zones, decolonization & guerrilla removal of hostile architectures
– learning the Talmud, not yet Jewish

when is International Trans Day

(boost if you don’t know)

finally… a quality Trans Day of Cis-gaze Visibility thread by someone else (on birdhellsite, from my old pal @dirtycitybird) i can actually get behind on the window-dressing farce which is now this shallow day

https://twitter.com/dirtycitybird/status/1377203443652292610

an international trans day, if one were to exist, would be poggers,

but truth told, i can’t wait until there’s an International Trans Month so that cis people can spend that entire month complaining how they don‘t get one month (because they only get twelve)

totally ok with seeing folks (who almost never interact) to go and unfollow/block away after disapproving of me boosting my past takes on the topic of this complete bullshit day (started by a total cracker because she didn’t like the “negativity” of another bullshit day started also by a honky)

Rachel Crandall Day of White Trans Visibility

a… are yall too young to remember…

:crab meme:

G. GORDON LIDDY IS DEAD

@healyn, please verify that i’m looking at virtual siblings here… or maybe matt before and a portrayal of him right after his political career is over

brothers from a different mother…

[cw: dramatized violence, and an album cover]