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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • I’m listening to Good Omens (obligatory fuck Neil Gaiman), but the audiobook is fantastic. Could easily see myself re-listening over and over as a comfort read.

    Reading a memoir by Travis Alabanza called None of the Above, which is a memoir about the non-binary experience technically but I highly recommend to anyone who wants to see the gendered world we live in from a new perspective. It is so fucking good.

    Looking forward to starting How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler. Another memoir which I’ll be reading for my book club.




  • I think convincing yourself that they are animals would lead to worse treatment of them because you stop seeing them as humans. It’s also led to this whole 300 years of their ancestors still believing others are subhuman.

    Idk I just see a lot more logic in “my tribe bested you at war so now you come work for us” vs “my people are a gift of god and you are subhuman trash and your descendents are subhuman trash and I will build systems of oppression to prove that and you will forever be beneath me”.

    There’s also the degrees of separation with the African slave trade. I’m going to make the comparison to animals and I apologize for the irony here but the difference between killing your own chickens to eat (you see the whole process and it keeps an eye of morality over it) vs going to the superstore and picking a prepackaged chicken (the morality is no longer your business).










  • Yes, drag is just a very exaggerated fashion often expressing hyperfemininity (drag queen) or hypermasculinity (drag king), or sometimes just artistic exaggerated styles of any kind. The gender neutral term for people who participate is drag artists.

    Anyone of any sex or gender can wear any kind of drag and call themselves any of the above.