lily🌱

queer trans woman 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ also depressed and stuff. i care a lot about people and things

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@vivscontent irish for she/her

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@JohannesTEvans it is a simplistic question but tbh i think it's one some artists could benefit from giving more thought. even when the answer is "it doesn't have one", the process of arriving at that answer seems valuable? also there's maybe meaningful distinctions between purpose and meaning

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@JessiSheron adore this!

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@zarahsultana incredibly powerful! how could anyone hear this and not be moved?

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

In Parliament today, countless MPs were united in the belief that the answer to failed war and occupation is yet more war and occupation.

They couldn’t be more wrong.

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@residentJan @glassbottommeg yeah i really felt for him with this tweet... it's awful how easy it is for pile-ons to happen on twitter, even when everyone involved has good intentions

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@ptychomancer i read the image before your caption and spent a while trying to work out if i'd just forgotten what chirps and hearses were or if they were a new system i hadn't heard about yet

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@LostEst1981 this is why it's hard for you to find "constructive debate" about this. whenever someone claims to have a genuine concern about how to balance and protect both groups, it's almost always inevitably just a front for ignorance and disdain for trans people. start with this next time

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@Lilac_Shark mistrust isn't black and white or unchangeable, it can be chipped away at and eventually overcome. or it can grow and fester and become more deeply ingrained.

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@PennyRed i also just generally as a trans person don't trust medical authorities or society as a whole to have any input on this question. if we get bogged down arguing about what constitutes harm, we have lost the argument. doesn't "my body, my choice" sidestep the question of harm? 4/4

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@PennyRed i've had my autonomy trampled by doctors and i don't want anyone to go through that, for any reason. it's the opposite of how we should be beating vaccine hesitancy - by building trust between communities and healthcare providers. 3/4

[UK for UNHCR @UNRefugeesUK]

A trend of soaring displacement driven by violence and persecution.

The world needs peace, stability and cooperation more than ever. To read the latest Global Trends report on forced displacement, please visit
👉 https://t.co/1OhNfw7DV2 #WithRefugees

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

this is easily the most powerful and touching speech i've ever seen from an elected official on trans rights. a bright shining beacon of truth and hope

[Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈 @MhairiBlack]

Over the last five years there has been an organised and concerted campaign mobilised against the trans community. My speech on Pride in 2021. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

On Tuesday, NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq gave a farewell speech in Parliament where she spoke directly about how alienating her experience in the House has been. She spoke about how she didn’t feel safe there, and that she had to go into “survival mode” at work.

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@ireneista Botanicula is an interesting one to think about here. you are the wildlife, but there's also hostile monsters which are presumably part of the ecosystem despite (because of) being parasites. i don't think you actually kill any of them though, iirc you just hide and run from them.

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

cut my hair during lockdown, it's a bit wild but i like it

[lily🌱 @SmileSunward]

@chaosprime more or less, i get the disdain at least