Cara MacB (They/Them)

A fat, a feminist, a funny, a queer. Most certainly ND somehows&ways. they/them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 💛🤍💜🖤

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

This old video of mine going out to all the fatphobes in my mentions today 😘

Might be time to reopen the hotline…

[B @bazhsw8183]

🧵 about #class #privilege and #privateeducation. Watching the Olympic swimming last night and Clare Balding said something in such an incredulous tone which summed up the establishment perspective and how their experience differs. 1/

[Jay ☭✨ @Chxinsawenby]

The UK be like "trans people aren't real, they just have mental health issues, also mental health issues aren't real, get a job, also there are no jobs"

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

Bigots are so convinced their hate is serving them, despite continuing to be miserable. Constantly afraid of receiving the same level of persecution they dish out. The commitment to to it is frightening

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

This quote, from Mahershala Ali’s character, George, in Netflix’s ‘Leave The World Behind’ - apply this to bigots:

“Nothing frightens me more, than a person unwilling to learn. Even at their own expense. That’s a darkness I will never understand.”

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

A society that doesn’t make things accessible, on the basis that disabled people *could* chose to no longer be disabled, isn’t a society with free choice at all

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

Even if treatment offered was free, painless, guaranteed to never have negative side effects - people should still have the right to chose it for themselves

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

A utopian society wouldn’t *only* include tech and medicine that could potentially eradicate disabilities and illnesses

A utopian society would be built on autonomy first as a principle, and would cater for all people and their choices

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

Wow, you sound like you were never abused by a parent (derogatory)

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

But when you ask that question, what you’re really doing is showing me that you think I’m a problem, to which there is a solution

Sorry not sorry to disappoint

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

“Why can’t you just be a woman who’s a bit masculine sometimes?”

Because I want no part in fucking gender crap, that’s why. I don’t want my every physical and personality trait fucking categorised like that

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

Rejection and dismissal is painful. Being an unapologetic fat and queer person, makes my life harder in many ways

But what’s the alternative? Sacrificing who I am, to play a part that *might* grant me an absence of rejection, just long enough for someone to exploit me?

No

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

When that performance becomes intrinsically linked to your survival, it makes sense that people showing you another way would be perceived as dangerous

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

The queer agenda is literally just promoting autonomy

And that shouldn’t be scary but, it is, if you’ve been raised as a commodity. A commodity who’s only sources of love, joy and sanctuary, come from performing for others

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

Single women who date men might wanna watch the replies here 👀 🚩

[Alice Porter @alicemayporter]

A very specific request: I'm looking to speak to men who love the Wolf Of Wall Street for an article I'm writing for Dazed. If you describe that film as your favourite, or have done so in the past, please send me a DM and I can tell you more about the piece #journorequest

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

“A tax on hope”

Correct

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

@CarrieBeeInNC Yeah I’m ok, thank you. Online friends have been a genuine lifesaver. I just feel quite sad about getting it so wrong with people irl and just feeling a general sense of distrust now

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

Making friends is hard because a lot of people seem to only view other humans as commodities

I have often felt what I thought was genuine caring from someone, only to discover they were keeping me sweet so long as I was of use to them

[Cara MacB (They/Them) @cara_macb]

Roger Federer and Quentin Tarantino - related, no?