If you want to stay in touch, I'm reasonably active on bsky and tumblr under the same handle (flameswallower), and my website has an e-mail address where you can reach me.
So @mayadeanewriter and I decided to write an essay about How To Read A Trans Fem Writer - about the hyper-criticality and scrutiny that our work is subjected to. And we invited some of our fave trans fem writers to comment! Check it out:
https://t.co/giGldy6hsb
Commissions are open! As we approach the holiday season, now is the best time to commission me to get custom art on time. I am open for larger illustration projects tailored to your vision, as well as set price pieces listed below!
As a general rule, carnivores are male and herbivores are female. The larger an animal is the more it tends to be male. Wild animals tend male whereas domesticated animals tend female, however this can be overridden by size and carnivorousness.
vinted enforces gendered categories for baby clothing, which means that even non-gendered hippie organic stuff with applique animals on it has to be gendered by the seller. This gives real-time insight into the way that certain animals are considered to have an intrinsic gender.
Sometimes I see a medical image so striking I have to call Briar over so that they can look at the things a human body can do, which it would seem include some real IRL Uzumaki shenanigans.
I was raised by a single father, one year I insisted I was to be a salmon for Halloween, so he spent three hours and two rolls of tinfoil figuring it out
granted, i'm not an academic and i'm not into theory, this is literally just from reading marx in college & knowing marxists. maybe there is now a competing definition where "bourgeois" can just mean "comparatively privileged/well off next to many people in the global south"
i thought you had to like own property, stocks, or a business to be bourgeois; certainly there are plenty of non-wealthy people who would count (i'd be one, technically), but a trans starbucks worker in a major US city (say) would prob. not fit the def.