Like Marsha said, I don’t pay it no mind. Y’all harass me, dehumanize me, call me ugly, throw racist names and slurs at me, question my identity and my womanhood, discuss me, spread lies about me, and so much more. I don’t pay it any mind — I have goals, dreams, and things to do. I’m a cat mom, damn it I don’t have the time.
SZA denounces AI music after discovering 238 of her songs were used to train artificial intelligence:
“If you’re a musician and you support this degenerate sh*t? You’re disgusting and there’s NOTHING YOU COULD EVER SAY TO ME TO MAKE THIS OKAY”
it makes me really happy when an artist who isn’t trans depicts us without exaggerated features from agab puberty bc it can feel derogatory even when that isn’t the intention. the trans guy in the water reflection is an incredible detail too 🏳️⚧️
Olivia Rodrigo says she feels “weird” receiving praise for speaking out on humanitarian issues in new Popcast interview:
“I try to stay educated on things. I make a conscious effort to try my very best because I think it’s important for everyone […] I’m an artist and what I do for my job is like ‘this is how I feel.’ And I present it to people and I think I would be disingenuous to be like, ‘I don’t feel heartbroken about what’s going on in Gaza.’ As an artist, I feel like that’s what you do and that’s my job [to use my platform]. I also feel really weird taking credit. I feel I could be doing more.”
As more details emerge about Juniper, I cannot help but feel despair. Not just the despair that comes from sadness, but the deep, soul wrenching pain that comes with losing family.
It does not matter that I never knew her personally, her life was no less precious. And I mourn her as if I knew her. Because when a trans woman is brutalized, stabbed over and over with such cruelty, many of us feel that terror and grief in our bones. We see ourselves, our friends, our brothers, our sisters, enbies reflected back in that violence.
I learned the full story at work, it nearly brought me to tears. I was unable to focus, the grief clung so heavily in my chest. On top of all that, is the exhaustion that comes from watching trans lives repeatedly treated as disposable, not even in the wake is she spared from vicious comments.
Juniper deserved safety. She deserved dignity. She deserved the chance to grow old, to laugh, to love, to exist. Ffs she was only 19!
She deserved so much better, and my heart will mourn her and so many others we have lost along the way. There's so much more I want to say but I'll leave it at this.
Her name is Juniper Blessing. Rest in peace sister.