aaron gabriel

transsexual. writer, translator. they/them il/yel

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

yesterday i emailed my supervisor a sentence from a book asking what it meant, and she emailed back saying that it didn't mean anything, and that's what it's like doing a phd in french philosophy folks

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

in french, they don’t say grief, they say

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@uncanny_eli v much keen if you find anything !!

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@uncanny_eli but as you say, not because it doesn’t make sense. it makes complete sense, it’s what i assumed must be happening in some way, so to bear witness to it is both shocking and completely unsurprising, if that makes sense (i think that’s also your point)

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@uncanny_eli oh yeah i do agree. i think what’s really hit heavy for me is the kind of, mutual complicity of it all. you can see that these gestures are trying to bind you to them, to coerce you into complicity with their violence, even by silence. living that has been really eye-opening

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@uncanny_eli i’m often told that i read as a straight guy so idk if that plays into it, but men who i have never met will now come up to me and say incredibly misogynistic and violent shit right off the bat. and this isn’t a one-off, it’s really fuckin regular

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@uncanny_eli idk i don’t have the subtweet so maybe off base but i absolutely have been shocked by just how bad it is. like ofc i knew before but the fact that a random guy i don’t know will come up to me in a bar now, point at a woman and tell me about what he’d do to her if he could

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@GraceOnFootball also just continually having the dumbest conversations over and over. there are so many cool things we could talk about and we’ve gotta keep shuffling through the same three topics with people who treat high school as the summit of knowledge

[Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @GraceOnFootball]

I cannot stress this enough. This is the most anti-trans government we've ever had. Not that one. This one.

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@GraceOnFootball “just wait until labour get into power you’ll see, they’re only saying all of this stuff to win votes” smh

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@SoftBulletin no, i mean. i guess we’ll see

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@SoftBulletin i just. idk. i mean i’m also in a county about to elect a far right government so, i know it could be worse. but damn, that’s it, just feel nothing, as u say

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

teaching the french english was a mistake

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@moominmartha i bring mine to france with the prescription and i’ve never had any issues. i’ve also only had it checked once in maybe 20 to and fros

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@uncanny_eli @itsjacksonbbz would also add here that the best trans healthcare i ever had was a doctor saying “you can take hormones for a month, six months, whatever, and stop. i’ll support you in whatever works for you”. flexibility only means “no medical transition” if you want it to

[Jack Doyle @JackRaoul]

For people who've had/are worried about their hormones being stopped abruptly, I have an old thread here with info about your rights, a template letter for your GP, and self-advocacy tips:

https://t.co/QWFGGmD7sz

[Fredrik’s personal @TheEditorDiary]

Why are Gr**nw**d fanatics jumping to the conclusion that Jude Bellingham called him a r_pist? The only evidence is just a video of him saying it… I thought that sort of things was far from conclusive

[Ghostface Kafka (36 Chambers) @thekafkadude]

It's really funny how America and the UK stopped investing in infrastructure in the 1980s because the free market will pave potholes and make the trains run on time and now literally nothing works and you cannot go anywhere or do anything but like 4 people are richer than God.

[aaron gabriel @philosophequeer]

@AstroJake dw there’s a few standard ones we use but you don’t need to like, be able to work it out on the fly. for the most part, anyway