Posts by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
(DIR) Post #AWiPXv4sOdVZc2yQmu by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-06-15T11:41:46Z
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Just being alive is so good. 💜#Trans
(DIR) Post #AX6SkPJ1H5eTKwtVWS by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-06-25T15:19:25Z
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It is no coincidence that the points in our lives where we grow the most are also moments of total vulnerability. They can be trauma or joy, wonder or loss, but in those instants we shed our skin and start anew. /1#trans
(DIR) Post #AX6SkQ0ydeoVXHSc2S by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-06-25T15:19:35Z
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Kissing a girl on a sofa. Holding my eldest child for the first time. Admitting to myself that I had to transition. Accepting that a business we had run for 15 years just wasn’t going to make it. Coming out to my parents and being rejected. Coming out to the world and receiving so much joy. Living. Growing. Each time a leap of faith. Each moment held in a breath, and then, exhale, move on, this is who we are now. /2
(DIR) Post #AX6SkUHQmQLslTBoEy by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-06-25T15:20:46Z
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As trans people, we grow our skins so thick. Armor to protect the tiny seed within. The final shedding of that armor, the last time we hide, that’s the hardest, most vulnerable moment of all. And yet, when the skin grows back soft, when we finally stand and look the world in the eye… what a moment that is. /3
(DIR) Post #AX6SkW6VzyoCQC67VI by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-06-25T15:21:27Z
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And then, one day, you find yourself standing on your doorstep, coffee in hand, bathed in the light of a morning sun. And you are just you. And it is glorious./fin
(DIR) Post #AX6So4ALoWb4vnaI1g by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-04-19T18:07:56Z
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I wrote this for Pride last year, and I've been thinking about it, so resharing here.Being trans means growing up knowing that words run through your core that can never be said. It means building a shell around those words, and knowing that this shell is all people want from you. It is watching yourself die inside as you live in a way that makes others comfortable. If these things sound familiar, you are probably gay, or trans, or some other flavor of queer. /1#trans
(DIR) Post #AX6So4wYvHA5LK8nAm by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-04-19T18:08:15Z
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Being trans and closeted means looking in the mirror every day and watching someone else grow old there. Waiting for time to pass. Your eyes go dead, your smiles are hollow. Your wife asks you why you are depressed and you can't say the words. Not to her, not to your therapist, not to anyone. Once they are spoken they can't be unsaid. They burn down everything. /2
(DIR) Post #AX6So5ayV1UJMf34AC by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-04-19T18:12:31Z
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Being trans means at some point the shell wears thin, the words get said, once, to yourself, twice to a friend, eventually to those you love. You fall into space. If you are very lucky, hands catch you. I got lucky. I was caught and held, first by my wife, then my family, and friends. Only my parents stood by as I fell from their view. /3
(DIR) Post #AX6So6FO4loXNzxL9c by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-04-19T18:13:37Z
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Being trans means knowing that one day long after you are dead, should your story be told, a bitter and wrinkled voice will say "She wasn't a woman", but it won't matter, because everyone you loved and everyone who ever truly loved you knew who you were, and that can never be taken away. /fin
(DIR) Post #AXzzO4o8NJYZGtv3Ee by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-07-23T21:00:15Z
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@SrRochardBunson No-one is forcing anyone to use their pronouns or name. However, it is basic politeness for people to do so. Common civility implies that you should refer to people in the manner they prefer.I always think it's worth asking people to consider WHY they feel the way they do about trans people (or other minorities they view with suspicion or antipathy). I can't change peoples' minds or attitudes, but if they are willing to have a little think about it, that's all I can ask.
(DIR) Post #AY3X7V6HTzJ0m8E35k by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-07-25T14:49:21Z
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@lowqualityfacts High Quality Fact
(DIR) Post #AYzyT3hYsuUrTuWvjM by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-08-22T19:28:41Z
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@lowqualityfacts Intelligent Falling. #teachthecontroversy
(DIR) Post #AaVU52DNqsOGo487Cy by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2023-10-06T22:11:26Z
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@lowqualityfacts I dunno, those fingers are pretty unconvincing... always check the hands!
(DIR) Post #Ahq6qnBEo62XfeyZNY by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2024-05-06T02:42:40Z
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You know when you take a photo and you can't bear to look at it, and then a few hours later you look at it again. and you can't see any of the things that were upsetting you? That's dysphoria. It messes with our brains. 💜#Trans
(DIR) Post #AjOHjK7sL5Kkmo3K4m by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2024-06-28T15:31:30Z
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The most serious bug in the human psyche is the tendency to believe bombastic lies over quiet truths.
(DIR) Post #AoCmswuxulsPRZA84e by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2024-11-19T02:44:05Z
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FYI. if you are a trans person without a passport in your correct gender, seems like US Passport Office is turning around expedited passport requests in less than two weeks right now. Get that passport if you can. I can't understate the value of official government ID in your correct gender.#Trans
(DIR) Post #AoHpCEVvt6CnDaZmYy by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2024-11-20T22:44:33Z
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I feel like everyone is missing an important part of how the Prison Industrial Complex fits into the whole crazy deportation plan. Like, everyone is focused on "the impact on commerce is gonna be terrible, where will we find people to do the jobs these immigrants currently do?"And the answer is, they'll be in the goddamned deportation camps, which will rapidly be rebranded as labor camps. "Let them pay for all they stole from us" and other crap like that.US Prisons currently already basically use inmates as slave labor. This step is almost inevitable.And then, when they have normalized defacto slavery, the camp doors will be generously opened for anyone they deem fit.All the pieces are in place for this. All we can do is resist the erosion of our moral outrage. We cannot let this come to pass.#uspol #deportation
(DIR) Post #AqjsY25ZgQZWdHyXuS by melissagreen@chaosfem.tw
2025-02-02T18:30:06Z
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You want evil? Kids in Africa are dying because a senile puppet and a ketamine-fueled psychopath illegally cut off funding to the programs that keep them fed. And then the psycho called those programs 'evil'.I think any human looking at that situation can figure out where the evil actually lies.#uspol #usaid #coup