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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 39m

Also apart from racism being bad in itself, it's just shit writing. Why bother coming up with interesting motives for your villain when it can just be "because they're Arab" (or Russian, Iranian, Irish, Chinese, Pakistani, whoever your country's enemy of the day is)

Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 50m

British spy thrillers: compelling psychological drama but slathered in racism sauce

American spy thrillers: Oops! All Racism

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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 2h

Funny how this doesn't even mention once that the US military is the world's largest emitter. They made the bed, now they get to lie in it

Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops

For decades, the military treated the climate crisis as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases from extreme weather

www.theguardian.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

It’s always “imagine living a 6/10 man in today’s society” and never “imagine living as a conventionally unattractive women in today’s society” like actually the men still have it better and are ignorant to gendered violence and its consequences

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

i think it should be extremely easy to get a job. what do you really risk just throwing me in the mix and seeing what happens? a few dollars in wages, maybe a few more in the unemployment fund? we both know you have the money. I’M the one who doesn’t have the money! because i’m asking you for a job!

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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 17h

They live in a bubble and can't comprehend what life is like outside it, so they tend to be insensitive to the issues normal people face

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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 18h

(triangle factory meme) Big Pharma: "I guess we're doing trans women now"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

the protagonist isn't always the hero. they are just the person the book is about. sometimes authors write books about people who are bad and it does not mean that the author is bad

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 1d

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 1d

A character being relatable is about the skill of the writer not the nature of the character and writers who can't make an unusual or difficult character relatable should probably quit publishing and fucking practice for a while.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 1d

I find it kinda funny how detectives in German are Kriminalpolizei. Like you're telling me the rest of the cops aren't criminals?? Somehow I find that a bit hard to believe

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 1d

I know there's a long history of drag being interconnected with trans women, but I've personally never enjoyed it and it really gets under my skin when (almost universally cis) people assume I should love it.

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 7d

ME: i know! let's play "2 truths and a lie"

GUARD WHO ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH: i hate you so much right now

ME: uh-oh, looks like we found the liar!

GUARD WHO ALWAYS LIES: great work boss, you really cracked the case

ME: ☺️

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tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 2d

going to start up a rival journal to Nature and call it Nurture

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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 3d

Like does the average reader really just have a complete lack of empathy for anyone different from them? I guess I shouldn't be that surprised, but damn, that's bleak

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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 3d

I never understood the deal with "relatability". Like if a character has relatable personality/goals/backstory/etc their ethnicity or whatever doesn't make any difference. Hell, even though I'm a trans lesbian I can relate to a cishet male protag if they're written well enough

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 3d

*gets on my soap box* this idea that cis and trans women (in general) and especially cis and trans lesbians don’t have massive amounts of overlapping experiences and anxieties is a function of our oppression as women—as queer women—and is vital to resist

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 3d

Trans women often find themselves feeling predatory for interest in cis women, but from a lot of recent conversations with cis women I learned that they often feel predatory for their interest in trans women as well

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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 3d

Also probably the gayest and transest thing I've ever read

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Samantha @that1890sgirl.bsky.social · 3d

It's so good

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 3d

put trans women in your fiction. don’t be a fucking coward.

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 4d

it didn't take a lot to reach that usually high bar in this case specifically because the defendant is transgender and we live in a society which constantly tells everyone to hate transgender people.

So there is no two ways about it. Ciara Watkin was imprisoned for being transgender. That's a fact.

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