So shoutout to allies who openly show love for people in grand and public ways … you’re the inspiration for my next series called Public Display of Affection / PDA which is just all about centering trans artists and putting respect on their legacies in terms of the culture they’ve created

So one of the biggest ways that I’ve learned to prevent violence in my life is to constantly be around people who treat me well, to the point where average assholes and predators are afraid to mistreat me because of who openly cares about me. How you treat your friends and neighbors matters

I know people say not to blame myself but the thing is that gender based violence exists and that isn’t my fault but it is my responsibility to protect myself from it because clearly nobody else is going to

So for workers who can’t screen their peers/clients they come into contact with in a day and who are not in a position to have a say in how the team is built it really doesn’t matter the industry that you’re in tbh if you are perceived as someone that people can get away with harassing they will