Lyra, Esq., is NOT DAREDEVIL
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Defending your right to protest. Lawyer, trans, leftist Christian. Married to @kristenfdaily She/her, any/all
Joined February 2019
“You’re so resilient!” Thanks! My options were that or dead.
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Steven Spielberg: “I need a song for my dinosaur movie”. John Williams: “cool I’m going to write the most beautiful song in the entire world”.
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The cinematography on Euphoria is just gorgeous
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You know of all the Rowling shenanigans, we don’t talk enough about how movie Lavender Brown was Black until they recast the part with a white girl so a main character could date her.
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Here's the thing: a lot of LGBTQ people my age *did* grow up with our schools never mentioning queerness and transness. If your parents were straight, you simply had no way to even *know* there were others like you out there. /1.
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JK Rowling has explicitly said she believes the money she makes is evidence that people generally agree with her views on trans people or at least those beliefs aren’t a dealbreaker to them. *You* might not think buying Wizarding stuff is supporting her views, but she sure does.
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An irony of the “groomer” bullshit is I understood I was trans at 11 but no one in my life talked about transness so to learn about myself I had to use the internet and found stuff that was VERY not age appropriate. Imagine if I could have learned about it from Sesame Street. /1.
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Rise of Skywalker does have one perfect moment, it’s that right after they show the first gay kiss in Star Wars (for 2 seconds) they immediately cut to this frowning slug monster for twice as long. 16/10, no notes
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FYI, trans-inclusive feminism is just called "feminism".
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JD Vance and that Hillbilly Elegy bullshit always remind me of when I had an internship at a rural food bank and I constantly had to deal with impoverished white people complaining to staff anytime they perceived a non-white food bank client as undeserving. /1.
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A Jewish friend of mine once said that the thing to take from this quote is not just the power of optimism about human nature, its that the “good at heart” people still killed her and we can only prevent evil by understanding evil is carried out by people who believe they’re good.
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Venom is an example of a villain who evolved into a hero because he was popular with readers and writers decided to rehabilitate him. By contrast, Magneto evolved into a hero because every decade since Reagan it's harder and harder to pretend he's wrong.
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Cis allies need to know: the shooter in Buffalo mentioned trans people at length in his manifesto. Right wing media is falsely claiming a trans person carried out the shooting in Uvalde, using pictures of a trans woman who is notably still alive and very much not the shooter. /1.
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In a hilarious plot twist, when I was a 15 year old “boy” I asked for and got breast reduction surgery because I had gynecomastia. The doctor recommended it, my parents agreed. No one questions irreversible procedures to affirm a kid they think is cis.
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Around 30 killer whales were spotted in Monterey Bay over weekend -- with no clear explanation why so many had gathered.
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Spike Lee has been calling Tarantino out as a racist since the early 90’s, it is not some new woke idea that a white screenwriter should not be writing the N word to put in the mouth of a character played by himself.
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Not to do *discourse* but Laura Palmer was going to appear on Twin Peaks only as a corpse, some photographs, and a home video. They hired local actress Sheryl Lee to play Laura because the part was too small to justify Hollywood casting. Lee’s performance struck David Lynch /1
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I’ve seen a few more “Dune is a white savior story, problematic” takes from people who haven’t read the book because YES IT IS A WHITE SAVIOR STORY! The white savior eventually destroys the indigenous culture, ecologically destroys their home, and commits genocide, ALL OF WHICH.
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My actual professor of critical race theory in law school said “John Brown was white, what do you have to be ashamed of personally unless you identify more with the enslavers than with John Brown?”.
A teacher in South Carolina was reported by her students for teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me.”. The students explained that the book made them ashamed to be White, violating a clause forbidding teachers from making students “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish,
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Help: I overpaid for a social media platform because I was mad a trans woman boned my wife, now I’m begging Garfield for spare change. I am an alpha btw.
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A lot of younger conservative women think they’d love the 50’s trad wife lifestyle but like if those 50’s wives didn’t hate their husbands why were they feeding them savory jellos?. “Did you have a good day at the asbestos farm sweetie here’s some shrimp and eggs in horse glue”
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No matter how many times they adapt it, the death of Bruce Wayne’s parents always gets me
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The woke agenda is ruining movies, I mean if they made Alien today they’d probably cast a woman as the lead and make one of the characters trans
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Just a little over 12 years ago, in May of 2011 my then-girlfriend died of an overdose in Austin, TX. I looked at her account on May 4, the anniversary of her passing, it was still there. Gone today. Posting this for Kelli, who was 21. Thank you.
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They literally couldn’t imagine just unconditionally helping people, it was so exhausting. A whole lot of people would rather food go in the garbage than go to a “lazy” person, and by lazy they always mean non-white. /7.
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The next time you hear someone say being trans is a mental illness (what with the attempted suicide rate and all), let them know that in the mid 20th century as US states adopted no-fault divorce, it’s estimated that the suicide rate among women fell between 16-30% /1.
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ARE PORTRAYED AS VERY BAD AND HARMFUL THINGS, it’s called commentary! Plenty is problematic about the Dune books but oh my god.
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And these white people were otherwise very sweet and kind, which made it all the more taxing, I am certain none of them thought of themselves as racist, the math to them was “white person who needs help equals unfortunate victim, non-white person who needs help equals lazy”.
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Me and the girlies on the way to see Dune 2, a movie about a spice world
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I think there’s a clear answer to this: this particular child sex trafficking narrative where the enemy is strangers (rather than family members, church leaders, etc) justifies a lot of racist and queer phobic viewpoints. It justifies a constant police state. /1.
I truly do not understand how angry and emotional people get when you tell them that their kids are not likely to be kidnapped from their safe neighborhood by strangers and sold for sex tourists. Can someone who is a parent explain this to me?.
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Reminder that my conservative parents wish they had affirmed me when I came out as trans at age 11 because when they didn’t my grades immediately dropped and I was a drug addict by 18. Telling kids they’re not old enough to know isn’t a neutral, wait-and-see decision.
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So many queer and trans people right now are finding their old mental health systems insufficient because, well, a lot of treatment for anxiety and depression are based on the notion that your anxiety and depression aren’t rational. What do you do, then, with “don’t say gay” /1.
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I was on crossdresser social media before I came out as trans and it gave me some perspective on ppl who are gender non conforming but don’t consider themselves under the trans umbrella. It’s VERY common for them to try HRT for 3, 6, 12 months, go “eh” and stop, no big deal.
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So, I know I go on about how brilliant The Last Jedi is but @rianjohnson deserves props for distilling into one character how dudes who’re like “both sides are the same, actually” “freethinker” always end up siding with fascism because it’s easier. Look at Elon and Joe Rogan
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White client: “that guy over there has been coming here or two months now.”. Me: “Okay, well you’ve been coming for six months.”. White client: “Yes but I have a disability.”. Me: “how do you know he doesn’t have one?”. White client: “well he doesn’t look like he has one.” /5.
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That's a really lonely feeling. Many LGBTQ people know they're queer or trans from an extremely young age. If they're old enough to know that about themselves, how can it be possible that their peers aren't old enough to know that they exist? /2.
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It was bizarre, really pretty sad, because all our clients were in dire straits, the white clients relied on us just as much. Also 90+ percent of our donations were grocery store foods a day or two away from expiring so there was never any shortage./2.
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Me: “Neither do you, man.”. Or I had to explain all that shit was just not our problem. “We have more food than we can give out, we wouldn’t turn a millionaire away, why do you even care?” /6.
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Also, since I knew my parents would not affirm me, it wasn’t safe to talk to them, it wasn’t safe to talk to teachers, so I did, as an 11 year old, talk to strangers on the internet. No harm came from that but not being able to share my identity in kid-friendly spaces /2.
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The only justification for parents’ “right” to know their kid is LGBTQ+ is so the parent can abuse them. If it was safe for the parents to know, the kid would have told them.
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“It was easier for my family to love me for my identity than it was for them to accept I am a racist and want poor people to suffer so I can have more money”
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"Sorry, a 10 year old straight kid is too young to know that there are 10 year old gay kids." Oh? Why? Try framing that in a way that doesn't say the kid who knows he's gay or trans at 10 doesn't feel his very existence is dirty and wrong. /3.
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So we were usually like begging people to take more because our we had so many of most of our items and only a day or two to give them out, but we’d still have white clients coming up to us complaining about how much a non-white person was taking. /3.
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Ultimately made me MORE of a target for grooming or for predators. Trans kids like Kai Shappley or Jazz Jennings are wholesome as hell and it would have made a world of difference if people like that were where I first learned about transness rather /3.
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"Sweetie, you're too disgusting for your friends to love you for who you are." And a lot of us DID grow up with this, and we know how much it sucks. Erasing queerness and transness in the classroom is not some neutral proposition in predominately cishet world. /4.
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Cis allies: trans people really need you to step up right now and watch Dune (1984 or 2021, ideally both) instead of going to see the new Wizarding movie. Other transes would stop at "don't go see Fantastic Beasts" but I need more people to talk to about Dune.
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And they’d like keep track of how long non-white people had been coming, even when they’d been using the food bank just as long. I had the following conversation like three times a week: /4.
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Am i crazy that I thought the Moo Deng thing was pro-Chappell?.
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Since I’ve been on a Blade kick, let’s remember the time Toby Keith gave Kris Kristofferson shit about being a leftist and Kris responded by asking him if he’d ever killed a man
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For some time now, every LGBTQ person, particularly every trans person, has gone out to gay bars, pride parades, or just out in public as a visible trans person… anticipating this kind of violence. If you’re straight and cis you need to know how bad things are.
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Choosing the cup of a king rather than the cup of a carpenter when seeking the holy grail.
In Your opinion What makes people age the most ???.
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And the kids who are queer or trans are going to get that information anyway, they're going to go looking for that information. Should they get it in a safe, classroom setting? Or are you sending them out on the internet to find it on their own, because that can go VERY wrong. /5.
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As far as we know trans people weren’t victims in either shooting but cis allies need to be aware of and alarmed by how close anti-trans hate is to so much of this country’s right wing violence.
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In Bond v. Floyd the Supreme Court held that legislators as representatives of their constituents enjoy GREATER First Amendment protection for speech than private citizens, not less. The Court concluded a state house cannot expel a legislator for encouraging protest.
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All acts of queer love should immediately be followed by a slug monster reaction.
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Than being left alone to navigate that stuff at such an early age. I knew I was trans well before I had any idea what it was, I thought I was the only one. So it was inevitable I was going to go looking and try to find information about myself, just like it is for /4.
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Trans kids now, and it is just so much damn safer for them to be able to do that in their school library than in places they have to hide from their teachers and parents. /5.
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an inter dimensionald demi-goddess who exists as a check on the forces of male violence. An angel, a unicorn, a bright young woman who could have been anything. /4.
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A lot of anti sex work progressives have responded to my threads about protecting sex workers with some familiar stuff: what about SWs who don't want to be SWs but can't get out? As a lawyer who has represented not just voluntary SWs, let me break it down:.
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I want to correct a narrative: there are people blaming the Colorado shooting on the unreasonable demands of trans rights activists. Besides being truly awful victim blaming, I thought it might be helpful for you to understand the “demands” of trans people. /1.
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From: Lord Denethor.Subject: The Armies of Mordor. I’ll give it to you straight, [name], the Witch King’s return to Minas Morgul, the fall of Ithilien and the rebuilding of the tower of Barad-Dur have me DISGUSTED. If we don’t meet tonight’s fundraising deadline,.
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so hard that they ended up developing the character together, specifically because both knew the show needed to be about Laura. The character needed to be a shining star and heart of the series, rather than an object of the plot. So a character that started off as /2.
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not even a speaking role became one of the most iconic characters in the history of TV, because Sheryl Lee, David Lynch, Mark Frost and others knew how important it was to give depth and intention a victims of sexual violence. Laura went from a wrapped corpse to /3.
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What to expect if you decide your child is too young to know they're trans (cw drugs, suicide, incarceration, violence):. I tried to come out as a middle schooler in the late 90's. My parents reacted better than most at the time might have. /1.
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A note on the invisible trans people of the past: . When I first started publicly tweeting about being an openly trans lawyer I got a wave of a certain type of email or DM, and I mean there were dozens. They were from 50+ year old closeted trans lawyers. /1.
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Brianna Ghey was murdered one year ago. Never let the circus around anti-trans hate fool you. The pronoun jokes, the litterbox lie, the bud light bullshit, snide jokes from reactionary politicians. It’s not politics, it’s murder.
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Trans masc erasure is real and one of the most jaw dropping examples is TERFs assuming “people with uteruses” is politically correct inclusion of trans women in the category of “women” rather than medically necessary inclusion of trans mascs in the “with uteruses” category.
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I love y’all but “there’s no point in democrats passing a federal law upholding abortion rights, the court would strike it down” is a bad, bad, bad take. Almost the entirety of this draft opinion says Roe has to go *because* it’s the legislature’s place to pass such a law, not /1.
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I’ll be blunt, allies: your entire life is going to be defined by what you do to fight transphobia, antisemitism, and other bigotry RIGHT NOW. The “good” Germans who said and did nothing in the 20’s and 30’s, they mean nothing to history except as accessories to genocide. /1.
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There’s a myth that the human body replaces itself every seven years through cell death and regrowth, this is not true. In reality, the human body dies onstage in the tank every night but you don’t really want to know that. You want to be fooled.
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Being trans and watching cis people flip out about trans people asking them not to play a transphobe’s video game as states are criminalizing being trans:
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“Kids are too young to decide they’re trans.” . Here’s what kids are too young for: believing something is wrong with them or that their parents’ love is conditional on them not being trans. I knew I was trans before I knew trans people even existed, and I’m not alone in this. /1.
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When God came and took all the dinosaurs to heaven that was called the Velocirapture.
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The anti-trans experts and politicians in that Florida healthcare ban hearing are talking about putting trans people who seek treatment on a registry, in case you think trans peoples’ fears are out of proportion right now.
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So yeah, prior to no-fault divorce you could have said that mere existence as a woman was a mental illness, with higher suicide rates. Unjust laws and social attitudes can, and often do, result in tragic mental health outcomes. /4.
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It’s Pride month, so please remember the only correct non-gendered alternative to “ladies and gentlemen”
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Thinking about this exchange after Biden’s speech
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Remembering a very *me* story, when I was 11 I wanted to watch the best movie ever made, so I sat down to watch Citizen Kane and fucking hated it, then proceeded to talk about it constantly for two weeks like “his childhood??? A sled?????” til my dad was like /1.
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Atrocities are co-signed and carried out by people who give to charity, who always help out their neighbors, who perform many acts of kindness throughout their lives. We can’t prevent horrors by looking only for monsters, we have to understand empathetic, well-intentioned /2.
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Drove out to a rural jail last weekend and stopped at a Walmart in the area. There was a Pride display. There are some very visible lunatics enraged by acceptance of LGBTQ people but like, even Walmart calculated they will sell some rainbow shit at a store in a sundown town. /1.
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Please give an awareness boost to this, because it's related to what's going on in TX, it's pretty egregious, and it's exactly how trans rights ended up under attack in the first place. Yesterday I got interviewed for an article about trans families in a medical/science /1.
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@RQMontgomery I understand that but what I said is still true. They assigned a Black actress the role when they didn’t care about the part and then when the character became more prominent, knowing they already had a credited Black actress in the role, they cast a white actress.
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Marv from Home Alone, being a gay ally and opposing Christian nationalism:
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I hope cis ppl who have trans friends, family, or coworkers, I hope they know that each and every trans person they know has had to ask themselves “at what point will I flee my state” and “in what circumstance am I willing to die.” We’re friendly, laughing, but make no mistake.
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I swear this is one of the funniest exchanges in the history of television
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Harry Potter and The Conspicuous Silence on Brett Kavanaugh, MeToo, or the General Topic of Sexual Assault Except to Smear Hypothetical Trans Women.
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People keep specifically using doctors in examples talking about the incompetence of cops and lack of accountability, like “if a doctor did this” and, babe, I gotta tell you, doctors are nearly impossible to hold accountable and have their own race problems.
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If you never liked Rick + Morty, cool. I thought it was great. I’m saying this because I’ve seen some reversals from y’all and I think it’s really important we admit abusers don’t only make bad art. You can’t predict whether someone is an abuser by whether you like their work./1.
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If you’re wondering why youth medical transition bans are getting slaughtered by even Trump judges it’s because you have to be able to show there’s some legitimate harm that law is protecting people from. The evidence is just not there. /1.
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“has it occurred to you that maybe it IS that great a movie if two weeks later you can’t stop thinking about it?” And like it really is that good, I still watch that shit like once a year. /2.
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@DavidSpacewad No, I already knew who I was, I only learned there were other people like me.
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“George Lucas had the whole thing planned out from the beginning” huh okay if you say so
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Not gonna sugar coat this, I represent a lot of protestors and if police want to arrest you, they will. “Disturbing the peace,” “blocking a walk way” whatever. Anyone who thinks these drag bills won’t be used to arrest trans people for being trans in public is naive.
Three bills just dropped in Arizona that would define "people dressing opposite of their biological sex at birth and exaggerating their gender" as "adult content.". It says they can only do it in strip clubs, not before noon on Sundays. It threatens them with criminal records.
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