“Surgeons just hand out gender surgery”
I, a 31 yr old adult, just had to ask 4 other adults for 4 separate letters to send another adult for permission to even CONSIDER giving me surgery. In Cali. I also have to lose 40 more lbs & I’ve been living as a man since I was a…
"Cis men don't feel threatened by trans men"
In HS, I bench pressed more weight than all the cis boys in my class, & they ganged up on me outside the locker room & forced me to "prove it" w/o warming up that i could do it. I almost died under the bar lifting 285 cold.
I hate that so bad. There’s a lot of “common knowledge” i didn’t learn til I was in my 20s bc I didn’t have parents who actually raised me. I’d be a lost cause if not for the internet & even that was a lot of trial & error
“We have never stopped seeking justice.”
As former army chief Manuel Benedicto Lucas Garcia is being tried for genocide and crimes against humanity in Guatemala, Indigenous survivors seek justice
They didn't help. They didn't lift the bar off me. 6 cis boys stood there making fun of me while I struggled. My coach came in luckily & helped. So fuck y'all fr
Thinking back on it now tho, it’s actually wild he put out that lukewarm neutral ass statement to begin with. Not just bc he’s Irish & outspoken about other things but bc he’d literally JUST released Swan Upon Leda (about the oppression of women in Iran but he also mentions…
And dont get me started on having little girls play mommy with dolls. Or wildin out when little boys play with kitchen sets like cishet men should never have cooking skills. Like yall are tired bro move
I really cannot express the rage I feel rn. To be a white queer writing queer fiction and thinking that absolves you of racism is... Like in no world is your white heroine taking a Black man as a slave okay? Why would you think that? And a Black, trans man at that. Wow
No just dont go. At all. Ever. Like the locals have been beggin and pleading for yall NOT to do for years. Tourism is not helping them. it's depleting them. SETTLERS, STOP GOING TO HAWAII
Cancel your vacations to Maui this summer. Give the locals a chance to breathe and use the available hotels for housing. They will need the tourism industry again soon, but just stay away for right now.
It’s the right thing to do.
the historic occupation of Jerusalem) and Butchered Tongue which was about Indigenous relations to land & language like??? Naw I need more. He also still hasn’t made a statement abt keffiyehs being confiscated at his shows. And pls know I’m his biggest fuckin fan so
OK I've had enough. How fucking dare anyone spread lies about Bethany, one of the victims of the review bombing, to deflect from the allegations
Here are 31 pages of receipts of the review bombing. Everyone, judge for yourself.
@rabid_raviv
They really do and honestly think they know what they’re talking about. And it’s worse when they’re also marginalized as if their experiences haven’t been erased the same way. Pitiful. But thank you ❤️ we all do truly. All of this is so unnecessary
i don’t like author names that are initials bc i can’t tell right away if the author is a man or not and i’m not reading a book written by a man. those days are over
TW: suicidal ideation, mental illness
I wanna say something to
@CaitCorrain
&
@dailybeast
. It won't be nice. It won't be pretty. But I am the end of my fucking rope w everything, so IDC. Maybe I shouldve been more open in my interview w them...
I am… genuinely at a loss like I can’t even. You should’ve kept it honestly. “Wrong list at the wrong time”. “There might’ve been other authors”. No mention of the fact they were mostly BIPOC authors you targeted or that it started in April. Yeah you should’ve kept it Cait.
Honestly I’ve found that being a trans man and being the oldest daughter aren’t that different. I’m still expected to care about everybody & get nothing in return. I’m still expected to never get angry or show any extreme emotion. I’m still caring for everyone while never…
I muted this immediately after posting it because I know how it goes lmao but to the cool people here, feel free to check out my books! I write about QBIPOC getting vengeance and happy endings!!!!
And I’m not by any means endorsing her platform, whatever it is, but I’m saying y’all keep acting like there are legit no other options so if you NEED to vote, you do have em lol
I just think cishet men should ignore the tampon machines in public restrooms if they don’t need them. I mean they’ve been ignoring the sinks & soap all these years so 🤷🏾♂️
Black & Native ppl have been kicked off grad stages for celebrating their heritage in a way that makes yt ppl uncomfortable but yeah this weirdo yt shit is fine lol
It will never not be wild to me how transmasc folks are out here doing WORK essential to dismantling the patriarchy by deconstructing & reimagining/redefining/reconstructing masculinity, making your arguments against toxic cishet masculinity so much easier w solid evidence…
@thebookseller
Hi I’m the Black QUEER INDIE author she attacked while i gleefully supported her book for months! Wanna know how I deal with “pressure” (including racism) despite not having a fraction of the support she had? Hint: I didn’t run a racist campaign of sabotage on my peers! Wtf
And yes I am angry. I was angry about the debut authors too but. Like please understand. I am an INDIE author. I did everything but the covers on these books. Cait has a whole ass agent & trad pub deal lmfao. How insecure & pathetic do you have to be fr? Omg
That author’s book had so much hype around it, we cannot pretend this was about simple “competition”. The lesson is not “writers aren’t your competition”. It should be “don’t be a racist” bc she’s a fucking racist. But I know racism isn’t a dealbreaker for a lot y’all so…
Just thinking for no reason at all about the trans guy that was k!lled defending two women from homophobes & all he got from y’all was misgendering, disrespect, & some weird “we forgive you for making the mistake of ‘choosing’ to be a man” after…
This is great. I personally think you should instead feature The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste who went through hell to bring this situation to light and stood up for all of the affected authors even when ppl tried to make her the villain. She deserves this.
We’re aware of the conversations around the author of our May 2024 book, Cait Corrain.
We can confirm that Crown of Starlight will no longer be featured in the May 2024 Illumicrate Box.
Actually, there's a lot of "common knowledge" I'm STILL learning. I'm also unlearning a lot of things I learned from TV/books that aren't actually meant to work like that irl. I also struggle to ask for help due to both the neglect & the humiliation i faced from adults.
Y’all hate cis men so much but you don’t talk to them. Or about them. You don’t attack or dogpile them. You coddle, protect, date, procreate w them while taking your anger out on the transmascs you’ve forced to stand in for them and it’s weak AF.
Just thinkin about when I realized I "wanted to be a boy", it wasn't bc I knew what trans was. I had no clue that was a thing. But I was surrounded by HORRIBLE cis men who abused/harmed me & the women in my life constantly. I never wanted to be them. I wanted to REPLACE THEM...
It's okay to not know the origins or explicit purposes of phrases. It is not okay to double down and be anti-Black when corrected. And most of the Black ppl who said anything tried to do so gently and in a general way, but we literally do this EVERY TIME SOMEONE (YT) DIES. So...
Yt writers who understand why AI books are bad,that they’ll be hollow & soulless & haven’t had the experiences & knowledge necessary to write how we do & get beyond a surface level… y’all are SO CLOSE to understanding why BIPOC don’t want or need y’all writing our stories lmao.
TL cleanse because yoooo I’ve never had muscle growth like this. I would like to thank Test*sterone first and foremost. And myself, who made this man from scratch and did a DAMN GOOD job! Oh and also my top surgeon bc MAAM!!! Anyway 😘
Yt folks talk about nurses/med staff the way they talk about cops w/o ever being able to connect the systemic dots much less think beyond their own experiences.
Maybe it’s my own survivorship bias in that I’ve never had a mean or bad nurse in any hospital stay, but I wonder if people have considered that perhaps it’s not that the job is filled with mean girl nurses but a large proportion of people have difficulty being patients
Nobody, and i mean NOBODY, is writing religious trauma like the trans boyz right now. Like wow. We're out here really making a genre of it I'm so proud 😭😭😭
After terrorizing Black authors, she gets to say SHE'S NOT racist? THEY get to change the convo around mental illness? NO. No no no. YOU FUCKED MY MENTAL ILLNESS CAIT. YOU ARE NOT A FUCKING ADVOCATE. YOU ARE A PARASITE & A VILE FUCKING HUMAN BEING. You cant even name me...
As someone who loved these movies when they came out, I've done several separate presentations on the anti-Black & anti-Indigenous imagery/sentiments threaded throughout. Bc it's still written by white ppl pretending to be oppressed who don't actually understand it at all
This is a reminder to BUY YOUR PRIDE MONTH MERCH FROM ACTUAL QUEER PEOPLE PLEASE. Support us FOR REAL and AT ALL TIMES not just superficially for 30 days. Queer folks w shops or what have you, pls feel free to drop the links below!!!
Absolutely not. Teens read plenty of things not meant for them. It doesn't mean you change the category to fit that. And there are books on that shelf that will not help them "figure things out" in healthy ways. Others were not written with the purpose of doing so...
This is the photo in question—don’t want to tag anyone b/c I see where they’re coming from. But my hot take is that almost every book here is (or should be considered) YA. I’m sorry but this is what teens read. They have shit to figure out & books are a safe place to do that
Indigenous people are dying to protect the trees and the land every single day while colonizers destroy the planet but oh gosh sorry none of us can tuck your privileged ass in & read you a bedtime story about it ☹️☹️
I'm so tired of people only talking about politics. I want to talk about trees. Did you know that plants have photoreceptors and can tell if you're wearing a red shirt or a blue shirt? DID YOU?!
TW: suicide, child death
My 5-yr-old cousin, who was born with a condition that included blindness & inability to walk or talk, passed away this wk. His mom, my older cousin, couldnt handle it & took her own life today. We're really goin thru it over here & could use good vibes
@cattaleyagiral1
@c_clarkmichaels
RIGHT?!?! Like just getting regular treatment is a long game of appts, calls, emails, second appts, waiting on referrals, etc. Im STILL waiting for a diagnosis of my muscle disease like??? Nothing about this is easy
Imma mute this bc it's above me now lol but a reminder I write books about QBIPOC! U can start with my Black T4T Hades & Persephone retelling & get ready for my T4T Achilles & Patroclus story coming soon! The latter is a love letter to transmasculinities!
a horrible meltdown (a public one for the first time in years if not decades). I relapsed in my healing. Im seeing my therapist double. I am staying away from ppl & isolating myself because I am scared of me. Yet I have to wake up to ppl CODDLING A WHITE PERSON THAT ATTACKED ME??
He was also an ANGRY, DANGEROUS Black man. Let's not forget that part. But here is the Wrath Goddess Sing screenshot before I forget later. Imma try and sleep it off phew
The Fiancée of the police officer who murdered Sonya Massey is actually a nurse practitioner at the same mental hospital Sonya Massey stayed at. THE DAY BEFORE the murder, her and Sonya got into an argument. She went home and told her Fiancé everything about Sonya.
And also to all the ppl that were out here the day of her first "apology" screaming about "Leave her alone! She apologized! What more do you want!" Sincerely, fuck you too. Im glad her mental health mattered more than anyone else's to yall.
everyone on this list can make fun of the groups below them
nonbinaries are case-by-case & can fit anywhere on the chart. just ask any trans woman you see and she’ll tell you where you belong
also furries can make fun of bisexuals but i think we should all be nice to furries
Booktwt, it’s time for us to find an alternative for content creation. Canva is pro-genocide & actively deleting pro-Palestinian content on their platform.
I would love for white ppl, esp white queers, to shut the fuck up for one day. Trans ppl have existed in our cultures for thousands of years w/o western transitional medicines. Y’all are new to this, not true to this. Please sit tf down lmfao y’all are embarrassing
@PPreoccupied
If they are medically transitioning, they are trans. If not, they aren't.
People who can't access HRT aren't trans because they aren't medically transitioning. These categories exist so the right people can get the care they need efficiently. You were not trans pre-HRT.
This is truly an issue. The fact that books like this keep being pubbed & no one sees an issue, at least not one large enough to mention in reviews. Meaning its not just publishers & authors & editors. Far too many readers still give too much grace to white books doing ugly shit
In regards to my last quote tweet, the white sapphic fantasy that centers reverse racism is The Ones We Burn by Rebecca M*x.
Only one GR review mentions it:
All that to the tune of neurodivergences I was only able to get help for in the past 1-3 yrs. Point is, it does a lot of damage these parents don't even care to think about & I pray for these kids fr fr. Stop exploiting your children!
TO STAY HERE OUT OF FUCKING SPITE BC I REFUSE TO LOSE TO PPL LIKE YOU. I am tired of being fucking silenced. I'm tired of being an acceptable punching bag. NO! NO! NOT AGAIN! "APOLOGY" NOT FUCKING ACCEPTED. AND FUCK ANYONE WHO TRIES TO DO SO ON MY BEHALF
@transguyenergy
Saying you hate men is not trans masculine when I say I hate men trans men don’t even cross my mind to be included in tht you’re put yourself in tht when I say I hate men it’s mostly the sht tht men do this is such a not all men take
that it doesn’t actually have to be that way & that healthy masculinity is possible, and yet instead of raising us up & accepting the help, instead of making ALL our lives easier, you… choose to either use us as punching bags that stand in for the cis men you’re actually mad…
cisheteropatriarchy* but also. saying that transmascs have no power in the patriarchy & should not be lumped in w our oppressors has me & my transmasc homies like this daily lmfao so
to move on & switch gears at will? You get to use this shit for clout? And drag us through the mud again & again? YOU ARE A LIAR CAIT. A LIAR AND A RACIST AND I SWEAR AS LONG AS I BREATHE I WILL NOT LET PPL FORGET IT. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME ONE MORE REASON...
I just want y’all to peep all the other white authors cheering this on in the comments. One thing y’all always have is the audacity. This is unbelievable levels of disgusting
You can't even DM me & apologize outright. I have to wake up every day searching for a reason to be here, begging for the gods to help me get through just one more day. I push myself to live for other ppl bc caring too much is the only thing keeping me here. But you just get...
I really just wanna keep reiterating the point that keeps getting lost in the "queerbaiting" discourse or the LGBTQ+ Own Voices discussion. It is NEVER okay to harass someone into coming out (or at all actually), & we can all agree on that. However, it IS okay...
So...what is Romancelandia prepared to do for trans kids? Because we can protect democracy all we want, but the agents of democracy apparently aren't all that interested in saving us.
These are empty words imo. The article ain’t been updated that much bc it still starts with “the sad story of CC”. Why not talk to the victims? Why not center them? Why not reach out at all? Like naw you did actual work to rehabilitate a racist, helping the folks out here…
Re my article in The Bookseller. I in no way condone or sympathise with Cait Corrain and what she did. My sympathies (and monies!!) are with the authors of colour who were targeted in her review bombing. What she did was messed up and racist.
She’s literally backing plans to destroy Indigenous land & displacing ppl from their homes. And that’s tip of the iceberg. Can y’all pls do some fucking research? Y’all love this girlboss bullshit so much you don’t even try omg
Maybe I shouldve been a little more vulnerable, more focused on me instead of the other ppl harmed. Maybe I shouldve made this my whole personality. But no. I didn't. I tried to forget, to leave it alone. But Ill be honest now. I'm falling apart at the fucking seams. I had...
Then say cis men. Be specific w your language. That’s what you do when you’re attempting actual critique of the harm. Not throw other oppressed genders under the bus.
No because why are you, as a white woman, trying to discuss critical issues in a show written and created from a Black perspective? I need you to go watch it again and really try & put attention on Jacob’s character set up because it went wayyyy over your head.
A few months ago I randomly thought “wouldn’t it be cool to teach a class analyzing how
@AbbottElemABC
addresses critical issues in public education?”…so I proposed one…and I will be teaching it Spring ‘24!
@quintabrunson
@thesherylralph
@LisaAnnWalter
wanna guest lecture?!?!
Idk how to ease into this, so I'm just gonna say it. My involvement with the monster anthology is done, and I will no longer have a story featured in it. I have felt for awhile that I was being pushed out, and when I tried to speak up, (1/3)
Fun fact: BIPOC/queer/disabled authors IG have BEEN tellin yall. You just didn't listen until it was time to dunk on a cishet male
& also, romance readers, im sorry to inform you, ARE NOT AN OPPRESSED CLASS OF PEOPLE. & if you need an outsider to tell yall somethin, thats on u
White Marxists
White anarchists
White queers
White vegans
White whatever. That white will ALWAYS come first for y’all & that’s why your opinion means less than nothing to me on every topic in so called America.
Also Rick is a Z!onist so even if you wanna scream about “d!sney isn’t a boycott target for BDS” (which is still weak af as an argument for multiple reasons but anyway) there is very good reason to boycott his projects.
the percy jackson will come out soon and i know my tl will explode w the contents of it. but i beg, i beg, yall to remember that disney supports isntreal. rememember to at least 🏴☠️ it or idk jus talk abt it on ur priv
so this author is just...general trash. got it
this is what I mean. some of yall don't have the range to be writing shit. imagine thinking you're doing us a favor when...you don't even get how you contribute to the oppression
So it wasn’t countless transmascs. It was one transmasc. But when YOU made a general statement that was absolutely fine. You have A LOT to work out here Zoe but no one, esp BIPOC trans ppl, owes you anything
Truth is I saw a trans masc account recently that said racism would be more common in trans fem circles and it made me sour bc racism is a global phenomenon and everyone participates in it.
Yall will never miss a chance to be anti-transmasculine ig. Every time these convos pop up, y’all either erase us entirely or outright lump us in with our oppressors bc you refuse to evolve/improve your gender analysis & that’s wild to me.
This is why Im very guarded about my reconnection to Native spirituality bc colonizers are either gonna appropriate & fetishize or find a way to act superior. I scrapped a whole book based on characters from our “mythology” bc I just don’t trust folks to be normal about it.
I really funded my whole vacation w a lil novella about a sleep paralysis demon with antlers that I wrote a year ago. Like??? Thank you to everyone who has read/loved/recced/supported Sing Me to Sleep. It means the world to me
My teen nephew saved up to buy my book and the pain I felt having to tell him he legally could not read it 🤣🤣😭😭 a good boy though. Love him always. He was like 7 yrs old & was the first to flawlessly learn my new name & pronouns & drew a picture for everyone’s reference 😭😭
“Why would a MAN be there.”
???? Y’all can legitimately go to hell & take this “community” with you jfc. Yt queers show their ass every year from day one to the end of June. No cops at Pride also means the cop in your head
Transmascs, I love you. Y'all are the strongest ppl I know. You look most like the heroes they tell stories about, & the world does not deserve you, but I'm so glad you are here. And I'm honored to be here with you. If we're all we got, then ok. I'll take those odds every time
Look, as someone perpetually insecure about being 5'5" (and chunky), I do write taller heroes out of that notion. Because I've been led to believe me being that makes me less than a man or at least less desirable as a man. So if my little ass can admit that, y'all can too.
no-one:
romance books: this man is so big. he is just so huge. he towers over me. all i can think about is how big he is. his arms are big. but i have to contain this feeling. we work together! yet my mind is imagining a life with mr big in all his enormousness. he is so... big.
…anyway, today I pray for my First Nations siblings in Canada who are erased & forgotten & who must watch their land be continually destroyed by settlers & their inability to do anything about climate change. ESP ones like this who only care about themselves
Dear Americans,
Canadians don’t really care that the smoke is bothering you. We are losing our homes, businesses & everything we own while we also have to breathe the smoke.
Instead of bitching about the smoke you could ask your Canadian friends here if they are okay
I just wanna to say a quick thank you to everyone who extended support to me during the CC event. I realize I've just... fully dissociated from it & sort of downplayed its effect on me personally for multiple reasons, but I do really appreciate it. Esp
@StorySorcery
. Pls know...