Unicycling-stories (part 1)

The 2023 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 10th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 9th May 2023.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Avery at Tradescantia Hub

YOUNG KUVIRA (The Edge p.6)

Even Jesus loves cash!

Bling ✨

well if that’s so!!!

i got stuck between "cool" and "yippee" and said yoop

This is so wild because I literally had situations like this with my own therapist!

I mean she really tried to shift the focus on what I personally can do for my own personal future and what I want from and for my own future. Which is probably the only way you can really tackle this problem because there is just no way I can change the current political reality of our world in a therapy session.

However I am still left with the knowledge that in the grand scheme of things my future will probably be very difficult to fulfill or even exists in.

What I find very interesting about looking at how other generation have looked at the future is that climate change isn't a new problem. This shit has been going on for a while now and people have been worrying and trying to do their best to raise awareness for decades already. The only difference to young people in the 90s being concerned about this and people in the new 20s (2020) being concerned about this is that now there is enough awareness and knowledge about what will happen and that shit will go down soon. If we assume someone lives 80 years then someone who was 20 in 1990 will die in 2050 and therefore care mainly about what happens till then. People who are 20 in 2020 however will live till 2080 and care for what happens until then. And 30 years should probably not make such a difference yet here we are knowing that if experts say the sea levels will rise and things will get even more shit by 2050 that this affects nearly half of our live span. Our future of when we are 50 will just be dealing with a society that looked away so long that now they have to do damage control of situation that are too big to be able to just keep brushing off.

This is just a small piece of why I hate capitalism so much, because it has become a world view and not just an economic system. We live in capitalism that promotes that the economy is more important than human lives. And not just human lives of the future or human lives of places that are "far far" away but human lives right now, in this place! Ever since the pandemic has been going on the focus has shifted towards the economy and away from people. It is more important that we keep the economy on good course than that we make sure as little lives as possible are ended by this virus.

This shows that people in charge are not only more interested that the economy runs well for the cost of human lives that might seem more abstract (because it's easier to not care about things that happened into the future or far away (which is very shitty)) but that it has come to a point where it doesn't care what human might die as long as the economy is doing well.

On a very morbid level of mine I would like to see how it comes to a point where capitalism as it is established right now takes so many lives that the system doesn't work anymore. Because all the rich people suddenly don't have any work force to keep their factories running. To keep their wealth coming. Because suddenly people can't buy the expensive shit anymore because the gap got so big that there is only stinking rich or dying poor and no in between. Because I want to see their faces when they realize that they can not maintain power if there is noone left to have power over.

This kinda got off rails of what I was talking about but welp. Still bad at ending Tumblr posts XD

(this thread)

Had a bit of a rant this morning. Gender is a construct and biology is a joke. Trans lives matter.

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curious about what's in store for you for 2023? :D

let AO3 decide!

(this is a random generator that will give you four (4) ao3 tags, so you know, warnings for what that usually entails)

Happy World Coming Out Day! As usual, my workaround for vulnerable, personal conversations is "I'll just make a comic about it and give it to everyone all at once," would recommend 👍

when he mansplains English to u but u are literally at the Hugo Awards

(I was up for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer and the Lodestar Award for Best YA Novel, which ended up going to my friend Shelley Parker-Chan and THE legendary Naomi Novik respectively!! Huge congratulations to them and our fellow nominees 🥰)