Notices by Caroline Kinlund (caroline@chaosfem.tw)

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discovered to my great dismay that in many serif typefaces the alignment of “f” and “y” together is in fact deeply unsatisfying

Going to do my linguistics dissertation on the order of descriptors in the queer community and whether they signal an implicit structural priority bias even for me, a bisexual homo-romantic poly-intimate anarchic white trans woman with ADD and curly hair

To whoever designs pot handles that dump water all over the floor when you take them out of the dishwasher: may your socks always be wet

In observance of today.

In case you’re curious about my parents, here’s one of the many similar things hanging in their house:

@rooster of all their songs, that’s probably the best one for karaoke though

Next time I’m at a karaoke club I’m requesting Exit Music (For a Film) :02lurk:

@ryanhoulihan I had to master the warp and liquify tools to feminize my pfp because FaceApp wouldn’t exist for another 15 years, you whippersnappers

#TransitionTuesday #Selfie time! I was at the barber with my youngest kid yesterday, and took this from the same location as another pic, another lifetime ago.
Me on June 8th, 2021 (1.5 years before starting HRT) and me on June 3, 2024 (1.5 years after starting HRT).

For a #SilentSunday #cinemagraph, the grapes in my backyard gently growing in the sunshine. 🍃

On the way to a meetup with wonderful trans women yesterday, my mom called with a #TransJoy story that I had to share.

Her good friend’s daughter B. has a 4-year-old. On the way to school last week B. noticed they were looking extremely sad, asked what was wrong, and her kid said “I just wish I had a magic wand that could make me a girl.”
Right away, B. simply answered “You don’t need a magic wand. If you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl.”
She told the teachers when they arrived, everyone was immediately supportive, and now B’s daughter is out as a girl and filled with joy that she can be herself. Quick as that, no ridicule, no gatekeeping, no hesitation.

You can just be a girl. :QueerCatHeart_Trans:

@DivineKestrel yep, 100%. How quickly people have forgotten the intense anti-gay culture across the US. In the late 90s through mid-2000s the F word (not fuck) was still in TONS of popular media. Hell, when my daughter was born *just 10 years ago* there was a lesbian couple in our birth class that were not allowed to legally marry, and the non-birth parent had to adopt the baby. In “liberal” California! I sometimes wish I was twenty and transitioning now, but rural northeast in the 90s? No way.

@rooster joining at this angle would utterly destroy productivity, ergo productivity is transphobic.

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