The Maenad's Bone Garden

Please give this article a solid read.  The blog is a recent discovery and I have been reading it voraciously there is tremendous insight to be found here. (But then, if people listened to us, and valued our (authentic) voices over 'the familiar,' I think the world would not be in the situation it is today Content and Trigger Warnings for homophobia, transphobia, trauma, childhood abuse, shame, sex work, and (especially) our currently active culture of transphobia and anti-trans hatred. "The thing about this sort of propaganda is that even when we know it’s untrue, members of these demographics are still terrified of proving them right. One more individual who has been abused and is gay or trans or a sex worker is not evidence that childhood abuse is the cause, and yet the idea that people will say it is makes us terrified to discuss our own abuse histories openly lest they be used by bigots. This is compounded if our abusers were gay or trans or sex workers themselves, b...

   An MSG excerpt. This was the introduction at one point.  Now ...it's in there somewhere.   (My work strategy strongly resembles "Weaponized Wing-it." )   Kind of tore it apart to make this post but...whatever. Don't ask me I was making it up as I went along.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Look I don’t give a good god damn if your preferred gender expression actually is talky toaster, okay?   I will defend to the death your right as an intelligent self-aware being to self-identify however the fuck you want. No matter what.   Gender expression is just like religion, or believing anything, or speech, or transit, or resettlement, or life…these are things all people in all eras have an undeniable right to.   Period, end of discussion. You can be against all of these things all you like but the moment you try to impose your values over our...