(i ripped this off wikipedia real fast so sorry if it’s lib)
In October 1776, the Public Universal Friend contracted an epidemic disease and was bedridden and near death with a high fever. Their family summoned a doctor from Attleboro, six miles away, and neighbors kept up a death-watch at night. The fever broke after several days. The Friend later reported that [deadname redacted] had died, receiving revelations from God through two archangels who proclaimed there was “Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone”. The Friend further said that [deadname redacted]'s soul had ascended to heaven and the body had been reanimated with a new spirit charged by God with preaching his word, that of the “Publick Universal Friend”, describing that name in the words of Isaiah 62:2 as “a new name which the mouth of the Lord hath named”.
From that time on, the Friend refused to answer to their deadname, ignoring or chastising those who insisted on using it. When visitors asked if it was the name of the person they were addressing, the Friend simply quoted Luke 23:3 (“thou sayest it”). Identifying as neither male nor female, the Friend asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns. Followers respected these wishes; they referred only to “the Public Universal Friend” or short forms such as “the Friend” or “P.U.F.”, and many avoided gender-specific pronouns even in private diaries. When someone asked if the Friend was male or female, the preacher replied “I am that I am”, saying the same thing to a man who criticized the Friend’s manner of dress (adding, in the latter case, “there is nothing indecent or improper in my dress or appearance; I am not accountable to mortals”).
editorial note: I think this is a very cool story and I really love hearing it. We’ve been around forever and we’ve been doing variations of this forever. It’s really beautiful
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hi, does anyone wanna make the mega in the upcoming weeks? if so, reply to this post and i’ll add you to the list!
the list as it stands:
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I’m down to talk for about an hour before I go to bed
Length of call: 3 hours, 34 minutes
I can genuinely only talk for about 30 minutes tonight because it’s late
Length of call: 1 hour, 32 minutes
(When I pointed out that we’re past 30 minutes, she said she doesn’t mind staying up a bit longer so we continued talking)
I can talk for about an hour before bed
Length of call: 3 hours, 3 minutes
(This was tonight)
I really enjoy talking with her. She makes me feel understood.
I held my tongue for so long but every time Julia Serano writes “hormonally female” or “physically male” my soul tries to exit my body. And then she hits me with the WELL TRANS WOMEN’S BRAIN STRUCTURE like wow.
I respect fully that the intent of this book is to analyse the ins and outs of being trans in the gender binary, but when she writes shit like “mtf spectrum” I’m sitting back and wondering if she actually read Gender Outlaw. Maybe the pre-2016 version is a lot less funny, but this cisnormative gendering of certain bodies and hormones is even less funny and I hate it absolutely to death. It feels out of place and eye-rolling in a text otherwise filled with many salient observations about the media’s methods of subconsciously signaling the artifice of trans feminine gender, or just how much society both covets and devalues femininity as a whole.
Like how do you write the quote about “the acknowledgement that there are exceptions to every gender rule and stereotype” and then just write about estrogen being female. How cam you be so uncritical of cisnormativity as to use its language when writing all of this?? I mean, the text outright states that testosterone makes a “male” body and estrogen makes a “female” body.
This also makes me realise, if there’s a specific piece of theory that lays out the destruction of cisnormativity regarding bodies, hormones, etc I haven’t seen it. That one is to me homespun on forums and chatrooms.
The next mega is loaded. Sitting in the chamber… Ready to fire.
Hold… Hold for the right moment… Until the news mega is in sight…
So I’m starting to wonder if I’m getting delusional about whether I’m still boymoding. The other day I was talking with an instructor who I had met before but hadn’t really talked with and out of the blue he was like “oh before I forget, pronouns. They/them right?” And I straight up replied with “sure”
He also said that he was reminded because he was talking to [other instructor] earlier and apparently that instructor mentioned me and then corrected his pronoun usage and then he wrapped up this story with “he is getting better at this”.I have never told anyone irl to use anything other than he/him, they just assumed I didn’t use them. Apparently it’s becoming common knowledge or something that I’m not cis, which is, uh,
like I don’t even present any differently (aside from that week I wore nail polish) I literally wear the same clothes I always have. The first week of class an instructor was doing attendance and called my (very masc) first name and I raised my hand and he just looked at me like 
Hate that it feels like you have to walk on eggshells around so many cis people. You never know who is gonna take it as a deep personal insult if you politely request them not to say certain things.
Being a blue whale seems like a sweet gig (other than the noise pollution) just swim around with your mouth open, visit the carribean laze your way to the Indian ocean, visit by the antarctic
The State of Kansas has just become the Sixth US State to officially recognize Asexual Awareness Week, which starts today, on the 20th. I am happy this happened, as an Asexual Man.
Gender and sex are not same because sex isn’t real.
What if I bought a set of cat thigh highs and cat ears… haha… unless :3
factorio expansion dropped
I will
NEVER
wear a bra!
Light brainworm related yapping
I was thinking about the brainworm place and other spaces like it, and I arrived at a thought: the thing where they decry anyone having fun with ‘catgirl’ stuff as like, “anime cringe” or whatever is born out of A) the same ableist judgemental sludge that causes cringe culture to be a thing, but also B) the usual like, transphobic/transmisogynist motive for any of the other gender/sexuality policing they do where they do not want trans people to do anything but assimilate. These losers have a vested interest in you not enjoying being the pretty kitty.
Think about it…
There is a part of me that thinks it’s not right that they gave Kirby he/him pronouns, way back when…
Where do I get the estrogen that will give me
