Im Doing My Part! O7

Im doing my part! o7

It’s been awhile since my last observations, new discoveries have been made:

Most of Reddit is screenshots of tumblr. Most of tumblr (the for you page) is screenshots of twitter. No one uses twitter.

Still not sure of the point of DNI. Is it a magic spell? Does it work? I think I like arguing too much to try

The internet has a way of banning together to be VERY mad about something. Over on Reddit it’s about stupid things like a video game character wearing the wrong clothes. Here it’s targeted harassment and hate speech ppl get mad about.

Which may just, and hear me out; could just, maybe be more important and justified

This is a fun experience

I'm 27 yrs old but've never really used social media my whole life, so when I see a button that lets me "BLAZE AND GET SPONSORED! 10,000 PEOPLE WILL SEE YOUR GARBAGE TAKES" it feels like I'm a nature scientist

"Woah! They really do let you pay to boost your posts!"

"Oh wow! I've read about bots in my college days but now I get to see them in their n a t u r a l environment!"

"Whoops, forgot to put tags in my...post thing, guess I'll languish and die in this inhospitable environment"

I will be updating with new discoveries as I commit myself to field work

Nex Benedict’s death struck a cord on several levels. His murder was so clearly tied to attacks on his school district that the killing instantly broke down the artificial barrier between alarmism and physical violence. Anti-trans violence will inevitably permeate the far-right media sphere to individual students as it becomes more widespread.

It is also important to highlight that the attackers were cis girls. Right-wing media claims that women cannot commit violence to demonize trans women. Of course, this is wrong by plenty of measures. I still have scars from cis girls physically attacking me in middle school. Violence is not rooted in one’s assigned sex but in the ideology that we are bombarded with every day, regardless of gender. We cannot solely blame these individual perpetrators for Nex’s death. It requires an entire ecosystem of attacks on trans people to inspire a deadly moral panic like this.

On another level, I am concerned that it is this particular incident driving so much outrage. Where was this righteous anger for Kitty Monroe, Samantha Gómez Fonseca, or Savannah Ryan Williams over the past few months? Imagine what we could accomplish if we had this range of activism for every trans killing and not only those who are white/white-passing? Every trans person deserves to be remembered. Every trans person has a life worth celebrating.

I was happy to see hundreds of people come out to Nex’s memorial and am proud of everyone who is speaking out out. We will never stop fighting for trans kids, no matter what.

if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial

What do you see in the mirror?

Is it you?

Who’s running around out there, looking back at you?