Are there still cis people left? Y’all haven’t transed yerselves? Shit. My schemes have availed me naught. In honor of Cis Boxing Day, I’m gonna be punchy. Behold, the secret bonus verse of my rewrite of ZZ Top’s sharp-dressed man…
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Tomorrow is International Down with Cis Day, celebrated by no one because the inspiration for it was not even a little important, and all is forgotten in time. I’m not poasting on that day because I’m doing bird posts every other day now. Here’s your Down With Cis Eve entertainment…
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I do find the most worrisome thing about trans rights and the struggle against fascism broadly at the moment is corporate ameriKKKa’s embrace of the very bad november as a meaningful barometer of public opinion – that fascism is more profitable than progress. I’m gonna try not to think of that too much. I’ve got dreams to dream. But for now, let’s say I can understand trans people wanting to inviso all the way out.
When the very bad inauguration happened (2025 version), I immediately began wearing a pink bandana and makeup and pearls at work, to show my less visible trans coworkers that they are not alone. I don’t usually bother to shave, so this is a pretty queer-ass look. I’m more self-conscious in recorded form, so not posting selfies of that right now. But just tellin’ the tale: I’ve been trans day of visibilitying since Jan 20th 2025 every day that I’m seen by coworkers.
Except that one day I forgot my eye makeup. Wotta disaster!
Wait, no, fuckit. Here’s my work look.
visible’d! why yes i am craggy like the surface of the moon, and not interested in starting to wear foundation at the moment.
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You heard about all the businesses capitulating to the fresh fashy vibes of the new ameriKKKa? Tossing diversity initiatives, LGBTetc protections? Amazon doing this is particularly shit because like many tech companies, they have a disproportionate number of trans women in computer programming. You’d think that would count for something, but here we fucken are.
Red state leftists don’t want to vote because it feels hopeless, but here’s the thing. If all of you got up and voted at the next opportunity and lost, it would send a message to the world, loud and clear. The kind of message electoral politics can ignore, yes, but not the kind of message that corporate america can afford to ignore. If the nazis win the next one by electoral margins but lose by 80% of the popular vote? That is a show of force for human rights, for humane policies, for progress. Corporations will realize that catering to the nazis is not the wisdom, and at least one source of human misery will become substantially less miserable.
That’s where the real power is at the moment. Corporations. They have all these fiefdoms carved out in the legalized monopoly game, so boycotts can only do so much. But demographic information that their advertisers can use, that is something they’ll pay attention to.
Give it a whirl, please? And who knows? Maybe there’s still a sliver of a hope in hell that democracy can move this needle slightly away from endless calamity, right? Throw me a fuckin’ bone here. Do it on a lark. Do it on a dare. Do it high on bin laden weed with a six-pack of beer. Just do it.
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Need one o’ them there meridian responses? Like unboxing and reaction videos? Product reviews? You like slow paced grainy video where the loudest sounds are packages rustling and fans whirring? If ya want my body and ya think I’m sexy, come on baby let me know. Sorry for rod stewarting at you there. Point.
I referred to an inanimate object as crazy, in violation of my ableism policy, but I don’t know how to bleep it. Enjoy this little walk on the wild side. And go to sleep!
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Main post for day isn’t ready yet. Lil dreampost for you instead. What kind of recurring dreams do you have? I have, over the years, occasionally dreamed of Aliens. The most remarkable of those dreams had me as Sigourney Weaver in BA mode, doing gymnastics to get away from the mother alien. But it got too exhausting and I gave up hope, letting her get me. The mother alien gave me an abortion with a clear plastic tube and some kinda gizmos. Good times.
Haven’t had an Aliens dream in a long long time, but I did the night before last. I was in some kinda scifi scenario, on a space station maybe?, and a single alien caused so much ruckus the whole structure busted apart. The survivors were left floating in spacesuits. I found my cat Hecubus, who in this dream was still a shaggy kitten, floating in space – without any protection, exposed to the void!
Somehow he wasn’t dead or exploded, so we got him to some kind of space vet. I ended up at a spaceport bumming around waiting for a flight. I found out I was supposed to pilot the spaceship, but realized I’d forgotten my wig, so I went to see if I could by a bandana for my bald-ass domepiece. This is the first time I’ve ever had a dream that directly related to gender expression issues from my waking life. About how one would expect it to go.
I was late getting back to the spaceship and Lemmy Kilmister made fun of me. He also complained there wasn’t enough time to finish cooking this roast suckling pig, so the only way to keep the meat from going to waste was to freeze it, which would keep it from cooking up as nice when it was thawed. He was giving my vibes of a tall metal dude from my high school who had same last name as The Elephant Man.
I’m so tired but I can’t sleep. Good daynight.
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Should I call them suras? My emerging personal religion has disparate influences, which could be read as holy texts, and as they are not currently part of a consolidated canon, they could be considered supplemental writing in the sense that islam’s suras. I dunno. I wouldn’t say apocrypha because that term denotes status as non-canon, which isn’t possible if there isn’t a canon. Or wait, maybe there’s nothing but apocrypha. A belief system of pure apocrypha. I dunno.
I want people to regard these beliefs as earnest, and as religion. Y’all jesus fucklers who use “atheism is a religion” as a gotcha, it still doesn’t make sense for atheism, but you can use it for whatever this thing is I’m putting together over here. Especially if the schedule F party boss comes ’round the factory floor to inquisite about my unusual practices and appearance.
Before I introduce the new principle, let us contemplate these other mysteries of Chaos:
Ian Malcolm. This level of control we attempt, it is not possible.
The Two Maxes. Max Headroom shows us the blipvert of our current cyberpunk dystopia, Mad Max shows us the sorrow of the coming post apocalypse.
Hellstar Remina. This text shows the way of being good when the whole world goes bad.
The Adversary. Satan speaks truth to sanctimonious power – the truth that in the end there is no real power that a human can possess.
To these I add:
Restoring Biological Truth. January 22 2025, the second most powerful man in the world decreed that all prior science on gender and sex was invalid, and the government of what is, for now, the most powerful nation in the world set about erasing from science all mention of sexual variation or ambiguity in the natural world or in human beings.
When I was an atheist I clung to the idea that science was the truest arbiter of reality, and so I must concede that whatever is allowed to exist of science in this new world must be the only truth of reality. Mans and womans are the only thing, nothing else exists, and gender is the delusion of insane sex criminals like myself.
However. If my belief that gender and biological sex are both spectra is not scientifically valid, then it must come from somewhere other than science. It must come from Revelation! From a higher power! That is the power that I believe, ardently and piously in, the power of Chaos to rend asunder clean boundaries, and make a mess of everything.
It is my religious duty to embody the power of Chaos, in specifically dressing counter to my state-mandated sex. For if I do not carry the truth of Chaos upon my visage, I am disrespecting the highest power in the cosmos. I do not love my god; I fear it, and live in this way to avoid its wrath.
Respect my religion. Allow me to wear the garments of my faith. Or concede that you do not actually care about freedom for any religion except a narrow range of christian denominations, and just fuck right off the planet in a spaceX deathtube at your earliest convenience.
Thank you.
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Seriously.
Transgender people were a big wedge issue used to flip who knows how many fools to voting fash, or just not bothering to vote against them. Scumbags look for somebody to hate, smash the hate speech button until they find one that doesn’t make people feel too bad about themselves, and get everybody disgusted about some disgusting weirdos that don’t deserve rights.
If social progress somehow makes it through the barrier of fuckery that has been erected against it right now, if transgender people become more accepted, who is the next target for nazis? They never stopped targeting Jewish people and racial minorities and the disabled and women, just tuned that whistle high enough to harvest a few demographic traitors. In this election it was all about “illegals” and “perverts trying to trans your kids.” And somewhere in all that ruckus, they tried on a new target for size.
Furries. They’re going after furries next. I am not shitting you. The time to try and move the needle on furry rights is now. Get people to accept furries whenever you can. Turn the conversations around, when people talk about how disgusting and creepy they are. Who are you to judge, Nancy? I seen what you’re into, Fred.
Anyway, for my part, I’m throwing open the barn stables right now. Bébé Mélange is a furry ally. I may not always be the best ally, but I’ll try to improve.
This gets into a territory of “is this an immutable characteristic,” like can you change this about yourself if you want to? People will try that on as a way to say furries don’t need protection. But I think, nuh. I know the transgender experience is highly variable, and for some of us, it might feel like a choice – like for safety, some of us could detrans and ride out the rest of their life, without committing triple turbo suicides immediately. But even for those people, they deserve trans rights. Likewise, if being a furry is totally optional for all furries? So what?
There are some lines I’ll have to scribble here and there on the big perv tent, like, I’m not gonna stump on Capitol Hill for age regression RP and diaper play. People should be able to do that too, but it feels less like something you could do non-sexually at the office on Monday… I dunno. I don’t know anything.
But I know this. Furry rights now!
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I’ll probably post a bit about this within a few weeks, specifically what space David Lynch occupied in my heart and imagination, but the short version of my initial eulogy: You can take David Lynch out of the world, but you can’t make the world less Lynchian.
Meanwhile, enjoy an article about his support for transgender people. I’m gonna let others do the heavy lifting and get back to my writing challenge. Anyone who would join me, read this article.
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A wiser woman than I said we should all give dems the spurs on trans rights, specifically to say we’ll stop supporting them with votes if they stop supporting us. My initial reaction is to think of just how much I despise all the leftists who said it was OK not to vote this time around. It was potential dem voters staying home that caused us this crisis in the first place, and the margin was so massive it must have had multiple causes. Misogyny, racism, transphobia, vote suppression (i have firsthand knowledge of some, but it doesn’t explain the big shortfall by itself), apathy caused by a campaign relentlessly focused on fear? Discouraging voters was surely one of the causes, as well as single-issue voters like pro-Palestine people not wanting to sully hands. This campaign would be both of those things, right? Single-issue vote discouragement?
On the other hand, voting for the lesser of two evils only makes sense if it actually does prevent some amount of evil from happening, undoes the evil that was done the last time their opponents were in power, something… Like, I’d accept that my demographic had no legal protection and was royally fucked, if there were some kinda super-genius badass legislative masterminds successfully making great things happen to, say, benefits for the poor, or environmental legislation, medicare… something important. The dems, and left parties around the globe, have been unbelievably useless at this. Biden should be using the last days of his executive power to make baller moves, but there’s no indication that’s going to happen.
As an example of that, I thought about pardoning Leonard Peltier. No dem was ever gonna do that, but I haven’t looked into the subject much. I just assumed that since a lot of thoughtful people think he is innocent, they probably had good reason. A brief look into the subject brought up this slanted-ass bootlicking NPR article that was covered top to bottom in e-begging. (How long has NPR been sucking fascist balls?) If there is reasonable evidence supporting his innocence out there, getting people OK with releasing him would be as simple as presenting that evidence, right? I dunno.
How about something less controversial. Commute the penalties of everyone on death row to life imprisonment. Full pardons for everybody on death row where the police or prosecutors are legally proven to have fucked up the truth for the sake of a lynching. Last time the billowing bowelsack was on his way out of office, he accelerated the rate of executions, including those of people who had strong evidence of wrongful conviction. Just do the opposite thing. That’s an obvious good deed that would not be easily reversed.
One factor in how the election was lost: the dem hesitation to simply stand for anything. If there was a case being made outside of “at least we won’t kill you,” I didn’t hear it. It may have been spoken, but the threats were so much louder. All I saw was them using terror to ransack the wallets of the base, and making wacky jokes. I dunno if anyone was paying attention when Clinton lost, but all the night show funnymen were joking in overtime, didn’t make a difference when it counted.
Having lost, it seems to me, puts dems exactly where they want to be, doing what they do best. Tut tut ineffectually from the corner, play the good cop role in our persecution, and so lend a veneer of legitimacy to our deeply anti-democratic government. They make themselves reeeally hard to defend, especially the centrists like Pelosi.
As much as I feel a nigh-murderous hatred for anti-voting tumblr anarchists, they represent a genuinely felt position among many lgbt people – particularly trans women – that nobody in power honestly cares about them or is willing to protect them from literal genocide. That belief was stoked by social media cryptofascists, especially foreign ones, but it would have been there even without that encouragement. Dubya’s government tried to use disgust of gay people to bolster their political power, unsuccessfully. Us trans folk are even more disgusting to the masses, so using us has proven more successful. Or has it? The gasbag barely got more votes than he did last time. Again, this was all about our side staying home, and not theirs achieving anything besides holding the base.
I’m conflicted. This is an important enough issue for obvious personal reasons, as well as for all the trans people less privileged than myself, that it’s easy to see making it the one issue to vote on. So are the other issues though. US support of genocide abroad, anthropogenic global warming… As I used to say a lot, everything is on fire and nothing isn’t.
But in the end, no, I won’t join the crew in saying I won’t vote dem if they don’t support trans rights. I would implore whatever passes for human decency in them to throw us a bone, but I can’t say I’d one-issue this, as bad as the dems are. The nazis are just so god damn much worse. I say vote dem anyways, and if they ever win again (lol), don’t assume that’s the end of it. We’ll have to fight them for what we need; it’ll just be easier to fight them than the fourth reich. Maybe fight them like my comrades are trying to, with this campaign, if it makes sense to you. I can’t join them in making those vows of non-voting against spineless dems, but I like to think I have other types of fight in me, when it counts. Who even knows until you’re on the line? None of us should have to be living through these struggles.
Either way, the country is going to be so gerrymandered and vote-suppressed in four years that dems will be lucky to win participation trophies, so I’m probably overthinking it. Just done and tired, waiting for the hurricane of hammers to drop. And still viciously, viscerally furious with the proselytizers of non-voting.
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EDIT: forgot silver lining. yes i think dems are not going to win next time without the republicans literally having a child sex orgy on prime time basic cable and using the blood of a vivisected vietnam vet for lube (that was a bit off color jeezis). but people survived fascism in spain and we can do it here too.