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The Catholic Church has declared trans people abominations

https://apnews.com/article/vatican-gender-surrogacy-abortion-pope-3f84d8eb97f045b0cfb0ec1efa4e614e So, the vatican has release a new encyclical today, and there is some attempt at threading some sort of needle, but on balance, the thing is hard to read as anything but a full-throated slam of trans people. Some key quotations from the article above: “It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule,Continue reading “The Catholic Church has declared trans people abominations”

X-posted from the great blue satan

Ok, so adam schiff giving money to Republicans is toxic and fuck him fuck him fuck him. (EDIT: I misunderstood a source here. he sent out mailers that identified who the MAGA candidate was so that he could contrast himself. This had the effect of helping to consolidate the Republican vote. Obnoxious, but not theContinue reading “X-posted from the great blue satan”

Estranged. 22 Feb 2024

Estranged. it’s such a funny word to me To be rendered strange unusual, different, lost as if normalcy was ever an option much less an option back then —————– This estrangement, though doesn’t feel like I’ve been made other it is just a loss, or a wound and rather than disembodied and distant my feelingsContinue reading “Estranged. 22 Feb 2024”

Protected: What I Would Say To My Mother (if she were talking to me)

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

The real thought that I can’t stop processing

If you knew me both ways, and you come to the me that exists now, telling me that you preferred the version that wanted to die, how on Earth can I take you seriously in saying that you like either one of us?

Listening to Tori Amos as an egg

I picked up this 33 1/3 that is being meta talked about in this Guardian article. Read the first few pages while waiting to get my blood drawn at the clinic. I really have trouble articulating all the feelings this album has given me over the years. It felt like a sledgehammer to the faceContinue reading “Listening to Tori Amos as an egg”

Processing

Hi. I’m feeling raw today, and the best thing that someone can do when raw is to sit down and actually go and write. Why write, you ask, well, 2024 has already been a big year in the story of Zoë Dahling. You see, as of December 31st, 2023, she is completely, fully and completely out. To family,Continue reading “Processing”

Untitled, Written for TDOR 2023

I wish that people knewThat when you choose to slough off the egg And become the you that will be That yes, the shape of the body changes But what changes so much more Is the shape of the heart I wish that people knew That when your heart finally wakes up And you finallyContinue reading “Untitled, Written for TDOR 2023”

Untitled

There’s a certain type of compliment That you get When you’re a woman like me And you manage to go out in public And cross the street gracefully in heels Or choose the right lipstick Or braid your hair cleanly And that type of compliment Comes with a certain stare And with a fawning over-praiseContinue reading “Untitled”

No Longer In Texas

So, I’ve been silent for a while, but it’s been with a fruitful cause: I’ve been moving. I have vacated my old home in Austin, TX and I’ve relocated to the Pacific Northwest. Two weeks in, and I have to say that things are really going pretty well, and I think it’s about time toContinue reading “No Longer In Texas”