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**Willow, Venus Pirate** @Willow@chaosfem.tw · Mar 31

Mar 31

Willow, Venus Pirate @Willow@chaosfem.tw

Hi cis people! It’s Trans Day Of Visibility, or TDOV for short, and today, I’d like my words to be visible.

Please read these short essays:

This one is about how to be an ally: https://chaosfem.tw/@Willow/113856069628799346

This one is about the trans experience: https://chaosfem.tw/@Willow/113953311228200046

This one is about the importance of letting trans people tell our own stories in our own words: https://chaosfem.tw/@Willow/114224840479779049

Please boost them. Please write short posts linking here and to other trans people’s writings, encouraging your friends to read what we have to say. Sharing the words of trans people is how you help us be seen. It’s how you help stop the genocide against us. Please help, while we are still here to appreciate it.

Please remember, more trans people will be born. They’ll be your children and grandchildren. They’ll learn our history. And they’ll learn what you did or didn’t do, when we needed you.

Love, Willow

ChaosfemWillow, Venus Pirate 🏳️‍⚧️ (@Willow@chaosfem.tw)Lift your eye from the palantir - you will not defeat Sauron. Do not speak to me of how you can do nothing to turn the ship of state. I care nothing for your impotency. You abdicate your responsibility by widening your gaze. Who are you to speak to me of the horrors of national policy? A legislator? No? Then do not clothe yourself in the false agency of your inability to change that which is entirely beyond your reach. But you can make sure bigots at the grocery store stay quiet in the dairy aisle. You can rebuke the old men who insult young fathers for caring for their children. You can ask trans women in the women’s bathroom where they got their nail polish. You can invite trans men on your guys-only fishing trip. You can watch a mother’s kids for her while she goes back into the school to find a lost jacket instead of criticizing her parenting. You can accept that everyone whose pronoun is the singular “they” already knows all your petty objections to it and just… use “they” for them. You can assume everyone you meet has a right to live where they live. You can make it weird when people try to use “gay” as an insult. You can listen to kids when they want to tell you about their niche special interest. You can tell men you think it’s gross when they touch waitresses. You can make the experience of being in your presence more friendly and less hostile to the kinds of people being oppressed by the state. THAT is what is within your reach. THAT is your responsibility. And I expect you to see to it that it gets done, and that you remind others of THEIR responsibilities.

#Trans #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility

**Willow, Venus Pirate** @Willow@chaosfem.tw · Mar 31

Mar 31

Willow, Venus Pirate @Willow@chaosfem.tw

More #trans people will be born. They’ll be your children and grandchildren. They’ll learn our history. And they’ll learn what you did or didn’t do, when we needed you.

(Excerpt from the above post.)

**Willow, Venus Pirate** @Willow@chaosfem.tw · Mar 31

Mar 31

Willow, Venus Pirate @Willow@chaosfem.tw

(We have an excerpt because I’m feeling spicy about it on TDOV.)

**Willow, Venus Pirate** @Willow@chaosfem.tw · Mar 31

Mar 31

Willow, Venus Pirate @Willow@chaosfem.tw

Okay, so after about five hours, I’ve had a few folks interacting with the ally essay (YAY!), and absolutely nothing on the other two <confused face>.

Just as a matter of post structure and formatting and how I lay out content, any ideas what’s up with that? Do your fedi clients preview the first link and not the others? Is it that folks really just want instructions, and the few people who are interested in my thoughts on transness and trans voices have already read that material? Is it that people just get to the first link and follow it, and don’t read any further?