mei 🌒& @ckie@pixie.town

The more you're on (birdsite), the harder it is not to fall into the trap of attacking people and becoming defensive. Diversity of thought and experience can be a beautiful thing, but not if toxic elements are allowed to act under the guise of diversity, infecting us all.

Paradoxically, you have to be willing to fight to have peace. You have to be willing to burn bridges to protect the well-being of yourself or others.

Achieving peaceful, loving environments must be a choice between the inhabitants of that environment. Sometimes people aren't ready to open their hearts up yet and practice honesty and vulnerability. Sometimes they're so damaged from the world that their defenses are always up.

I have been trying for the last year or two to shed the need to hide my heart to avoid letting someone hurt me. It's hard, it's weird, it's sometimes very foreign.

But the beauty of the connections I've been making make it all worth it. The more I move towards openness, the more authentically, the more deeply I become myself.

Do you understand sampling bias? Please boost after voting so the poll can have better statistics

no, trans women are not a monolith. we don't all sleep with ikea sharks and touch computers for a living. but there is a near-mystical force that binds all of us: the shared understanding that whatever life is going to throw at us, we'll face it as ourselves. this is a precious and hard earned thing, and cis people don't inherit it automatically. you are all strong and beautiful.

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