"In the past few decades of “living with the internet” these places and encounters have multiplied exponentially, as queer and trans subcultures have relied on message boards, blogs, and personal websites to share information. I personally relied (and still rely on) on reddit, and the classic, Hudson’s FTM Resource Guide (www.ftmguide.org), and TopSurgery.Net to navigate the healthcare system in both the UK and USA in order to access hormones and surgery—part of a much longer tradition of “the Transgender Internet” that Avery Dame-Griff chronicles in his book The Two Revolutions (2023). To say nothing of AOL in the early 2000s, the culture on Tumblr in the early-to-mid 2010s and printed publications like Original Plumbing and archived copies of the FTM Newsletter. Digital environments informed me of physical places, and vice versa, and each expanded and embellished my appreciation of the other. From reading books and trawling the internet, I knew places like San Francisco, New York, London, and Berlin would be where I could find other trans people. When I moved to London, I knew to go to Gay’s the Word, a queer bookshop that first opened in 1979, to make friends, and eventually, to get a job. When I started my own queer book club, or wanted to find zine fairs or club nights, I often found information about them on tumblr or instagram. When traveling to new cities, a gay friend tipped me off that any place recommended by BUTT Magazine would show me a good time."
— Brooke Palmieri, "Vanishing Culture: Cultural Preservation and Queer History."
https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/02/vanishing-culture-cultural-preservation-and-queer-history/
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Paid Tor for rent-seeking crypto-bros:
Mysterium VPN
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@TakeV science is all about compromise
Oh so it was okay for privileged old white slaveholders, then, but not me huh? I'll have you know longshoreman, when I dumped that maersk freight container of PopTarts into the harbor I was participating in a patriotic tradition! Not that you'd know!!!
*gets hauled away from the shipyard by yard security*
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Yesterday was 4/20 but if you still are looking for ways to celebrate you can help @deliberately_me make rent, they have only $420 left to make goal!!!!!!!
https://blackqueer.life/@deliberately_me/114269379674837522
#MutualAid #BlackMutualAid #TransCrowdFund #TransMutualAid #crowdfunding #HelpFolksLive2025
(Covered, thank you!) Mutual aid request
EDIT: thank you to everyone who donated! I should be able to get things taken care of and weather the coming month with this. I'll let you know how things are going as May ends.
Original message follows:
Hi, I'm sorry to ask this, but things are dire here. My roommate is once again behind on rent and hasn't paid a penny, and I'm dead broke myself with next month's rent and bills approaching quickly. In addition, I'm out of my meds and my cat needs her own food and thyroid medication soon to boot.
I'm looking at an estimated total cost of $550 CAD altogether after factoring in my ODSP benefits. If my roommate would just pay me, that would be it, but I am having my doubts he is capable of doing it at this point, which puts me in the hard position of looking for a new one as well.
Paypal or etransfer info available on request. Thank you so much.
675/550
Thufie BLM
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#yesbot #nobot #noarchive I'm in my 20s, as a Computer Science researcher (Not in "AI" 🙄). Also a YouTuber now apparently, making YouTube Poops.
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I'm just a disoriented white girl trying her best.
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programming languages?
C++ C MIPS x86 Java Python and a few others :P