November 2011
2 posts
Snark for Social Change
I’m sitting in the student common room, as are some other students I don’t know. A rerun comes on the TV - one of those shows where someone who’s perpetually single goes on a date, “experts” tell them what they’re doing wrong, they get set challenges like “dress better” or “wax your eyebrows” or “go up to a stranger and flirt with...
TW: Minimal description of panic attack, dysphoria
The other day, I was talking with my (mostly-straight, cis male) partner about sex, which ended up triggering a body dysphoric panic attack. I’ve identified as a cis female most of my life, but lately it has all gotten very confusing and frightening and a little messy. I couldn’t really manage to say anything very concretely, but in...
