Volunteer work is an amazing way to break cycles of isolation and loneliness. You have a shared common goal with other volunteers and you are making a collective effort to improve the lives of those less fortunate than you. Even if you walk away without having met the love of your life or whatever, at least you can feel good knowing that you helped make the world a better place and got to meet some cool, likeminded people.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ I can’t really speak to that. I volunteer with local mutual aid orgs because it more directly and sustainably impacts the local community.

Anything notable in the emails?

Cool picture! Has anyone noticed that all Rorschach tests also look a hot woman walking a man on a leash? What a weird coincidence!

Don’t worry. He’ll be able to create a sycophant AI wife shortly after

Gotten top surgery. I knew my quality of life was going to improve by virtue of not having boobs that gave me dysphoria, but I thought I would have to wait until I was fully healed to feel it. My mood and outlook changed pretty much day after my surgery. It feels great :)

Kacey Musgraves is an amazing artist. She has been beloved by the LGBTQ+ community for a decade now.

If you’re not familiar with her music, I would recommend starting with the song “Follow Your Arrow”, which is about living your life as authentically as possible and very explicitly supports the queer community. Here’s the chorus:

So, make lots of noise (hey)\

Kiss lots of boys (yup)\

Or kiss lots of girls, if that's something you're into\

When the straight and narrow gets a little too

straight\

Roll up a joint, or don't\

Just follow your arrow wherever it points, yeah\

Follow your arrow wherever it points

“Golden Hour”, which is her Grammy-nominated album, is an absolute masterpiece and played a significant role in my first queer relationship. The song “Rainbow” still makes me tear up and look back fondly on my coming out years. I have seen her a few times in concert and she always dedicates it to the LGBTQ+ community.

She told me that her favorite comedian was Jeff Dunham and that she didn’t like reading.

Pretty funny coincidence here

Trellis? I guess they used to be called GreenBiz. I just looked it up and this is the event: https://trellis.net/events/trellis-impact/

It started with the War on Terror of the 2000s destabilizing the Middle East and leading to an influx of refugees into Europe. White supremacists naturally freaked out when they saw more than one brown person, so this started an anti-immigrant sentiment which only continued to build throughout the years. Couple that with funding from rich white supremacists and propaganda from foreign agents like Steve Bannon, and here we are.

I am begging the people who live in the states and are horrified about what is going on but feel a need to do something: please join your local mutual aid co-op or neighborhood ICE patrol.

Pretty funny coincidence here

Every time I go to a play party there is, without a doubt, always a group of trans women having group sex. It’s honestly beautiful.

(Before you call me a chaser, please know that I am just a trans masc who is just proud to see my sisters so liberated)

And also giving Israelis free healthcare…

Oh, my bad. The next time I have to travel across the country for a wedding I’ll be sure to tell my job that I need to take a week off to drive both ways across the country in addition to the other days I need to take off for the actual wedding. Surely driving for three days to the wedding and three days back from the wedding is better for the environment, correct? If not, next time I’ll request several weeks off so I can rent a horse and buggy to get there. Thanks!

Part of the issue is that everyone I know that wants to do something is terrified that it’s going to place targets on vulnerable members of their larger communities. A lot of trans people, queer people, black and brown people, disabled people, immigrants, and indigenous folks I know want to DO something. They’re just scared that if they do, then it’s going to only accelerate violence against their marginalized communities and the greater population isn’t going to fight for them.

Nothing is going to happen until we weaponize the cishet white dudes and get them on our side.

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