so exciting! I loved recording this with you 💗

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So a new pod episode with my friend @mjweissen.bsky.social

This week we discuss CPTSD & autism, what they are, what the differences & similarities & our lived experiences of each.

Listen where you get podcasts!

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The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Meta and Amazon aren't alone — Pinterest, EBay, Target, Square, MasterCard, Nike... the list goes on of corporations making major workforce reductions while still making billions in profits.

They don't deserve our business at the expense of our neighbors' livelihoods.

Most of what you buy on Amazon you can buy, with cash, in your local economy.

You can still enjoy social media while preventing their overlords from profiting off your presence.

We don't have to protest in the streets to shut all this down.

Quit my 11 month hiatus to say: it's been time to shift back to using cash and invest in ad-blocking software.

Amazon made $716 Billion last year but still laid off 30,000 people since October.

Meta made $200 Billion last year and still laid off 15,000 people.

Cut these fuckers off at the knees.

See: Drake.

this was a fabulous conversation (because James is an ✨amazing ✨ host)

check it out if you want to hear my autism journey or some important stats on autistic women & female presenting autistic folks 🫶🏼

NC has a half marathon in my city called the City of Oaks (cityofoaksmarathon.com) every November and I'd love to host you 🩷 (I know that's not in June, but June is beastly in this part of NC)

If you wanna get free, you won't get free following people who profit off of you.

My mom had me sort through my most nostalgic (it was about 10-15) and I kept those to this day. Somewhere in early high school I started reading them again when everything felt so heavy.

a brown and grey tabby cat, poised upright on a bathroom sink counter. she has a light cream belly, with her striped front legs fully propping her up in a seated upright position. her stripes are dark brown, her main fur color elsewhere is tan and grey. she has green and blue mixed color eyes, and the bathroom lighting illuminates her from below like a goddess.

all hail my cat

yessss — and tell me when and how I'm gonna learn, and what the criteria are for how my learning will be assessed 🥵

I do not have resting bitch face because my bitch face is very active, an over-achiever really

This.

Please, I need some more financial support for my podcast, it would be greatly appreciated.

Yay! I'm so glad to hear about your voice lessons 😍💜

And yes, you are not alone in feeling more alone these days 🫶🏼💖

That's most of it — I'm sure there's a million other little things I forget that contribute to me building my sense of self and gender, but those are the big rhythms on the regular.

You're amazing for being you and doing what you need to feel yourself 💓

A hand posed in front of a steering wheel, showing glittery gold nails

Two hands posed on top each other in front of a Christmas tree, showing blue nails with accents of glitter and snowflakes.

A hand posed in front of a steering wheel showing nails with Fall leaves accents

Nails

My nails have always been brittle and I could never grow them very long. I didn't realize until I started getting them done just how much longer nails help me feel confident. I get my nails done every 3-4 weeks. These are acrylic fills from this year.

a selfie of M.J., a brunette woman with blue highlights, wearing a grey shirt with her hair hanging down over her shoulders and showing a confident closed-lip smile

Makeup + Hair

Here's my face again from this morning, with a bit of makeup and my hair touched up.

I get my hair dyed professionally every 14 weeks.

I do my own makeup just for fun but also because it helps me with that inner sense of femininity that I'm looking for sometimes.

Hair removal cont'd

2 years ago I started the process of laser hair treatment and I am so grateful for it. I only focused on my upper thighs and privates, but the relief I experienced from years of pain cycles was so worth it.

Hair removal:

In addition to dermaplaning removing hair from most of my face (including my upper lip), I also pluck 20ish hairs between my brows and 60-80 hairs off my chin (all black) between dermaplaning sessions.

Body:
- shave: legs, armpits, feet 1x/week

Dermaplaning:

To help with that feel of soft skin, I added dermaplaning to my regimen a couple years ago. So now I exfoliate 2-3x/week and dermaplane my face once every 3 weeks.

Skincare:

I don't give a shit about gender roles, but I do have some inner tie to the feel of femininity (whatever the fuck that means) and for me that most often looks like caring for my skin and keeping it smooth. My regimen:

- cleanse: 2x daily
- moisturize + serum: 2x daily
- retinol: 3x/week

a selfie of M.J., a mid-30s brunette woman, standing in a grey shirt with her hair pulled back and a confident closed-lip smile on her face

hello trans, enby, genderfluid and all other girlies! this is my annual post about gender affirming care as a cis woman.

I started doing this a few years ago — now I do it annually after my first dermaplaning (which was yesterday).

Here's my face this morning, post-skincare. A thread 🧵

Poema is a fabulous podcast (found everywhere podcasts are found). I love listening to James host his guests with care and thoughtfulness 💜

Please contribute if you can to help James keep producing Poema this year! 💖✨

it's an oligarchy

(the necessary alt text for the OP would read: a screenshot of a tweet saying "why does America put income caps on disabled people but not billionaires")

Vaporwave style image of neon triangles taking off a road towards the sun. The words attempt the absurd, achieve the impossible appear in neo light font.

them: "every woman I've had sex with just doesn't really seem to be into it"

me: "sir, you are the common denominator in every scenario here"

Hello! Panromantic asexual reporting for duty! (and fellow admirer of @jennadewitt.bsky.social 😍)

for me, it's about what I hope in response. Am I hoping to captivate their heart? Am I hoping to be the only thing they think about today? Or am I hoping they feel comfy just like I do?