I started group last August, and didn’t really get anything out of it for months, but as people left and new people joined, it eventually coalesced into a group of three trans women in similar points in our transitions who meet up in person socially once a month, and I really, really value it.

Girl milestone: touched up my lipstick at the office after lunch.

Oh look, a Broadway opening night down the block from work.

Oh no, the "don't stop poking at failing tests until they stop failing" monster has taken over my brain.

Walking around the office in this tanktop/very long housecoat-like shirt is a good treat.

I just unraveled the most tangled metaphorical ball of yarn at work after ~6 hours of tugging on it, discovering near the end that it was something incredibly simple and also stupid. I deserve a treat.

r/SquaredCircle u/TussalDimon • 1h • v.redd.it SPOILER [WrestleMania 42 Saturday Spoilers] Becky Lynch comes through the crowd. A male fan: "Becky, You're The Man I Wanna Be!" Screenshot from the video

Me before estrogen www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir...

I feel like I blasphemed just writing that.

So maybe if a new book comes out in a series and I can't remember anything about the previous book, I'm not obligated to read the new one?

Here I am, a 48 year old woman, getting emotionally wrecked by reading egg fic moments of characters coming out to their mothers and their mothers being instantly supportive. Kinda like I really wanted something I did not get, perhaps.

You're invoking my Bill Buckner and Grady Little-associated trauma here, Micah, and I do not appreciate it. =)

Definitely tighter than they are now, I can tell you that for sure.

New girl challenge: figuring out how tight to make bra straps so they don't slip down my shoulders.

Those songs aren't "his", they're _mine_ and they always have been. 💜

This was, I must emphasize, insane. The four Pulp shows I've been to have been the most emotionally euphoric times in my life, non-gender category. Common People makes me cry consistently and has for decades.

I added Common People, Disco 2000, and Mis-shapes last night.

Last summer, I put together a "Beth-affirming" playlist. Mainly women, but a few men that still felt right to me (Bowie, Pet Shop Boys). I put a few Pulp songs on it, but not Common People or anything off of Different Class. I think I was afraid that song, that album, was "his", not "mine".

I got into the habit of uncapping needles with needle-nosed pliers for my cat’s subcutaneous fluids and I will never stop.

Daaaaamn

I had to see what this is based on the lyrics and…woof!

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

Thought I might start talking about Dorley at the private trans community call at work, but instead talked about "the propaganda of the deed" and The Conquest of Bread. I am multifaceted?

There's a bird I can't see somewhere in the open space behind my block of buildings that sounds eerily like someone very persistently and hyperactively blowing a police whistle.

I am a competent, functional adult woman. This morning I fixed the brush bar on my vacuum.

🫂🫂🫂 for both of you!

I used my voice at the office for the first time, in my one in one with my work niece, which was immediately followed by my manager in the same room and I just didn't stop using my voice. And then kept going after that meeting and going back to my desk. Insert "it's all happening" gif here?

In the 80s, my mom's friends from college took me to a protest march in DC against US policy in Central America, and we all chanted "Jelly beans cause brain damage" while passing the White House, so the meme was there at least, but Trump is another level.

Car ferries and auto trains always make me get weirdly excited about Vehicle Carrying Other Vehicle, especially when you're still in the nested vehicle.

My manager and work niece are both wearing long skirts today and were chatting about them. Meanwhile, I was yearning. =)

Snippet from an article about growing up as a child of Weather Underground members, referencing a statement by the group that includes the phrase "ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER". Text of that snippet of the statement: FROM HERE ON IT’S ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER—WITH WHITE YOUTH JOINING IN THE FIGHT AND TAKING THE NECESSARY RISKS. PIG AMERIKA BEWARE. THERE’S AN ARMY GROWING IN YOUR GUTS AND IT’S GOING TO BRING YOU DOWN.

Huh, I'd forgotten that "One Battle After Another" comes from the Weather Underground's post-Days of Rage statement. I guess I don't remember all the details from that oral history I read 30+ years ago. This is from a New Yorker article by Dohrn and Ayers's kid - www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I am always a bit disappointed to be working in the New York Times building (not for the NYT!) and not sharing an elevator bank with NYT editorial or management, cos it would be kinda nice to be trans at them.