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Alison Fincher
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I was at a summer nerd camp. I took on running a student-led Bible study (because it was GA in 2002) and friends simultaneously invited me to play D&D.
Worlds collided with members of the Bible study wanted me to help them take down the D&D group. 🫠
(gif alt text: Smug dude rolling a giant d20.)
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My state senator said trans rights are a losing issue. And her voters had no choice but to accept her stance.
Months of bad optics later, she didn’t run for reelection after all. My state rep is up for her seat.
So Bentley will probably be my state rep in 2027.
Trans rights can win.
CS Lewis wrote his own version of The Divine Comedy is which this is literally hell.
I start the story of my gender identity with “I’m just slightly too old for Tumblr” for a reason.
It’s hard to imagine how much a book display with Genderqueer or Trans History from Ancient Times to the Present Day could have changed my life.
*There’s no perfectly moral way to post content in an end-stage capitalist economy, but Substack is awful.
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I hate when content I want to share shows up on Substack. 😩
I would be very happy to show anyone how to set up a Patreon account if they’d like a way to charge for a newsletter that doesn’t fund right-wing extremism.*
Or a Wordpress if you aren’t charging.*
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Helping Nazis grow subscription newsletter businesses is ultimately best for the world, reasons Hamish McKenzie.
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
