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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16]

@gatorpond.bsky.social

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late 30s queer disabled mixed race trans dude (he/they/it) making art & fursuits in arkansas anticolonialist anarchist & not-a-white vegan 🔞no minors pls🔞 living in unceded Wazhazhe/Ugahxpa territory https://gatorpond.carrd.com

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 19d

goal met. again. thank you. i'm sorry for the rollercoaster, things here have just been so rocky and i'm so tired. but i can't thank y'all enough for the support. i'm going to just pin this so i can keep it up top for a bit in case ppl need info. i will update this thread with more info as needed.

🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · Sep 3

okay, y'all. i have basically one shot at top surgery, might as well try. if i can't raise these funds, then i can't get the surgery, but. that's where i am now, so what's the harm. assuming i can get funding, this will be used only for stated purposes (details in link). pls share.

Donate to help a disabled trans person access life-changing surgery, organized by Johnny A.

as i'm sure most ppl who'll see this know, my name is johnny and i… Johnny A. needs your support for help a disabled trans person access life-changing surgery

www.gofundme.com

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 1h

i live in arkansas, and i promise you my local politicians do not feel powerless. they're going right along with all of this.

🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 2h

i'm excited and terrified and i'm just so ready to get it over with lmao thank you!!

🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 2h

mask when shopping.
mask when picking up food.
mask when having to go into businesses or even just at drive thrus.
mask even if they don't. and especially if they can't.

service employees deserve better. if they're not allowed to mask, the least you can do is keep them safe as possible.

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 4h

when work makes people sick and insists on making them sicker by denying the right of protection and there is no safety net --- consider other people.
via @thesicktimes.org

Despite the ongoing pandemic, some companies are banning employees from masking - The Sick Times

While some anti-mask policies have failed — a win for workers — there is a larger effort to ban masks in the U.S. on state and local levels. And more businesses may attempt to ban masks in the workpla...

thesicktimes.org

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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 2h

Transgender activist & icon Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies at her home in Little Rock: “Her enduring legacy is a testament to her resilience, activism and dedication to creating safe spaces for Black trans communities and all trans people.”
#Arkansas
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Trailblazing trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has died - Arkansas Times

Transgender elder, activist and icon Miss Major Griffin-Gracy died Monday at her home in Little Rock. She was 78. Her life was a careening history lesson in oppression and defiance.

arktimes.com

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 2h

as someone who definitely was that, i cannot agree more.

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 2h

i've always insisted that if you want kids but you wouldn't be willing to adopt a non-biological child in need, you don't really want kids; you just want a little you to force to accomplish things you failed to accomplish to make you feel like you didn't waste your life.

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 2h

it's even more bizarre when women buy into it too, as many have. as soon as i came out as trans, one of the first things my mom asked me was if i was willing to freeze eggs so i could have kids some day, despite me being adamant i do not want children for the last 30ish yrs.

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 2h

i think one of the things i'm MOST upset about is having to board him for 5-7 days. i'm so sad about it bc i know he's not gonna understand and he's gonna feel like i abandoned him and that makes me feel AWFUL. but once it's done he'll be fine. dog emotional permanence is a blessing and a curse.

🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 3h

i'm doing a bunch of preparation stuff (bidet installation.......) today and tidying up and putting things where i can reach them. also gonna take the dog for 2 long walks - tonight and tomorrow morning - so he can get some energy out bc it's gonna be a bit before we can do that again...

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 3h

we leave tomorrow around 3 for the hotel. surgery the next day. i feel both extremely excited and so nervous i feel sick thinking about it. gonna do a bunch of food prep today so i have stuff to eat without cooking once i'm home. oogh.

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 3h

they're not listening tho. they know. most of them do not care.

🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 5h

even if you don't like 'em (which i DO NOT), they're gonna be so much more likely to help neighbors not starve as shit continues to hit the fan than a conglomerate who owns hundreds of thousands of acres of monocrops. landback is the goal, but in the meantime, letting farms go under is a bad idea.

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 5h

like just. do some fuckin research, man.

🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 5h

calling farm subsidies that have been ongoing since wwii "red state socialism" tells me all i need to know about your understanding of our food production system

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 5h

it's just a more ham-fisted version of what they've been doing for decades. most small farmers don't work for themselves, these days; they work for one of a few huge corps. and they've been getting subsidies since wwii.

🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 5h

i also have to wonder what exactly they think is gonna happen when big corps buy up all the remaining farms... like having our food production system all consolidated by monsanto and conagra is gonna make things easier or better for poor ppl and food insecurity.

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · Sep 7

"those stupid farmers want bailouts but they voted for trump"

i don't know how to tell you this but even if they're awful ppl, we cannot afford to let our food production system go under & be bought up by corps even more than it already is. farming has always relied on subsidies from the govt.

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 6h

okay getting up to run errands and tidy up the house and do some packing for tomorrow. i can't believe it's so soon. holy shit.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 7h

People treat black bloc as an offensive, violent presence at protests. It’s a defensive tactic that obscures people from surveillance that’s valuable to non-violent protesters. It’s also useful against far-right agitators who seek to dox people.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.

Militarized federal agents in street at 105th and N

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 6h

my ass just woke up from the worst dream i have ever had and i felt like i was still asleep for a min like you can't be serious. fuck, dude.

🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 6h

fuck man, D'Angelo? first Miss Major now him? i'm so fucking sad.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 6h

and the point still stands that peaceful small town protests won't stop fascism. they're good for showing the local marginalized ppl you don't like what's happening but that's about it.

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🪲johnny🪲 [TOP SURGERY 10/16] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 6h

caveat: if you're visibly queer or a person of color, those protests may be dangerous for new and exciting reasons. in especially southern small towns, like where i grew up, white cishet abled folks can go to those protests safely. the rest of us have to plan carefully just to leave the house.

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