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Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh

@queercreaturecedar.bsky.social

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Love the pain of eternal song and dance, painting our stories of life... 💕✨️🥀🐒🐢⚓️☘️🐋🐚🐅🪶🌱🌼🦄💓🐐🍄🐺🍂💚🦊🌲🐀🧀❤️‍🔥🌸🐸🍀❤️‍🩹💫🦌🌹🐾🌜🌈🧷 Never know what we're doing but the wild will not be silenced. Even in death, memory in spirit ever carries on;

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🏳️‍⚧️Fae "Futch Auntie" Weichsel 🦾 @faeweichsel.bsky.social · Feb 23

My speech at the vigil.

“No one can Save Everyone. But everyone can save someone. Look for who you can save”

Thank you for having me to speak, while I wish we were gathering in joy rather than in mourning. I am touched and heartened that I see all of you out here with us today. Because that's what we need at this moment. To not be isolated, not be alone, but to be in community with each other.
My name is Fae Weichsel, I am a union member and organizer, I was born into a union family. I've been active in my union for over a decade fighting both for queer rights and labor rights. I know the power in collective action, in community coming together for a common good. That is what we need right now, solidarity with our trans brothers.
Solidarity with our entire trans community. Solidarity with and from not only the queer community but the entire community.
It is a scary time to be a trans person in america. I know it, you know it. We live it, I am speaking to the choir today. We know the harm that comes to our community. We've all had to help fellow trans and queer kin heal, recover and process this harm and often trauma.

Now is the time that requires action. If not us, who?
If not now, when? If not here, where?
But what are we to do? What are we to do when we are beset on all sides? It's a time to look at our queer and trans history.
Our community history is one of struggle and strife but also? Of victory, we did not get better treatment by asking the cops at stonewall nicely. We did not get HIV medications by being patient, we did not get AIDS treatment by being quiet. We did not get PrEP by "being good" we got it by acting up.
Silence Equals Death. Its true.
Hyper Invisibility is not a shield, and hyper visibility is not a sword.
These are things we know, we are a community that comes from all walks of life, so many varied backgrounds, we know the meaning of family.
Various reasons and circumstances make our community one deeply familiar with found family.
Many of us have extended found family networks. I have brothers, kin and sisters, with whom I share no blood.

"Blood is thicker than water" no. I reject that.
The quote is about the blood of the covenant being thicker than water. I am in covenant with all trans people. I cannot and will not let them go alone in this world we find ourselves in. All trans people are family. I want to read the words of Linda Norquiest, Sam's mother, in regards to trying to find her son.
"At least Sam could possibly hear my voice and know: 'Mom's here. Mom's looking"
We need to be each other's family and look for each other and continue to keep looking out for each other. Make sure your family is safe and ok.
Check in on each other. Form stronger bonds between us. Because together? We have a power greater than the sum of its parts.
To take a term from our queer history. An army of lovers cannot lose.
A lot of us are afraid. I will tell you I'm afraid. But you cannot be courageous without fear. Being courageous involves being afraid, and acting anyway. Not in a dangerous reckless way, but not letting fear rule our lives. If we can conquer the fear within ourselves to transition to show the world who we really are? Then it is also on us, and I mean also my cis kin here as well. It is on all of us, to conquer the fear within ourselves, to show up and be there for our family in this time. For us trans people to stand up for ourselves, and for our cis comrades to stand with us!

We have a long fight ahead of us. Something I like to say and I would like to leave you with is this thought of mine.
No one can save everyone
But everyone can save someone.
Look for who you can save.
Thank you for your time.

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Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · 3d

We are everything, and we are nothing in greatness

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · 3d

I'm a late september baby. Every year as light begins to fade, and chilling dark shifts in, when vulnerable in unknown awareness, our struggle shows full force again. Allowing to be loudly visible in our story, is the way balance may rest. Colorful glittering life hurts. Hiding unchecked kills more.

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · 13d

'Tis the month of Gay Christmas

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · 16d

Y'all ever just keep having the most functional midlife crisis just hittin 21 years oldn't? Or is that me. Kill em with kindness as in, only hurts of they can't yet process their own injury

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · 23d

Garlic is life. I cannot be convinced otherwise. Never too much of that good shit

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · 27d

Being homophobic isn't fear of gay people. It's fear of one's self. Fear that the queer someone else shows is too real for a sheep to admit

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Sep 17

"You're so funny please don't to bald" fuck that 🖕 eggs are even funnier 👩‍🦲✨️

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Sep 17

Was it not just a character to write? Has that goat been steps to being found all along... 🍂🌲

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Sep 15

I know I can talk to my grandfather about all this, but of course anxious brain will drag out the time it takes to clarify my own thoughts, before I feel ready to start such conversation of my own asking. But that's what it's all about isn't it- taking real time to feel out how to be true

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Sep 15

In such thoughts also, is that I am of Native American ancestry in some significant amount. Not that it needs to be measured to be, but all the same I have been wondering and would like to learn more about indigenous culture. To grow as myself and within the whole

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Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Sep 15

Considering nature, myself, being parts of all, how am I feeling already and how may I wish to expand upon such. Started reading a little on being druid as IRL spirituality. Realizing how much of my fantasy played ideas align with it, just by instincts while exploring and finding myself

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Aug 20

Aw fuck not another pop quiz

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Aug 20

a cartoon of peter griffin crying in front of a crowd of people

ALT: a cartoon of peter griffin crying in front of a crowd of people

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Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Aug 16

Middle school me had zero understanding on the concept of openly talking to yourself. I am now 20 years oldn't and Cannot Shut Myself Up. Amazing what supportive people, handful of years, and a good bit of unmasking to embrace chaos brain can do

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Aug 3

"WHAT'S ONLYFANS BUT NOT THE SEX ONE"

"...Patreon?"

"YEAH THAT" *dies of intensely silent giggling*

Cedar 🐐🧷💖🐾 Shiloh @queercreaturecedar.bsky.social · Jul 30

Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me on a train. A rubber train with tracks. And the tracks made me crazy. Crazy? I was--
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Oh wait sorry I got a little autistic there