sorry, i'll shut up about this and go play a game in a sec, but the other part to this is that the trans community is small in australia? we're also on an opposite timezone to you. our government could mulch us all tomorrow and i'd doubt you'd even notice. we have like, 2-3 cities big enough to.... - ThreadSky

thedescenters.bsky.social • 9 hours ago

sorry, i'll shut up about this and go play a game in a sec, but the other part to this is that the trans community is small in australia? we're also on an opposite timezone to you. our government could mulch us all tomorrow and i'd doubt you'd even notice. we have like, 2-3 cities big enough to....

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also none of us are actually safe? australia's doing, fine. we fended off the last incursion of transphobia quite well but there's another one brewing. they've already taken hrt away from kids in queensland. dutton (our right wing guy,) is looking more likely to be elected in the wake of trump...

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thedescenters.bsky.social•9 hours ago

actually support a trans community of any meaningful size. Most of us are concentrated in naarm, (the indigenous name for the city we call melbourne,) as a community, we make a lot of noise on the internet. personally I'm proud of us for that! but the reason why it's like that is because most...

thedescenters.bsky.social•9 hours ago

people do not think that much about australia! it's hard for even people living here to remember we're important! there is a long history of this stretching back to the invasion. our country is also bigger geographically than you're taught to expect. technically it is a continent a country has...

thedescenters.bsky.social•9 hours ago

been painted over. before the invasion, there were hundreds (or thousands?) of unique cultures and countries living here. the scale of this genocide is vast and we are living on the shattered ruins of it to this day. yes, i am complicit in that just by being here, but if you are in the usa you're...

thedescenters.bsky.social•9 hours ago

not different to me! both of us are subject to the same campaign of international elimination. I don't think, morally, we have less right to support than you do, but the fact that is that if stuff gets worse here, and it easily might, we'll have less support outside of our community than you do...

thedescenters.bsky.social•9 hours ago

because frankly people think about us less and know about us less than they do about the usa. we're not as internationally important! so if you're wondering why i am going national first, despite not actually being any kind of nationalist, that's why. it's about survival and paying attention.

thedescenters.bsky.social•9 hours ago

as a writer i would like to build empathy for all groups i am personally a part of. disabled people, trans people, poor people, lesbians, and yes, even people living in the southern hemisphere! so, that's another reason why i'm taking the approach i am with this. i hope you understand.

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