Officials came to offer #Zhuangzi #莊子 a ministerial job.
His reply:
In a Chu temple, a tortoise dead 3,000 years is covered in silk, kept in a carved box, and honored with rituals.
Would the turtle prefer to be honored dead? Or to be here by the river, dragging its tail in the mud?
#Daoism #Chinese #philosophy @philosophy @chineseliterature @bryankam
If you’re a leader, show your #vulnerability. Don’t pretend to be tough. Don’t hide your doubt or pain or fear. Your job is not to make those you lead think you’re invincible. Your job is to show them they can also lead when they’re feeling vulnerable.
#Leadership
Trans | Ship of Theseus
@revoluciana I think about this pretty much every single day.
I read somewhere that it takes nine years to turn over every molecule in your body. I really wish I hadn’t. 🙂
Trans | Ship of Theseus
How many fellow #trans people spent far too much time before coming out thinking about Theseus and has damned ship and is it the same ship or not and does it even matter if it is or not and how if you think of your body as a ship, and replacing different parts and...
A friend asked me today, in all seriousness, whether or not my #transition has affected my stance on astrology. 😅
I will say this: going femme does force you to reckon with a hormonal cycle of sorts. And once you’ve had your emotions spun around a few times on an invisible calendar wheel, it doesn’t seem quite as crazy to imagine other, invisible, cyclic forces affecting your behavior. 🎡
That, and sitting on a Zoom with friends and some tea, figuring out how Mars being in retrograde is responsible for all the troubles in your life is exactly the right sort of therapy for a Wednesday afternoon. 🫖
#Assange is a misogynist dickmonkey, but this letter from the #NYT and other major news outlets calling for the US to drop the charges against him is spot on. We cannot and should not throw #pressfreedom under the bus just because the defendant kinda sucks https://www.nytco.com/press/an-open-letter-from-editors-and-publishers-publishing-is-not-a-crime/
Ohio HB454 which would have banned gender affirming care for all trans youth, appears to be dead for 2022! This is the bill Jeopardy champion Amy Schneider testified against!
It will likely be introduced again, but this is a huge victory!
@chrmi Tech is one of the few industries where it's reasonable to expect gatekeepers to be aware of trans identities, and understand how to navigate them respectfully. I'm disappointed that the conference organizers didn't directly plan for and train their front line people on how to do this.
Welcome to #TransTuesday! Today we’re going to dive into another movie with an incredible trans allegory that says something truly wonderful about trans folks. We’re starting THE INTENTIONAL TRANS ALLEGORY OF REAL GENIUS, part 1 - CONTEXT AND PJ TOROKVEI.
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Transfem Book Recommendations
Can I have some recommendations for #trans #transfem #transfemme books?
* Any genre please.
* Fiction & non-fiction welcome.
* I do love SF/F and would especially appreciate some in this category.
* Any intended audience age.
Also, does anyone keep some sort of running list you could point to?
@chrmi Um. No. That’s not okay.
@Aqua_Unicorn that’s a fun book. :)
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