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Added 2022-03-27 22:57:20 +0000 UTC

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. Trans Day of Visibility/Having a Nice Snack is coming up next week, and while we won't be doing micropayments for snacks this year, we've got a few perks and projects up our sleeves nevertheless.

For example: we've currently got two very limited-edition TDoS '22 designs up in the merch shop, with at least one more hopefully on the way soon! The artists have generously agreed to let us use half the proceeds for our spring mutual aid drive, which we'll be launching next week.

Photo ID: A white coffee mug that says "FEED YOUR TRANS FRIENDS. TRANS DAY OF SNACK" in black text, along with an illustration of a candy bar. A bite has been taken out of the candy bar to reveal layers of filling in the colors of the trans flag.

All TDoS designs will run through April 9 and then be gone forever, probably, so grab anything you want sooner rather than later! (Actually, you should grab it today, because you can use promo code MARCH10 to get 10% off your order, today only.)

In other news, I've got three events coming up in the next few weeks that I want to tell you about!

March 31: The Center for Media Engagement has asked me to speak at a quick, free workshop on "what solidarity means in reporting on trans issues." The workshop is online and open to the public, and you can sign up here.

I'll be doing a little bit of talking and a lot of Q&Aing, and there will allegedly be fancy journalism people in the audience. A warning if you choose to attend: I will spend a lot of the talk trying to convince those fancy people to use their resources to actually hire me, instead of trying to Perform Allyship by attending a free event where I talk for seven minutes. :)

Photo ID: A flyer advertising the event described below, including images of Hil, Tuck, and 'Side Affect' and a URL to register (z.umn.edu/41222) for the event, which takes place on April 12 at 7pm ET.

April 12: I'm absolutely honored to be part of the official (virtual) book launch event for Side Affect: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad, written by Gender Reveal alum Hil Malatino. The event is free with an optional suggested donation through Bluestockings, where you can also pre-order Hil's great new book. Sign up here, or wait for us to hopefully release our chat on the new Patreon audio feed(!) in the future.

April 13 & April 20: I'm leading a two-part Zoom workshop on how to do journalism in a way that doesn't absolutely screw over trans people! It's also broadly applicable to academics, writers, and other media-types, so please spread the word to any cis people who you think might benefit. (This one is a tough sell because it involves actual time and money, but I think it will be good and useful and also we have a sliding scale option!) The sign-up link is gender4journos.bpt.me but I also just appreciate a retweet.

Real quick, here are this week's links to stuff and things:

It's too late to throw an Oscar party (probably? I'm not in charge of you or the way you perceive time) but I still need to share this fun chat about pun food between Jaya (my actual friend!) and Demi (who I love in a very parasocial way!)
I loved the photos in this article about the incredible artisans in Escolásticas, Mexico, and I would love it even more if I could find a non-New York Times source about all this. Someday! In the meantime, I stole these photos for you, don't tell lol.

Captions via the NYT. Photo 1: Nieto Urbe and Martin Nieto Uribe work on a carved replica of the Aztec Sun Stone, which dates to between 1502 and 1520. Photo 2: Martin Nieto Uribe, a month later, with the replica. Photo 3: Julio Jiménez drives short spikes into a large piece of stone in order to cut out a section from a quarry near Escolásticas.

Months after vaguely alluding to this article on the pod, Britni de la Cretaz published a whopper of a piece about the ways the IOC's 2015 trans inclusion framework has affected sports at all levels. This line especially stood out to me: “Codifying testosterone-based science as the true indicator of who is eligible to be considered a girl sets a precedent in which womanhood is continuing to be policed—and risks setting up a binary of “nonthreatening” trans girls who transitioned before testosterone-driven puberty began and “threatening” trans girls who transitioned at a later point in life.”
If you want to have feelings, here's an article about trans women being trapped in Ukraine due to a combination of transmisogyny, legal obstacles, and (obviously) war.
To end on a light note... here's a good text from my roommate.

Photo ID: A text bubble that says "they should call it not wear top surgery."

Phew, that felt like a long one this week! Thanks for reading all the way to the end for some reason. Here's your weekly Rhubarb, taken by the same roommate who did that text I just mentioned. I should really be paying them.