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1 hour agoThe issue with that, unless I’m mistaken, is then it wont open up the video in browser and asks you to open it through the app. I haven’t tried on desktop but it doesn’t appear to open in a browser window with the shortened link.
Carcharodonna [she/her]
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Yeah but the problem is then it doesn’t seem to open up the video in browser and asks you to open it through the app.
30·44 minutes agoOn the topic, I just came across an informative post here outlining proper lgbtq terms in Chinese:
[EDIT: Removed link because link tracker bot is threatening to delete my post, and I have no idea how to change the link and have it still work. I give up. Can we maybe add Xiaohongshu to a whitelist or something? Seems like this bot is preventing any links from that site being posted.]
EDIT 2: http://xhslink.com/a/CQUBvMecxdX3 apparently comments don’t actually get removed, so here’s the link.
I can’t copy and paste text from there on mobile so here are screenshots:
4·16 hours agoI was confused about this too and initially thought it meant lace. After some research it’s apparently slang that combines the characters for lace with the character for edge or border, and the result is 蕾丝边 (lěisībiān). So “lace border” sounds like “lesbian” in Chinese.
16·24 hours agoXiaohongshu has some neat stickers floating around
Something I’ve learned from Xiaohongshu is that goth lesbians very much transcend language and nationality
Like others here are saying, they do seem to take reports seriously, so on this app it seems like we could totally could report these accounts and have them removed.
I’d sign up anyways. I feel like the positive interactions happening are well worth seeing, regardless of what happens with the app in the future.
2·2 days agoIt opens in the app for me, but here’s the video rehosted: https://files.catbox.moe/nghn4x.mp4
I did fix it, didn’t I?
They’ve even said this out loud: https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/06/senator-romney-antony-blinken-tiktok-ban-israel-palestinian-content
Holy shit, the trans content on this app is wholesome af. Tons of supportive Chinese users too. Really heartening to see this kind of international coming-together.
I’m so used to browsing trans TikToks and inevitably seeing transphobic shit posted by chuds in the comments, but I see only kind words here.
up with trans
down with cis
13·4 days agoI thought that was cool too
So fwiw I’m pretty sure it’s a joke video making fun of chuds. The video itself is some weird like Toy Story video game footage with random screaming/screeching over it.
EDIT: Also the video description is hilarious:
I was so excited for The Thousand Year Door remake BUT NOT ANYMORE! Mario and Vivian think they can spread Marxism to our kids, well us GAMER PATRIOTS will spread bankruptcy to Nintendo!!! We HATE the woke communist agenda and LOVE small town values…but now Super Mario Bros will be Super Mario PRONOUNS
This would be perfect as a site tagline tbh
Hi again everyone. So I sorta kinda had a mental breakdown.
CW: Dysphoria, mental health stuff
I already wasn’t doing great over the holidays break and then I just sort of went off the rails and spent like a solid day or two crying or trying not to cry. I wrote down a bunch of stuff to try to process it, which was a VERY good idea in hindsight. There’s a lot I want to say about it but I maybe need to collect my thoughts a bit better before giving the full version.
The short version is that over the years I’ve learned to disassociate as a coping mechanism, and once I realized I was trans I wanted to move away from that, which is a good thing, of course. The catch though is that, given I have a long time before being able to fully transition, my identity and sense of self is propped up by the ideal version of myself that I’m trying to become. Something I was reading got me thinking back again on how I’d previously experience the world as an egg. Knowing what I know now, however, I was no longer able to disassociate from my current or past reality and just started to spiral.
On a positive note, I was able to identify a lot of thoughts and feelings that went previously unexplored. I also realize much more how important it is our identities (including terms and categories we fit into) really match our personal experience. Very relevant to this, in my free time away from most of the internet ended up finally reading Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue which was better than I expected. One thing that really made an impact on me is how focused on people’s real feelings and experiences it was. I was expecting something more academic, but it was very personal. I also felt it was much more radically inclusive of trans experiences than modern discourse usually allows. I knew before that Feinberg defined “trans” as a broad umbrella, but it was still interesting to see hir reasoning explained further. Here’s a great example from the book:
CW, because it briefly mentions SA
We are a movement of masculine females and feminine males, cross-dressers, transsexual men and women, intersexuals born on the anatomical sweep between female and male, gender-blenders, many other sex and gender-variant people, and our significant oth-ers. All told, we expand understanding of how many ways there are to be a human being. Our lives are proof that sex and gender are much more complex than a delivery room doctor’s glance at genitals can determine, more variegated than pink or blue birth caps. We are oppressed for not fitting those narrow social norms. We are fighting back. Our struggle will also help expose some of the harmful myths about what it means to be a woman or a man that have compart-mentalized and distorted your life, as well as mine. Trans liberation has meaning for you — no matter how you define or express your sex or your gender. If you are a trans person, you face horrendous social punishments - from institutionalization to gangremoved, from beatings to denial of child visitation. This oppression is faced, in varying degrees, by all who march under the banner of trans liberation. This brutalization and degradation strips us of what we could achieve with our individual lifetimes. And if you do not identify as transgender or transsexual or in-tersexual, your life is diminished by our oppression as well. Your own choices as a man or a woman are sharply curtailed. Your individual journey to express yourself is shunted into one of two deeply carved ruts, and the social baggage you are handed is already packed. So the defense of each individual’s right to control their own body, and to explore the path of self-expression, enhances your own freedom to discover more about yourself and your potentialities. This movement will give you more room to breathe — to be your-self. To discover on a deeper level what it means to be your self.
I thought this passage in particular was fantastic, but the rest has been great too. I do still have one final chapter to read, which I’m going to do right after posting this. :)
I’d love to hear your opinions if you’ve read it already. If you haven’t read it, you should. Could it maybe be a good candidate for a book club type thing?
You’re not, nor will you ever be, a downer. You’re our friend and we care about you very much. Please try to hang in there.
I LOVED that film and also recommend it. :3
The issue I encounter is that if I remove the rest of the stuff after the question mark, it presents a page to open in the app instead of opening in the browser.