I really think they need to start teaching kids in schools that most blind people can see a little bit, most deaf people can hear a little bit, and most wheelchair users can walk a little bit. And they are still disabled.

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Your annual reminder:

Hanukkah is NOT “Jewish Christmas!”

No. No no no.

Christmas is one of the two most theologically important holidays in Christianity. It celebrates the miraculous birth of the Christian deity (at least into one of the deity’s three component parts) on Earth. It is a cornerstone of the Christian religious tradition in every variation of Christianity that celebrates it.

Hanukkah, theologically, not so much importance. (Obviously it is personally important for plenty of people, and provides a connection point to their culture for many Jews, which is still valid.) It celebrates a military victory by observant, unassimilated Jews over the Seleucid Greeks and assimilated Jews and the reinstatement of a Jewish monarchy. It’s not a “love and light” holiday so much as a “the Greeks fucked around and found out” holiday.

Now, none of this means that we don’t love and enjoy Hanukkah. We do! Fried latkes and sufganiyot, dairy products, child-appropriate gambling…Hanukkah has got it all. But it is very, very much not “Jewish Christmas”.

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A journalist stationed at a Gaza hospital who has been able to make a call via his Turkish sim:

"We’re in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. We have no idea what’s happening. There’s no connection, no Wi-Fi, no reporters. We’re cut off from everything.. People can’t call ambulances or civil defense. We are being bombed in an unprecedented manner. The sky around us just lights up [with explosions], and no one knows what’s going on. You can’t reach anyone, even if they’re only 500 meters away. Ambulances and medics are begging reporters to let them know which streets are getting bombarded to go rescue the victims but the reporters themselves don’t know where anything is happening [because of the connection loss]. We are trying to report the news but we have no idea what’s happening.”

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I know. (I feel much more than I speak.) I know you, you know. (I see you, sometimes, in the shape of my shadow, in the blacks of my eyes, in the darkest corners of my nightmares.)

She is. (She disappeared one day, but she was fading long before.) I won’t tell you that I never thought about it. (The promise used haunt me—a new reality, written to the shape of my dreams.) Of course I thought about it. (I still think about it, some days. The dream still makes me ache.)

But everything comes at a price. (The price is always blood, and that’s why we’re both bleeding.)

In order to bring our mother back, (She had green eyes, like ours.) someone else would have to lose theirs. (I like when people say I look like her. I like being like her, any way I can. Don’t you?) And that, I couldn’t wish on anyone. (We are the same weight, you and I. Both heavy with the ache of missing her.)

Me? I manage to go on living, (The ache will not die and neither will I. We’re a package deal now.) trying to be happy, (It’s harder than you think, and also easier. Smiles are born from such simple things—did you know?) as she wanted me to. (I think she’d be proud, if she were here. It makes me smile.)

I have my friends to comfort me. (On grayscale days they are the color. They paint me from the inside out.) I’m okay now. (I will be.) I’m as well as I can be, anyway. (It will get better. That’s what their colors tell me.)

It must be painful (I know the hurt.) for someone who doesn’t have any close friends, (I used to watch my window like a movie, looking out at the life I wish I had.) or anyone to comfort them. (The house was always cold. I’m shivering even now.)

(Someone like you, yes.) (Someone like me, not long ago.)

Only you can decide not to be alone. (If you reach out in the dark there will be hands to meet you.)

(I understand. I love you now.)

(Do you?)

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"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae

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