How do I even put into words what happened last night.

tl;dr Trans Family Support Services Director of Operations reacted aggressively to criticism about the Executive Director being a cis woman, and threw a glass of water at Máni, the founder of Trans Pride in Huntsville Alabama.

The longer story is here under the cut.

Kathie Moehlig (Executive Director of TFSS) invited all of the organizers to a thank you dinner at a local brewery. Somehow the two people she removed from the project (myself and the ex committee chair) also ended up invited. We decided to go as moral support for Máni, who was planning on confronting Kathie about how planning this year had gone.

The dinner is tense and awkward for the most part. After an hour or so Kathie makes a small speech thanking everyone for their hard work and that TFSS is excited to start working on next year's pride event.

When she finished, Máni took that as an opportunity to segue into what he needed to say. He had it written down, because his anxiety would have made it difficult to say what he needed to say off the cuff.

He planned to bring up their lack of transparency, communication, and ability to listen to the local community, and tell them that he had no plans to work with TFSS ever again.

It very quickly devolved into Kathie cutting him off and speaking over him once he started bringing up his employment with TFSS (he was fired from the organization back in April). She said that she could not legally respond to anything he had to say about it and Máni, myself, and multiple other people at the table told her she didn't need to respond, she just needed to listen.

She refused, and continued speaking over Máni. He finally called her out on being a cishet white woman speaking over a trans person on trans affairs, and Aspen Everheart (Director of Operations for TFSS) got up, leaned over the table in a quick and aggressive manner as though he were going to punch Máni, and then threw a glass of water all over him and stormed out.

The situation devolved further and all members of TFSS left the dinner after saying we were inappropriate and this was not the place to have this discussion.

Some context for why Máni chose to speak then and not in private. Kathie repeatedly, in private conversations with Máni regarding these things, has spoken over him and twisted the conversation away from any critique of her organization. Máni felt he had no choice but to speak in a more public setting for her to listen.

We were all shocked that they would react that way to this criticism, accusing us of attacking Kathie and being aggressive. And even going so far as to accuse Máni, myself, and a few others as trying to be the sole voices of the trans community here in Huntsville.

I can say, for myself, that I will not be working with TFSS in the future. I will be working with my local community to make Trans Pride next year an event of community pride, love, and effort.

Obviously draw your own opinions on what has happened.

the tfss chromedome figure's bio is really funny because it's a 1:1 of idw chromedome of course, exceeeept for the bit where they're like. uhhhh noooo he didn't WANT to do those EXTRA bad war crimes don't worry. they were just like. idw chromedome is way too shady we gotta clean this man's act up.

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Let’s try the celebrations again, shall we?

A note for next week (09 July) onward: so that our friends Nebulas Noctis can stream more freely, our stream schedule will change slightly. Instead of the current format of TFSS, we will be streaming SWRF with Wednesdays off every other week to work with Asterisks_Official with Art Jam. We hope you understand, and we hope you’ll enjoy Nebulas Noctis’ company!

Now, while we ready the belated celebrations for your contributions through the recent Donothon, let’s also spread love to Nebulas Noctis and help them to Affiliate!

https://twitch.tv/nebulas_noctisvt

— Anastasius (he/they) & Road (he/him)

P.s. — apologies for inadvertently abandoning this platform as of late. A lot has been going on, including a financial emergency, leading to memory related to platforms newest to us being limited. It’s made it difficult to remember to keep up with all the platforms we are on in order to attempt to broaden our horizons. Thanks so much for your patience and understanding!

Corne de Brume is the first single taken from the new Terence Fixmer album, Shifting Signals. Released on Mute on December 2nd: https://mute.ffm.to/tfss

So, re my experience with Trans Family Support Services.

Some context: TFSS is a trans support organization started by a cis woman with a trans son. I do not want to downplay the good it does on the west coast with this post. They're a valuable resource in the places they know well.

And that's the problem.

The Huntsville, AL trans community partnered with TFSS this year to plan Trans Pride events. They hired one local person to be the liaison and coordinator for "Alabama", and assigned him tasks and jobs that he should have had a team to help him with. TFSS stalled on pride planning multiple times with him, always told him to ask for help when he needed it but never gave it when he asked, and ultimately fired him when he asked for disability accommodations.

Right before he was fired, he had put together the planning committee for Trans Pride. I was the Entertainment head. TFSS went silent for a month, not telling the planning committee anything whatsoever.

From there, it was just red flag after red flag after red flag with TFSS. They promised security, a fence around the event, bag checks, etc and reneged on all of those promises multiple times, waffling instead of committing to anything specific. They refused to listen to the local community on safety.

They repeatedly acted as if we had the same resources they do in California, which, if you know Alabama and the South, we don't. They kept acting as if the police would be enough security when repeatedly police have shown to be untrustworthy.

The head of TFSS, Kathie Moehlig, refused to let the planning committee do its jobs and actually plan and make decisions. Every single decision had to be made through her. She repeatedly tried to backhandedly embarrass and blame the ex-employee in front of the committee for things that were her fault and her responsibility. She never told me what budget I was working with for hiring entertainment, and refused to accept any plan and schedule that didn't include multiple drag entertainers. Which, on that last point, is fine and makes sense, but I don't know the drag performers in my city very well, and despite asking multiple times, no one gave me anyone's info or directed them to sign up.

Not to mention Huntsville has a massive line up of events in June, 9 of which include drag entertainment. So most drag performers were booked solid.

Which was stressful for me, and happened literally last week as of this post.

The past week has been the planning committee head, the person TFSS fired, and myself arguing with Kathie about safety measures. She refused to give us a committed answer, hemming and hawwing about it. The planning head finally had enough, emailed all the vendors that there was no confirmed security, and quit.

I had, as of Friday last week, threatened to quit if Kathie couldn't promise there would be some form of barrier around the event. I had not quit yet.

Yesterday, after the planning head quit, Kathie chose for me, and texted me saying she understood my fears and want to no longer work on the event, and removed me as entertainment head and as a volunteer. I had not quit yet. Which to me, read as Kathie confirming there would be no barrier.

I emailed the entertainment about the lack of security and that if they had questions or concerns to talk to Kathie.

The ex planning head and I are both local queer/trans organizers. And this cis woman from California fired us because we wouldn't refused to budge on matters of safety for our community.

The person TFSS fired is still volunteering, and has told the ex planning head and myself what's happening. Kathie is doing damage control. She sent an email to all the vendors stating that she had hired "a security company" (no name, just a security company) and was working on getting the city permit amended to include barriers. Which was news to literally everyone involved.

Now she has added bag checks and specified entrances and exits.

Pride is this Saturday.

The local community as I know it is furious with TFSS for this shit show. Time is a flat circle and even amongst the queer community, people from the west coast think they can come into the South and fix everything because we don't know anything. And it's infuriating. That was the vibe the entire time, every meeting we had.

Do not work with Trans Family Support Services if you live in the South and Appalachia. It's not worth the headache and stress, and they'll just break every promise they make.

Finally finished my @tformers-secret-santa gift for @lovelylampoon!!

A thousand apologies from me for pushing way past the deadline…but I hope this will somehow compensate for it haha. I tried to give off the sensation that he’s truly happy and content among his minicons with his relaxing and petting Ravage (plus the small heart above him!)–hopefully it comes across as exactly that X)

Art for my upcoming story, That Familiar Sound! 

FOTD: Transformers Pretender Megatron and Optimus Prime! http://www.16bit.com/fotd/170824-transformers-50-2box.shtml

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Pete’s Robot Convention was in full swing today and The Allspark staff was there to cover the convention and it’s most anticipated panel: The Making of a Club & Convention Exclusive…and boy did it deliver!

The panel went over concept images of the design process of making and choosing BotCon toys, as well as images of what what would have been this year’s club exclusives. Not only do we have images of the panel but we have also video of the panel itself. Also, keep and eye out on our YouTube channel for a full video coverage of the event. Below are the full panel images. Now excuse me while I go in a corner and weep in a corner knowing that TFSS 6.0 concepts may never see the light of day.

  BotCon 2011 Theme Concept #1

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BotCon 2011 Theme Concept #2

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BotCon 2011 Theme Concept #3

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BotCon 2011 Theme Concept #4

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BotCon 2011 Theme Concept #5

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BotCon 2011 Theme Concept #6

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Club Membership Incentive & Club Store Exclusives

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TFSS 6.0

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          Pete’s Robot Con: The Making of a Club & Convention Exclusive Pete's Robot Convention was in full swing today and The Allspark staff was there to cover the convention and it's most anticipated panel: The Making of a Club & Convention Exclusive...and boy did it deliver!

@tformers-secret-santa My Transformers secret Santa gift for @clothesbeam ! (For some reason it won't let me mention you??) hope you had a great holiday! I couldn’t help but jump at the chance to draw my fave x) tried to make him look as badass as I could? Though he’s pretty badass looking all the time so I just went all out on detail ^-^ Hope you like it!!