In my experience, folks in academia are often eager to chat about and share their work over email. Perhaps email Dr O’Hare?

There was an internal DHS investigation into intelligence abuses and unlawful arrests committed during Trump’s last tangle with his imaginary terrorist organization in Portland: Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump. Portland police say that the feds have been attempting to instigate confrontations for a while now already.

I’m sorry! Try not to let people get to you like that! You don’t have to win any arguments because you don’t need anyone’s permission. You don’t need their acceptance or support if they don’t actually have any to offer. There is a world of folks out there who will accept you.

I know how hard it is to feel secure enough to be the source of your own affirmation early on but do try to find it within yourself. If you can’t find that security, then let go of the need for it and just follow your heart. We are all winging it through life anyway, so go ahead with the DIY. Keep it somewhere safe at your university or at a friend’s place in a lockbox. You said, “no one spoke with me about it ever.” If you don’t have trans friends in your life yet, go find some at those organizations you mentioned. The trans organization in my city has lockers available for people with problematic parents.

If you feel like you have to self-harm again, try to put it off for a little while. You can always do that later, right? Try to put the sharp thing away too. If you can’t quit thinking about self-harming, try instead to let the thoughts pass by without interacting with them. Just breath, let the thought come, and let the thought go. There’s enough suffering in that moment, so just be with it.

By the way, the whole nature isn’t queer thing was a total cover-up. The old explorers knew nature was queer as fuck and hid the information to deliberately create ignorance. Now we have to deal with their mess hundreds of years later.

That wasn’t just any democratic congressional candidate! That was Kat Abughazaleh, an explicitly antifascist candidate.

Reliable enough?

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

Their accounts paint the picture of someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally (including Trump) but who didn’t engage with politics beyond that. He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan, all of which he became increasingly steeped in as he withdrew from social life as well as their own friendships several years ago, they said.

https://nitter.net/FBIDirectorKash/status/1970874124454019204

One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase “ANTI ICE.”

Whoever scrawled ‘ANTI ICE’ could at least have had the decency and respect to lie well.

…the woman told officers she first encountered the group while telling them to stop “harassing” people at a local transit center. That drew the group’s attention, and they began “charging towards her”, the police documents alleged.

In case anyone in need is unaware: A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks.

It would have been better to wait and form a group of other victims of this harassment, stand side by side with one another, and then confront them. Don’t assume people will have your back.

I have no idea if this is true, but if you want out, Canada could be an option! According to SL’s Substack, it will take about two years for them to process your application for asylum. The author claims that you will be allowed to remain, work, and study in Canada. You will get some healthcare coverage, could qualify for free legal assistance, and might even qualify for financial assistance.

New York details its plans for encouraging p2p social media.

Wikipedia actually! I’ve been reading Portal:Current Events almost daily for years unless I’m in a self-care mode. The editors seem to choose sources of original reporting about the topics fairly well and the timeline lets me go back and skim everything that happened during a news break.

Yay! Glad you like it! It took me several sessions to do everything below the neck at first. That was before starting hrt so it was terrible. I remember slowly eating dark chocolate in between short breaks to counter the pain. Hopefully you’re still happy with the epilator and get to unlock the euphoria soon! There’s always some pain for me but the bliss kicks in so hard and fast it doesn’t even matter.

I just learned that cacao contains anandamide, one of the endocannabinoids, so maybe eating the chocolate helped train my body to deal with the pain? Who knows!

Fortunately, there is a cheapish laser salon in my area that works well for my face, but some women have told me that they get their laser done by the students at a cosmetologist school that’s even cheaper. It might be worth looking into whether that’s available in your area.

An epilator works great for the rest of my body, and my skin feels much better to me after the hair has been pulled all the way out. It only really hurt the first few times. After that the pain turned into pleasure. Seriously, it feels so nice that I have to remind myself to not just bliss out. My sense of general happiness even stays improved for days after as well! Try the epilator. But don’t use it on your face!

Don’t dare use this one on your face, but some folks make their own electrolysis setups. It will cause scaring if you don’t know what you are doing.

Perhaps a kids styling doll head might work?

The same places that hold munches might have other events as well. There are polyamorous gaming nights at the place nearest me.

Do you only experience attraction during sex? I feel it in my eyes when smiling, hear it when someone’s face makes pretty noises, bounce off it when trying to hold a walking conversation and failing. Just be open to your feelings!

Really explore ideas and concepts from the base of your psyche without lumping all the societal bullshit on top, if possible.

Approaching my lived experiences of attraction as mere phenomena, was critical to (or was it the cause of, or rather the anticipation of?) finding them to be unbound by social constructs of gender, sex, or sexuality. Try not to mistake the map for the territory. The menu is not the meal.

Behold the elder-lore, once sung 'round internet campfire tales of yore! /j

Transfeminine Science has a thorough discussion of the concerns:

These suggestions include progestogens having known antiestrogenic effects in the breasts, animal studies finding stunted mammary development with high doses of progestogens, clinical publications cautioning against premature introduction of progestogens in female puberty induction due to concerns about possibly stunted breast growth, clinical use of progestogens to treat macromastia in cisgender females, poor breast development with estrogen therapy in cisgender girls with a disorder of sexual development that results in high progesterone exposure, and breast development with estrogen and CPA (a very strong progestogen) typically being poor in transfeminine people.

Folks very much are starting earlier now! A recent paper noted that, “[m]ost patients who started progesterone began after 1-6 months on a standard GAHT regimen (59.3%).” But only two women were doing rectal administration in that study, which is what everyone online says works best.

My first year of hrt was all diy. I added progesterone after a bit more than eighteen months of slowly increasing estrogen, with the advice of a doctor, around seven years ago. At the time my dose of e was 6mg/day buccal, and p was 100mg/day oral for the first six months, then the other way. Maybe a year after that, a different doctor increased p to 200mg and eventually started me on injections around four and a half years ago. It’s been more than eight and half years now since I started hrt. The younger woman I was when beginning would be thrilled with where the girls have ended up, but I’d still like them a bit bigger.

been on e for a several months now

It kind of blows my mind that folks are starting progesterone so early now. The old lore was to wait at least two to three years due to fear of stunted growth.

Maybe just use your MP’s selfie or ID? use-their-id.com