this may be early, don’t worry about it, pin it whenever
First mega wooo, now I get to have my inbox flooded!
Friendship ended with coffee, now tea is my best friend. No promises but I’ll try to post about a different tea each day!
Join our public Matrix server!
https://rentry.co/tracha#tracha-rooms
As a reminder, please do not discuss current struggle sessions in the mega. We want this to be a little oasis for all of us and the best way to do that is not to feed into existing conflict on the site.
Also, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It’s for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.
Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.
spoiler
New boss has been they/themming me a lot (and maybe even he’d just a bit ago, though she “corrected” to they swiftly). I don’t think I’ve ever referred to myself that way to her, and I’ve got she/her on my pin and my email signature… Maybe it’s because her other direct report is nonbinary so she’s got the neural pathways for that set up? prob gonna talk to the nb about it and see what they think
And she’s still degendeding you? What a shithead
Actually this reminded me of a really funny story. I have a work colleague who is otherwise a phenomenal ally, but I had noticed they were de-gendering me, but also then I noticed they de-gendered everyone cis or trans.
I gently probed this and they said “Oh I do that for everyone, I kind of wish we didn’t have gender, I don’t feel locked into any gender…” and I put my hands on my eyes and realised they are an