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welcome to idaho (2023) (Patreon)

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2023-10-19 12:30:01
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2026-08
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The entire time I lived in Salmon I just accepted as fact that the people of Idaho generally hate trans people. It was a coping mechanism; I could not change it, I could simply deal with it, mitigate it, be smart, know that I was always probably at least a little bit of a target, and stay alert. No matter what, it was a fact.

With the slightest distance from it, I am incandescently fucking angry that 3/4s of the country is off-limits to my friends and I because so many places are ruled by violent evil motherfuckers who hate us. This thing I had accepted as an unchangeable fact for years suddenly, when it is no longer my daily reality, is blatantly not an unchangeable fact. It doesn't have to be the reality at all. It has hurt no one in Seattle to treat me like a fucking human being, and it wouldn't have hurt the assholes in Idaho, or the ones in Reno, or the ones in Houston, all the ones that have wounded me so deeply and made me feel unsafe in so many places to the point I forgot that any sense of safety could ever exist for me.

I have no idea what the point of this post is, but let me tell you, I am so angry. 

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Brent

So sorry to hear this.

Brent

Gah, stupid Return key. Was gonna go on: You're not misinterpreting it: I think you're probably right about the 3/4 number. The US coasts are great, but it's almost like the further you get from the coasts, the worse this behavior gets. I took my partner on a single cross-country road trip through the US, careful to guard them and keep them in situations that were safe, but it was sad that I had to take those kinds of precautions. With my partner at least, the 3/4 of the country isn't something they really care about, so it was no big deal. They've seen it now, they know what that part of the country is like, and they know it's not their bag. They can go on with their lives on the coasts. But with you, yeah, it's way tougher, because that middle 3/4 of the country is your jam, your vibe, and that blows. I wish you could enjoy it the way you want to, and it bums me out too.

Michaela Pereckas

I mean there's the middle coast, Chicago is a real city and Illinois is currently one of the safer states government wise. Wisconsin state government is much more marginal but I spent about three years living at the beard+dress level of visibility in Milwaukee and it honestly went great. (When the pandemic hit and I covered my face with a mask I suddenly became apparently invisible, which was an interesting change and I honestly like it this way but I was not pushed into it by anything anyone said or did before.) But there's a whole lot of other places around here I don't really want to pass through.