Tired

This is a rant.  Pardon the profanity, but I'm fucking pissed.

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I am so fucking tired.... of mutherfuckers who think they can police my gender.  When I say my name is Auri, I mean it.  It's not a 'real thing' when someone else calls me by that name; it's a 'real thing' as soon as I say it is.  I don't need your approval, your recognition, or your words to validate my identity.  Fuck you.  The same goes with my fucken pronouns.

And for folks who call  themselves my 'allies'... I'ma need you to step it up.  Being an ally means taking the pressure off of me when your ignorant ass friends open their ignorant ass mouths.  It is not is not IS NOT my responsibility to educate the ignorant ass people you keep around you and call your 'friends'.  There is a very specific reason I choose not to interact or even be around them.  Making excuses for their continued ignorance does not help me, them, or you.  In fact, they are playing into the hands by perpetuating the oppressive systems we live under.

And fucken telling me to calm down when I constantly see my oppressions manifesting on an interpersonal in-your-face level, does not help.  Check yo'self to see how much of the Oppressor you're letting rent space in your Soul.

I fucken need my 'allies' to step it up.  Interrupt oppression when you hear/see/are around it.  And school your friends if they don't know.  This means having my back when you hear mis-pronouning, not using my preferred name, mis-gendering, gender policing and shit like that.  Either you do this all the time, or you get the fuck away from me.

**end rant**