For those who wear a binder, aren’t out to their parents and have to wash their binder in secret :
I know how you feel. I too have hidden my binder in the furthest reaches of my closet and only put it on if I knew my parents would not be home/if they were asleep. I have a few friends that have a hard time washing their binders (as did I). They have to sneak it into the bathroom and wash it using shampoo. The shampoo works, but they have told me that their parents have asked why they smell like coconut a few times. Or that the shampoo residue gave them a rash. So I want to share the trick that worked for me.
If you can, fill a travel shampoo container (the kind you can get at a CVS for like three dollars) and fill it with laundry detergent. These containers can be hid in a sock and put in your sock drwar or put in a travel toiletry kit. Because I have sensitive skin, it was easy to convince my parents (when they asked) that I was putting some aside so that I have a detergent that does not irritate my skin on our next trip. They are small and you can refill them the next time you do the rest of your laundry.
I hope this helps some of you, and in the meantime, be strong. You will make it through this.
Kii says:
This method can also be used to wash other items of clothing that you don’t want your parents to see, including bras, underwear, etc.
the purple and green represent ace, aro, nb and nd people. the circle in the middle represents a black hole, hence the lack of humanity/dehumanization. the white represents the unity of our communities.
hey so I’m not giving JKR any credit whatsoever for accidentally writing a nonbinary icon (bc if she’d meant to do it she’d never have shut up about it) but Tonks refuses to use even shortened forms of her heavily feminine given name with anyone except close family members and has The Classic Genderweird Dream Power of at-will minor shapeshifting and uses it to look punkishly androgynous with Cool Hair thank you for coming to my TED talk
aromantic nonbinary solidarity is having your comunity terms made fun of and mocked bc they’re “cringy” and “unnecessary”
[Image Description: Two hands shaking. One hand says, “Aros”. The other says, “Nonbinary people”. In the middle, it says, “Having terminology mocked for being ‘cringy’ and ‘unnecessary’“]
[id: a person shaking their own hands with a forced smile on their face. over the person’s body is the text “nonbinary aros”. end id.]
nobody ever talks about how saying non-binary genders don’t exist is racist as fuck
How?
many many many indigenous cultures have historically included more than two genders and to say that those genders do not exist is to say that those cultural traditions are invalid, and that only the imperialist gender binary is correct. which is racism.
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