DAWN'S IN TROUBLE

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I THINK IT IS TIME FOR MUSIC!!

Whew! What to say? We saw Florence in 2015 for this album. I had what was akin to a spiritual experience, full of seizure-like activity, and cramps that would have knocked over an elephant, But, she was electric, and the crowd was in the palm of her hands, and she was feeding all of us, and we were definitely eating what she was feeding! Damn, so many great memories connected to this song, in particular.

Another “what can I say” band. The Cure is classic, and people who do not like them terrify me. They have an extensive catalog, so picking one song to represent my love for them is hard. I keep coming back to this song though. Winding and spiraling, a tripper’s trip.

BLACKSTARKIDS - Really became a great group right before our very eyes. Infectious music, and high energy for their live shows. We say Beabadoobee as the main act. I can’t even remember the second act, but the first—BLACKSTARKIDS were fire!!!!

This last one is by Meshell Ndegeocello. This song was in the movie Lost & Delirious. It is one of my all-time favorites, clocking in at 2 minutes 39 seconds. Onions, I tell ya. I am fucking dicing onions. Music can have that effect on a person, and this yucks my yoke. Or is it yokes my yum? Not sure, but this pushes all the right buttons.

BAD QUEER NEWS UGH:

This first one I am going to, essentially, drop and run. We all knew this was coming. But, they are moving fast. Kansas, tried to push through a bill which would have allowed people to be bounty hunters. FUCKING BOUNTRY HUNTERS FOR TRANS/GNC/SP PEOPLE. This is fucking insane. We want to pee and poop. We want too fix our makeup, and make small talk. All other negative bullshit is smoke and mirrors to cover up for gay self-hating Republicans and Christian Conservative freakshows. Fuck them all. LET US PEE!!

In an attempt to hijack a bill aimed at increasing access to home health care services by adding two last -minute amendments that would further restrict access to gender-affirming care for trans Georgians. Both amendments passed along party lines

House Bill 54 prevents doctors from prescribe puberty blockers to children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. This, despite all major psychological and medical associations saying that gender affirming care saves lives. These bills in Georgia are going to cause sui and a lot of blood on a lot of people’s hands, who seemingly don’t care. The puberty blocker ban would be until the age of 18, which, unfortunately, is the age by which puberty has already taken place. Cruelty. Fuck these people. How can they be this crass. How can they want kids to be dead???

In other horrible, but not exactly surprising news, according to Imogen Sayers, who is reporting for Trans News Network, Brown University, historically a very queer institution, folded and sold out trans rights in order to restore federal funding.

GOOD QUEER NEWS😄

Well, this news doesn’t suck. Not in the least. The Trevor Project, which provides peer support, research, advocacy, public ed, and crisis support to many queer youth got a bump in its finances with a hefty 45 million dollar gift to the organization by philanthropist, MacKensie Scott. This amout of money goes a long way to ensuring that The Trevor Project will be able to continue serving trans youth when needed!!! Read more below!!

AuDHDOKAY

I have, among a variety of illnesses, diseases. and neurodivergences. One of those is AuDHD, but for today we are going to drop the “u” since that has not been confirmed, but I think with the release of the next dsm, it will be. There is a play between ethnicity, and being trans, and having AuDHD or being autistic. . Being trans, you think? Yeah, there are studies linking autism and being trans. As in the number of autistic people in the trans community are larger than most communities..

Now, back to ADHD. I was diagnosed with ADD and I have taken a lot of medications, with only stimulants working, With the new verbiage ADHD, I still take stimulants. Like a lot people with ADHD, often, after taking my morning med, I will be napping in an hour. There has to be something that has to do with with people with brains like me and stimulants putting us to sleep lol

.I don’t think my meds help a lot, and as we say, I am kind of rawdogging life at this point lol. Btw, I just deleted a whole paragraph, so if this sounds broken, well, it is.

I am pretty sure I have the combined type. I am hyperactive and restless, fidgeting, and a lot of chin wagging!. I am impulsive. I know the question that someone is asking and want to answer before they finish. I am on the go all the time, if not physically, then mentally. I have bad emotional control. I get frustrated with people easily. And let’s not get started on so-called risky behavior.

On the flip side, I have extreme difficulty focusing on things that I don’t have an interest in.. And it has to be a serious interest for me to focus. I have been accused of daydreaming, and getting easily sidetracked. My workspace is super messy. I have piles of paper all over my floor. It is a mess lol.

The graphic below shows about where I am sitting right now. The executive dysfunction is off the chain bad. Hyperactivity, stimming, and emotional dysregulation - yes. Everything to the right I experience. Some of the things to the left I experience too. Routines are a big thing. I can focus intently and intensely on things I am interested in, and not other things. Again, intense interests. I can make eye contact, but a lot of times it is fake. Fake smile, feigned interest. Staring so that I allow my eyes to wander then focus then wander again so that it looks like I am contemplating. It is a whole deal. But when I want, my eye contact is considered intense. I have meltdowns and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, which is pain and anxiety over being rejected, being seen as less than. Ugh, it can be a mess. And with all my other shit, I cannot be 100 about anything, ya know??!!??

QUOTATION TIME

“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them.” — Miss Major Grifffin-Gracy

“Being exceptional isn’t revolutionary, it’s lonely… Who are you, really, without community?” — Laverne Cox

“We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about—survival and growth.” — Audre Lorde

“It is really important, in a world that is often very “either/or”, to remember there can be both, neither and everything — that is, other than the 'binary’ of male or female.” — Sally Goldner

“Gender is not what people look like to other people; it is what we know ourselves to be. No one else should be able to tell you who you are; that’s for you to decide…” — Alok Vaid-Menon

WE ARE DRAWING TO THE END ON ANOTHER TUESDAY NEWSLETTER. DAWN ALWAYS SEEMS TO FIND TROUBLE, OR IS IT THAT TROUBLE ALWAYS SEEMS TO FIND DAWN. DON’T WORRY, THE SCOOBIES (ME) WILL BE BACK TO VANQUISH THE WEEKLY BEAST. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING THIS FAR. IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU WOULD CONTINUE AT A SUBCRIBER’S RATE TO KEEP GETTING GREAT CONTENT, AND CONFIRM AND AFFIRM MY CRAFT. A BIENTOT!!