transandnonbinary

Here is a quick list of the key points from this article:

1. Republicans will likely try to criminalize our ability to discuss and distribute trans literature using the internet, and we don’t have robust networks in place to keep our communities organized or to preserve our access to trans literature if that happens.
2. Centralized institutions are more vulnerable to fascist state violence, and you can’t rely on non-profits, social media sites, online stores, or even websites like this one to retain your access to trans literature in a worst-case scenario.
3. Almost every point in the action plan found in the second half of the article can be distilled into two key bullet points:
4. Create a Microlibrary: Start a personal offline collection of trans literature. Save as many pieces of trans media as you possibly can, including the free stuff. Do not keep it in the Cloud unless you’re using a foreign server and provider. Make copies. Practice secure digital hygeine and encrypt your data. Pool your resources with friends. The more places people keep and hide their books, the more likely it is that at least one copy will survive even a worst case scenario.
5. Organize Locally: Find your local community before things get bad. Develop offline strategies to distribute and market trans literature. Make your books available to trans people in your city, county, or neighborhood. Support local authors, or make yourself available to local readers.
6. Every person can take these two actions American or not, and the more people who take them, the more effective they will be. Fascism is a global threat. You can start today.
7. It’s better to be prepared than sorry. Analog library building and local organizing will be beneficial no matter what a Republican administration does, so you should start now. We don’t have the luxury of time.

WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW: Before you do anything else, I would highly encourage that you download a PDF of this article so that you will be able to refer back to it if this website is forced to shut down under a Trump Administration. I would also highly recommend that you download a PDF of Essays Against Publishing by Jamie Berrout, which contains more crucial information. Let these be the first two texts in your microlibrary. You can download both by clicking these buttons:



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Hi everyone! I'm going to be taking the next week or two off from the weekly news posts; with working in the restaurant industry and doing some light traveling around the holidays, I just have a lot to keep up with. Still! I have not come empty handed.

A trans writer and critic I greatly admire recently unlocked a short story on her Patreon that she wrote a while back. I must have missed it when she first posted it, but I've read it now and boy. Wow. It's about JKR so it involves the relevant topics (transphobia, conversion therapy, etc).

Under the Stairs by Gretchen Felker-Martin

The money. I am throwing money away as fast as they will let me. Literacy. Schools. Hospitals. Every day there is a flood of letters. Children I have taught to read. Lives I have saved with access to surgery and modern medicine. Women who have fled their husbands with my help. A man slapped me, once. I know what they go through. I lived with my brother. I lived in a council flat. A fat spider weaving in the corner. Aragog.

I decide to meet them where they are, to open my heart to their dissent. A great thick encyclopedia written by the fans and edited by me. The first meetings: fawning. Inspiration, oh my God, find myself, my whole life. I love them. I have met them all a thousand times. Lost children who found me. I am like them. They need me.