I wish they’d realize this, but I doubt they ever will.

I feel like the chuds aren’t nearly as happy online as they were during the first trump presidency

Asking Hexbears how to go outside

It seems like scholars use different names as a form of historicization.

I’ll keep that in mind when I’m being historicized. This just seems so far out of the daily experience of normal people that I don’t really find it relevant.

The name the man himself actually wanted to be known as is El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

It seems like this is the only justification that matters. Just because everyone currently refers to him by Malcom X doesn’t mean it’s valid or correct. It just means nobody is respecting his wishes which is pretty analogous to getting deadnamed.

When I came out, multiple people asked me this question, and I really don’t understand why.

Decades ago, my uncle changed his name (from a male name to another male name), and nobody asked him “well, when we refer to you in the past, should I use your old name?”

Everyone just instinctively started using his new name to refer to him, even in the past, no questions asked.

You might think it’s different for something like pronouns because they were different at the time, but it’s not. For example, if someone said, “Dr. Thompson used to go swimming in the lake when she was a child.” Nobody would say, “Oh, but she wasn’t a doctor at the time, so you shouldn’t refer to her as a doctor in the past tense.” It’s normal and intuitive to talk about people as they are now, even when referring to the past.

Trans people, for some reason, are just treated by different standards.

Day-off work meat