What are you doing about self-care? How are you navigating day-to-day life? Paying the bills, going to work? Caring for your children? How do you fucking get up in the morning?
I have been as active as I possibly can in the resistance against the Trump administration. I have joined protests, I have traveled, I promote events, and I talk to anyone who will listen about the danger we are facing.
I also have a teenage daughter, who is trans, that lives with me 100 % of the time because her mother abandoned her 3 years ago. She never even showed up to contest custody. I’ve never received a dime of support in that period. How do I take care of her on my limited resources and fight for her right to exist at the same time?
I have a job that is directly related to social services like Temporary Assistance (welfare), and SNAP benefits (Food Stamps). These are government funded programs. My job is almost 100% funded by the State, which receives much of its funding from the Federal Government. I worry about my job every day.
I have a partner, who is also trans. How do I maintain my loving relationship with her? I have close friends who are trans. How do I maintain those relationships when all we can talk about half the time is how we are under attack.
I am a trans person who has decided to put myself forward in the resistance movement. My face and words are public. Does that make me a target of the administration when they start to round up trans citizens by calling us deviants, perverts, groomers, child abusers…? Just because I think that I should be able to live my life as the person I am and not as the person they think I should be.
How do I still take an active role in the movement without overwhelming myself? Without neglecting my day-to-day duties? Without falling apart? Is this the signal that it’s time to leave? Get out of the country and take my daughter with me? If so, how do I do that without passports?
What do I do now? When I feel like there’s nothing else I can do?
Originally Posted By u/eccentricfather At 2025-05-02 04:28:45 PM | Source
Trink question I’m already insane
there is a notion of protesting that is about not letting them change you.
remember you are already strong.
easier said than done sometimes we know.Yeah the comments on this thread hit pretty close, for some reason this last week in particular has been extremely depressing.
