Posts Written by Cat
By Cat • 12 years ago

A Letter of Thanks

This is a sort of therapeutic letter I wrote but never sent to the girl who reported the man who molested us.  I don’t know how to get in touch with her, and I can’t be sure she’d appreciate it if I did, but I thought I would share this as a sort of tribute to all of the other kids who did what she did.

Dear. J.

It has been a while since we have met.  It was long ago when we last met and we were both children.  I am writing this because I just wanted thank you for saving my life.  You probably did not even know you had, but you did.

When you told how you had been molested by our grandfather and the shockwaves rippled through the family, I believed you.  How could I not, when he did something very similar to me?  When my mother sat me down and asked me after you told, the amount of power he had over me, my mom, and my siblings went rushing through my head.  As I faced the reality of what had happened, truly confronting it for the first time, I panicked and lied.  After that “no” slipped from my lips, I felt regret wash through me as I heard my mother’s relieved sigh.  But it was out and it was done, I felt like I couldn’t take it back.  So I stayed silent and I watched.  As I sat there, a ...
By Cat • 13 years ago

NY Green Party Ballot Line

Hey, pissed off NY State progressives who are considering staying home, how about considering helping the Green Party get back its ballot line instead?  If the Green Party gets 50,000 votes for their candidate for governor, it gets back its ballot line.  This will massively cut down the amount of petitioning that Green candidates will have to do next election in order to run in elections in New York.  This would save months of petitioning, which takes up time that could otherwise be used campaigning, and help Green candidates run for more offices.   It would help lay the foundation for a real progressive alternative for New York voters.

This election’s Green Party candidate for governor is Howie Hawkins, a long time ...

Hey, pissed off NY State progressives who are considering staying home, how about considering helping the Green Party get back its ballot line instead?  If the Green Party gets 50,000 votes for their candidate for governor, it ...
By Cat • 13 years ago

“How to Thrust Your Fat into a More Appealing Shape”- thoughts on my first time binding my breasts

Okay, so this is my first post here, so be merciful about grammar and such and forgive me if it is more rambling than interesting.

I am genderqueer and moving towards a more androgynous presentation.  The biggest barrier to this is the fact that I have very large breasts.  Very, very large.  The DDD bras that I own is are too tight.  But, being a very large breasted non-binary person presents unique problems.  For one, it has taken surgical breast reduction pretty much off the table for now.  If I seek a breast reduction claiming my breast cause me back, neck, and shoulder pain (which they do), my increasingly obvious nonconforming presentation will mean that it will likely be taken as ...

Okay, so this is my first post here, so be merciful about grammar and such and forgive me if it is more rambling than interesting.

I am genderqueer and moving towards a more androgynous presentation.  The biggest barrier ...