Hitching Post

The week of November 20th to November 27th [2020]:

Revealed part of the #tech scribbling marathon posting: ‘What are federated sites?’ and ‘Switching from Facebook to the Fediverse: What’s stopping us?’ articles.

Snail Mail community - I reblogged the Black & Pink holiday card campaign post [here].

Aro & Ace community - I reposted AUREA’s call for submission about aromantic fears [here].

ASL - The Sound Off Ladies cover the basics of Deaf name signs [here]. They also touch on suggestions for Biden and (for the first time for a Vice President) Harris.

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• Coy - Trying to trace the use of “spec” in aro, ace, and A-spectrum usage [here].
• Kaz - ‘Stand Still, Stay Silent’ [here]. This is a note to self to see if the webcomic friend might like this.
• Kate - “Colonialism in Speculative Fiction: An Unexpected Case Study” [here].
• Offsite [FoodStampsNow] - [US] State by state guide with posts about being able to buy online groceries with EBT (if able to do so).
• Offsite [Sealaska Heritage Institute] - “Tlingit Artist Chosen To Create Stamp For U.S. Postal Service”. It’s called Raven Story and set to release in 2021 [USPS 2021 stamps].

Tumblr-Centric

(Relatedly, I have much to lament about nonbinary discourse so often taking place on Tumblr [1], and I think these are the consequences of that [2].)

- From a recent comment thread on a post from before I appeared on the Pillowfort scene.

Yes, I found this from Coy's hitching post. I could probably comment on the post itself, but I'm more pulling this out in a 'maybe come back to this' sense. I have a draft that's been collecting some dust from earlier in 2020 called 'Reasons Why I’m (Jokingly) Disowned From Nonbinary Tumblr Spaces' because I didn't click with a section of nonbinary tumblr I tried looking into at one point. I'm not entirely sure it has actual relevance to Coy's original post or the comment thread discussion, but I've been trying to think of how to translate some old gender related posting into a 'hey, I should probably mention this on this new platform' post of some sort.

This post is a cross between 'that linked tumblr post is interesting' and a heads up that I might write about this sometime before 2020 ends.

Archival note: I did not, in fact, write about this before 2020 ended. Some of these links seem to be from publicly visible but rather personal posts, so I only have two archival links:
[1] How Using Tumblr is Undermining Your Community, archived Pillowfort post or WordPress post.
[2] Re: lack of a nonbinary community, archived Tumblr post.