Brandy Johns

Brandy Johns

@brandyjohns.bsky.social

I'm the vindictive scapegoat now and I have things to say whether or not anyone's listening. Trigger warning: I trauma dump frequently, I have a foul mouth, and I don't believe in Jesus.

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CPTSD survivors aren't getting f*cked up about things in the past. We're responding to things happening in our body, our nervous & endocrine systems, today. Telling a survivor to "let it go" misses the point of what's actually, physically happening, here, now.

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Being yourself & loving yourself-- not in the abstract, touchy feely "feeling" sense, but in the concrete, behavioral sense-- is hardcore rebellion against the bullies & abusers who tried to shame & pressure you out of your own identity. That's real, not metaphorical. You rebel.

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Replying to @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social

They would rather lose to Trump in perpetuity than concede anything to the left, because whatever their distaste for Trump, they hate the left even more. The sooner you accept this truth, you can stop trying to work w/a party that hates you & organize outside the system.

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If you're willing to sacrifice other people's rights to save your own, you'll sacrifice anyone's and I can't trust you. It's not a "purity test," it's a decency test, and you fuckin failed. Trans people are not your sacrificial goat.

My boomer mom was nonbinary or gender nonconforming at the very least; she just didn't have the language for it. Sadly, I'm sure she'd be a deeply closeted, misogynistic, MAGAt asshole now if she were still alive. I know for certain we wouldn't be on speaking terms. She'd be a goddamn nightmare.

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social

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Brandy Johns reposted

It’s not love if: 🔸They punish you for setting boundaries 🔸They isolate you from friends or family 🔸They use your vulnerabilities against you 🔸They make you afraid to be yourself Real love is safe, kind, and freeing.💛

I'm not sure how many actual friends I ever had. Sad thought, but maybe none. I think most of the people I considered friends were just friend-shaped parent wounds and frenemies. I wasn't a great friend while I was in active addiction either, so maybe I didn't feel like I deserved actual friends.

Most of the sober friends I made were [& still are] christians so we have nothing in common now that I've left their death cult. I can't handle spending much time around people who are *that* detached from reality anymore anyway. Once you see religion for the scam that it is, there's no going back.

Brandy Johns reposted

Wake up and smell the lead poisoning boomers! The old world is dying and a new more equitable world is struggling to be born. The time is now to become more than the slaves to capital you have always been. Rise up!