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25 for 2025 - And Aw The Best For 2026
1. My book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt was published.
2. I was diagnosed with two new chronic illnesses.
3. I started HRT. And loved it.
4. I sent three formal complaints to regulatory bodies. Up from last year.
5. I learned how much admin a body can require. Also up from last year.
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25 for 2025 - And Aw The Best For 2026
1. My book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt was published.
2. I was diagnosed with two new chronic illnesses.
3. I started HRT. And loved it.
4. I sent three formal complaints to regulatory bodies. Up from last year.
5. I learned how much admin a body can require. Also up from last year.
You can't be #goth, or any other form of #alternative, either. These #subcultures were BUILT by #queer people, #POCs, #trans people, #women! Being a #bigot inherently makes you part of the #establishment. Which is EXACTLY what these subcultures are against. #Fascists of all kinds, FUCK OFF!
… “For Greene, the decades that #Epstein spent eluding justice for exploiting & sexually assaulting countless #girls & young #women while amassing a fortune, & the seeming efforts by the government to #CoverUp the #injustice, ‘represents everything wrong with Washington,’ she told me [NYT’s Robert Draper].
#MarjorieTaylorGreene #Trump #EpsteinFiles #law #rape #pedohilia #SexTrafficking #RapistInChief
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/magazine/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-maga-split.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.vmkg.hwAMgb96NWQx&smid=nytcore-ios-share
You can't be #goth, or any other form of #alternative, either. These #subcultures were BUILT by #queer people, #POCs, #trans people, #women! Being a #bigot inherently makes you part of the #establishment. Which is EXACTLY what these subcultures are against. #Fascists of all kinds, FUCK OFF!
After the response to my posts about nature cure, and the conversation they opened about the myths surrounding it, I wanted to reshare this deeply personal piece.
It’s about choosing permanence over performance. About the profound impact drystone walling and physical labour had on my relationship with my body and male desire.
This essay is adapted from my book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/what-i-build-will-outlast-every-man-who-ever-wanted-me
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Essay #Scotland #Drystone #Women #News #UK
After the response to my posts about nature cure, and the conversation they opened about the myths surrounding it, I wanted to reshare this deeply personal piece.
It’s about choosing permanence over performance. About the profound impact drystone walling and physical labour had on my relationship with my body and male desire.
This essay is adapted from my book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/what-i-build-will-outlast-every-man-who-ever-wanted-me
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Essay #Scotland #Drystone #Women #News #UK
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I’ve spent the last decade extracting myself from a life that didn’t work.
That has meant therapy, medication, sobriety. It has meant hard decisions about relationships, time, and energy. It has also meant learning to stop letting the outside world dictate everything, and getting to know my internal reality. Then accepting it.
The result is a life that is boring on purpose.
#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #Women #SocialMedia #News
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I’ve spent the last decade extracting myself from a life that didn’t work.
That has meant therapy, medication, sobriety. It has meant hard decisions about relationships, time, and energy. It has also meant learning to stop letting the outside world dictate everything, and getting to know my internal reality. Then accepting it.
The result is a life that is boring on purpose.
#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #Women #SocialMedia #News
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Recently at a Q&A, the chair asked me an excellent question: Why do you push so hard against the idea of a ‘nature cure’ when moments in your book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt might look like exactly that?
The answer is simple.
#Reading #Writing #WritingCommunity #Scotland #NatureWriting #Nature #Land #Women #Author
AI-driven automation threatens to disproportionately displace women from their jobs, and policymakers and employers must ensure equal access to AI tools and training to prevent gendered economic fallout. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/14/world/ai-labor-shock-coming-for-women/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #women #women039sissues #jobs #employment #chatgpt #ai #artificialintelligence
** Convenient myths cont'd **
Myth no. 9:
🧑🧒 That having children is selfish (in our current economic and social structure, it's actually not).
Myth no. 10:
🚻 That *not* having children is selfish (in our current environmental context and power-structured culture, it's actually not).
