Tamsin the Reimagined Girl™<p>Hello, anarres.family, all other servers, and all ships at sea!</p><p>Welcome to Tamsin's Pinned Post, which includes a few things you might want to know about me. </p><p>Yes, this is a new instance, which I intend to be my new home on the fediverse... but it's the same old nonsense.</p><p>Please enjoy your stay, unless you're a fascist, a racist, a transphobe, a homophobe, or any other flavor of garbage person, in which case please fix your heart or die. Your choice.</p><p>So, who the heck am I?</p><p>Hi! I'm Tamsin: a white <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/GenX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenX</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonbinary</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/woman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woman</span></a> who likes doorstopper novels, director's cuts of movies, extended remixes of songs and albums, tabletop roleplaying games, 5-string basses, double-cutaway Les Paul Jr. guitars, beaches, forests, mountains, witchy things, late nights, lazy afternoons, writing down half of everything she thinks, and living places that haven't outlawed her.<br> <br>I'm happily monogamously married to a polymath superhero, and we share our lives with my marvelous teenaged offspring, two adorable cats, and a host of delightful friends and co-conspirators.<br> <br>Things I post about, in no particular order: <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/sexuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexuality</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/queerness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerness</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/QueerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerTheory</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> stuff, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/transfeminine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transfeminine</span></a> stuff, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/magic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magic</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/witchcraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>witchcraft</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/TTRPGs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTRPGs</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/spirituality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spirituality</span></a>, making things, and whatever else is going though my brain at any given moment.</p><p>When I talk about gender and sexuality, it's probably helpful to know that I hold a bachelor's degree in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (with a focus on <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminist</span></a> history, queer theory, and trans studies) from the University of Washington. This doesn't make me "right" or "authoritative," but it does mean I've done some reading on the topics. Sometimes I joke that I had to get a degree to realize I'm a gay trans girl... which isn't quite true, but still makes me laugh.</p><p>I'm exactly the kind of person who likes <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/ProgRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProgRock</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/PunkRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PunkRock</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/PostPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostPunk</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/TripHop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TripHop</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/GirlyPop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GirlyPop</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/DarkFolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarkFolk</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/BlackMetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMetal</span></a>, '70s <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/funk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funk</span></a>, old-school <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/RnB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RnB</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/BritishInvasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishInvasion</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/ArtRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtRock</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/AcidRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcidRock</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/AcidFolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcidFolk</span></a>, anti-fascist <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/NeoFolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoFolk</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/SingerSongwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SingerSongwriter</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blues</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/EarlyMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarlyMusic</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/minimalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minimalist</span></a> composers, anime soundtracks, and everything <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/Prince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prince</span></a> ever recorded. Among other things.</p><p>Sometimes I make things. I craft, I cook, I play (and occasionally run) tabletop role-playing games, I play (and occasionally write) music and songs. Most of all, though, I write: essays, poetry, stories, and—this one time at band camp, when I was feeling particularly sassy—a whole-ass book about gender, sexuality, queerness, and magic for witches, Pagans, occultists, and devotional polytheists. (If you want to check it out, there's a link in my bio to the publisher's page.)</p><p>Politically, I started out as a liberal in the 1980s, but—flying in the face of conventional wisdom—became increasingly leftist as time went by. I believe all life is sacred, hegemony and hierarchy are intrinsically inclined towards abuse, and bodily autonomy is fundamental to human rights. I believe people can own and control things, but that people are not things. As such, I believe fascism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, and ableism are all evils of the human heart. I support <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/UniversalHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversalHealthcare</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/UBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UBI</span></a>, BLM, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a>, indigenous rights, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a>, queer resistance, sex workers, undocumented and migrant rights, disability rights, autistic people, plural folks, defunding the police, and radical inclusivity. Whatever name fits those beliefs, that's what I am. I'm not a wholly uncritical leftist, though, and I'm probably not ideologically pure enough for most movements. (Then again, I'm a futch-y trans <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lesbian</span></a>, so many leftist movements don't want me around anyway.)</p><p>About following: I'm trying to be intentional and judicious in how I use social media, so here's the deal: folks are welcome to follow my account here, but I don't automatically follow people back. That's not a judgement on you, please understand. It's an acknowledgement that I have a limited amount of mental and social bandwidth, and it's easy for me to get overwhelmed by my social media feed if I don't tend it aggressively.</p><p>The odds of me following you back are significantly higher if...<br>• you have a bio I find interesting,<br>• you're somewhere under the rainbow (LGBTQIA2S+),<br>• we share interests in common,<br>AND/OR<br>• you interact with my posts in a positive way often enough that I think, "hey, I like so-and-so, I think I'll send them a follow request."</p><p>The last condition might override any of the previous three, but the previous three do sway things, just saying. Regardless, anyone's welcome to follow my posts here.</p><p>Okay, I think that's about enough for now. Further updates as events warrant, or as I think of them.</p><p>Cheers! 💕</p>