Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)
Historian and PhD student in Tkaronto (Toronto). Likes bats, monsters, sincereposting, and alt text. Genderqueer. Trans. Autistic. 40s. 👬 🧛 nicomaramckay.com
There will be typos.
Ephemeral Record of trans and queer histories: patreon.com/ephemeralrecord
- What the everloving fuck is this enbyphobic ahistorical garbage. Nonbinary genders are not new. The term does not require scare quotes. However, it does require that the writer use the correct pronouns out of a basic sense of common decency, but none is on display here.
- Mother's Day has often felt difficult because I had a difficult relationship with mine, but my mother died three weeks ago and that's a whole new challenge. She was a good grandmother, and she will be missed.
- Anyone can be a pope. It's easy. What's the big deal.
- Reposted by Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)when you see a Black person on social media naming racism, as a white person your response should be: let me listen to this person who has some historical insight into the identity i’ve been socialized into so that i can break from it and become a righteous actor in history.
- Reposted by Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done
- Reposted by Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)"When I asked him why he had gone through so much trouble to get to an Ivy League university only to off-load all of the learning to a robot, [the Columbia student] said, 'It’s the best place to meet your co-founder and your wife.'" I feel ill.