My hubby forwarded this screenshot to me from a GTNH Discord server and I feel it is valuable advice for anyone struggling with American healthcare.

  • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Are you a lawyer too? Without the expertise and connections to get it going its a pipe dream. If you have the expertise the connections are the easier part.

      • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        Not being a lawyer will make it way harder. People like to see “look what I made and built and did the work for” and will work with you then. Asking people to make it for you doesn’t tend to work, its gotta be collaborative. Not to dissuade you, its just going to be a very uphill experience. As someone with a lot of experience organizing (I made my own LGBT center, do trans homelessness stuff), I suggest thinking about your profession, your background, what you share in common with others, and leverage that. Even with major disabilities and being fully online you can make a difference if you choose something relevant to you that you can always zealously pursue no matter your mood.

        For me, I’ve always been a people person and hated being alone in a queerphobic world and I’ve been hurt a lot. I put all my effort into community as a result. And as a trans person a lot of trans people are more willing to work with me, particularly transfems. Every time I felt alone and traumatized I harnessed that alienation to build social gatherings and get people resources. A lot of people can do this, but if say, there was a trans ally that wanted to build a similar space, they wouldn’t have gotten nearly the same traction.

        I guess my tender advice as an old ass trans woman is, follow your heart and your abilities. cat-trans

        • MajesticalDiscomfort [mirror/your pronouns, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          Despite being a genetics and genomics major when I was in college, I found animation to be a fun hobby. I intend to get my roots in the internet as a content creator, getting my views in the open, and working from there.

          It will absolutely be a long and tedious process, but I’m stubborn and persistent.

          • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            4·
            6 days ago

            Animation and stuff can be really useful for getting the word out, people love quick visual snippets. If you wanna work with some of our mutual aid groups lmk might help you springboard into this meow-hug

            • MajesticalDiscomfort [mirror/your pronouns, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
              4·
              6 days ago

              Awesome!!! I was already working on writing a few video essays with heavy animation elements.

              I have a side channel prepped for it and everything, I just need to get the ball rolling. I want to prepare sufficiently and actually have a few months worth of daily shorts ready before uploading the first video essay, though.

              To save time on animation, I was going to build the background environments in Minecraft and then port them into Blender, where I’d use grease pencil to draw in the characters and import external sources (such as data, quotes, and charts) to back my claims.

              So for example, when I start a section related to education, the animation would take place in a public school or university.

              I was hoping to come to hexbear for peer review and critique from other LGBTQ+ people during the writing process for my video essay, “A Calm Explanation of Transgender People.” I want to make sure that what I write accurately represents our community, and is educational without being inflammatory to the target audience for that video–people who genuinely don’t understand the trans community but are willing to learn if the person explaining is patient enough to answer questions.

              Basically, the kind of video that would have done me a lot of good back when I was an egg who didn’t know I was autistic.

              If that does well, then ideally, I’ll have enough traction to get a nonprofit legal group going, to protect Americans relying on the Health Insurance industry for healthcare.