Farewell, sweet tear-off calendar...

[cursedcalendar]

IT'S THE NEW YEARS!
I'm gonna be completely honest, I'm a bit scared for this next year. (I'm trans, and I live in America. Look at the guy who's gonna get sworn in as our LEADER)
BUT I also know that there's no use in being scared. I'm going to hope for the best. I think you should too.

Here's to a great 2005!             

[Yoylecake420]

IT'S THE NEW YEARS!
I'm gonna be completely honest, I'm a bit scared for this next year. (I'm trans, and I live in America. Look at the guy who's gonna get sworn in as our LEADER)
BUT I also know that there's no use in being scared. I'm going to hope for the best. I think you should too.

Here's to a great 2005!             

THANK YOU FOR SENDING OUT HOPE! AND FUCK THE RIGHT WING!!!!!

I've been watching some self-improvement videos and how to make change for our society. I highly recommend watching videos like those! BTW 2025 is also BFDI's 15th anniversary!!!!!

[Rosaria Delacroix]

Happy New Years from the east coast! I hope that 2025 is kind to us all- and that even if it isn't, that we're able to be kind to our loved ones, and they to us, in turn. I may not have control over what the future brings my way, but I can choose to steadfastly be by my loved ones' side.

New Years Eve was a sleepy, quiet little affair for me- it snowed, and rained, and rained some more- and my fingertips are cold to the touch. I spent it enjoying warm drinks (milk tea and coffee), and writing letters to my nearest and dearest reflecting on our how our lives have been entwined, and what I hope for up ahead, with them alongside me. What a gift it is, to love, and to be loved in turn. My childhood best friend hastily sent off a letter back, and I adore all of the little sparkly gel pel doodles and colours on it- with the promise of more: this was just sent off to 'make sure you got something for New Years!' cause it's well known NYE is my favourite holiday of the year, haha.

Everything is dark, and cold- but not dismal, outside. The sidewalks are shiny with ice quickly forming, frost creeping along the edges of the squares plodding across the ground. But I'm inside, all comfortable and cozy in a big sweater, and heavy, soft blankets, with freshly washed hair and sleepily full of an absurd amount of sushi. I've listened to the same song I always have to begin every year for over a decade, now, a personal ritual I make a point to observe- The Mountain Goats' 'This Year' as a promise to myself, to set the mood for the year up ahead.

2024 was brutal- and I hope that 2025 is kinder, to me, and to those I love.

Even if it isn't- I know that I will be.

 

[JINSBEK]

Happy New Year's! It's nice to see resilience and optimism in the face of uncertainty. To be honest, as a trans guy, I'm actually not afraid at all about what the Trump administration will attempt to carry out. His first term trained civil rights activists on what to expect and how to fight; so as long as people remain politically engaged, proactive, and communicative with people, we don't have to expect the worst. If we work hard enough, there's even opportunity to regain more than lost ground.

Young people forget that there's a time within living memory when women were legally banned from wearing trousers and men had to wear a minimum number of specified masculine clothing articles or else be arrested--yes, local jurisdictions had laws like this, and you could probably look yours up. My female teachers told us how strange it was to be wearing pants for the first time in their lives, ha. The year I was born, you could be murdered three days after coming out as gay on TV. Despair has never made anyone safer. When there's work to be done--and work tends to be hard, that's what makes it work--, you can either do it or don't. And if you want to do it effectively, you can't be paralysed.