Davien

@davi-en.bsky.social

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Boygirl girlboying about town. Sociological menace and climate realist. they/them, Queer, death before detransition 📍Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand

Erik Kennedy’s Sick Power Trip on OP’s green stripy duvet, next to their hand holding a cup of coffee. A rather pleasant Saturday morning scene.
Close up of a cafe table with Ocean Vuong’s “The Emperor of Gladness” open to the first chapter, next to a closed black journal and an iced americano.
Hand holding Ocean Vuong’s new novel and a new unopened black moleskine journal in front of a window. There is grass visible outside and a yellow pot with an (admittedly sad) plant on the windowsill behind the books.
Flyer from Student Justice for Palestine chapter at the University of Canterbury. Circular logo is in the top left. Reading top to bottom, the flyer reads “Nearly 365 days ago, UC students demanded their institution take action to cut ties to genocide. We’re still waiting (underlined). COMPLICITY KILLS: ONE YEAR LATER AND UC IS STILL DEADLY SILENT. RALLY FOR PALESTINE. DEMAND UC TAKE ACTION. 12pm Friday May 23rd, The Undercroft, University of Canterbury. Globalise the student intifada.” Bottom right has a QR code to the SJP instagram, with an arrow pointing to it reading “@sjp.canterbury”.
Stickers on a graffitied inner-city wall in Ōtautahi Christchurch. In bold black text on a white square background, they read “CARE ABOUT CLIMATE JUSTICE? READ, WRITE, RESIST. The Canterbury Memo - Te Pukapuka o Waitaha Magazine of Progressive and Environmental Writing. Est. 2024 by UC Students, Ōtautahi-Christchurch / www.memozine.nz / @the.memo.zine”
Cropped screenshot of a Spotify “jump back in” page, with Grace by Jeff Buckley next to INSIDE by Bo Burnham.
SJP chapter at the University of Canterbury have distributed a flyer calling for a rally to protest the university’s investment in armaments. It has a black and white keffiyeh border, with a black and white photo of students protesting in the middle. Laid over the photo is drawing of a dove holding a Palestinian flag, with a QR code to the SJP’s Instagram post about the armaments. From top to bottom it reads: “Demand UC divest it’s $300,000 in military weapons and equipments. Student rally for Palestine: UC Ilam, May 1, 12pm, C Block lawn. Say no to genocide with your fees. No apartheid in our name! Student Justice for Palestine.”
Chalking outside NIOA in Rolleston with varying messages like “fuck off NIOA” and “these war crimes won’t be tolerated”.
Screenshot of @peace.action.otautahi ‘s Instagram post, reading “SHUT DOWN NOIA. Monday 7th April. 10am. 45 Stoneleigh Drive. Rolleston.” on a red and purple gradient background. Image next to it is of a figure holding a sign reading “if the government won’t shut down war criminals, the people will”
Gubbins pencil mode scoresheet reads “you scored 3555 points, and found 15 words.” Underneath, from purple to blue to yellow, reads the following words with point correlation: “topically, progress, diaspora, recedes, fossick, gangs, brine, meek, lisp, sibe”
Infographic on a green gradient background reads: “TAKING ACTION. Safer communities together: A talk with Green MP Tamatha Paul about police reform in Aotearoa. Undercroft 101 Wed. 19th March. 6-8pm”. The UC Greens and Peace Action Ōtautahi logos are beneath an image of Tamatha Paul with a megaphone.
Black and red text on white background reads: URGENT! Numbers needed in Rolleston now. March 03: Just now, Peace Action Ōtautahi has shut down international weapons manufacturing company NIOA’s headquarters.
Photo of page 135 from Audre Lorde’s autobiographical novel, with the following underlined in pencil: “[w]riting was the only thing that made me feel like I was alive”.”
Sticker on the end of a park bench, white with crinkled edges, reads “I heart gay sex in my wheelchair”
Event banner reads “Fierce Salon: Poetry with Bite. darkroom 23rd February, door 7pm for a 7:30pm start. Tusiata Avia, Juanita Hepi, Ariana Tikao, Danielle O’Halloran, Davien Gray, Melanie McKercher.”
Screenshot of Times New Roman, 12pt font reading: “Harbourside - yield your power and widen your jaw. Scoop me from indelicate affairs with your tongue, and write an away from office signature for me.”
Two YouTube video recommendations. The first is titled “ASMR for Autistic People”, with a woman posing with plastic ASMR tools in the thumbnail. The second is titled “Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on ‘soft’ fascism, AI & the effects of shamelessness”, with the philosopher lecturing in the thumbnail.
The proposed changes will lead to materially different medical care on political grounds which is straightforwardly inequitable. The Ministry of Health itself has confirmed that puberty blocker medications are safe, reversible, and low risk; if there were legitimate concerns about the safety and efficacy of puberty blockers, access would be restricted for all patients equally. In fact, puberty blockers show a “statistically significant improvement” in the wellbeing of transgender youth (page 21, evidence brief). Targeted restriction cannot be equitable and fair. Healthcare specialists and rainbow advisors alike speak clearly to this, and it is not evident that there is any empirical, non-ideological reason for these proposed changes. This is not a decision for the government to make. The increasingly polarised politicisation of transgender people in the media around the world should not become an excuse for our government to discriminate against us. Decisions regarding whether a patient should have access to a medication should be up to professionals, and not politicians trying to win an ‘up’ in the culture war by using our bodies and rights as pawns. Our government has an obligation to treat us fairly, as equals, and provide us with the mana and dignity to make our own agentic decisions about our healthcare. There are existing checks and balances to ensure that any medication a minor begins taking is done with consent and understanding of risk. Transgender healthcare is in no way a separate sect of care in which separate legislation against us is appropriate or necessary.