u/zoedegenerate

so this had been my situation for a little while, but I realized today its not that a piece broke off, but that a hairline fracture on the left (in the first picture) caused the piece cradling the hinge cover to shift upwards.

was able to push it back down where it was and that was Epic. but upon opening the hinge of the device, it moved back up.

I heard some of yall prefer liquid cement as opposed to epoxy or glue. Do you think I'll have to take it apart to put the stuff in? You deal with this before? Part of what I'm worried about is the glue or whatever i use spreading out and gluing shut the wrong bits. Tried to do my due diligence and read threads here and in the anbernic sub but I am not confident enough to move forward, beyond buying some of that cement stuff.

pics of my cat katrianna as an apology for clogging the sub and maybe wasting your time. if I delete this its because I'm ashamed to be posting this. I think its as much an ask for practical instructions as it is an ask for reassurance as I'm not very confident in stuff like this, and maybe, like many of the other tough things in life, its totally doable for me and I just need to fix my mindset.

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butch transfems exist and i am no longer one of them. when people talk of them, in their essays and rhetoric; when people advocate for them, there is often a subtext that i am included by way of my history with AGAB. that i even commit that to writing and share it feels like a privacy sacrifice out of frustration. that particular use of "transfem" as well as "transmasc" feels wrong and against something very basic i've come to understand as a trans person - that the conditions of our birth don't preclude us from any gender identity.

AGAB itself is an oppressive intersexist and transphobic structure, not any sort of biological fact with which to Build Gender atop. it demands abolition in the present. AGAB, or the colonial sex binary as we know it, is an instance of the gendering of anatomy.

to tie transfem/transmasc to AGAB the way "we" have is regrettable. it is shameful. it is a reinforcement to the hull of the colonial gendersex binary. people talk about HRT with these labels and expect us to fill in the blanks as to which drug is feminizing and which drug is masculinizing. theory is written which suggests arbitrary, chosen labels determine material conditions in a flash. the idea that sex is socially constructed and can be reinterpreted as a spectrum is lost on so many perisex trans people. the way we use language we use limits us.

i thought i had to identify as transfem or else. i thought it was the ethical thing to do. it took time, positive examples, and critical thinking to take real notice of that pressure. i found it took a similar shape to the pressure trans people are put under to disclose their transness and history with gender/sex.

for the most part, this all seems like a linguistic oversight, so often not malicious. but identifying as transmasculine i am aware just how much prejudice around this transgression there can be among trans people. bringing this issue up when relevant seems like a good way to create pockets, even temporary, where the autonomy to identify how we like regardless of our relation to the colonial gender binary is reckoned with. i try to plant seeds wherever i can, because i often see doubt in the common way of using these terms, doubt in the idea that one somehow is a gender even against their will due to the conditions of their birth.

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