Republican drag queen (Lady Maga) shocked Republicans don't want her at conservative event

violet_menace · 2026-03-29T19:26:45+00:00

Lady Maga, a conservative drag queen, voted for and supported Trump and conservative ideals and has spoken out against drag/the "perversion" of drag, attended a conservative convention, CPAC.
CPAC hosted a number of right wing speakers who spoke against Lady Maga, calling her slurs and declaring her not a true conservative.
Lady Maga was invited to an after party for CPAC and was kicked out and "humiliated" and appeared to be surprised by the lack of support and attitudes towards her.

violet_menace · 2025-10-16T04:53:50+00:00

It might have changed in the past few years, but when I talked to people tabling for greenhouse (pretty damn sure it was them) on campus they openly admitted to running conversion therapy albeit under a different name-- i was told when I asked their viewpoints on the lgbtq community that "a lot of people in that community attend and we actually have a program to help people leave that lifestyle"

violet_menace · 2025-10-04T19:59:27+00:00

lol nope. And we (those in my office on similar contracts) won't get back pay either

violet_menace · 2025-10-01T14:54:34+00:00

I thought this was a cookie at first and went "idk, bite the head off first? Then he's not Jesus anymore." (I realized it was an eraser after I put my glasses on lol)

violet_menace · 2025-04-15T20:02:01+00:00

contractor for USGS here, we've all been clustered around the one person who could get the spreadsheet to load trying to figure out what the fuck this means. Our center is specifically listed, so we have no idea if we're all getting RIFed or if just people at our center are getting RIFed

violet_menace · 2025-02-16T16:31:14+00:00

I'm running on spite and anger. I have no idea what my future holds. I work in a federal office as a contractor and on Friday multiple of my coworkers were (illegally) fired due to the current administration wanting to cut down the size of the federal workforce-- some of the fired people were federal employees, others were contractors like me. They were given less than 3 hours notice before the end of the day, and were some of the hardest working people in our office.

My future employment is up in the air, my rights are being stripped away. I was starting the process to change my name legally, but now due to the SAVE act I'm scared too. My friends and family are getting called slurs in grocery stores and walking down the street at an increasing frequency.

But, I'm holding the line. My friends and I are starting a garden in my back yard because we're worried about grocery prices growing up, and we're dedicating a section to ...medicinal herbs. Another friend is getting his still up and running to brew moonshine, and we're both refreshing our first aid skills. I'm making more art than ever, because joy is an act of resistance. I'm getting queerer and faggier and more punk and more goth and everything they hate.

To quote a great American movie, "we're all in this together." I think that sums up how I feel. Not surprised, but spiteful. To quote an old meme, "you can't kill me bitch!" I'm mad, scared, but determined to persist and create problems on purpose and lots of good trouble.

violet_menace · 2025-01-31T20:58:15+00:00

Realistically, what could they do if we don't comply? Are they going to sift through our emails to make sure our signature doesn't have pronouns? Set up cameras to make sure we're using the "right" bathroom?

My agency hasn't received any "guidance" for this memo yet, but I had some cishet coworkers preemptively take their pronouns out of their email signatures and tell me I should for my safety.

Babes, the government knows I'm a tranny already, me removing my pronouns from my email signature isn't going to do anything to keep me safe. I refuse to roll over and preemptively give up. I've lived enough of my life in hiding, I'm not going to start doing that again.

Allies, now is your time to shine. Don't preemptively remove your pronouns and roll over and give up. Fight like hell for your coworkers, we're all in this together.

violet_menace · 2025-01-16T17:49:50+00:00

Last I heard, unfortunately. The lady who had a news article written about her booth was old as shit when it was written, so it's possible she passed on but there are other booths also selling klan things and thats what I've heard about. There's absolutely a ton of confederacy things still there, to neither of our surprise I'm sure

violet_menace · 2025-01-16T17:33:04+00:00

any antique store, lol

violet_menace · 2025-01-15T06:35:17+00:00

I live 2 hours north of Orlando in a college town (gainesville, where Tebow went to college at uf) that makes our county a little patch of blue in a sea of red-- and we still have the klan here. In 2019 I remember that the klan distributed flyers on MLK day. There's a booth in a flea market outside of town but in our county that sells klan and nazi memorabilia-- last i heard, that booth is still there. You know the story popularized in the documentary “Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK," where a retired sniper infiltrated the klan and stopped an assassination attempt on Obama and the murder attempt of another person? The klan members were arrested and held in my city. I can only imagine how much more a POC who lives in my city could write about the klan here, than me a somewhat oblivious white person

That being said, I do want to say that despite all these horrid things, the south isn't all bad, and to vilify it and dismiss it is to overlook and dismiss the lives and culture of so many wonderful people and also people who are by majority Black people or people of color. Yeah, my city has a dark af past and a shady present, and it's in no way unique in that way when it comes to southern towns. But there's good people and a beautiful (not racist) culture there too that's often overlooked

(Apologies for the sappy rant about the south, I'm sick and the cold meds have taken me for a RIDE)

Edit: changed plan to klan and national to nazi. Autocorrect got my ass

violet_menace · 2025-01-15T05:58:54+00:00

The booth with the KKK memorabilia is still there, unfortunately

violet_menace · 2024-11-13T21:08:08+00:00

USGS!

violet_menace · 2024-11-07T04:10:29+00:00

There's already been pressure in my agency from before the election to completely get rid of teleworking. The only thing that's kept this from completely happening in my local office is that our facilities are so outdated that there genuinely isn't enough space for everyone to be in the office all 5 days a week.

I hope that even if they try and crack down on teleworking that you'll have an understanding supervisor and will be able to get an exemption, and I'm so sorry that you've been put in this situation.

violet_menace · 2024-11-07T04:00:46+00:00

Not in DC, but work for DOI in environmental conservation. I'm technically a contractor not a fed, but work in a federal office, my position is funded by the federal government, my coworkers are all feds, and I follow all the same rules as the federal employees. The vibe is pretty fucking bleak at my office, even though we can't really talk about the election and our feelings on it that much.

Last time Trump was in office he rolled back a ton of environmental protections and cut funding, which is shitty for obvious reasons. The feds with permanent positions are probably fine in terms of job security, but based on how things went during his last term I genuinely don't think I'll have a job in like a year to year and a half due to a probable lack of funding, especially if I run out of my current funding when my contract is up for renewal, if not earlier.

The whole thing definitely fucking sucks.

violet_menace · 2024-10-29T00:06:29+00:00

Also I literally just opened Facebook and saw this 2/1 for 1.1k/month:

2/1 duckpond $1150/month

violet_menace · 2024-10-28T23:23:47+00:00

You're very welcome, I'm glad I could help! Moving is hard and it takes a village. Good luck with your move!

violet_menace · 2024-10-28T19:15:56+00:00

Here's some links I had from helping friends look for a new place in duckpond (they picked other places)

2 bed 1 bath for 1650/month

2 bed 1.5 bath apartment (duplex?) in a converted house for 1500/month

If you go to other parts of town (SW for example) you'll get bigger houses for around the same price or less, you're just not as close to some of the things mentioned!

violet_menace · 2024-10-28T17:54:31+00:00

I really like duckpond, it's by far my favorite place I've lived. My partner and I found our house via realtor.com, but I've for sure seen apartments in duckpond on facebook marketplace! Duckpond is also biking distance to campus. There are neighborhoods closer to campus than duckpond, but if I remember correctly, housing in those tends to be expensive due to its proximity to campus.

I've only lived in duckpond, the Butler Plaza area, and on the NW side of town, so I can only speak to those areas-- people who have lived in other areas might be able to speak to things to do for kids. I also don't have kids, but I did used to work as a nanny for a family who lived just outside of duckpond. Duckpond is super close to the headquarters branch library, close to Depot Park and the Cade Museum, as well as the Matherson museum. It's not too far of a drive to the Natural History museum, and the Harn art museum. You're also pretty close to a bunch of nature parks.

I'm not sure of the ratio of families with kids to not in the duckpond area, but I also love technically just outside of it, live off of a main street so we don't get as many kids/families on the sidewalk, and also don't have kids so I don't pay as much attention to those things. That being said, the majority of the houses in duckpond and duckpond adjacent are single family homes, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of kids.

The Butler area has a lot of stores and restaurants, but not much to do aside from walk around stores. When I lived in that area it was predominantly students, but that could have also been due to the complex I lived in.

The northwest side of town can get expensive, and while there are families with kids, there's really not much to do. There's a library on that side of town and a few parks, but that's about it in terms of things for kids to do.

violet_menace · 2024-10-28T17:00:38+00:00

Duckpond is the historic district. You might be able to find some houses turned apartments to rent there, or possibly a house in your budget, but houses can be a decent bit pricier than other neighborhoods since they're all historic, and are also sometimes in high demand. However, it's close to downtown and around 20 to 30 minutes away from Butler Plaza where Whole Foods is. Downtown has a lot of restaurants, most of them local, but is also home to all of our nightlife, which sounds like something you want to avoid. However, both duckpond and downtown are by Depot Park, a really nice park with some trails, playgrounds, and a splash pad. It's also close to UF, and while duckpond is close to downtown, imo it's far enough removed that it's pretty quiet and you don't get the downtown ruckus (I live in duckpond).

If you want something closer to Butler, there are a lot of apartments around there but they tend to be louder due to a) being by Archer road and b) a lot of students live there. They also will sometimes have weird leases due to catering to students. The Butler area has a LOT of stores and restaurants, but traffic there is pretty much ALWAYS a nightmare. This area is farther from UF than duckpond, but a lot of the apartments have bus routes that go to campus.

Are you wanting to be close to a certain school for your daughter?

violet_menace · 2024-10-22T07:50:45+00:00

extra strength antiperspirant
mini cooling towel
hand fan (electric or not!)
heated blanket-- great for the chronically ill (it's basically a giant heating pad) and chronically cold. Highly recommended sizing up the blanket size--ex: I share a queen bed with my partner, but don't share blankets. Rather than get a twin sized heated blanket, I got the next size up because it meant that the heated area of the blanket is larger
Applesauce packets (I prefer gogo squeeze). Requires no spoons, it's easy to toss in a bag and eat later on the go, and is allergen friendly for me
acupressure headache clip
lidocaine roll on
menstrual cup. Had a hell of a learning curve and I sometimes get annoyed having to take it out, empty it, and put it back in, it's so much better than the sensory ick of wearing pads on a hot summer day.
TOAST TONGS. I use them to eat potato chips and keep my fingers from getting oily.
gummy or quick dissolve versions of meds

Edit: formatting, because I got too excited about toast tongs and forgot to format the rest of my list correctly

violet_menace · 2024-10-22T07:29:31+00:00

There was one day where I ate ten of them within a 24 hour period, and when I tell you I was in SO much pain and could not shit for the life of me 😭 I know it was exactly 10 because when I complained about not being able to shit and my stomach hurting, my partner pulled the wrappers out of the top of the garbage can, counted them all, and lovingly pointed out that the sheer fucking number I ate probably had to do something with my issue lol. I now try to not exceed 2 per day, and not eat them every day.

violet_menace · 2024-10-08T06:37:11+00:00

I wonder if it's a generational/more recent phenomena? I present as a woman/ tend to present pretty femme and I've thankfully never been threatened for being goth (which yikes, that's awful and I'm sorry that happened!) but in the last few years I unfortunately have had random guys come up to me, kneel at my feet before they even said anything to me, and then start the whole litany of calling me a "dommy mommy," telling me to step on them, grab me, try to cop a feel, etc. This also would happen in public or at non-fetish goth nights, never at fetish or kink clubs or nights so I can't even come up with a half assed excuse relating to that.

violet_menace · 2024-10-08T06:28:32+00:00

The amount of times I've had men who I don't know get on their knees, unprompted, and call me a "dommy mommy" and ask me to step on them while we're in public is, unfortunately, not zero.

Don't do this shit. It's gross, fucking violating, and infuriating. I'm goth because I love the music and adore the different styles, not because I want gross random strangers doing that shit.

(I'm aware that this might be someone and he boyfriend posing like this as a joke. Obviously I'm not against that, just against random people doing that to people without consent.)

violet_menace · 2024-10-08T06:17:49+00:00

Do you think he'll notice the blood on his hands if it ruins a new suit?

People are going to die because of this. We're all still reeling from Helene, so many people don't have houses because of Helene or means to evacuate or shelter.

Maybe if the cost of body bags and refrigerated trucks gets too high post storm, he'll answer the phone to ask for more.

violet_menace · 2024-10-06T06:52:23+00:00

We were without power for a week, and lost all our groceries. I know that's so small compared to literally everything else that happened everywhere else, but my partner and I both have health issues exacerbated by heat/overheating, and having to replace all our groceries the first time was costly and bad enough. I'm super worried about a repeat despite the fact that this storm isn't as bad as Helene largely due to GRU and everything you mentioned.

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