I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers
In the nuclear apocalypse, my children will ask “papa… why did all of this happen” and I will look at the faces of my children, breathe a long sigh, and tilt my body to the side as I rip just an ungodly fart.