May 2012
473 posts
Anonymous asked: Did you watch eurovision?
autumn-and-eve:
You’re not oppressed, you’re just playing life on expert mode
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Laura Grace takes the stage in San Diego for the... →
The title of this article is a heap of fail, but otherwise I really like it! One’s first show after coming out is a momentous occasion, in my opinion, and here it’s documented well. Laura Jane Grace seems to have handled it beautifully. And the descriptions of fans are so sweet—concerned with the venue and all.
And that picture of her. She’s so gorgeous and powerful...
GOV. MARK DAYTON: Pardon CeCe McDonald [petition] →
numol:
numol:
please sign and pass this around as much as possible:
Self-defense is not a crime. Surviving is not a crime. And yet, in the city of Minneapolis, a woman has been convicted of exactly that. CeCe McDonald, a young trans woman, was convicted of manslaughter. Manslaughter, in this case, meaning the act of defending herself from her attackers. Several men attacked her, with the...
briangerald asked: As I see the attacks on you, your identity, your community, and other human beings -- and I see your continual responses -- I am inspired by your courage and persistance. Thank you for gifting my timeline with that.
trigger warning in the post following for stitches...
trigger warning in my next post for stitches on...
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This is a book deal announcement.
So this guy just got a book deal! Please do not buy his book. He is racist, sexist, and ableist, and he has no problem talking about his violent views with impunity. Please do not support his work!
animalstalkinginallcaps:
There was a time, long ago, in a world not unlike our own, where a writer would produce a manuscript after many laborious hours spent hunched over a typewriter of such...
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A reminder during this radscum-saturated time that... →
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HAVE COUCH - NORTHSIDE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
transhousingnetwork:
Hey! I am J, and I live on the Northside of Chicago, right near the Blue line (Damen).
I am a non-cis man, and I live with my partner, a cis man, and our two friends, a cishet couple. We have a spare twin bed in a private room. There are two indoor cats.
We all smoke cigarettes, outside only, and I will occasionally smoke pot (again outside). My roommates are drinkers; my...
fonsecadelsur asked: Hi there. I found your tumblr via your We Happy Trans video. Not to distract you from the subject of the mammoth issues going on in with radical feminists, but yes! The South IS as queer as a Confederate Bond wrapped in a feather boa and sipping a mint julep. I don't know why people do not talk about this more often. Certain areas have owned their queerness more than others (see: Savannah),...
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Potential Roommates: Information about me
handling-it:
My post got picked up by transhousingnetwork (which I totally didn’t know existed and is SO COOL and as soon as I am in a position where I have a couch instead of needing one I will be letting you all know) and I thought it could be prudent to learn a little about me other than what can be gleaned from my blog — my housing search still continues so I want to facilitate it as much as...
Anonymous asked: You have every right to express yourself with makeup, jewelry and dresses if you desire. Why not take the best feelings you have from both genders. If you embraced your feminine side as a female, take these qualities with you and embrace them on your journey to self-discovery? You need to answer only to your heart.
thiefofwords asked: Your hair seems to be doing the exact same thing mine does a lot - imitating the ocean and its waves during a storm.
Anonymous asked: Re: Rey Chow, "The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism" is good (interested to hear your thoughts on coercive mimeticism if you read it) and her new book "Entanglements" seems really interesting but I haven't picked it up. Although one could read her as only discussing issues of cross-ethnic representation (which is so important!), I think you can generalize her...
Anonymous asked: Hi Stephen, thanks for all the movie tips, do you know if Breakfast on Pluto is any good\not terribly cissexist? I'm a little wary on account of neil 'the crying game' jordan directing, and i can't find any trans commentary online, which is discouraging. Thanks in advance!
fortyday asked: I believe in the importance of naming the many different forms coercive violence takes, especially in relationship to institutions like hospitals/the medical industrial complex. These institutions are sites of intense gender violence, gender assignment being just one of the ways this happens. Rather than saying CAFAM/CAMAB is appropriative, lets center the many experiences that different bodies...
birdfishromance asked: I absolutely do want to help out! Thanks so much for the link!
chill-murray asked: Your gig responses are everything.
“First they came for the black people
And I did not speak up because I wasn’t...”
– White atheists (via autumn-and-eve)
I want a femme masculinity.
iragray:
I’m tired of running away from all things masculine. I don’t want to run from anything anymore. I can confront the forms of masculinity that I don’t like, that are harmful and oppress, while still being able to take on the parts that I do like.
I want to take on a masculinity that exemplifies the hues, sounds, and textures of this planet. I want it to be fluid like the ocean. I want...
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Re: I Have Ideas #1 →
amydentata:
debonairshotglass:
As a trans person, I have to say that I would never want to be nude in front of other people, LOL.
Even with my dysphoria I’d love the opportunity to be naked in a safe space like that. It’s saying “even if this feels weird for me, I won’t be shamed into submission for it.” It’s saying “my discomfort is about ME, not about social pressure.” Just like the times I...
Anonymous asked: Hey, I really love your blog and enjoy reading it. Would it be possible for you to tag your responses to the radscum trolls with trigger warnings for transphobia, so I can continue reading it without getting stressed out?
vizzz:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
aleki-says:
If you don’t think trans women are real women, then unfollow this blog right now. Get the fuck out of here and don’t come back. Transmisogyny is something I cannot and will not tolerate.
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in case this was not clear
seriously get out of this space
psa
not sure how long I can keep responding to radscum trolls with Brideshead Revisited gifs
please send me gifs of Brideshead characters saying derisive things
thanks
Anonymous asked: So this is what bored rich white hollywood heteros do. Live out their colonizing fantasies of gay male culture. Mattachine? You are as offensive as a minstrel show. Your privilege reeks: in a most stinky fashion. How dare you as a hetero woman colonize gay history?
grypo asked: Ooh, I love the moomin books too! But I had them read to me as a child in Danish, then read them as a young adult in Swedish. I recently bought a couple in English to read for my kids, but I can't get into them in English. Maybe I need to find another translation than the one I got.. Hmm..
dizzzypie asked: omg were you supposed to be Donald O' Connor in that gif? Cutie.
ugh I just accidentally deleted an ask
pointing out to me that I shouldn’t be tagging my blog signal boosts “mtf” and “trans woman” unless I like, explicitly mention trans women’s issues in the post, which I didn’t in that one. Sorry, I had meant to delete another anon hate message and am bad at computer.
In any case, you’re totally right, anon! Thank you for pointing it out—I...
birdfishromance asked: For what it's worth, you're a wonderful example to me of someone who is aware of what privileges they have, and also striving against oppression, for you and others. Thanks for bringing Radfem 2012 to my attention. I fully intend to go argue with some crazies now.
dizzzypie asked: I don't tell you I adore you enough. Well I adore you. Like abunch. You are just so wonderful and awesome and femme and cool and shit. Like omg.
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A new blog post about fluidity of ideas &... →
Anonymous asked: Jesus, what's with all the Stephen hate tonight? Hey other greyfaces, this is not about HIM. This is about the hateful bullshit that is Radfem 2012. So seriously, stop hating on Stephen because he's STANDING UP FOR PEOPLE. Christ. Now let's keep our fingers in our own pies, mmmkay, ignorant anons? (To Stephen, you're lovely. Keep being lovely. Hugs, Tumblr-less...