maybe it's just because i spend my time scrounging around libraries and itch.io and such but i'm often bewildered whenever people talk about everything becoming the same or death of art or everyone being afraid to Get Weird with It. i promise people are still out there getting weird with it. the hegemonic mainstream art remains hegemonic and mainstream like usual. counterculture remains counterculture. as usual. interesting and somewhat off-putting zines cost a little more but the cost of living is pretty high right now, and i don't particularly mind giving an independent artist a few more bucks for their work

i think i just get confused by anything that sounds like 'this countercultural, challenging, or otherwise disruptive artistic sensibility isn't present in the most popular or mainstream corporate media'. did we expect it to? why are we trying to buy clothes at the soup store

People with Subhumanity

Imagine the following exchange:

"We're inclusive of both people and subhumans."

"Wait, 'subhumans'? That's really offensive!"

"Well, what word should I use instead? Inferiors? Not-people?"

"No! Those words aren't better!"

"Then what word should I use instead? What's considered the politically correct term these days?"

"You shouldn't use any word to call people subhuman, because you should treat all people as people."

"This social justice warrior stuff is going too far. I'm all for using respectful language, but how are we supposed to let people know who's a person and who isn't?"

"All people are people! You don't need words to call people not-people because they are, in fact, people!"

"So what word should I use INSTEAD?"

This is pretty close to the argument I got into about "mental age." People really wanted me to provide an alternative term for "People who aren't really the age that they are" or wanted me to approve alternative terms like "developmental level." There isn't a non-bigoted alternative term, because the concept is a bigoted concept.

When I object to the ableist or otherwise harmful terminology people use, they inevitably ask "So what words should I use instead?" and it's so frustrating to always have to clarify "There isn't a word you should use instead, because the concept you're trying to express is wrong." Sometimes using respectful language is just a matter of changing the words you use. Most of the time, though, it's not. Most of the time, the underlying sentiment is the problem. For me, this comes up most often in disability related contexts, but I see it with economics, with gender, with religion, and so many other topics. People just update the same old prejudiced attitudes with the new, politically correct language and think that fixes the problem. It doesn't!

This is what I think any time someone replaces crazy with unhinged or replaces low-functioning with high support needs

why is finding trans healthcare so complicated can’t someone just hit me up with boy juice and amputitty me already

“you need documentation” ok fine

i have no idea if this will help with your situation, but erin reed has a map with all informed consent clinics- this may be completely unhelpful but i know these clinics make it easier to access hrt with less barriers.

so I made the original post as a joke, but then I saw this and found an informed consent provider in my area and I’m gonna make an appointment. genuinely thank you, this reblog could make my healthcare journey so much easier. hope this helps someone else too <3

twitter doesn't let people who aren't logged in view tweets anymore at the time of me reblogging this so click here for a direct link to the map :)

[ID: Hands holding a piece of paper saying "i can do whatever i want -me." /End ID]

Reblogging coz th map of informed consent HRT providers might help someboddy

This happens so much

The way Black women, cis and trans, are subjected to this bigoted pseudoscience in efforts to “prove” that we are not just men but deviant. Western conceptions of gender have always needed to reject Black womanhood( and manhood but it’s not about y’all). Transphobia reveals this history and shows that no matter what we do, what we look like, we will never be woman enough.

The fact that both Megan thee Stallion and Brittney Griner are “secretly men” despite having to vastly different body shapes proves it’s a made up tool to harass and demean and oppress. What does it mean to take away the womanhood of cis Black women but also trans Black woman? How can we do gender right enough to be left alone?

I wish more cis Black women saw their oppression tied to Trans Black women but we’ve been so thoroughly denied womanhood at every turn, they cling to those same harmful ideas as proof they are real women. Despite the fact they don’t care and it will never be enough.

They won't be happy until we are all gay

Shout-out to the old man who wore pink shorts and a big Malibu barbie shirt and a pink hat with a blonde barbie wig at my showing of Oppenheimer.

He was either coming from barbie or going to barbie afterwards but either way I respect the commitment.

He probly wore a dark suit and a fedora to the Barbie movie

Friday Night Comics with Dana Jeri Maier and @sequentialartistsworkshop. This week, museum comics!

The warm-up exercise: Draw 4 frames, and then draw what goes in them

A bonus museum comic based on an experience I had earlier this week

Friday Night Comics with Dana Jeri Maier and @sequentialartistsworkshop. This week, museum comics!

The warm-up exercise: Draw 4 frames, and then draw what goes in them

new thing i learned just now: in like 400 AD there was a monk named simeon stylites who used to live in a one room cell with a window but too many people kept bugging him for religious advice, so he climbed to the top of a pillar and shackled himself to it until he died 37 years later.

this became a cool new trend to the point where there were enough pillar monks of varying viewpoints that they would scream at each other all day

Ancient Twitter

Humanity is beautiful

i want something however i will not be elaborating on that

Babies.

I am once again explaining that in order for walkable cities and public transit to work for disabled people, there also need to be more public bathrooms available in and around those areas. Not just places to sit down or rest. Bathrooms. We need accessible, clean bathrooms. With sharps bins. With multiple wheelchair accessible stalls. With an area to set down supplies needed to maintain one’s body. Even if it’s not being used to get rid of bodily waste, bathrooms are one of the few spaces disabled people have to maintain some sort of privacy when they’re in the middle of a flare up or they need to take medication or what have you. Designing a public space? Include bathrooms.