"Feminism is for Everybody" By bell hooks PDF
"Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg PDF
The Lou Sullivan diaries PDF
Do your homework, know your history. I am begging y'all. These are free online.
If you have a problem with the term transandrophobia being used after having read these, I have many questions for you.
Additional PDF to another bell hooks work
Christ this is so fucking cool
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this. There's so much going on here. I genuinely love the conception of gender as mystic autodeism. Gender as divine microcosm. Gender as Great Work. It's gnostic, it's alchemical, it's got notes of bacchanalian worship of the body and the inherent magic of self-discovery. This but unironically.
Shoutout to transphobes for thinking gender is this fucking badass
I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme
reblogging SPECIFICALLY for the End Note which is widely applicable
Which path should he choose?
The path of the warrior, the path of the scholar, or the path of the artist?
he should wander away and have a picnic while he thinks about what path to choose
Great idea! But where should he have the picnic?
Under the tree, or under the old fort?
By the sea, so he can enjoy the sound of the waves
A lovely choice!
Should he build a sandcastle to pass the time? Or perhaps go fishing?
Perhaps he could collect shells he finds interesting
Sounds fun!
Which shell should he pick up?
This one
That's not a shell, it's a tiny earpiece.
Should he listen to music? Or to the mysterious pre-recorded message?
He should give it back to the crab in the largest shell, they thought they had lost their wave-pod and are grateful he found it!
The crab wants to give a gift in return.
Should he accept the gift of power, or the gift of knowledge?
the gift of friendship :)
Friendship acquired!
Should they celebrate with pizza or ice cream?
The crab friend cannot eat either of those! Let's split a nice seaweed salad instead. :)
So many options!
Should they get tossed salad, wiggly salad, or spiky salad?
Seasar salad
Nothing beats getting it straight from the source
Should they use scissors or claws to cut the seaweed?
What about that sword in the first panel?
The circle is complete.
Through choices, friendship, and salad, he found his way to the path of the warrior. But he won't walk it alone.
Their path is just beginning, but this story is over.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
tw for the nashville shooting & related transphobia
sorry i'm really fucking mad rn seeing how quickly transphobes are jumping on the "testosterone makes trans men violent killers"
because no fucking shit they're doing this. i'm so pissed at the people who act like there's no way transphobes would ever see transmascs as anything but helpless little girls, as if that narrative itself isn't something relatively new & only got popular because it was useful. of fucking course the minute they have an excuse they are going to switch from "T mutilates women's bodies" to "T makes women into psycho killers", especially non-radfems who don't give a damn about women's rights in the first place. the only reason that the pity narrative got big is because radfems changed their tune from "women betraying women to get male privilege" to "poor little girls swindled into betraying womanhood" which was useful to non-feminist conservatives & their desire to control women. now they have the perfect opportunity to change up their transphobia to make transmascs into dangerous murderers & even more justification to ban HRT & criminalize testosterone specifically.
transmascs have already had to deal with people assuming we will get more violent and aggressive after starting T before this, & i'm very worried that is going to become a mainstream transphobic narrative. just watch how quickly transphobes are gonna use this to demonize testosterone and people who take it. its already happening:
i saw guys on twitter getting mad at this but it’s real as fuck
thinking abt how in the days of incredibly strict and gatekept access to gender affirming care, just mere decades ago, trans and nonbinary ppl who were afab were just literally not allowed to transition. the reason our history is seen as not as extensive or influential as trans femme history is bc we were quite literally not allowed to exist.
I also always think about the relatively recent ability for women/persons afab to be financially/socially independent. Obviously still a problem as well, can't remember where I read it now and but there was an article I think (?) about ftms in India which had a quote like 'you can't be a transsexual if you're not allowed to leave the house on your own'. Same with lesbians too... gay men have historically had more laws against them for sure, but you don't need laws to stop you when it's literally not possible to live alone/together as a woman/person afab.
that last part!!!!!!!!!
What the fuck do you mean "our history isn't as influential or extensive?" You just haven't seen it. There are trans men in every era, every part of the world. This sounds like some crazy terf angle.
There are so many famous trans men of history I can't even count them. There was the cowboy guy who literally shot people who misgendered him. There was the gangster guy that they tried to cast fucking scarjo to play and everyone got the movie cancelled, thankfully. There was the famous jazz musician that nobody knew was trans until after he died at a ripe old age. There was Brandon Teena, as recently as the 90s - who has arguably the most tragic story of any of the men I mentioned.
1. Don't say things like "women/afab". That's gross. It's unnecessary when you are specifically talking about transgender men and nonbinary people. Just say transgender men, nonbinary people, butch lesbians. Say what you fucking mean, please.
2. The only reason you think this is because this history has been denied of you. While I'm sure that there were a lot of trans men who were unable to live freely because they couldn't leave their house, and that is worth talking about, please do not just say that's how it was for most of history. That is ahistorical and untrue. I am sure I could find evidence of an Indian trans man from decades ago if I looked hard enough, and even then, I know in my heart that they existed. People have been running away to be trans since they had the gender binary forced upon them. The world is much bigger than this view suggests.
what an odd reaction to this post.
like. talking abt the historical erasure of trans men and nonbinary ppl who were afab is not a “crazy te/rf angle” it’s literally talking abt the lived reality for the vast majority of trans men and nonbinary ppl who were afab before about the 1980’s. like i’m sorry but no amount of knowing in your heart that we existed back then is going to magically change the fact that the vast majority of us were not allowed to live openly or didn’t even know who we could be because people who were assigned female at birth were literally seen as property in a lot of places. idk what y’all want.
The mental gymnastics it takes to get from "our history is seen as not as extensive or influential as trans femme history" to go "oh so you think our history isn't extensive or influential?" Like buddy the phrasing "seen as" already implies that this opinion isn't true, it's just a commonly held opinion. The poor are pissing etc.
Also I'm getting very bad vibes from "Don't say things like women/afab. That's gross. It's unnecessary when you are specifically talking about transgender men and nonbinary people." Like hello "nonbinary" does not automatically imply "afab" and it's extremely shitty to say it does!!!
Also being able to point to a handful of trans men throughout history does not equal to the amount of erasure of trans men and nonbinary people even within queer history itself. Or the fact that a very influential book by a trans woman openly states it's easier for trans men to transition than trans women.
Plus like. This isn't really touching on how nonbinary identities aren't touched on at all historically unless it's seen as something extreme and other by Western standards.
They couldn't actually name the trans men they referenced.
Also. "I'm sure I could find an Indian trans guy if I tried" you shouldn't have to try! That information should be available with one quick internet search! That's the goddamn point!
The thing is, you CAN find Indian trans men with a quick Google search. India is one of the biggest countries and so its easier to find out about Indian trans men than like, Sri Lanka.
Indian trans men have been, more and more, organizing and speaking out about their erasure. There's a book called Invisible Men: Inside India's Transmasculine Network that goes through many experiences in India. We know that misogyny prevents trans men in many cultures from creating communities or exploring their identity in the same way trans women do because Indian trans men have literally said it does.
There's something. interesting. about someone completely ignoring the discussion about how misogyny affects transmasc visibility, and then saying "I'm sure that there are Indian trans men out there!" like they are cryptids. Like, "you can't be transsexual if you can't leave the house on your own" isn't speculation about what it might be like to be a trans man in India, it is literally what Indian trans men have said. I don't know what it feels like but it feels like something to talk about Indian trans men like they are a hypothetical when they are actively speaking out about their treatment, in a conversation ABOUT how their erasure is tied to misogyny.
Please listen to Indian trans men. They deserve support & their stories are very illuminating in the discussion about anti-transmasculinity.
if you see a trans catgirls facial hair shut up. that is her whiskerd. 😌
i love playing sports as a trans woman cuz i can ball hog all i want and it’s very rude to tell me i am not passing
I always want to talk about my experiences being trans in malaysia esp as someone who has accessed medical transition and lived in both toronto n kl but it's difficult bc my position is very...specific and not representative of the majority of malaysian lgbt experience so i don't want to give anyone the wrong idea about what it's like being trans in malaysia, or discount the transphobia i deal with in toronto, and I want westerners n malaysians to understand how much it fucking sucks being trans in malaysia but I also don't want westerners acting like idiots and racists about it either and getting self righteous and bold on here, and I don't want to give malaysians who are genuinely trying to learn and be kind to others shit for not being perfect either, so there's just no easy way to navigate these discussions.
there are no hard and fast rules with these experiences either and I think a lot of it moves along racial/religious and class lines, which are very important to keep in mind. my family are very liberal punjabi sikhs from KL who have been educated overseas and work as lawyers and doctors and things like that and they have been extremely supportive and accepting of me, moreso than my white canadian family actually most of whom dont talk to me anymore. but that experience would be very different for a malay muslim or a chinese person or a south indian etc. and class status impacts everything, rural vs urban plays a role as well. so i try to keep all of this in mind, these contexts matter and my situation is extremely rare for several reasons lol
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I was just browsing posts about that estrolabs scam and most of it was good informative stuff but of course there was a post going something along the lines of "I don't see ftms getting advertised fake testosterone supplements to harvest their details to doxx and/or kill them" 😔
Can we maybe focus on complaining about the neonazi who ran the site and not about us just because we haven't got a neonazi after us right now?
Yeah wtf????
It makes sense that transfems got targeted because if you were loudly advertising that you were selling non-prescription testosterone, you would. y'know. Be Arrested. transfems have a MUCH stronger DIY hrt culture than transmascs do, so it makes sense that a DIY hrt scam is gonna focus on the people who regularly engage in that legally.
Do these people know you can talk about acts of horrific transmisogny without immediately going "CLEARLY nothing like this would EVER happen to transmascs!!!"
I honestly think that the lack of non-sexual nudity in public spaces has done horrific damage to American society.
We deeply struggle to understand the natural diversity of bodies because we only see naked bodies in a sexual context. We are taught that seeing nudity is somehow inherently harmful, especially to children. We struggle to differentiate between sexually suggestive and sexually explicit material.
It fucks up the way people think about and talk about sex ed. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about breast feeding. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about queer folks. It feeds into fatphobia and ableism and is all rooted in this deeply harmful puritanism.
Like, I need people to understand that seeing a bare titty in public is not going to hurt a child. Seeing a man in a banana hammock isn't inherently traumatizing. I would argue, in fact, that adults treating those things as dangerous and gross and scary is going to do way more damage to a kid's psychology than seeing the nudity in the first place.
These type of additions are vexing. Ostensibly supportive but can't help but make sure you know they're also Weird about nudity by making it about consent, doubling down on the idea that there's no such thing as nonsexual nudity, it's an action that willing partners need to consent to first. Does the breastfeeding parent need my consent to feed their child? When you see someone wearing practically see-through yoga pants, is your thought that they should have asked your consent before going outside? this is an exact example of how it fucks up the way you think, that you could read all of op and instinctually start thinking in the language of sexual assault, as if this post was about flashers
some more progress on the animation project! not as much as i'd like since i've been a bit busy with other things recently, but it's goin'.
Some gay men really put 0 hours of work into unlearning their hatred of women’s bodies and anatomy it’s embarrassing. Like i’m super fucking sorry that you’ve got a pussy ick thing going on but i got over it after like one conversation with a friend and you’re 29 years old publicizing your pussy ick on twitter dot com dot gov posting about how super fucking hard it is that trans men are also in gay bars and that’s Not Valid because ewwww they have vacheena which is the opposite of gay eeewwwwwww! And you have to let everybody know that you’re gay not because you like men but because you hate pussy so much it makes you transphobic. Like how can you even continue to serve cunt in such a state
To my gay brothers, especially to those of you who are younger and more directly under this pressure, I hope you feel no guilt or shame for not wanting to sleep with someone of the female sex, for feeling uncomfortable or repulsed at the idea of having penis-in-vagina intercourse. This is woke homophobia. It's not okay for someone to guilt or shame you for having the sexual boundaries surrounding your sexual orientation that you have, or to coerce and pressure you into heterosexual sex. You are fine the way you are.
Some ppl will read "publicly declaring how much you hate vaginas or resent trans men in gay spaces as a way of socializing as a gay man is transphobic" and reinterpret that as "they're trying to make us have sex with them".
I tend to think this is due to wilful misunderstanding, because claiming we are trying to "make you sleep with us" is such a violent and potent tool to use against us, to get us excluded and otherwise participate in our genocide.
Let me make it real simple for you. Some gay men bond and socialize by talking about how vaginas are disgusting. This needs to stop. And you need to grow up enough to realize that declaring that pussy is soooo yucky is not the same thing as declining to have sex with people with a pussy. Any adult should be able to realize that.
I left a support group for gay men with my particular disability because of the constant banter about pussy being gross, despite repeated requests to cool it. The group had claimed to be trans inclusive. It wasn't, obviously. Later it turned out it was also moderated by racists and they were declining membership requests from Black men. It all goes together. It's all pieces of one big disgusting ideology.
So grow the fuck up.
Research on transsexuals also shows how the elicitation of deference depends on the type of man one is perceived to be. Based on in-depth interviews with 29 transmen, Schilt (2006) found that whereas white transmen beginning to work as men were taken more seriously, had their requests readily met, and were evaluated as more competent than they were as women, young, small Black, Latino, and Asian transmen did not gain similar advantages. Similarly, in her interview study of 18 transmen, Dozier (2005) found that, as men, white transmen reported being given more respect and more conversational space and being included in men's banter. They also experienced less public harassment. Transmen of color, on the other hand, reported being more frequently treated as criminals, and short and effeminate transmen reported being publicly harassed as gay. Gaining the full privileges of manhood is thus shown to depend not merely on being recognized as male, but on the whole ensemble of signs that are conventionally taken as evidence of a masculine self.
— Men, Masculinity, and Manhood Acts by Douglas Schrock and Michael Schwalbe (2009)
Wow look it's the shit I've been saying this entire time presented as an actual researched phenomenon, thank you to my trans guy friend for linking me this post in my time of need 🙌
Actually I'm reblogging this again, apparently for the third time because I don't remember the first but I did it without commentary according to the reblog chain.
But this is what I've been saying this whole time.
I can't speak to the white experience. I might be mixed with white but if you think there is any chance of me ever being treated like a white person you are simply living on a different planet than me. I will always read as black.
I have said, repeatedly, going from "butch-ish black girl" to "gay black man" has made some things better for me. Limited and conditional, but still some things are better than they were. I've also said in other areas, things have gotten worse. People talk down to me less. I receive a higher degree of respect than my female friends. My judgement isn't questioned as much.
If. If. IF. I pass. If I don't, forget it.
But with that comes a higher degree of criminalization. My intentions are always suspected to be aggressive. White women have become guarded and cold to me, white men suspicious and alert when I walk into a room. I'm followed by police more often when driving around the city. I'm stopped in places with door guards like Walmart and Target more often. In the past 8 months this has ramped up exponentially to an extremely noticable degree.
Even at work the difference in how I'm treated by people who know I'm trans vs people who don't is very, very clear.
You know who I don't have a problem with how they treat me, whose treatment of me has remained consistent this entire time? Other black people 🤷♂️ I can still chatter and hang out with and occupy space with other black people without worrying about any of these dangers. Pass, don't pass, visible, stealth, man, woman, black people treat me like a fellow black person.
There is always a layer of racism in how I am treated in white society. I think white people just don't understand how racism manifests in the lives of black people on a constant, daily basis. This racism cannot be overlooked when discussing oppression and privilege.
So when I say I've heard the grass is greener and now standing here it, uh, isn't. I don't mean "I was treated better as a woman" or "men are the true victims" or whatever. I mean "I was told this would be better, and this doesn't seem better to me".
