I’m starting to notice that when white trans people talk about decolonizing transgender they mostly talk about the many pre-colonial genders that once existed, describing them in a fascinated-but-unemotional anthropological style and engaging very little with the modern reality of trans people of color aroound the world.

Whereas when trans people of color talk about decolonizing transgender they talk about the personal struggle of finding your identity in a world where 99.9% of the material that’s supposed to be for you is written assuming a white western gender identity and every time someone asks you how you identify you’re forced to choose between doing hours of education work or naming a white western gender identity and if you try to explain yourself to your family they may start seeing you as a westernized other because the knowledge they once had to accept and honor you has been destroyed by the white man.

So I feel a bit queezy when I see a lot of those anthropological style “did you know some cultures have 5 genders!” articles that do not acknowledge the pain and trauma of colonialism in any way. There’s something there that turns the lives and genders of people of color into entertainment, amusing ‘did you knows’ with the pretence of progressiveness.

We never hold the same contempt for the struggling coal miners and manufacturing workers who are already losing their jobs to automation? These, too, are jobs worked by people without higher education, yet never scoffed at like the retail worker or the fry cook.

Hahahahaha 😩

Says someone who sounds very comfortable using that rhetorical “we” throughout the piece.

Not to invalidate some of the main points about the open classism there. But, way to distract from them yourself, buddy. Especially when that style of condescension is the best you can even manage.

When TERFs like Robin Morgan (who supplied Sheila Jeffreys’ Gender Hurts a glowing recommendation) threatened to disrupt the 1973 West Coast Lesbian Feminist Conference unless the conference vote to eject trans women, the conference voted to instead keep trans women. Radical Feminists like Robin Tyler were physically beaten for trying to protect trans women from TERFs. Even though the conference overwhelmingly supported the inclusion of trans women, trans women left so that the conference wouldn’t be destroyed by TERFs. When TERFs threatened to boycott the iconic women’s music collective Olivia Records unless it voted to eject trans women from the collective, Olivia instead voted to keep trans women. However, after the collective began receiving death threats, trans women left to prevent potential physical assaults and the threatened destruction of the entire collective by TERFs. Ironically, both of these cases are cited by TERFs as evidence of an inherent male-essenced trans aggression.

this article by Cristan Williams

(sources are linked from the article)

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unactive-at-this-time:

niintendo:

niintendo:

donald trumps son is talking about anime on his twitter and is retweeting anime fanart of himself and its the strangest thing ive seen all day

ya’ll know i’m the most anti-trump person ever but barron has nothing to do with what his dad does,, let the poor kid live this is cute

ringingallover:

meecheee123:

ringingallover:

do centaur babies suckle from the horse nipples or the human nipples tho

Centaurs aren’t real. Do you understand that?

yes that is why i made a tumblr post about this instead of just asking a real centaur

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tilthat:

TIL – in 1968, Billy Joel looped some random cables around his shoulder, put on a fake Bristish accent, and pretended to be Jimi Hendrix’s roadie to sneak into a concert. He wound up being convincing enough to actually be put to work as a stagehand during the show.

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Your blog is one of my absolute favorites and your cat snake is so majestic. I love the picture of her wearing her tail as a hat. Does she ever cuddle with Grim in weird sleeping positions?

pangur-and-grim:

absolutely! Pangur drapes herself over Grim like a weird piece of spaghetti

We need to talk about Diane Abbott. Now. (EXPLICIT CONTENT)

iandsharman:

Dianne Abbott is literally the only politician to have ever responded to me on Twitter. I honestly have nothing but the utmost respect for her and the news of her illness greatly saddens me. Unfortunately, but somewhat inevitably, a huge number of people used that news today as another excuse to direct a torrent of abuse at her.

I saw, and retweeted, Jack Monroe’s thread on Twitter earlier, and I’m so glad it has been collected together in this blog post. Whatever you think of her politics, Diane Abbott deserves your respect and admiration.

We need to talk about Diane Abbott. Now. (EXPLICIT CONTENT)

neurodiversitysci:

thewritingnook:

thewritingnook:

It’s said a lot in writing circles that you can’t please everyone, which is true. You can’t please everyone.

But I also think it’s important to note that whatever you do, you will please someone. Someone out there will enjoy what you write.

Its incredibly heartwarming every time I see this post going around again.

Keep writing, everyone.

If you’re writing something because you desperately yearn to read it and it doesn’t exist, at least other person craves that exact thing, too. And at least one more person will stumble on it and realize they needed it and had never realized it until they read it.

…Even if all you write is, like, crappy Tumblr posts whose grammar would give your high school English teacher a fit. (Like that last sentence, for example). Please write.