February 2012
Why Komen Ending Support to Planned Parenthood Matters →
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According to Planned Parenthood, in the past five years support from Susan G. Komen allowed their health centers to provide nearly 170,000 breast exams and 6,400 mammogram referrals. The charity’s decision has succeeded only in depriving low-income women of cancer screenings that could save their lives — a move that flies in the face of Komen’s mission.
If you are happy that the Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to no longer support Planned Parenthood, you cannot consider yourself pro-life.
If you are happy over this, you are happy that THOUSANDS of people are going to be unable to get regular breast exams. You are happy that people will be denied access to life saving medical exams. YOU ARE HAPPY THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE OF CANCER BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T ABLE TO GET SCREENED EARLY EHOUGH.
TOO TRUE.
January 2012
There's really no excuse for it. If you wanna talk about how barbies fuck up body image, you need to include trans women.
Cuz it happens to us too.
Let me repeat that.
THERE IS NO EXCUSE. STOP TRYING AND FAILING.
Play
A Linguistic Conundrum
What would one call it when one doesn’t actually “want” SRS (i.e. as a philosophical position I believe that it’s inhumane to force someone to pursue a surgical procedure to be a full citizen), but is pursuing it because (a) your body doesn’t totally make sense to your brain without it and (b) not being a nonperson in society is kind of a Good Thing?
Just realised that portmanteau ship name for the four BBT boys would be ‘HoLeRaSh’.
Just. Say. No.
RaLeHoSh?
SheLeHowEsh?
*impish grin*
Being cisgender means never having to know a goddamn thing about trans people
Even as you walk all over us.
Cisinformed
Verb, past participle
1. To be falsely informed from a cisgender perspective.
e.g:
“I used to think all trans people wanted SRS, but I was quite cisinformed.”
Kinda like this
Yes, this.
When Cylons Dream: dumbthingswhitepplsay: the dopest ethiopienne: This is not a “social... →
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the dopest ethiopienne: This is not a “social justice” blog.
For many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that “social justice” or struggles for “equality” have been lumped into one giant category of…
SO. MUCH. THIS.
It's really not so easy to tell, is it?
Ironically, I know plenty of cissexual lesbians who get hassled about using gendered spaces all the time while I, Little Miss Trans, just breeze on through. There’s seriously a lesson in there…
High Fives to Infinity: Reblog with the reason behind your tumblr name... →
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Errr… Irvine is a Marksman… that’s why it’s marksmanirvine? .__. meep back to my hurt shoulder >_>
Beatrix is the leading lady. :l Also, it’s a little joke on…
It’s part of my magickal name.
Fifteen Minutes To Fame: spaceykate: You know, it’s funny, but I could swear that the same... →
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You know, it’s funny, but I could swear that the same monosexual cis people who scolded bi & trans folks when the first glitterbombing happened and told us that we were mistaken about whether Dan Savage was oppressing us were the same ones who are now scolding us in the…
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I’m starting to recognize how much of my social problems in high school were due to trying to act natural and getting smacked around for behaving like a girl, then trying to act like a guy and getting it again for being phony.
Lollygagging and Lassitude: Physical as political, or why saying "government out of my uterus" others women →
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Early morning, and I wake up with this kind of thought in my brain after shaking the sleep but before coffee (husband’s still trying to sleep in our hotel room and I know coffee makers are noisy).
A friend of mine who’s trying to get her parents to better understand the fact they have a daughter…
426) I have so seriously been considering becoming an escort or selling drugs or anything naughty that grabs cash quick so I can pop over to Thailand for a quickie operation, more so the longer it takes to hear back from my doctor. The desperation and feeling of being completely stuck is just fucking crippling, and I don't want to burden my friends because they all have their own problems too. I just want it to be over with, and be a woman, not transitioning.
This. Me too. The American system is designed to build desperation in everyone, but especially if you start finding the intersections stacking against you.
For notalwaysweak
http://stourangeau.deviantart.com/art/Commander-Cooper-Inks-282079053
Thought you’d get a kick out of this BBT/Star Trek crossover pic, sis :)
Not Always Weak: widdershinsgirl: I feel sad, stressed and upset because I can’t find a... →
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I feel sad, stressed and upset because I can’t find a novel I wrote 6 years ago.
That was 120,000 words!!! That’s a lot of typing!!*hugs and love* That’s awful. But I am amazed at your writingness. My longest novel’s only 95,000 words and it’s technically fan fiction…
Prayers/offerings to Athena or Seshat might be helpful as well. :)
Can do. I’m at work right now so it might be better for me to do it when I get home (phone calls keep dropping in), but I’m leaving in an hour and a half. Maybe you’ll have found it by then, but I’ll do something when I get home anyway.
I just realised that the pretty owl necklace I keep seeing and not buying because it’s bigger than what I would wear isn’t calling to me to wear it, it’s calling to me to put it on my altar. (What is this box and why do I keep thinking in it?)
No time like the present for interesting realizations!
Not Always Weak: widdershinsgirl: I feel sad, stressed and upset because I can’t find a... →
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I feel sad, stressed and upset because I can’t find a novel I wrote 6 years ago.
That was 120,000 words!!! That’s a lot of typing!!*hugs and love* That’s awful. But I am amazed at your writingness. My longest novel’s only 95,000 words and it’s technically fan fiction…
Prayers/offerings to Athena or Seshat might be helpful as well. :)
I feel sad, stressed and upset because I can’t find a novel I wrote 6 years ago.
That was 120,000 words!!! That’s a lot of typing!!
It would be nice if I could have just one canon trans, queer woman in fictional media that I could relate to or look up to...
…just one :(
… that isn’t herself written by a trans woman…
i wonder...
if one were to ask a large number of partnered cis lesbians what they find attractive in their cis partners, how many of them would mention genitals?
but the second that trans women enter the picture, it seems genitals are the only thing that matter.
hmm.
This is pretty true :V
Totally true.
“I would say it is impossible for cis people to discuss trans bodies in this space without being attacked by someone.”
I would say that there is nothing that better illustrates the wrongness of many, MANY cis people’s attitudes toward transness than this sentence.
Why?
Substitute “white” for “cis” and then substitute “PoC” for “trans.”
Or substitute “abled” and “disabled.”
“male” and “female.”
And on, and on, and on.
Talkin’ ‘Bout My S-S-S-Socialization →
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Excerpted from Natalie Reed’s blog:
Growing up amidst male socialization when one’s gender identity is not consistent with it is a horrifying and traumatic experience. Nothing about it is in any way a privilege, and one does not internalize or adapt to it in a manner at all similar to how a cis man does. Rather than it being a means through which one develops confidence and a sense of power and entitlement, eventually taking one’s vantage point for granted, it is instead a painful, self-erasing performance one has been forced to adopt. One has a constant inner checklist of the behaviours and mannerisms you’re supposed to display in order to avoid being seen as girly and consequently ridiculed or beaten up. Instead of gaining the benefits of being the “superior” class within our cultural gender dynamics, you’re instead experiencing an extremely harsh, constraining prison of gender’s unspoken rules and regulations. Instead of internalizing a sense of being the default, favoured, normal gender, you internalize scripts, shame, self-hatred and the need to police your own gender- police your expression, your personality, your interests, the ways in which you interact with others, anything that could end up with you getting “caught” and revealing how you’re not normal, you’re inferior, broken and wrong.
This is painfully accurate.
Ah really glad that my ‘Trans Socialization’ post sparked responses like this
This.
The next time I am allowed to write in my gender on a form, I think I'm going to put "Yoshi", because I'm a guy but I still have eggs
Also: I am secretly a dinosaur.
Yoshi and Birdo are the first official trans couple in video games.
Happythought?
I would like one or two right now.
Anti-trans lies: The trans mafia
This is perhaps the most long-term poisonous and pernicious lie about trans activists - poisonous because it originates in the GLBT community. The lie that the “trans mafia” will scream at you if you “disagree with any of their holy writ.”
It turns out that “holy writ” is:
- Trans people are actually people whose identities should be respected
- Deliberate ungendering and attempts to block or reverse our transitions are no longer acceptable
- Women have the right to be treated as women, and men as men
- Trans women, who have been the primary target of anti-trans slurs and prejudice, have the right to be the primary arbiters of whether or not a slur is ‘ok’ to use (i.e. ‘tr***y’). Trans men to a much lesser extent; cissexual gay men and lesbians not at all.
- That “cissexual” is a value-neutral descriptive term, not a label or identity.
- Gays and lesbians should not dangle the carrot of trans-inclusion to get trans people’s money and effort on board for nondiscrimination legislation, only to use trans-inclusion as a sacrificial lamb for passing the legislation, or to use the nondiscrimination legislation as a sacrificial lamb for marriage equality.
That’s it. Doesn’t seem too unreasonable to me. So why the “trans mafia” shtick? Simple: It’s a silencing tactic. By pretending trans people are being unreasonable for wanting to be treated as full partners in the GLBT movement (since, hello, Compton’s Cafeteria and Stonewall, anyone?), those using the tactic can shut down trans criticism and sound like the good guy instead of the bad guy.
With due respect for Cynthia Nixon...
We DO have a perfectly good word for people for whom being gay is a choice - “bisexual.” Or “pansexual.”
Cisnormativity: So where might the root of "WBW" rage be originating? →
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On an aside, I am starting to wonder about the “WBW” reactionary radfem trolling prevalent recently on Reddit, on specific blogs, and on discussion forums. Pattern for pattern, their behaviour across the internet(s) is spot-on with the right-wing politicians and religious figures (all,…
I’ve had this thought - and recently - but not in nearly so coherent a form.
Seriously, we cannot sit down and watch the TV for an entire day without seeing some instance where trans women are used as the butt of a joke.
that constant worry that all your worrying that people are going to leave you will cause people to leave you
I have that all the frigging time.
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.”
—bell hooks (via femfreq)
I just want there to be SOME fiction out there that reflects my life & identity, without having to go to Internet archives that cater to male fetishists.
This is why I want to write more Mayafic, but also I am scared of screwing it up. But it will happen (when I am writing again).
If it helps any… having it out there is better than not having it. Having the fiction out there will encourage more of it.
[rjeSTUDIO]: Cis straight white people are trying to shut Arkh down. →
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Can I just take a second to point out how wildly offensive I find it that they phrase this as “cis straight white people” as opposed to just “bigots” or anything else they could have said? Why is it necessary to specify what demographic they are? I’m white and cisgendered, and while I know there are a lot of hateful and ignorant people whose backgrounds are similar to mine, it’s sickening to see how people have been generalizing and making it seem as though the entire cis population is just terrible and cruel and oppressive. Prejudice works both ways, guys. Don’t use “cis” like it’s a derogatory word, or you aren’t any better than the people who use “gay” as a synonym for shitty. Period.
In general I dislike the term “cisgendered’ because it’s not a label I chose for myself, and more often than not I see it used in a negative context. So I hope the world knows, for future reference, not to refer to me as such. I don’t like it any more than someone who’s gay would like being called a fag.
feel free to laugh at this guy
Can we point at him while we laugh?
i encourage it
Dear lord. I’m so glad I saw this. I needed a laugh.
People actually think like this? Holy shit.
Seriously. I need this on a fucking poster.
Oh boy
This is pretty ridiculous.
“I’m cis and I’m great why are you being mean to be :( :( :(“
Ireland's trying SOPA.
It could be in Law as early as Friday.
It will be passed without a vote, it is NOT going to the Oireachtas.
It will be signed directly into law.PLEASE, ANY SANE IRISH FOLLOWER I HAVE. RING YOUR TD, EMAIL THEM. SIGN THE PETITION ON http://stopsopaireland.com/
FOR YOU OWN SAKE AND MINE.
I just want there to be SOME fiction out there that reflects my life & identity, without having to go to Internet archives that cater to male fetishists.
That awkward moment when you see your old name..
…and it stops you dead in your tracks for a few minutes.
A guy at work last night had my old name and it kind of backfooted me.
Daily Pagan News: Eleven Things Every Witch Should Know (Witches of the Craft) →
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1. Magic is what happens when you open yourself to the Divine. All real magic is a manifestation of the Divine – it is how you co-create reality with deity.
2. The Divine is within you and is everywhere present in the natural world. And everything is interconnected by this sacred energy. 3….
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.”
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BOOM.
There it is.
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