March 2012
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dinobearthemighty:
2012 Boston Annual Transgender Youth Summit
Saturday, June 16, 2012
What is it?
The goal of this summit is for youth 24 and under from Massachusetts/New England that identify with, or could fall under, the label ‘transgender’ or youth who are in some way connected to the transgender youth community, such as partners/friends, to meet and connect with other...
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How to Deal with radfems
odofemi:
Here’s a list of ways I’ve come up with for trans people to deal with attacks by radfems.
1. Let some trans people who are being attacked (or, if you’re the one being attacked, then any trans friends you have, especially trans women) know that you appreciate them/their work, that you think they are awesome and lovely, and that you support them, and that you’re glad that they are part...
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“Certainly, she, and we, saw the day pass when a specific ethnic ancestry was an...”
– Jan Redbear, “Tribute to Christine,” TV-TS Tapestry Issue 54, 1989
And white trans culture has forgotten it. In all of the discourse I’ve read about gatekeeping, especially what past generations had to go through, in Whipping Girl and on blogs and everywhere, it talks all about how you had to dress...
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7/24/68:ii by Adrienne Rich
7/24/68:ii
by Adrienne Rich
The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.
At the drive-in movie, above the PanaVision, beyond the projector beams, you project yourself, great Star.
The eye that used to watch us is dead, but open. Sometimes I still have a sense of being followed.
How long will we be waiting for...
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“Resist much. Obey little.”
– Walt Whitman (via libraryland)
*siiigh* Oh, Walt, if only you were 150 years younger and into ladies…
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#Lakota Indians cancel treaties with #US gov’t →
anonymissexpress:
In a bold and unprecedented move, representatives of the Lakota Freedom Delegation recently declared the Lakota Nation is formally and unilaterally withdrawing from all agreements and treaties with the government of the United States.
“We are no longer citizens of the United States,” said longtime indigenous rights activist Russell Means at a press conference at Plymouth...
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When POC characters are turned white: this isin't about race, if you think it is then you're the racist one, lets just enjoy the book/film as it is, this is about the character's personality god you're so sensitive, the new skin tone actually fits the character's personality IMO, I never imagined them as POC anyway, not all whitewashing is racist god get over it!!111
When white characters are turned into POC: omg how could they!?!?!? this is soooo racist and unfair! why cant they present that white character as WHITE, how dare they change the original skin color to suit their own terms! this is reverse racism!! this is about race! I NEVER imaged that white character to be a POC that is so weird, it doesn't fit, this is political correctness gone crazy!!
afterromulus asked: hay gurl. thanks for supporting my art even when it is a phone picture of something i drew when i was drunk. i really appreciate it. c:
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Ceiling Metaphors Are Used For Systemic Change
tobitastic:
When women complain about the glass ceiling, it isn’t so we can guilt or shame our bosses into a promotion. Nor is it a statement that my company (or my boss) must be sexist because I didn’t get that last promotion. Many women who complain about the glass ceiling don’t want to be a CEO - or perhaps already are one. Rather than being interested in personal gain the main goal is to...
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It's really not about calling us "uterus-bearers"...
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fuguestasis:
Teach everyone you work with to give trans people basic decency and respect. Especially trans women/transfeminine people, especially trans people of color, especially disabled trans people and especially trans people who don’t “pass” or who don’t have a binary gender to “pass as.” No harassment, no intrusive questions, no slurs. This should go without saying, duh.
If...
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Anonymous asked: I don't understand how to work your tumblr anymore. :(
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I Am So Over Transnormativity
lucypaw:
On twitter today, a person said that they wished they looked like a trans woman. I mentally tripped reading that because apparently there is a look to trans women? This is news to me. In response to my stating that trans women look like trans women, an academic said that ‘real social codes exist and dictate placement’. Basically, it’s the same thing every trans person has heard...
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About Cop Watch
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note-a-bear:
So there are groups that do this, they stay in highly policed areas on shifts and bring cameras and such, and record to make sure police brutality doesn’t escalate, and when it happens there’s evidence against it.
But that’s not the only way it can happen.
Every single person is entitled to watch an arrest go down as long as they...
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Culture matters
sunisup:
Sometimes I hear people say that racism/sexism/etc in culture isn’t important or worth criticizing. ”Oh it’s just a book,” they say. ”It’s just a crappy TV show.” ”It’s just a commercial.”
This argument always baffles me. It’s like if you put poison into a fish-tank and then say “Oh well I didn’t poison the fish, I just poisoned the water.” The fish lives in the water, dumbass;...
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Letter from Kathleen Hanna Follow Up
roguishrose:
The letter was a bit of a mixed bag. Before anything else, I’ll clarify that she does say, “I’ll cut to the chase: I do believe transwomen [sic] are real women, I don’t prescribe to outdated essentialist notions of gender, that just isn’t what I am about.” So there’s that. On the other hand, she seemed sorta more interested in denouncing the rumors of her transphobia than...
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babesofbabes asked: gpoy.
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