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Jean-François Bouchard’s Transpose

“I didn’t want this to be sexual or shocking,“ he explained in a recent interivew with Canada’sNational Post. “I wanted this to be about the personal stories. I could have shot this in a far more shocking way — scars, things like that. But I didn’t want to take over the personal stories that are more important.”

Fittingly, the spare, deceptively powerful portraits are accompanied by personal statements from his subjects, a diverse group of young and middle-aged trans men with whom Bouchard, a cisgender (nontrans) man, worked after three years of research. A statement by subject Alex reads simply, ”[My] tattoo means strong because you have to be. Five and a half years of weekly injections, two surgeries, and I now finally feel comfortable in my body.“

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New comic!

I remember that I was doing this exact thing, I was asking for explanations and definitions in a conversation about disability, and I just wanted to help, and I thought if they just could explain this concept to me that I hadn’t heard before, then I could help more. I remember my friend turning to me and saying, not unkindly, ‘I bet, if you tried, you’d find some really excellent blog posts about this’. I’m fortunate that I got the implied ‘shut up’ there.And she was right. 

I’ve seen people online react really badly when someone gives them a link and says ‘I think you’ll have a better idea of what we’re talking about if you look this over’. We’re expected to slow down, be patient, be kind, be clear, we’re expected to be knowledgeable and articulate and calm and accommodating. We’re expected to do this for free, as a basic part of our identities, the constant willingness to educate. Often we’re expected to do this in order to receive ‘support’ from people. 

It would just be really wonderful to be able to talk about gender without constantly landing back into 101. 

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ftm proud

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I’m looking to follow more trans*, gender non-conforming, genderqueer folks! So please, if you see this, let me know who you are! My dash is kind of bare and I want to make new friends. We can talk about anything. I know that I don’t have a picture up yet, I’m trying to decide if I want my face out there yet. I promise I’m a decent human being and not some type of spam blog.

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—-> What is this?

A giveaway for one completely free FTM Prosthetics product of choice. The range includes packing devices, hard packers and the famous dual, which is capable of both packing and playing. View the full range here.

These prosthetics are handmade by a professional...

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if you identify as cis but haven’t actually taken time to sit down and examine and analyze your gender identity, it’s probably time to do that otherwise you’ve just given in to society forcing a significant part of your identity...

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goin on the gender adventure

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Turning you on turns me on.

(via sexual-feelings)

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I'm looking to follow more trans*, gender non-conforming, genderqueer folks! So please, if you see this, let me know who you are! My dash is kind of bare and I want to make new friends. We can talk about anything.

I know that I don't have a picture up yet, I'm trying to decide if I want my face out there yet. I promise I'm a decent human being and not some type of spam blog.

love you all (i don't have any followers yet, but if you follow me, I will most definitely love you)

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@DarkMatterRage is #NotProud of the co-optation of Pride and the depoliticization of the white cis gay agenda. Solidarity to all the trans, queer, PoC, &/ low income folks experiencing micro and macro agressions this Pride season. Keep the resistance alive! To continue the conversation follow DarkMatter on Twitter and Facebook Check out the rest of the tweets in this storify