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"i'm like woe is me *hand on clit*"

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altaria sketch

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Feeling of Dependency by Sascha Schneider, 1894

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Honey they’re inventing unions at DoorDash

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how am i going to get by how am i going to pay for so and so what am i going to do on my spare time so i can enjoy myself will i enjoy my life is it worth it to be alive is it worth it to go to work everyday

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and i am still learning!!!

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feeling stagnant in life . So walking more. Taking new directions. Reading more. Eating nice food . Trying to figure things out slowly . What resonates , what doesn’t. What boundaries do I need to set with people, w work. Am I taking enough time to rest? Im deffo in an introvert mood. I have been for the last month. I don’t feel like I have anything particularly meaningful to share . But I guess my relationships r not defined by just what I can say. Anyways feels like im going through a rebirth !

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If I were president of Doctor Who, I'd make a Simpsons episode and I'm not joking

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i learned that my least favorite emotion has a name and felt compelled to draw this

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I love oglaf comics

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(we had an open-ended final project in my LGBT studies class and I, fool that I am, decided to do a whole ass comic)

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Rose Tyler’s Interstellar Nokia 3205

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one of my opinions (that seems niche and trivial to cis people, and maybe even a lot of trans people, but I genuinely take pretty seriously) is that we need to stop comparing penises to vaginas as "complementary" structures.

there's this thing where most kids are taught "boys have penises and girls have vaginas" (if they're taught terms for their body parts at all), and even the sort of progressive "trans inclusive" version is like "some people have penises and some people have vaginas."

and I just find it such a rhetorical slight of hand to imply a greater difference between bodies than is actually there.

the penis is not an analogous structure to the vagina. the penis is an analogous structure to the clitoris. if we compared the two, we can much more easily understand this is the same structure that may form in a diversity of ways (e.g. the length, whether the urethra is routed through it, whether or not it is set in a downward position by the surrounding tissue or whether it is only connected at the base, etc.).

similarly, a vagina is not analogous to the penis. the vagina seems much more analogous to the areas of the inguinal canals and perineum, the space in the body that external genitalia can be "tucked" inside of. if we compare the two, we can more easily understand these structures (e.g. not articulating the vagina as an "open hole" but as an area that can accommodate something within it, without being permanently changed).

the way that we constantly pair vaginas with penises in order to make sexed bodies seem more differentiated than they actually are is ideological. it's like saying "men have hands and women have breasts." like sure, that's true in many cases... but women also have hands and men also have breast tissue. why are these traits becoming emblematic of legal/economic categories? what does the exclusion of women's hands and men's breast tissue do to our understanding of the body in general?

(side tangent--and sure, you can say "but penises fit into vaginas" "but hands can fit around breasts" absolutely! those realities don't change by acknowledging they are different parts of the body. penises also fit into anuses and hands also fit around butt cheeks. you can use body parts in many ways. it doesn't mean they need to be used that way, can only be used that way, or is more "natural" to use them in that way than in any other way.)

there are many people who don't even realize they have a clitoris, and I feel like it's pretty much exclusively trans women and their lovers who are aware enough of their bodies to engage in muffing and such. we are denied information on using our own bodies by what parts are erased as "irrelevant" to procreation.

in my opinion, this constant pairing of vaginas with penises as "complementary opposites" creates the impression of a more dramatic difference between "sexes" than exists, and privileges a procreative heterosexual understanding of sexuality over all others.

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The Cat has its Heart on the Outside

Available as a fanzine in Swedish with a translation note  here.