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Just saw a TERF say "you want to look like franensteins monster?" in reference to gender affirming surgery. holy shit yes?? I'm almost disappinted that this isn't how it works.

I love being trans & evil on purpose. TERFs can't slow me down by calling it bodily mutilation because that sounds sick as fuck. I'm a monstrosity of my own making baby!!

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Postcard from the artist collective project THINK AGAIN

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So, I guess as a middle range millennial, I now get to tell all you young queer kids that what you are feeling right now is exactly how it felt in 2004 when we re-elected George Bush, and not only that but many states put in bans against gay/same sex marriage at the time.

This is probably not comforting, but it is true, and it helps me when I feel hopeless: For every revolution there is a counter revolution, for every step forward there is a step back, that things may not be good forever but they will not be bad, either. That we clawed our way to get where we are and we can claw our way forward from here, too. Talk to your queer elders, the ones who have been here before and will be here again and who threw bricks at Stonewall.

When I was a child, if you got AIDS it was a death sentence. Now it isn't. Now you live on.

So I'll quote angels in america: You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

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“LOVE Is Tender & Knows No Gender” pinback, Northern Sun Products, c. 1999. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #QueerHistoryMatters #HavePrideInHistory #Night

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ORLANDO LESBIANS🔻1992 Orlando Pride Parade. Saviz Shafaie Collection. #lesbianculture #orlandolesbians #1992

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Pin buttons from various lesbian groups and events

Check out What’s in the Archives? Lesbian Collections to learn more about Canadian lesbian history and the CLGA’s collections. 

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Selected early Lesbian Connection covers, 1975-1982.

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I learned about the murder of Kitty Genovese in two separate psychology classes, at two separate universities. It was studied as an example of the “bystander effect”, which is a phenomenon that occurs when witnesses do not offer help to a victim when there are other people present.

I was told by my professors that Kitty Genovese was a 28-year-old unmarried woman who was attacked, raped, and brutally murdered on her way home from her shift as manager of a bar. I was told that numerous people witnessed the attack and her cries for help but didn’t do anything because they “assumed someone else would”. Nobody intervened until it was too late. 

What I was not told was that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian who lived more or less openly with her partner in the Upper West Side and managed a gay bar. 

Now… is it likely that people overheard Kitty’s cries for help and ignored them because they thought someone else would deal with it? Or, perhaps, did they ignore her because they knew she was a lesbian and just didn’t care?

Maybe that’s not the case. Maybe it was just a random attack. Maybe her neighbours didn’t know she was gay, or didn’t care.

But it’s a huge chunk of information to leave out about her in a supposedly scientific study of events, since her sexuality made her much more vulnerable to violent crimes than the average person. And it’s a dishonour to her memory.

RIP Kitty Genovese. Society may only remember you for how you died, but I will remember you for who who were.

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Keeping up with our theme of groundbreaking work from trans elders, we’ve got this 2013 collection of Johnson and Rivera’s writings ✨

Honestly I might just spend the next few days reading as many books by black trans women as possible. That feels like a high quality use of my time.

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“my queerness is traditional” Ryan Young 2017

One of my newest pieces for my senior project. Got a few pics done over the weekend and shooting more tomorrow!

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Source

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The Radical Queer Aesthetics of Gay Power Magazine

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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“Female Perversions–Sex and the Lesbian” by Dr. Albert Reissner, MD.  1965

- Some chapter highlights include:

Will marriage cure the lesbian?

“Why wasn’t I born a boy?”

Lesbians as frigid females (via, and you could buy it used on Amazon!)

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reading progressive sex ed caricatures with accurate and detailed and realistic diagrams of sexual organs + shows their variation, but all i can think about is how there is no discussion of what srs is besides the fact that it exists

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Stefa Marin Alarcon

Gender: Non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Colombian

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist, singer, songwriter, musician

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thank you trans women. everyone say thank you trans women. or else