#behind every good man

[celluloidrainbow]

BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN (1967) dir. Nick Elliot “I’d like to live a happy life,” a Black trans woman declares in this hopeful documentary portrait of her life. This vital cultural 8 min document, produced three years before the historic Stonewall uprising for LGBTQ rights in 1969, allows her to narrate her own life, desires, and ambitions. (link in title)

[themomentthat]

Behind Every Good Man (c. 1967) | UCLA restoration

A short film showcasing the extraordinary life of a Black trans woman, predating the LGBTQ rights movement at Stonewall in 1969.

[haverwood]

Behind Every Good Man Nick Elliot USA, 1967

[cairafea]

they're matching costumes.

[zeb-z]

also okay. Leo voiding and Foolish going “that’s alright I’ll just wait. I can wait. I wait.” like yeah totem boy that’s all you ever do isn’t it. waiting loyally for Vegetta to come back, for his plans to find fruition, for islanders and federation workers alike to take him seriously, for Leo to return now, just like he waited for her before, keeping patience like none other. he’ll wait - that’s kinda his thing.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

When the moshaich comes, could they PLEASE teach people specifically in the United States how to actually drive? I'm tired of being in near accidents because american drivers are bad 😭😭😭

[knox-knocks]

what are y’alls thoughts on a certain rainbow angel goalkeeper maybe being not as nice as she puts on…

[inkynightmaresau]

henry, have you thought about maybe like... telling the toons why they cant go near joey? because i think the lack of transparency might be causing more harm than good

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[blujayonthewing]

I wish I had any way of knowing whether people have gotten Weirder™ about my name in recent years or if this has been happening behind the scenes the entire time

I've been going by Jay since I was 11. At the time nobody objected to or questioned this, at least not to me; I found out many years later that Jay is supposedly a "boy's name," but nobody ever said 'you can't use that as a nickname, it's a boy's name' and it went completely uncontested by anyone when I switched. Lots of kids announced some manner of name change at the start of a new school year in middle school; it was all normal and fine. My mom and, you know, grandmas and other relatives kept calling me Jessica, which was also fine! I didn't make a big family announcement or correct any relatives on this, I just wanted to differentiate myself from the half dozen other Jessicas in school.

For twenty years!! This has gone on being perfectly normal! My Real Name™ is an increasingly obscure bit of trivia I get to spring on friends who didn't realize I had one, which is always funny (my brother in law didn't believe me and demanded to see my driver's license). My mom and grandmas have largely still called me Jess, and that's also fine! It's nice, even! There's a particular intimacy there of having a name only my mother uses-- but, crucially, I have never asked her not to, or said that I don't like it. And as FAR AS I KNOW, this has all been true and fine for TWENTY YEARS.

My own feelings about it have never changed, and feel, to me, very straightforward: if I tell you that my name is Jay, and you decide that no it isn't, that is a problem. That's the rule. That's literally it. I had a high school teacher who asked on the syllabus for us to write down if we went by something other than our full name, who was nonetheless UNIQUE among all of my teachers from 6th grade onward in always and only ever calling me Jess, even though I signed all my work Jay, all the other teachers called me Jay, he literally asked whether anyone wanted to be called something else and I answered Jay, and I had him for two semesters. I met a work friend of Justin's once who asked upon introduction whether Jay was short for something, and when I told him it was short for Jessica he took it upon himself to call me Jess instead. This isn't me having a problem with any particular iteration of my name, this is just asshole behavior! I told you what my name was and you said 'no it isn't'. The problem here does not seem complex to me?

But within the last [hand wiggle] handful of years I feel like it keeps getting weirder? Apparently my dad and grandma argued about it at my wedding rehearsal-- she, dramatically, insisting 'I don't care, her name is Jessica, I'm going to call her that ;n;' and my dad angrily defensive that no it isn't, I go by Jay, that should be respected. And I'm sitting here listening to my dad relay this in utter bewilderment like. Well dad I love the energy but I have never been bothered at all if grandma calls me Jessica. I have never even once asked her not to or complained to anyone that she does. But also this is the grandma who HAS called me Jay more often than not?? My mom's mom never picked it up, but I was astonished to hear my dad's mom was acting like this was some New Dramatic Change that she Hated and not a thing she's literally already been doing for, again, twenty entire years. Why are you suddenly making it weird! Last weekend Justin's stepmom mentioned seeing my mom at the hospital where mom works, and how she said something like 'yes I'm Jessica's mom-- wait, no, Jay, she hates it when I do that' and I just?? I literally don't, the only problem now is that people who know me won't know who the fuck you're talking about

all of this and I'm just. I am literally just sitting here. why are we inventing problems out of this two decades later. what is going on

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Im so proud of Omega

Like just so so proud of her

[dyketennant]

oh i can already tell i’m about to have some really unpopular opinions about the edge of sleep tv show

[parasitoidism]

ramblings of insane person

[bird-girth]

The Lana Del Rey / Mitski / Fiona Apple girlies would go fucking insane for Portishead. Not quite visceral - but a quiet intensity to it instead, something subtle and sultry bereft near entirely of strings; an eerie sort of flair to it that I enjoy sinking into. you might, too, if you’ll let yourself!

at least, relief

a mother’s son has left me sheer

the shores i seek

are crimson tastes divine

can’t make myself heard

no matter how hard i scream

oh, sensation

sin, slave of sensation

Biscuit

covered by the blind belief

that fantasies of sinful screens

bear the facts, assume the dye

end the vows, no need to lie, enjoy

take a ride, take a shot now

‘cause nobody loves me; it’s true

not like you do

Sour times

you don’t get somethin’ for nothing

mm, gotta try a little harder

it could be sweet

like a long forgotten dream

It Could Be Sweet

[juuria]

god, in the next life, please let me be born in the late 80s in california so i can go to animation school like calarts and work on powerpuff girls or my little pony and be a hipster in 2010s thank you!!!!!!

[glados-kisser]

sosoooomgmh. i likeeeee..characters. want to finish. some character sheets. do NOT want to write personality traits.

[itspileofgoodthings]

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