#bipoc trans

[autisticthings]

Vent:

I hate that beauty standards are centered around white people. sure, I'm somewhat white passing, but all my facial features scream Indigenous American. I'm honestly more upset that I'm pale. I understand that I get white privilege, boy do I, but I honestly feel so ugly not having the beautiful dark skin my grandparents have, or the thick black hair.

I feel like I'm not indigenous and Mexican enough. but I'm also not white enough (especially since I'm not white). somewhere in between, not fitting in.

My tribe was colonized by Spaniards, I'll never know what it was like beforehand. I love being native but I'm just so depressed that we were colonized.

I just feel like I'm a fakey. I want to stay true to my roots, but how do I do that when they're so transphobic and religious in a way that looks down upon me?

[alloweenhallthetime]

I can’t stress this enough. My mental state is a little fragile right now but seeing all my pumpkins excited and loving Halloween heals my heart a lot. Though with all this hate going on in the world— as a Mexican trans man. It sucks. Trying to tell myself my whole life— I’m not an awful person because of who I am.

Pumpkins all shapes and forms— please take care of yourselves. Make sure to eat, drink water, step away or whatever it is— rest and know that every one of you deserve to be here.

Allies please love your black, trans, disabled and our BIPOC siblings even harder. Help artist, content creators, businesses— rt, reblog, boost, donate to their Patreon, kofi, paypal, venmo— everything helps.

I know I typically don’t make these posts but my heart and mind are just hurting… thank you all.

Much love and pumpkins 🎃

[thebastardgerard]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! 🌈🌈🌈

For pride month, I wanna draw characters with lesser known sexualities and genders! If you don’t mind, please list some lesser known sexualities and genders! I’d love to do research on them and draw characters based on their pride flag :DDDDD

Below are some examples of my art!!

[thecorvidforest]

the BIPOC trans/nonbinary experience of wanting to look androgynous to other people but not wanting to look the way our eurocentric binary society thinks androgynous people should look

[alexissara]

Favorite TTRPG Characters That Never Really Got To See Play

After my previous post about TTRPG characters I made I felt like talking about more, this time about the one's that got away. For many TTRPG fans I am sure you can relate to getting all hyped up for a campaign that lasted one session or never ended up happening or you dropped out of because it just wasn't your vibe but wishing that character had a home. Here are the characters that were like that for me.

[Art by Littleinksheep]

Azure Arondite

System: Masks: A New Generation

Playbook: The Innocent

Princess Azure Coral Arondite was a brave hero, in her late teens an Evil Dragon was reborn and it was up to the blue haired princess and a selection of 30 to 50 of her friends to save the world from the dragons wrath. After a massive war was won with no losses on the young princess's side there was a big feast to celebrate. Little did the hero know herself and everyplace, everyone she loved would be abducted by a man who wished to keep the rarest and most powerful places and people across all reality. He killed everyone but Azure over time capturing the princess and keeping her as a treasure.

In Truth the reality bending happened exactly at the place Azure was in, causing her to be duplicated, one version of her flew into a votex of time popping out over 1000 years in the future finding no one even remembered her civilization, her country, her family or friends even the magic of her people were only in some myths. She found her old love who used to live in Denmark was now a vampire, they rekindled their love and passion but Azure would only learn the details of what happened to her people when she met Queen Azure, who had lived over 1000 years, dominating reality after reality having killed the man and used his technology to free the worlds of men with his powers. The internality Arondite Empire had finally found her home reality and she had found the love of her life.

After a dramatic clash that ended in the princes barely escarping with her life she had learned so much and yet there was so much mystery left. Azure was determined to defeated her other self and save the multiverse after what for her way only days of rest from her war campaign. She joined a big team of teen super heroes hoping that with their resources she could defeat the queen and save this world at the vest least.

[Made with https://picrew.me/image_maker/98952 ]

Ari

System: Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Playbook: The Bladesoul

Ari is a special mech, one of a kind thanks to her creators untimely demise. Ari is able to replicate biological life forms to blend in among them but in truth can expand into a massive mech meant for one to pilot for space combat. She was created with the Adaptive Replication Innovation that allows her to recreate the abilities of foes she has engaged for long enough recreating features of weapons or special abilities. Ari was on the run when she ran into Quinn a lesbian mom and form mech pilot who found her injured after a battle and repaired her.

Her and Quinn and Quinn's family quickly became hers too and they joined a crew to fight against the empire that created her and help make the world more free.

[Made With https://picrew.me/image_maker/1414503 ]

Nina Nightly aka Amaze Queera aka Vampy Blood Soul

System: Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Playbook: The Infamous

NIna Nightly was a corporate Vtuber for Holoinc under the persona Vampy Blood Soul, she did every ad read with perfection, she was a top seller and she did amazing at promoting other creators, she was quite famous but Vampy saw the damage her sponsors had been doing and the toxic people she was sometimes being made to work with and praise and decided to get out as soon as she could.

Tragically she could not keep her own persona Vampy Blood Soul that she had worked on for years and was forced to work her way back from scratch. Now using the alas Amaze Queera, Nina is a Indie Vtuber focused on a brand new MMO, she hopes to foster a powerful queer community and one that will always look out for each other, with a determination to never sell out no matter how hard things get.

[Made With https://picrew.me/image_maker/230257]

Kamila

System: Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Playbook: The Tempered

Kamila is a girl with a dream, she wants to own a restaurant one day. All she has ever wanted to do is cook for people and make wonderful food. Then one day she finds herself thrown into fairy tale world and trust into an adventure in an attempt to find a way home all while having the evil queen hunting her down. Kamila lived hard life being poor, trans, gay and Puerto Rican in New York city and brings a seemingly cynical perspective to her fairy tale crew.

[Made With https://picrew.me/image_maker/582810]

Carmen Shift

System: Fate

Carmen is a shapeshifter, able to turn into any other person perfectly, so perfectly that it begins to affect her, her mind starting to alter to their personality and memories over time. This means Carmen's powers are ridiculously risky to use for any long term plan. The lesbian was an aspiring actress with a lot of hopes but changed gears to help take care of a little girl who had been kicked out of her home by her deadbeat transphobic parents. Carmen will do whatever to help her new adoptive daughter so she takes whatever work will pay the best and let her still have time to actually be a mom for her.

[bipoctranscultureis]

Trans bipoc culture is being extra happy when you get crumbs of representation then watching people tear it apart for being "too woke"

[questioningespecialy]

NBMtF Diary#01: going outside

Nobody told me it’d be so hard to go out outside. Took my time getting dressed in the skirt and top. Adjusted the cross body leatherbag and felt comfortable af with it surprisingly. Stared at myself for awhile like the perv I am, and then... stood there.

Walked all the way to the front door and... stood there. Couldn’t even touch the knob. Just stood there.

Knew it was odd. That this shouldn’t be hard, but... I stood there.

I’ve already gone out thrice now. This time’s not much different. Even to the same location. Sure, there’s a bag under my arm now. And a skirt below my shirt. But... I stood there.

Yeah, the shirt’s practically the same as before. And I’ve still got the beard. So I probably look like a hot oddity confusing dafuq outta people 💅🏿 But still... It’s not the same. Not at all.

There’s no mistaking me anymore. No wondering. The pants before were debatable. The skirt now? Obvious.

Spot me from a mile away. As soon as I turn my head. “That’s a beard!” “What is that guy?!” Am I gonna die?

Probably not. Maybe. Confident enough for a 1-on-1. But not willing to try a 2-on-1. And if they’ve got a knife? And if they drive by with a gun? Will I be another one?

idfk This shit’s scary. I’m still gonna go. But this shit’s scary.

I don’t wanna go. But I do wanna go. I don’t wanna go. But I do wanna go.

I’m hungry aren’t I? Don’t I wanna eat? Don’t you use those closed questions with me! Well? What’s it gonna be? Just give me a minute! Geez

I’ll be ready in a bit. Eventually. Just give me a minute.

[prettysurethatsakidney]

You can look away but we’ll just yell it at the top of our lung and if you cover your ears we’ll write it on your walls we have always been here you can deny it but it is fact and it is in history and we will continue to be here we will fight for our rights because they are human rights

was talking to my gf about my fear of dying young for being trans and my mom putting my deadname on my gravestone, and she said "i hope that never happens, but if it does, i will carve your name into your grave myself if i have to." and i think theres something extremely raw about that sentiment and trans community in general. you can kill only our bodies, but you cant kill transsexuality

[smallblueblondie]

Please stop ignoring that white supremacy is a huge core element of radfem/terf ideology.

Like yes they hyperenforce gender roles and stereotypes on all cis women, but it is primarily women of color that they target and accuse of being predatory and "not real women" when they're targeting cis women.

The metrics of "real woman vs trans woman" that terfs love to share are almost all just white eurocentric beauty standards. Small nose, thin fine hair, little/no body hair, petite but somehow curvy, hell I've even seen a post saying skin lightness is a determiner.

Terf/radfem circles are racist at their core. You cannot separate radical feminism from it's violently white supremacist roots. You can't have "anti-racist radical feminism", that's a fucking oxymoron. There is a very clean path from terfs to tradfems/tradwifes, to just straight up conservative republican women.

Yes yes always, terfs are super misogynistic. They hurt all women by forcing them back into the little impossible painful boxes that they claim they're fighting. But one of their biggest targets other than trans women is black women. Not to mention ignoring, discrediting, or just straight up trying to erase all the hard work that black trans women did for queer rights.

Radical feminism is very much transphobic, homophobic, and misogynistic. I'm not saying stop addressing it as such. Don't ever do addressing it as such!

But radical feminism is white supremacy in a coat of pink paint. Please never forget that when talking about how it hurts us all.

[h1biplvm]

Sit down, minority! This person who knows nothing about your community and is fueled with misinformation is gonna explain to you how your body works!

[ivygorgon]

"No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us." -Marsha P. Johnson

[system-processing-12]

Reminder

Credit to artist @_alyadadumb_ on Instagram. Sorry about not including it earlier.

[the-bi-library]

Happy trans awareness week! Allow me to make you aware of these trans bisexuals

Books listed:

Hugged by Verity Ritchie

Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao

Minuet by A.M. Leibowitz

The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier by Felicia Davin

Foxhunt (Foxhunt, #1) by Rem Wigmore

The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard

Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Becca Podos

How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans

[chronicallycouchbound]

PSA: Please don’t ask participants to do grounding/mindful/somatic/etc practices at your events

Grounding exercises should not be an activity in large group settings, especially unsolicited and without warning, especially if you’re not aware of every single person in the space’s mental health conditions, physical health conditions, and personal relationship to their body.

Practices such as mindfulness, grounding, somatic exercises, breathing techniques, body scans, etc. are very helpful therapeutic tools to help manage stress. They can (and do!) help plenty of people– when taught safely and used effectively!

HOWEVER for people with conditions that cause psychosis and/or dissociative conditions such as depersonalization/derealization, these techniques are contraindicated and can make their symptoms significantly worse. They should only be used with guidance from their mental health team and adapted to their needs. For people with conditions like anxiety and PTSD, being aware of breathing can trigger a trauma response or anxiety attacks.

And for people with conditions that cause chronic pain or other uncomfortable bodily sensations, becoming re-centered with their bodies can cause more awareness of the pain they are in, which a level of (ideally functional) dissociation is actually helpful. For people in wheelchairs and powerchairs, touching the ground beneath their feet isn’t always an option. For people with cardiac and pulmonary conditions, deep breathing can be impossible or can trigger asthma attacks. For disabled people in general, doing body scans can be impossible due to paralysis or limb differences. They can bring awareness to things the person wasn’t aware were wrong to begin with (which is helpful in certain spaces, but not a great ice breaker at a retreat!)

And for trans people, binders and other garments can restrict breathing, and taking repeated deep breaths while binding can cause rib damage (which is why you shouldn't bind at night, while coughing from sickness, while exercising, etc). Becoming centered in a body that makes you dysphoric can be deeply distressing, again, a level of functional dissociation helps.

This also goes for plenty of other people in marginalized bodies, such as people of color, people who use substances, queer people, and more. Becoming grounded in your own marginalized body can be a heavy weight to carry, and needs appropriate and individualized care to be a beneficial experience.

As an alternative, I suggest doing a round of gratitudes instead, it allows for people to choose their level of vulnerability in spaces, while not being generally contraindicated for many people. Doing fun (and appropriate to the setting) icebreakers are great. Ask what brings someone to the space. Check-ins about basic needs such as if people need to use the restroom, eat, drink water, are rested, etc. can be more appropriate body check-ins for folks to do.

I don’t recommend doing these exercises even with a warning beforehand. If I'm in the room while someone is leading a breathing exercise, even if I try to ignore it, I (and most people) would automatically become aware of my breathing. The same goes for any other techniques. These techniques can cause real, life-threatening levels of harm for some people, and can even just be deeply uncomfortable or distressing for others. Dissociation is not inherently evil or bad or harmful. It is the way the body and mind naturally respond to adverse experiences (note: it can also cause distress and at higher levels, can be disordered) it is best to allow people to exist as they are in communal spaces. Let people show up as they are.

Most spaces are not equipped or appropriate to respond to emergencies, difficult feelings, and all the varied responses that can come from folks doing mindfulness in group settings.

I personally do some things before large gatherings and events to feel centered on the activity I’ll be doing, and afterward, I decompress. Encourage participants to lean on their natural supports and offer suggestions for it! Be creative in your caring!

This also doesn’t mean to discourage these practices! If you see someone doing deep breathing, check in with them, offer a space for them to decompress, care for them! Worksheets or posters on techniques like square breathing and 5 senses check-ins are great for a quiet room or spaces where participants can decide if they want/are able to engage with those tools. It should be a fully consensual opt-in, rather than being forced to opt-out. Having to leave a room when a group leader says “We’re going to start a mindful breathing meditation, please feel free to leave if you have psychosis, chronic pain, or are trans” is obviously othering and outs people.

Sincerely, someone who has psychotic symptoms, dissociation, chronic pain, is trans and whose body is marginalized in many ways and is really tired from trying to explain this at every event I go to

[bipoctranscultureis]

kita updike is a trans woman! :D

Woooo!!!