#down with the cistem

[intergalacticgoose]

The “LGBTQ+ is a social contagion” theory from cishet people is soooo funny to me like you’re telling me heterosexuality is SO ingrained and SO watertight and yet SO fragile that if your kid so much as picks up a fucking Steam Powered Giraffe album they’ll turn into raging queer? Do you HEAR yourselves?????

[milotheshrike]

The only words a straight cis man could say to me that would make me feel anything apart from disgust.

"I can pay for that"

Otherwise STFU.

[milotheshrike]

Look at this stupid bitch forgetting trans men and intersex people AND nonbinary people can have babies. I mean I'm intersex and a parent. But I don't think you'll be able to see this post. I mean, if I don't exist to you as a transparent. LOL

“Pregnant person” “person with ovaries” PLEASE JUST SAY WOMAN THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE PREGNANT THAT IDENTIFY AS SOMETHING ELSE VS THAT ARE FEMALE IS VERY FEW just.. it’s such a detached way to talk about pregnancy

[boxwinebaddie]

now, okay, this is...Very Silly.

( i'll make laundry list of housekeepin stuff for the blog, stuff i'm working on, just little brief answers to recent questions while i get the big asks for them ready, etc. )

— but i got asked abt the tkak gorls ( updates ondaway! ) i was messin around wid the sinpinterest and was feelin ~ embarrassingly sapphic ~ in that gay chilis

( shit was rockNcoldaH than a witches tit! )

hooola rgs :*

that ~freakynasty~ friGay night.

( women, ily ;) xx <333 )

…i was also feeling notsohot for a minute there/was having a raven stannic attack, so with tkak on the mind and attempt at relaxing myself and coping in gen, i decided to be a silly goose and made a lil private board of what i thot ravesey might look like if i played god, gently luv-tapped them ( bc i’d nevah hit my sons! don't call cps, ‘sides they hit on eachother *jkvc* Enough. )

with the all-powerfull, all-knowing…

~ Sharkchancla Of Fate ~

— and made them...GIRLS.**

so, everyone meet...raeganstan and jerseyskyler. <3

**i said 'girls' because rae ( who goes by rae or stan/san/tana, short ways, not picky; very open and goes by raegan or santana long ways ) uses he/they pronouns, operates in under a more standragousness umbrella term that tends to lean demiboy/masc for the most part,

— but mostly nonbinary. <3

also skyler is still a she/her femme lesbian and a bad mammajamma goes by sky/ky short ways, buuuut if you aren't rae or stan, i'd call her skyler or she will call in an massive kite airstrike ( sky west, haha; hope you have frequent flyer miles ) and completely fkn obliterate you...until raeganstan can grab her hand/yank her, smh.

( *sky vc* anDANOTHATHI--*rae vc* mi amor, it is NOT WORTH IT. *blows raspberry at someone prob bein annoyin at a cd afterparty* )

violent pacifist icon, omg. ;-; kjdlsgjs

i won't scream about them here and be obnoxious and in this post, but i just wanted you to see them bc i'm love them. i was being *mj vc* smooth crminally insane about them, so i have some silly bonus sonohead?😩cannons about them 🏳️‍🌈 and gen stuff that you are welcome to ask me about, but there the super besties ooooor...

Super Mejores Amigues?

oooor...( my personal favorite )

Galpals 😇 👯‍♀️ ❌💋⛪️

MUY ✨ ~Especiales~ ✨ 🤪💯🌈🙏🧎‍♀️

[finder-of-rings]

It's a little late but wanted to post this year's Halloween Costume to my SFW Blog!

Nimona says METAL!! DOWN WITH THE CISTEM!!

[enbysiriusblack]

music recs but its only poc artists:

raleigh ritchie- will never shut up about his music. one of my absolute favourite artists at the moment. definitely recommend it if you're into r&b/pop/sadboy music. do not know which album is my favourite but some songs i'd recommend first: bloodsport '15, aristocrats (especially the music video), say what you mean, never better

nahbo- extremely underrated. not actually sure what the genre is but google says its indie/hip-hop/rap. very dj, artsy, and psychedelic vibe. i think all their music, or at least most, is political songs. my favourite album is ruptured. and songs i'd recommend first: slow down, rocket, hashtag authentic, wrinkle

nina simone- was gonna do artists that aren't super popular but i just absolutely love nina simone, i had to include her. her songs stretch into a variety of genre, but it is mostly jazz/blues- she also mostly covers songs. not sure what my favourite album is. but some songs i'd recommend if you haven't heard them: angel of the morning, suzanne, the desperate ones, feeling good

the muslims- punk band. only recently started listening to them. fav album is probably fuck these fucking fascists. and some songs i'd recommend first: there, their, they're, john mccain's ghost sneaks into the white house and tea bags the president, gentrified chicken, fuck the cistem

d3vilishbri- they only have a few songs but they're absolute bangers. its rock/punk. some songs i'd recommend: alright (/w you will know ali), ur the worst! please let me take you out to dinner, immature

otoboke beaver- punk/rock band. most of their songs are in japanese. my favourite album is itekoma hits. some songs i'd recommend first: what do you mean you have to talk to me at this late date?, datsu . hikage no onna, suki suki darling, i don't want to die alone

lady parts- not a real band, it's a band from the tv series 'we are lady parts' (so so good! watch it if you can!) but the music is so good anyway. so some songs i'd recommend: bashir with the good beard, fish and chips, voldemort under my head scarf, cover of we are the champions

[silly-lil-scribbles]

15, 17, 36, 37, 39, 50, 80, 89, 100

sorry ik there’s a lot, just answer the ones you want?

fav song: nooo dont make me choose </3 just for your audacity youre getting the fucking list >:(

enjoy <3

talk to me by cavetown, save yourselves ill hold them back by mcr, poison pop by qbomb, our lady of sorrows by mcr, skylines and turnstiles by mcr, make room by mcr, all the angels by oh you guessed it its mcr again, home by cavetown, your body my temple by will wood, marsha, thankk you for the dialectics but i need you to leave by will wood, business man by mother mother, hayloft 2 by mother mother, all the dying by mother mother, bring me back to life by mother mother, headfirst for halos by mcr, so mean by poppy, computer boy by poppy, the rapture (but its pink) by scene queen, fear of dying by poppy, foxcry by rabbitology, bassline bitch by the nova twins, hell hounds by chloe moriondo, saccharine by jazmin bean, athena by the nova twins, lovely ladies by noahfinnce, goodtime! by be your own pet, nice nice by dazey and the scouts, fem in a black leather jacket by pansy division, bury me in analog by mischeif brew, becky by be your own pet, fuck the cistem by the muslims, romance is boring by los campesinos, underachiever by noahfinnce, boys will be bugs by cavetown, juliet by cavetown, nostalgia in my bedroom by cavetown, stars on my ceiling by gum disease, gender envy by gum disease, deadname! by flasch, the bug collector by haley hendrickx, smokey eyes by lincoln, poor george by james supercave, amnesia was her name by lemon demon, down the rabbit hole by downssides, i cant decide by the scissor sisters, the bidding by tally hall, fool by djo, disembodied mind by sparkbird, grey and green by sparkbird, metropolis of eden by sparkbird, and probably way more but this should suffice, any song you listen to from this list is a guaranteed banger.

ideal partner: well i do think ill have to go with my actual queerplatonic partner chou, hes amazing and perfect and very good at writing.

chou if you see this take a break from writing please your brain will overheat from multitasking i fear. have you even had any food that isnt coffee recently???

fav clean word: debauchery is a good one, nice sound to it, also festering

fav swear word: does bastard count? otherwise fuck is good, very versatile. prick is fun too.

do you have any scars: OH BOY DO I!! not counting the SH ones i have like at least 15. biggest one is above my right eyebrow, i sliced my forehead open by falling and hitting it on the edge of a tomato can when i was like 11 months old lol. most of the others are pretty small, my arms are covered in lots of tiny ones bc i tend to pick at my scabs. ooh also one on the bridge of my nose from my kitten scratching me, and one on my eyelid from jumping into a barbwire fence

dominant hand: my right

how many piercings do you have: just one on each ear, i plan to get more in the future

do you like your age: uh i mean not particularly? nothing too interesting

color of my room: like the walls? plain landlord white

[toxix-st6]

Memorial sketch for Nex Benedict, I’m so sorry kid, you deserved the world. Protect trans kids. FUCK THE CISTEM! (I apologize for putting “say their name”, that quote is to acknowledge hate crimes against black women and by putting that on art of someone who is not a black woman dulls down their efforts, I apologize for using that phrase.)

[rollercoasterwords]

do you think it’s possible to experience some level of gender dysphoria without being nonbinary or trans? it’s weird but i always feel like i exist within the space between being a girl and nonbinary.

feel like there's a lot 2 unpack here but. short answer yeah long answer i don't think it's useful 2 thing of gender in terms of some strict divide between cis&trans as like. ontologically discrete categories of being so much as social labels that signify general groupings of experience & how an individual relates to & moves through the world. like the division between "cis" & "trans" is primarily useful, imo, for discussing broader systems of power at play & the forms of privilege different people might have access to, but a "cis" person's gender is just as socially constructed & contingent as a trans person's bc nobody is born w some internal physical kernel of gender identity that just magically manifests as they grow older (imo).

so w that in mind, if we're defining "gender dysphoria" here as any kind of discomfort w an assigned gender, then i don't see why people who would otherwise label themselves as "cis" couldn't experience some level of gender dysphoria. many cis people are uncomfortable w the various trappings of gender & navigate that discomfort in different ways--some might end up identifying as trans, some might identify as cis but gender non-conforming, some might just keep id'ing as cis...bc again, there is not like. this stark, inherent divide between trans & cis experiences; there can be overlap & crossover, etc. what an individual chooses to label themself really just comes down to how they personally end up navigating their gender, and there's no right or wrong way to go abt that. i guess the flipside of this question is that someone could say any amount of gender dysphoria means a person is trans (w trans here as a broad umbrella category signifying someone who doesn't fit neatly into their agab), which...i mean, sure, but again, i think plenty of people who would otherwise be considered "cis" aren't just magically embodying their agab either, so ig i don't really see the use in quibbling over who can or cannot experience gender dysphoria, or like...what "counts" as gender dysphoria. i think it makes more sense 2 just acknowledge that all gender is constructed & let each individual evaluate their own experiences in deciding how they wanna label themselves.

that being said, if ur asking this question bc ur agonizing over whether 2 label urself cis or nb bc u feel like u aren't like..."trans" enough. my advice is 2 just say who cares & use whatever label best fits ur experience. or just don't use a label at all! there isn't some standard or checklist u have 2 meet 2 label ur gender a certain way, y'know? and ur experience of gender might change throughout the course of ur life anyway, bc again, it's not like...a fixed kernel of truth u can unearth from ur psyche like buried treasure. also, u might find marquis bey's cistem failure a helpful read; they get into the weeds on this much better than i can in a single answer on tumblr.com lol

[intergalacticgoose]

I am very glad a post I made about social contagion and Steam Powered Giraffe is finding its audience.

BUT.

Even though this was intended as a joke, I have thought about it since and did see some things in tags that made me want to clarify what I mean by “social contagion” versus what I called “the station” in my tags. Someone used “gateway drug,” which is also apropos. Because there is a very crucial difference between the two, I think, and I want to make sure nothing I said gets misconstrued by the wrong people.

When cishet people say being queer is due to social contagion, what they’re saying is that were it not for exposure to queerness, or deviance, in media or in public life, people would default to Straight. That’s why they’re working so hard to scrub queerness, or any hint of queerness, from the public sphere.

But the thing is, they wouldn’t be so afraid of queer exposure if cishetness was that ingrained, right? It’s not that people are being exposed to lgbtq+ people or content and suddenly becoming queer, they already were or it was through that exposure that they realized they were. Those are completely different things.

It’s like going through your life being told you only have to be options A or B. There’s no other options, you’re A or B. But then one day you see option C and you’re like “woah, nobody told me about C, that looks way more comfortable/authentic” or “woah, I’m totally C, why did nobody tell me about that? If I don’t have to try so hard to be A or B anymore, I won’t.”

The humor for me is just how, to me, blatantly obvious, like it is a verifiable, Googleable fact that gender, sex, and sexuality are complex and largely social constructs and that binary gender is a pretty recent Western phenomenon, and yet conservatives (and centrists, even some Dems I hate to say!) are acting like social media is creating queerness, and it’s like no, more people are just more likely to see option C, D, and Etc. these days.

And it’s the type of things they’re trying to ban. Like, if the cisheterosexual institution can’t hold its own against a short haircut, certain colors, people kissing, or, in the case of my post, 2-4 singing robot mimes, perhaps the institution was not that strong to begin with!!! That’s just how people found their option C, and that’s a good thing!! More of that!! That they can’t see how obvious this is, that’s what’s absurd to me.

The thing is, before social media, people found ways before. They found their stations in other people, people whose genders they felt more aligned with their own, in spiritual centering, in nature, in everything. They wrote secret notes, experimented in private, tried new clothes on, and gave each other secret names. Queer people, trans people, nonbinary people, everyone else, have always been here.

Even if they ban queer lit from every public school (I hope they don’t, and they most definitely shouldn’t, but this is a catastrophic example), we will continue to find our ways out of this sour little cage of cisheteronormativity. Whether they like it or not.

[flynn-zqk]

me, preparing for yet another assignment:

[avese23]

Do you ever just... not have time for gender? Like how am I supposed to have a gender today, I’m in the clothes I slept in and have either been working on homework or projects. I don’t see where I’d find the time.

[justanedgynoodle]

down with the cistem!

Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself

[thecatboyfriend-moved]

:D woo we can be guitar buddies!! also what should the band name be :00

:D!!!!!!!!! uhhhhH “gay and happy”

[rollercoasterwords]

13, 17 and 4!!! : ^ D

hi ridi <3 <3 <3

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

yes!! had encountered leslie feinberg in the past but this year was the first time i actually sat down + read some of hir books <3 also found a couple poets whose work i really loved - franny choi, natalie diaz, alice notley...& a bunch of korean authors w books i really enjoyed - bora chung, lee ki-ho, young-ha kim, cho nam-joo. also really enjoyed marquis bey's cistem failure & of course my beloved lindsey drager w the archive of alternate endings <3

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

wranglestone by darren charlton & bad feminist by roxane gay :| wranglestone just kinda sucked generally but was especially disappointing bc i was v excited 2 read gay zombie apocalypse novel...a let-down. + i've talked abt why i disliked bad feminist before on this blog so won't give the full rundown but. just found many aspects of it politically noxious...

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

the archive of alternate endings <3 been a long time since i've added a new book 2 my faves-of-all-time list like i was expecting it 2 be good but was shocked by how much i loved it <3 <3

end of year book ask game

[polyamorouspunk]

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