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leafwateraddict · 1 year ago
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Sanses in dresses that i drew after @htsan’s stream
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justdavina · 11 months ago
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Mia Nowlan – Beautiful Transgender Youtuber
Sooooooo Cute! I Love her so much!! Just a wonderful transgender girl!
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bluu3berry · 7 months ago
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It's officially pride month y'all!! 🖐️🎉
So I made some art for me and my girlfriends! so proud of how far I've come with my identify and what not!! Yipeee
Don't repost my art without creds or perm!!
Identities + definitions under cut
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nonbinary/envy - Somebody out of the binary spectrum! (Not female nor male)
My experience - I'm inbetween both female and male!
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Panromantic - Someone who feels romantic attraction to people due to their personality
My experience - same thing!!
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Orchidsexual - Someone who experiences sexual attraction but doesn't want to do "it."
My experience - I have sexual attraction for fictional and online characters, but I do not want to do it ever IRL. (Usually ruins a relationship for me)
@anon-coke , @skellavelva , @the-second-reason , @scramble-eg , @superbfirnacho , @thelunarsystemwrites
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girl4music · 5 months ago
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Ooo Kat’s energy there when Dom was talking about how there were some people on set that didn’t understand using their correct pronouns and were constantly misgendering them. Not a happy chappy.
I hope no one ever misgenders Dom around Kat. 👊❤️
Shout out to @shamelessliberty popping up there.
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themonsterthing · 7 months ago
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SF Fancypants: V is For Valiant
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romanceyourdemons · 30 days ago
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cinderella remake set in 1880s san francisco where cinderella is a chinese immigrant with bound feet and also she’s a butch lesbian and the prince is a butch lesbian too but she’s a paris-educated german-american socialite and a darling of the transatlantic arts and literary world so the connotations of her gender nonconformity are completely different. oscar wilde is there
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lordbeebrain · 2 years ago
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I turned 30 in April and I got to spend it across the country in San Diego, with some of the people that mean the absolute best to me.
Couldn’t have asked for a better birthday week 🥲❤️
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ask-codeearasure · 23 days ago
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So... About that shitty Cross take that one person made....
If you've been following certain creators, even this account, I'm sure you've spotted a specific idiot going around complaining about Cross being Trans-Coded and using Republican talking points to say that it's "forced" or "doesn't make sense" and whatever other bullshit that shouldn't even be looked at let alone acknowledged. HOWEVER, instead, we are gonna sit down and talk about how the Trans Experience is so versatile and why Cross (and similar characters) being Trans-Coded is actually extremely important.
Gender nonconformity is fucking terrifying to Republicans, this is why it's been one of this generation's favorite punching bags.
If you look at the women who are tied to the Republican Party, you see a lot of hyperfemininity, so much so it's easy to tell that Barbie is considering suing them for stealing all her plastic.
Jokes aside, gender affirming care is gender affirming care and they are using the same gender affirming care that trans people have been using for years. This isn't only about nail products and cosmetic surgery, but also breast reduction or implant surgeries.
Gender affirming care however, is demonized by the right because they don't get it nor do they acknowledge that there is a range to it.
I once read a story about how one person had realized they were trans because a friend of theirs pointed out that when they had the option of choosing the gender of their playable characters in gaming, they always went with the gender they were not assigned at a birth. Example being an AFAB person constantly choosing male characters.
Though I have not finished watching Underverse this is applicable of XFrisk and XChara shoving the name "Cross" onto... Cross. They are pointing out he is not Sans despite being assigned that name since creation. Their true intentions here had cruelty in mind, but Cross made the name his own.
He is in denial about it which is applicable to how a LOT of trans people are in denial about it sometimes. Hell I remember a Right Wing talking head on Twitter who had tried to transition, detransistioned due to pressure from their family and then stayed at their assigned gender because of it and falling for the Republican propaganda.
Denial isn't just a river. It never has been.
Some people are in denial about their gender identities and sexual orientation and with the coming presidency we are going to see a rampant uptick in that statistic. With that coming, characters like Cross are needed far more.
Cross's story, as far as I've seen, is rough and follows a lot of self-acceptance and self-advocating storylines. Even when it comes to the biggest things that anyone from the LGBTQIA+ has to face, one of these struggles being the fear of rejection and/or being rejected by one's peers.
From what I've seen when it comes to spoilers is that Cross does end up being rejected by those he was close to before meeting Ink, and thus has to come full circle and accept himself by saying "I am Cross". He has to deny the name he went by in the past. He has to because if he doesn't, he'd be giving in to living in denial of who he truly is and thus be living a life of suffering for no reason than to keep others comfortable, setting himself on fire to keep people who couldn't give a damn about him warm.
A lot of Trans people have to show their rejection of their past or even the acceptance of that past to come to terms with themselves. Each person is different when it comes down to finding who they are and accepting that. It depends on the individual.
Some treat their past and their deadname as though they're a completely different person or someone who died so they could live. Think of a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Others treat it like their past self was the caterpillar where their new and true self is the butterfly.
Is it perfect?
No.
Is Jakei a perfect writer?
No. Neither are a lot of my favorite writers and franchises (I'm looking at you Riot Games and your shitty centrist takes on the worst of human history's sins).
But some of the things that imperfect writers make are beautiful and Cross is one of them. He is one of the few characters that speaks for the writer when it comes to saying "I see you, I see your pain. I see your suffering. You are not alone. You deserve to live your life the way you want to. You are valid."
But there are a few questions that the more clueless of people are going to ask.
Why bring Politics into this? And why do Republicans like the media made by progressives?
The answers are FASCINATING.
I bring Politics into this because Republicans, specifically Cishet white people, have made everything political since the beginning of time. Everything they don't like, everything different from them, everything they don't understand, and everything that directly rebels against their patriarchal idea of "paradise" is now considered "Political".
I remember a Republican had argued the dumbest thing once, and I was so dumbfounded I had to take a step back because holy shit.
Their argument was that black people enslaved each other which made their enslavement by white people their own fault.
Now if your jaw is on the floor, you already know where the problem is. If you don't get where the problem, is let me ask you something.
If that is the case, who was the one who made it all about skin color?
I'll tell you.
It was the white people (who were Democrats before the massive party switch, which makes them modern day Republicans).
Who were the ones who made having jobs all about gender? It was the Cishet white men (99% of whom are Republicans).
Who constantly demonized the LGBTQIA+ community during the Stonewall Riots? Mostly Cishet White Republicans.
Who are demonizing Trans people right the fuck now? Republicans and Pick-Me Gay people who vote for Republicans and side with Republicans thinking that the Republicans will finally accept them when they know Republicans won't fucking do it.
Being LGBTQIA+, making non-white characters, making a character a woman, it makes that character "Political", and "Political" characters are always the ones put on the spot for accusations of "forced diversity" and "perversion" where anyone with a working sense of conscience will understand this is a talking point butthurt Republicans or those warped by Republicans pulled out of their assholes looking for a problem where there isn't one.
All art, be it animation, digital art, traditional art, singing, writing, is political. They've always been political.
Do you want to know why Republicans are always bitching about coffee orders? It's because the Enlightenment era thus leading to the Romantic Era of literature was started because of coffee shops it was where all the best writers hung out. The moment they met each other and started talking to each other, the Enlightenment and Romantic Eras started taking off in full force.
It is because of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era writers we don't have Child Labor anymore. A lot of their writing brought talks of nature and the horrors of Child Labor into question. You can't talk about the history of Child Labor without talking about William Blake's Chimney Sweeper and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Cry of the Children. You fucking can't. Without Blake and Browning we'd still have children in mines and on rooftops risking their lives to clean your fucking chimney.
And here is where we get to the why. Why Republicans LOVE progressive media.
Here is a little secret.
All shows and media made by Republicans are shit because it is all Propaganda.
I know. Shocker.
Look around.
Mr. Birchum, New Norm, Leo and Layla, it's all propaganda. It's all the same Republican talking points that they never shut up about and even then they don't know what they're talking about.
Ask a Republican what "intersex" means. Do it, I dare you.
They won't fucking know but they'll tell you that it's Satanic and shouldn't be allowed near children.
They'd never guess that it's a spectrum of natural gender nonconformity and mixed sexual/hormonal characteristics such as having PCOS or being AMAB and still having a functioning uterus. They don't care that their delusions about there only being "male" and "female" for reproductive sex options has led to medical malpractice, social abuse, murder, and erasure of intersex individuals, and the ones that do know about intersexuality diagnose it as a "Differential Sexual Development Disorder" as if just being born intersex makes someone's existence inherently wrong with an inherent need for surgical and hormonal "correcting".
Republicans like progressive media because it knows how to say something and still be well written. This is why Republicans LOVE Star Trek, Star Wars, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, and Arcane.
It's all progressive media but it all knows how to build a world and say something. Good writers are progressive and know how to write.
Don't get me wrong there is a LOT of fucking garbage that tries to be progressive but that is a small outlier that Republicans LOVE to bring out and bash on to say that we're the ones who ruin media. They make false equivalences to try to make you stop thinking. They need stop-thinking clichés and talking points because it's all they have. But they are so fucking terrified of anything different from what is in their stupid bubble that saying "Oh yeah the champion Taliya is trans" will send them screaming and crying.
Yeah, Riot Games danced around the fact that one of their characters is Trans because they knew she'd scare off the entirety of the Republican player base. They had to hide it and use her magical girl skin to gently hint at it with "Yeah when I'm in this outfit I feel more like myself!" and the entire multi hour long Star Guardian album animation having the Trans Flag being the main pallet on everything.
I honestly wonder how many Republicans ran off when they saw THAT CaitVi scene in Arcane.
Republicans just hate anything that isn't Cis, isn't Hetero, isn't a man, and isn't white. This is why it's not uncommon to find that cishet white men are always found at Klan rallies or the modern Klan rallies which are called "Trump Rallies" these days.
This is why a lot of exhausted Democrats, Liberals, and BIPOC, Feminists, and LGBTQIA+ people have been laughing their asses off at the Pick-Mes who are getting fucked over now that they realize that surprise surprise, Project 2025 was the plan! We fucking told you so, dipshit!
This is what you asked for dumbass! We tried to warn you. You didn't listen. LESSON FUCKIN LEARNT!
Republicans like progressive shit because we make good media.
Republicans HATE anything that isn't CISHET and WHITE.
Now, am I saying all this to claim the person who made that anti-trans Cross post is a Republican, an abuser, or anything else that contributed to this systematic nonsense? Absolutely fucking not. That's an extreme statement to make and they're most likely just a very mislead kid who may or may not have been influenced by a couple of these problems, and them acting out the way they did is perhaps a reflection of how important it is to acknowledge these things even if our community is just fandom and the point is to have fun, to have a distraction from all the bad powers at play.
Either way, their actions pissed me off. Hope they learn.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. Get the fuck out.
-- Ouija
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problematic-yuri-poll · 2 months ago
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Problematic Yuri Tournament Season 2 - Loser's Round 1
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Joshikousei to Ouji-chan vs. JS-san to OL-chan
Joshikousei to Ouji-chan (manga by Kuune Rin)
romance, comedy
Sexual Content: LOW; Gore: NONE; Violence: NONE
Mod submission.
Mod-submitted problematic elements:
age gap
Mod-submitted content warnings:
age gap, transphobia (a character could be interpreted as transfem; backstory involves bullying over gender nonconformity, and there's a scene where this character is pushed into using the boys' changing room. plus the scanlator uses some.. choice terminology in credits pages)
Mod-submitted propaganda:
a cute short manga about a perverted little girl who loves an older girl she's friends with very much!
JS-san to OL-chan (manga by Yurikago)
romance, comedy
Sexual Content: NONE; Gore: NONE; Violence: NONE
Mod submission.
Mod-submitted problematic elements:
Large age gap.
Mod-submitted content warnings:
Large age gap and alcoholism.
Mod-submitted propaganda:
Just a cute lighthearted manga about an office lady who wants to be useless at home, and the little girl she loves who comforts and takes care of her.
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gatheringbones · 2 years ago
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[“Alex tells me he had long been aware of the existence of transsexuals, and he had even contemplated transitioning earlier in his life. He had known a couple of people over the years who had transitioned, but he had no idea of how to go about doing so, and he lacked the money and the wherewithal.
In the early 1990s, “the conversation changed,” he says, making it possible for him to contemplate transitioning. He heard about support groups for transgender men. FTM groups were forming in San Francisco and Seattle. A burgeoning “queer” movement was challenging the dominance of radical feminist ideas and was offering female-assigned individuals who wished to embrace their inner maleness a way to do so affirmatively, with a sense of pride. Writers and activists like Sandy Stone and Kate Bornstein were talking about a different, more expansive understanding of the radical potential of gender switching, rejecting medicalized notions of trans people as having the “wrong body,” or as being mentally deficient. The term “transgender” was established as a way to move beyond the medical model of “transsexualism” and to include a broad array of gender-variant persons who wished to challenge the binary. It enabled Alex to call himself transgender.
“I did not want to have to say I was ‘crazy.’ I don’t even like saying I’m dysphoric, though I fit the narrative,” says Alex. “I didn’t start T until I found a very good doctor who didn’t demand a letter from a therapist. I wouldn’t confess dysphoria in order to get access to top surgery. I won’t do it. Why would I want to make myself even more marginal?” However, once there was a “weakening of pathology, of judgment,” he decided to move forward.
Meanwhile, Kristin, Alex’s closest friend, settled in Seattle after graduation, where she found an accepting culture and a lively butch presence in the lesbian community. She worked for a state representative, and when she visited the state capitol to lobby on his behalf, people sometimes perceived her “as a boy.” But mainly she felt okay about looking different, and she fell in love with a woman, Jennie, who affirmed her right to be who she was. Kristin is pretty flat chested and small hipped, and “looks like she wants to,” more or less. She presented as a masculine female. It helped that her family tended to be supportive. “Even though I don’t really operate as a woman, I operate in the sphere of women, and there were a lot of really strong women in my big Polish family!” Also her dad, now deceased, was queer, and her brother (who appears in this book) is a transgender man.
Because Kristin, unlike Alex, received a lot of support for her gender nonconformity, she said it never became a major source of distress for her—which isn’t to say that it hasn’t been a challenge at times. She contemplated transitioning for a while but eventually made peace with her body. Being in therapy helped. “I thought that my anxiety was special and everyone else was normal,” she tells me. But as she found ways to ease her generalized sense of anxiety, she became more comfortable with her body and her gender nonconformity. “I thought, ‘Why do I care so much about what other people think about my gender?’ I have a right. I have a fucking right to be who I am,” she tells me, her voice cracking.
And as she became more comfortable with herself, she found ways to deal with bathroom confrontations. “Now when people come up to me and tell me I’m in the wrong bathroom, sometimes I look my body up and down and look at them quizzically and say, ‘Oh, really?’ Thanks!” She makes light of it. “The more comfortable I am, the more likely they are to think I’m in the right place and leave me alone. Now it’s even funny at times.” But airports, she says, are still particularly challenging. Heightened security seems to extend to the policing of gendered bodies in bathrooms. The other day, a blond woman in her fifties came over to her as she entered a bathroom stall and started yelling, “You’re in the wrong place—the men’s room is over there.” Kristin just smiled and said, “Thank you,” and the woman left in a hurry.
“I get why some people transition,” says Kristin, “to be normal, and not have people gawking at you all day. It takes a whole lot of energy.” Still, she came to the conclusion that transitioning would not solve her problems, and that it might open up new, unknown challenges.
Alex, on the other hand, made the decision to modify his body and present as a male, and it has made his life much easier. He no longer gets harassed walking down the street, and he’s no longer as angry. “I still look young,” he tells me, “but at least the beard and receding hairline prove I’m through puberty!” He is much happier now, he says. “I honestly don’t feel I’ve changed that much. That is, ‘transitioning’ didn’t change me so much as it forced others to see me as I saw myself. Yes, the bodily transformations were welcome and comforting. I felt that I was finally ‘home.’ But how do you separate that feeling from the sense that you’re finally recognized by others for how you see yourself?”]
arlene stein, from unbound: transgender men and the remaking of identity, 2018
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eraofevermore · 2 years ago
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[Black] LGBT Resources
National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC): The NBJC is a civil rights organization dedicated to empowering and advocating for the rights of Black LGBTQ+ individuals. They provide resources, support, and engage in policy advocacy to address the unique challenges faced by this community. Website: https://www.nbjc.org/
Black AIDS Institute: The Black AIDS Institute focuses on addressing HIV/AIDS-related health disparities within the Black community, including the LGBTQ+ population. They offer resources, education, and advocacy to promote HIV prevention, treatment, and care. Website: https://www.blackaids.org
The Audre Lorde Project: The Audre Lorde Project is a community organizing center for LGBTQ+ people of color. They work towards social and economic justice, offering programs, support groups, and resources to uplift and empower Black queer and trans individuals. Website: https://www.alp.org
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute: Named after the influential LGBTQ+ activist Marsha P. Johnson, this organization advocates for the rights and wellbeing of Black transgender people. They provide resources, educational initiatives, and support programs to address the unique challenges faced by this community. Website: https://www.marshap.org
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN): NQTTCN is a network of mental health practitioners dedicated to providing culturally responsive and affirming therapy to LGBTQ+ people of color, including Black individuals. They offer a directory of therapists and resources for finding supportive mental health services. Website: https://www.nqttcn.com
Black Transmen Inc.: Black Transmen Inc. is an organization focused on empowering and supporting transgender men of color. They provide resources, mentorship, and programming to address the specific needs and challenges faced by Black trans men. Website: https://www.blacktransmen.org
Black Transwomen Inc.: Black Transwomen Inc. is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting and empowering Black transgender women. They offer resources, support groups, and advocacy initiatives to address the unique struggles faced by this community. Website: https://www.blacktranswomen.org
The Transgender District: Located in San Francisco, the Transgender District is the first legally recognized district in the world dedicated to celebrating and supporting transgender and gender nonconforming communities. They offer resources, community programming, and support for Black transgender individuals. Website: https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF): TLDEF is a nonprofit organization that advocates for transgender rights through impact litigation, public policy work, and education. While their focus is on transgender rights in general, they work to ensure that the unique needs and challenges faced by Black transgender individuals are addressed. Website: https://www.transgenderlegal.org
The Black Lesbian Archives: The Black Lesbian Archives is an online platform that documents and preserves the history and experiences of Black lesbian communities. They aim to celebrate and uplift Black lesbian voices and provide a space for sharing stories, resources, and cultural contributions. Website: https://www.blacklesbianarchives.com
The Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (BTAC): BTAC is a national organization dedicated to empowering and uplifting Black transgender and gender nonconforming individuals. They provide resources, education, and support programs to address the social, economic, and health disparities faced by Black trans communities. Website: https://www.blacktrans.org
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babyarty · 10 months ago
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An incomplete list of Trans and gender nonconforming people murdered for existing in the 2020s
Here is the complete list of Trans people murdered in 2023, compiled by Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide (TvT).
2020 – Özge Bilir, aged 25, was a Dutch trans woman of Turkish descent living in Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht. She was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend.
2020 – Alexa Luciano Ruiz was fatally shot in Puerto Rico on 24 February, after an incident in a local restroom. Ms. Luciano was killed while the assailant men laughed.
2020 – Michelle Michellyn Ramos Vargas, a 33-year-old trans woman, was found dead on an isolated road after being shot multiple times on 30 September in San Germán, Puerto Rico. She worked as a bartender and was studying to become a nurse.
2020 – Selena Reyes-Hernandez, 37, was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois, on 31 May by a man she went home with, after telling him that she was transgender.
2020 – Brayla Stone, 17, was murdered in Arkansas in June 2020 by a man seeking to conceal his sexual relationship with her. The killer pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
2020 – Valera, a 46-year-old man, a janitor, was raped and killed on 10 February in Chelyabinsk, Russia, by his dorm roommates after they learned he was a transgender man.
2021 – Ebeng Mayor, a trans man from Batasan Hills, Philippines, was found raped, mutilated, and killed on 20 May 2021, after being missing for three days.
2022 – Briza Garces Florez, a 40-year-old Colombian trans sex worker from the Netherlands, was stabbed to death by her 32-year-old boyfriend.
2022 – Doski Azad, a 23-year-old Kurdish transgender woman, was murdered by her brother for being transgender.
2022 – Ariyanna Mitchell, a 17-year-old Black trans girl from Virginia, was shot and killed by 19-year-old Jimmy LeShawn Williams with an assault rifle, after he asked her if she was transgender, and she replied, "yes".
2022 - Cherry Bush, a homeless 48-year-old trans woman, was shot to death in Los Angeles.
2023 - Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death in Culcheth Linear Park on 11 February 2023.
2024 - Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old non-binary American student died one day after being assaulted in the girls' restroom.
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(This is Nex)
Their friends and mother say that they experienced bullying for more than a year, because of their gender identity, before the assault. The bullying got progressively worse after a bill was passed in Oklahoma to prohibit the use of non-binary gender markers on birth certificates. Public school students are legally required to use restrooms only according to the gender on their birth certificate.
Nex was assaulted in the restroom by three girls and beaten unconscious. Sue Benedict, Nex's mother, was called to school and she found Nex with bruises on their face and scratches on the back of their head. She was informed that they had been suspended for two weeks. Sue took them to a nearby hospital and called the Oklahoma police department.
Nex told the officer how they had heard the girls making comments about their group and how they had poured water on the girls which then led to the altercation. They then said that had been attacked and had blacked out on the floor. The officer told Sue that this could be considered "mutual" and if they were to press charges, Nex would be open to those same charges. She declined at the time. Nex were later discharged and reportedly went to bed with a sore head.
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The following day, on February 8, as they were preparing to travel with their mother for an appointment, Nex collapsed in the family's living room. Sue Benedict called 911, saying that Nex’s eyes had rolled back and they were struggling to breathe. Nex had stopped breathing by the time EMTs arrived. Nex was declared dead at the hospital that evening.
This is, by no means, a complete list. It does not even include a fraction of the murders of gender queer people in the 2020s, let alone the suicides, rapes, assaults, attempted murders, etc. It does not include the crimes against the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Thank you for reading the whole thing.
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justdavina · 7 months ago
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Justdavina is a positive space for trans women and transfeminine people. If you feel pretty, take a picture and share it with us!.
Share you fashion ideas here!
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ohimtherebabey · 2 years ago
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i noticed @foxinahole left this tag on a pic of gerard from the nashville show
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as a trans person in the south, i know intimately the state of current legislation against gender nonconformity. tennessee passed its anti-drag law last week, which broadly defines drag as any outward appearance contradicting the assigned gender at birth. texas is currently working to pass a similar bill.
gerard will never face the reality that trans people in the south face because they live in california, but even such temporary visits to the south like nashville and san antonio, where he wore dresses are now illegal or will be soon. and the trans people and drag artists who live in these states dont get to pack up and go back to california after a single performance. we have to endure this dehumanization daily. even so, it still hurts to think about someone who i have looked up to for so long and someone who is now more than ever experimenting with gender nonconformity have very recent performances fall into the newly-banned drag category.
i don't want to make this too much about gerard (like i said, they will never actually face consequences that trans people in the south face), but i do think its important to remember that the first time we saw gerard in a dress was in tennessee and now, six months later, that same performance would be in violation of the law.
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guriyuri · 1 year ago
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School Zone/「スクールゾーン」
🌸9/10🌸 (HIATUS)
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A quirky yuri comedy about the chaotic daily life of high school girls! Yokoe and Sugiura have been together forever, and they've mastered the art of making trouble when life's a bore. High school might be a drag, but these girls in love know just how to inject a little chaos and comedy into their sloppy school life.
(Seven Seas Entertainment)
*occasionally listed as ‘School Zone Girls’
I fuckin LOVED school zone, man. There isn't a single character in it that isn't eeping out of their minds at all times. It throws almost all normal shonen/male-targeted troupes off of their kilter and is incredibly refreshing to read. One of its best qualities is its ability to maintain its identity outside of being a queer story- providing commentary on a wide range of topics relevant to high school, youth, etc. I can't really describe the effect of finally being able to read girls just being fucking stupid- other than saying its like running your brain under cold tap water, if your brain was a lesbian yuri enthusiast with a perpetual craving for full-cream milk. As silly as it may be, I actually genuinely enjoy its approach to w/w and adolescent relationship. 2 out of the 3 arguable 'main' three couples have one partner that is gender nonconforming/visibly queer, a rarity for contemporary yuri as a lot of works- to no fault of their own- fall into pitfalls of exclusively drawing hyper-feminine women to try present itself more believably or because it has no other way of proving to you that the characters are girls. The negative of this being that ostracises an entire group of people within the real-life lesbian community and disregards the instrumental role of butch lesbians in queer history by refusing them representation in a genre for them. Despite how I phrase this, though, I'm not exactly trying to present School Zone as a Magnum Opus or the pinnacle of political-correctness and singlehandedly defeating lesbophobia worldwide (which it did); I just cannot stress how badly we need diverse gender representation in yuri.
The main two girls are both fucking hilarious and strangely adorable in their own way (aside from being every gay couple to ever™). Their dynamic mostly consists of Yokoe being a combination of stupid, evil, and helplessly down bad and Kei being a single thread away from pulling a glock on her. If that can’t convince you to give szg a shot you’re a lost cause + I’m unplugging your life support. Anyways, they’re only one of the 3(ish) main pairings in the manga; but that’s where we get to the difficult part to talk about. Touched on some-what briefly, but too often to be able to ignore (iirc they have a handful of dedicated chapters), is Tsubaki’s incestuous crush on her sister Hiiragi. It’s kind of unfortunate this is in here and it sucks for me to have to mention but In this specific case I do think it’s worth overlooking for *so* many reasons. At its’ core their relationship is mostly focused on teenage adolescence and navigating complex familial relationships whilst still trying to grow up and find yourself. In isolation both Tsubaki and Hiiragi are very well written characters; on par with the rest of the cast and really are both very likeable. It’s when their relationship with eachother gets played up for fanservice is when they start to shit on your salad. Still, though, the author pretty clearly has no intention of actually writing them ending up together/Hiiragi reciprocating. So it’s highly likely Tsubaki’s character arc will lead her to move on, especially considering how she’s developed thus far. Last Couple worth discussing seriously is Fuji and Kishiya-san. While I was reading I was under the impression that Fuji + rest were high-school aged and Kishiya was in her first year at uni, but the only source I can find that lists their age says that Kishiya is a first-year high school student; which must make everybody else be in secondary school. Either way though, the age gap between them remains roughly the same and doesn’t really change my hot take on these two. Out of the entire cast Fuji is definitely the truest depiction of the experience of growing up sapphic, unknowingly. She is also my favourite :-). It was also refreshing to read about a girl who hasn’t figured it all out and is just kind of weird and off putting instead of elegant and tragic like the atmosphere of traditional yuri + made me feel weirdly heard? Call me biased, or a victim of grooming ALL you want but looking up to someone maturer, more in control, someone who feels above it all is someone you tend to gravitate towards when you’ve felt helpless and inept at understanding yourself your entire life. Much like Tsubaki and Hiiragi, Kishiya-san has yet to show any indication of reciprocating or even knowing of Fuji’s feelings and is what I think a genuinely positive influence on her. I can also imagine Kishiya-san fighting on the mental FRONTLINES to stay as patient and kind to Fuji as she is, aswell as taking the time to talk to her and treating her like a friend. Everyone please take a moment to acknowledge her service in the troubled youth industry.
There’s also Yatsude and Kaname but they’re pretty interesting so I’ll let you develop your thoughts independently on those two. They also have ZERO buisness being the most beautiful fucking women alive. The things I’d let Kaname do to me are to be repented for.
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Fancypants: V is For Valentine.
I adore these humans so much. <3
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