#hypervisibility

[agp]

remember when it was 2015 and the fucking guardian was up to date on transfem discourse

[rikaklassen]

Crunchyroll released three episodes of A Sign of Affection on YouTube, an anime about a deaf girl, without any closed captioning.

Ironic.

Hearing people love our visibility, but they don't accommodate.

[baeddelilluminati]

the sense of importance that "misdeeds" garner in public opinion increases with how much the subject is surveilled - not with the severity of the "misdeeds" themselves.

like i need you understand how the egg who goes on /mu/ to post dogshit albums for laffs and calls other anons on /v/ and /vp/ a fag for bad taste in Pokémon is like… like these actions are not even close to as reactionary as earnestly spreading thoughtpieces about the inborn violence of the rape organ and internalizing other radfem shit, like tons of people on here used to constantly do and excuse as “just learning about feminism”

[trans-androgyne]

“All transandrobros talk about is trans women” — way to tell me all you’ve seen from us is the worst screenshots posted on transandrophobic trans women’s blogs complaining about us. If you would actually look through our tag or check out blogs you’d know the only oppressive and primary perpetrators of transandrophobia are perisex cis people; it just hurts more when it comes from other trans people.

We cannot talk about transandrophobia without mentioning trans women right now, we are simply not allowed it. Whenever we try, we are told wanting and using our own words to discuss our oppression means we inherently hate and want to silence trans women, that we are transmisogynist oppressors just trying to claim trans women oppress us. I would love for this not to be the case.

[spitblaze]

gnc and butch women (cis AND trans) and transmascs are punished for performing masculinity past certain thresholds of arbitrary attractiveness because people that cishet society categorizes or clocks as 'women' are not supposed to perform masculinity. hope this helps 👍

[notchainedtotrauma]

Black suffering is perceived or registered only in the most spectacular circumstances of violence, and conversely, the exaggeration and theatricality of spectacle conceals and diminishes suffering.

from Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman

[rimouskis]

I just read a substack about the bªllerina farm situation and seeing Simone out there being incredible has made me think about her idiot husband again and it feels like there are so many instances of watching ridiculously, incredibly successful women in heterosexual marriages who are so belittled and disrespected by their spouses... it makes me want to pull my hair out

[woodscreature]

Caught.

[venndaai]

god, what a sad wet cat of a man

[violet-snail-sfw]

Okay so with being newly out at work and starting to dress more fem there I've been extra anxious whenever I'm out of my office around other people and I think I've figured out why.

So up to this point I've been pretty exclusively boymoding aside from just around my apartment on weekends. Because of that I don't really have experience with being in public settings while girlmoding. While work isn't the most public, there's still a ton of people around who can see me.

Basically I've been feeling hypervisible because I don't really pass and I don't really know how to hold myself so I feel like people are probably staring at me and judging me even though I know that's probably not actually the case. I want to just not be observed but I also just need to get used to it.

[worldblight]

I wish Erin Hunter would hire me not because I particularly care about Warrior Cats anymore but because I know a lot about cat behavior and it makes me really really irritated seeing people draw cat body language so incorrectly

[wolfisland]

i wouldnt consider myself big on vagueing ex mutuals bc im pretty direct and have confronted those people for their bullshit myself but it makes my ass itch seeing ppl rb shit abt racism and antiblackness from certain people when i know damn fucking well i broke mutuals with them for BEING racist and antiblack to other people, and their response was to apologise to ME (who who was not the person targeted initially!) and then make a whiny ass vague as hell apology not even stating what they did wrong and then delete their pinned bio and overhaul their whole blog aes.

like dipshit the call is coming from inside the fucking house

[luidilovins]

not to suck the social media boot but tumblr acting like tiktok is trash because of trash content are probably not as cool as me becase my tiktok feed has a linguists major making a lobster language where they piss out of their eyes where else am I gonna get that kind of gold

[degenderates]

sam winchester beverly mantle brigitte fitzgerald

[notebook-enthusiast]

damn i'm tired of being trans

[notchainedtotrauma]

Spectacle is no repair.

from Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe