#queerest place on the internet

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freedom of speech

(acrylic on canvas, 20. Feb. 2024)

art by op

[blairelythere]

So I was taking some cute selfies earlier, and I was-

....wait what the fuck?

Look at that, Tumblr is flagging trans posts before they're even posted yet

[dykedara]

The queerest place on the internet loves Zionists!

Zionism is genocide apologism. The blood of queer, non white, and Palestinian people are on your hands.

You can not claim you advocate for queer rights and then threaten others with reports to the FBI.

You can not claim you advocate for people of colour while endorsing ethnic cleansing.

You deserve to be remembered. But as a spectre of hate and filth. You deserve nothing more.

[detectivehole]

assume each term is umbrella at your discretion

if multiple identities apply roll dice for it

elaborate in the tags

[itsitself]

I think we should all spread this image as much as possible only because staff keeps deleting it for "sexually explicit content" which I can only assume is because the words "trans woman"

[virtualgirladv]

Queerest place on the internet

thank you staff for protecting your user base and good old fashioned family values by flagging *checks notes* cutesy lgbt stickers 👍

[ri-afan]

I love. Not enough to give up dark mode, but shit.

Girlfriends?

[the-uncanny-dag]

"We need more weird gay people" Y'all can't even handle one crossdresser

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

if anyone has no idea what I've been talking about recently, I suggest you go to @fanonical or @nyancrimew , who explain this better than I ever could, but from what I can tell, basically staff has been ignoring reports of harassment against trans women, one member of staff was actively banning trans users, and the CEO started a smear campaign against a trans woman because she jokingly said she wished he would get exploded with hammers (you know, the kind of thing I say regularly--because he wasn't doing anything to protect trans users and hired the aforementioned transphobic staff member), claiming that it was 'a death threat' and that she was 'being violent'....nevermind that she was getting much worse anon harassment with actual death threats on the regular. And then when he banned her and she went to a different site, he followed her there to continue the smear campaign instead of being normal and dropping the subject.

[msexcelfractal]

Statistical analysis: Tumblr moderation is almost certainly transmisogynistic (p = .00000000027)

Tumblr termed 4.7% of tme blogs and 8.9% of tma blogs in our sample. Using the properties of the binomial distribution, we can calculate the probability that this is simply a coincidence.

That probability is roughly 1 in 3.7 billion. In other words, we can be 99.99999997% certain that Tumblr is prejudicially targeting transfem bloggers for termination.

I included formula text in the spreadsheet above so you can follow along with my computation. I'm using the same method that I teach my students in Intro to Statistics every semester.

Looks like we need to get back in touch with the New York City Commission for Human Rights! Tumblr's about to lose another lawsuit...

Considering the recent targeted terminations of blogs run by transfems in the last couple of days (angel-athetos, fungalfaggot, coyote-roadkill, hound-mother, corpse-of-omelas-ageplayer and my previous blog, zebrabyopn3), some close friends and myself worked on a google form where users can make submissions for their terminated blogs. We're making this poll so we can gather numbers regarding terminated blogs, and what percentage of that number happens to be transfems. We also made a google form were users can submit information about their terminated blogs, here. Hopefully by spreading this poll, the bias (of me, a trans woman sharing this with her mutuals) will decrease. So, please, answer and reblog

[whereserpentswalk]

Remember that supporting nonbinary people means supporting nonbinary people who don't medically transition, or who don't look androgynous, or who don't dressed differently from what's expected of their assigned gender.

And when I say "support nonbinary people who don't differ in presentation from their agab" I don't just mean fully medically transitioned transmasc femboy or transfem butches (though those people are cool and valid). You have to support people who don't medically transition, and that doesn't just mean naturally androgynous afab people who fit a butch tomboy aesthetic, or naturally androgynous amab people who fit a femboy aesthetic (though those people are valid and cool), you have to support nonbinary people whose appearance doesn't fit into any aesthetic of nonbinaryness. And not just people who plan to medically transition, or dress differently someday, you have to accept nonbinary people whose presentation is probably not going to change.

There are a lot of nonbinary people who just kind of look like cis men or cis women, and you have to accept that they're still nonbinary, that they're still valued members of the community. Nonbinary isn't an aesthetic for you to consume, it's not something people perform for you. It's an internal identity, and it's a community. We don't choose to be nonbinary (most of the time), and we shouldn't have to look a certain way for who we are to be recognized.

It even goes into the way nonbinary people (and trans people in general) are complimented, where it's always so focused on how alien the complimenter sees them as. It's always "girlcock", "boy boobs", "they/them pussy", it feels so fetishistic. And it's not even about how sexual it is, like "UwU you're such a cute genderless girlboy" feels more fetishistic than "you have dick sucking eyes". It's this focus on how the viewer enjoys them specifically as a deviantion from what they consider a normal human, as opposed to just being attracted to someone who happens to be a deviation from what most humans are. Like, I want to see someone express attraction to a nonbinary person, as opposed to just being attracted to nonbinary people as a concept. Like can people on here even really be attracted to transfem penises as penises anymore, like be attracted to them as sexual body parts they presumably want to interact with sexually, as opposed to fetishizing them as masculine body parts on a woman.

And I use chasers as an example because it's both obvious and way too common. But this acceptance without humanization is so common in so many queer spaces, and it's specifically so common twords nonbinary people. The focus on bodies, and the focus on how those bodies differ from from what someone considers as normal. As opposed to focusing on human beings and their experiences. And I think it's why it's so hard for people to accept nonbinary people who don't look diffrent from how their agab is expected to look and never will, because you have to accept experiences over aesthetics to support those people.

Like, I need to stress that if you meet a nonbinary person, whose afab, and isn't medically transitioned, and dresses femininely, you still have to accept that they're nonbinary, you have to accept that they're 0% female if they say they're 0% female. And its not just that you need to use their pronouns, you also need to not think of them as female. And I'm specifically using a non medically transitioned afab person as an example here because the internet, especially the queer internet, seems to have a specific hatred for those people (which combined with how transfem people are talked about, and how certain cis queer people are talked about, it makes me think a lot of the queer internet inherently sees feminine bodies as lesser, and sees bodies as losing value the more feminine they become).

And there's two things I mean by "it's important to support these people". The first is just that it's a lot of nonbinary people who are like this, and a lot of them are uniquely vulnerable or invalidated, and they deserve your support and love and validation. But also because if you don't support nonbinary people who don't "look nonbinary enough" for you, every nonbinary person you know is one failure to present in a way you deem valid away from losing your support. When there's a way someone can fail at nonbinaryness to you, than there aren't any nonbinary people you truly unconditionally validate.

I have to admit that I am a nonbinary person who looks a lot like their agab myself. Not telling you if I'm afab or amab, but I am telling you that I have no plans to medically transition, and I don't dress in a way that screams nonbinary. And it sucks in certain ways, especially now that I'm in my twenties and I've lost a lot of weight (both of these are things I'm happy about in general btw), I look so diffrent from what anyone wants to validate. The only time I see art of nonbinary people who look like me it's when they're specifically the opposite agab to me. It sucks that I feel like for at least 25% of the community will either always see me as basically the gender I was assigned at birth, or they'll basically see me as a binary trans person waiting to happen.

This was a lot of words and I don't know how to end it. Please reblog to support me and nonbinary people like me. It's going to be depressing to tag this a few moments from now and see just how many fetish tags you see recommended when you try to tag something with words like "enby" or "nonbinary". It fucking sucks that I see "#enby feedee" before I see "#enby pride".

[virtualgirladv]

Oh your ass is definitely not popular enough to be hated off the site yet lmao

Oh so it's okay to hate trans people off the site when they are popular? It's okay to hate trans people if you have a reason to is what you're telling me? That transphobes go after the big known blogs to send a message and scare the rest of us but that's fine? Queerest site on the internet

[plumberrypudding]

just saw a post from a trans woman talking about her experiences as a trans woman labeled mature when the post itself is not even a little bit mature, and i went to click “suggest community label” hoping that there would be an option to say “hey, this post has been unfairly and inaccurately labeled mature” in the menu where you choose why the post is mature, because this site has some options (violence, sexual themes, drugs/alcohol), the same way you choose a reason to report a post/blog (spam, sexual content, etc). turns out there is no menu. not even a “are you sure you want to suggest a mature label for this post?” popup. apparently you click the button once and that immediately sends off the suggestion, no reasoning or confirmation required. great design choices @staff glad to see you’re really making an effort to deal with the rampant false labeling problem that especially trans women have been talking about and getting nuked for for months 👍 happy fucking pride month

[pending-trans-action-2]

On no other site do you have to be constantly in fear of having you or your friends' entire internet presence wiped from existence for daring to say transphobia exists

[knight-lautrec]

The pornbots are going nuts lately, I think I've had like 15 or 20 follow me just in the last 24 hours.

Staff must be too busy nuking transfems, Palestinian blogs, and people posting negative thoughts about the site to deal with any real issues. Weird gimmick for them to pull for pride month.

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

Fuck this website and fuck you

its official: tumblr is selling our data to Midjourney

we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article

it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.