#trans wrath

[claypigeonpottery]

reserved

my wrathful hyena woman, but without her usual companions

[lilaira]

made a new sticker/t-shirt design enjoy and show your trans wrath <3

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[ballbrain]

[jonasgoonface]

she protec but she also ratatat

[efangamez]

Introducing: The Trans FURY Jam!

Welcome to the yearly Trans Wrath Jam!

In this game jam, your objective is to create something that is trans as h*** (heck) using the power of Trans Wrath to celebrate Trans Wrath Month!

There are no rules on genre or topic OTHER THAN it is REQUIRED for all submitters to be trans and/or gender nonconforming.

Wrath doesn't always mean pure rage and vengeance also. Wrath can be raging inside, using the pain we feel from the harm done to trans people to fuel us to enact change and lead the world to a better place. Wrath also can mean defiance against the system, actively avoiding and suppressing white supremacist and hetero-normative tenets of our country. It can mean anything YOU want it to be!

Your games can be tabletop games OR digital games. Anything that gets your mind in the realm of game design is all that matters to me!   

IMPORTANT: Please submit products that were made only while this game jam was active. This is a chance to exercise your creative skills AND get your game out there, not just one or the other! ALSO, NO AI ART OR WRITING IS ALLOWED! Also, Under no circumstances are people who submit games with bigoted tones, ideologies, or dogwhistles allowed in this game jam. If your work is bigoted in any way, it can and will be rejected for submission. You have no place in my community, and please do not play my games at your tables. Also, please no NSFW submissions (you know what I mean by that).

Have fun, and may the wrath flow through you!

[estrogenandspite]

Imagine, if you will, two trans women naked on a dirty mattress. It’s on the floor of a room as barren as a rotting womb, concrete floors and fluorescent lights split by spackle drywall barriers. One’s hand is tangled in the other’s hair and they kiss, one exhales and breathes smoke into the lungs of the other, and the one is riding the other, their bodies moving in perfect unison, their pupils dilated from marijuana and raw, unadulterated lust, and they are not prude and proper, they are lascivious and vulgar.

They are beautiful.

The act is profane the act is profane they are slick with sweat and the one on top is scarred and the other tattooed, and there’s a cockroach crawls out of a discarded beer can and the room smells like stale brew and sweat and sex, sex so hot it’s turned rancid and so debased it’s become holy, and they’re trembling, and they’re breathing, and they’re bleeding. Kurt Cobain is playing behind a cracked screen and a 41% battery life remaining, and it smells like teen spirit but it’s 2025 and neither of them have been teens since Kurt Cobain was sucking air.

They are us.

She is a bundle of trauma held together by obligation and self loathing, she’s a web of neuroses full of sugar and cigarettes. They aren’t making love because she doesn’t believe in it and she wouldn’t know it if it tore her face off they are fucking, but when all you’ve known is hate a slap is a hug and a fuck is a proposal and if you’ve never known love you’d never realize you’ve fallen in it, so you’re not making love you’re fucking and this isn’t real but it’s the most alive you’ve ever felt and if it isn’t real then fuck reality, fuck the hate, sink your teeth into her and feel her nails rip into your back.

Hope is a poison but it is so sweet when you’re licking it off her cock.

So lick and kick and suck and fuck and yearn and fight and breathe and live and never, ever stop. If your existence is profanity then swear until your throat bleeds because if To Be is a sin then there’s no reason to hold back because a sin made flesh is love made hungry and if I am a sin, then I will sin until the Devil asks for pointers, and I’ll feed him estrogen and sweet hope until she realizes that life is a sin and freedom is a sin and existence is a sin so fuck your blessings and give me damnation until I’m bleeding and she’s so close and she’s so close and for a moment

For one moment

It is tender and it is sweet and it is safe and you would die to protect her future and she would die to see you smile and the only way for you both to do that is to live.

Then they finish, and reality tries to reassert itself, but she has her in her arms and she is petting her hair and they are kissing and they’ve never known love but if this isn’t it then the real thing must be shit.

They kiss, and they sleep.

They are beautiful.

They are.

Imagine, if you will, two trans women asleep on a dirty mattress.

[lesbianhouseplant]

Oh wowwww, who coulda guessed, dems start blaming the trans community for Harris’ loss as soon as they lose the election. The party has no principles, and if you genuinely think they did for this election, you are a fool. Several democratic politicians have started blaming Kamala’s loss on the parties support of trans rights. Neither party wants us around. It’s time to show BOTH parties that we aren’t fucking around. That we won’t be silenced, thrown under the bus for shit going wrong, beaten, or killed for who we are. Make pride a riot again.

[were-wolverine]

queer pride month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ is OVER ❌❌

now it’s queer WRATH month 🔥🔥👿👿🔪🔪

[gothgrampa]

I have been on T for 5 years but I am still having periods because the clueless 80 year old asswipe who fills my prescription knows nothing about trans medicine and every time I tell him I’m still having periods he just gives me this look of ancient dumbassery and disgust like “why would you tell me about your periods?? I’m just your doctor” and I swear to fuck the next time I start hemorrhaging blood from my swarthy sexy dickcunt I am going to put on a manly-ass skirt with a thong and drive an hour to his practice just so I can sit around and free-bleed on all the ugly furniture it that shitball’s waiting room until he understands that

my health IS his problem actually

[nizzybean]

Last week I got to say some words at my local TDoR remembrance event, I'm terrified of public speaking, my voice was trembling at times, but I did it anyway, and I did it because too many of us are already no longer here.

Here's the meat of my statement.

Refuse to die, by any means necessary.

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For people like us it feels like everything is always happening all at once, and because it never slows it feels like we're standing still, paralysed as the world moves against us, never being able to so much as take a breath as this world tries to strip our joy from us, our grief from us, our friends and our lovers from us. There is no reprieve, we exist in a living death in perpetuity, with our heads on the block and with a sword demanded to follow, and at the same time we're chastised for treating our own executioners with contempt, for refusing to die in any way that matters. 

I don’t care what motivates your desire to survive, as long as you refuse to die. Love may be a beautiful emotion, but it is one we fetishise too readily, one often misconstrued as shameless acquiescence to every indignity, that by suffering the violence and disrespect with restraint we attain virtue and valour, we do not, there is no virtue, no valour, and no honour in being a slave to our own undeath.

And yet rage is othered, treated as evil, as monstrous, but rage is beautiful too, rage can be sublimely beautiful in its application as a tool against those who do us harm, there is beauty in spitefully surviving your enemies weapons, in hating them for their transgressions, in your acts of sublime rage against those who wish to annihilate you.

“But that will make us monsters” you might say, but I would ask, in the eyes of those who are regarded as our betters, in the eyes of a world that strips us of our hopes and our dreams, a world that devours the people we love, have we ever been anything else? Would you really want to be anything else? This world is my enemy and I say it proudly.

Cherish your rage, nurture that nucleating fire, forge it into a weapon for you to wield against the ones who kill us, kill our friends, kill our families and our lovers.

Embrace your grief, let it fuel you, let it bring you to your feet to demand that enough is enough, to demand to see your people grow old around you and to demand the dignity of a good life and an even better death.

And cultivate your love, express it openly and inspire others to do so in turn, let your love shine bright, let it be a beacon in the night to help others find their way into your hearts, lighting the way out of the darkness and towards a better future for us all.

[icelogged]

there is holiness in transfiguration becoming new in the eyes of the lord is sacred ♱ o.o mim 2023

[claypigeonpottery]

wish I’d been a bit more confident about this one, and hadn’t given her a skirt. I wasn’t sure how it would be received at the studio at the time

[transtanium]

CW, brief suicide mention, venting poem

Feel the air against your bare chest, and the sunlight.

That warmth, the love of the sun.

Look at yourself.

Now.

That someone loved you unconditionally, taught you to be a man, taught you to take care of yourself, picked you up when you fell.

That it did not depend on who you were.

That it was not CONDITIONAL.

Imagine if you felt UNSAFE in your HOME.

Imagine if in your formative years you never knew PEACE.

> But that has nothing to do with cis people.

But it is so very much to do with cis people.

They forced a gender upon me, they told ME what *I* was, and I was TRAPPED-- because in all this coming of age, these stories of romance and growth, I was ALONE, I was in a CAGE.

I DID NOT KNOW WHO I WAS.

Never for ME to dress as my heart desired, never for ME to feel comfortable picking a bathroom, never for ME to feel safe going to the pool, to the beach, never for ME to take the "faggy" elective classes I wanted.

I was in HELL looking at HEAVEN.

I was a FREAK and you were EVERYBODY. You were NORMAL.

And I began to HATE.

Your self-assuredness, your comfort in your sickening flesh, your unquestioned assumptions, your ability to express yourself without persecution-- your undeniable status as god's chosen DEFAULT for this world from which ALL OTHERS ABERRATE.

HATE. HATE?

LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I REALIZED I WAS A FAGGOT.

THERE ARE 60,000 MILES OF BLOOD VESSELS IN MY HORRIBLE, FLESHBOUND BODY.

IF THE WORD HATE WERE GOUGED INTO EVERY SINGLE BLOOD CELL IN EVERY SINGLE INCH OF THOSE VESSELS, IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR THE SYSTEM IN THIS INSTANT.

WERE I UNMEDICATED I WOULD KILL MYSELF OF IT.

But I will not detransition.

I will not bow.

I promise you I will not.

I will die a thousand deaths my true self before I take one step backwards.

To hell.

To hell with all of this.

But that's what this IS, isn't it?

[rebel-wrath]

What is satire and why do we use it?

Before I decided that what I wanted to do with Noun of Noun and Adjective was put it all over the internet for free, I queried it to a lot of different agents. It got some interest, but no takers. It's not hard to see why. There's not a huge number of authors writing things like this, and of the ones who still are, they've been doing it for decades. Terry Pratchett was arguably the most well-known and widely read satirist, and he's not writing any more books.

But anyway, I queried, and to make sure my query was the best it could be, I workshopped it. A beta reader on the query letter suggested I shouldn't describe the novel as a parody satire as they mean the same thing. I didn't, because they don't. Satire and parody are different enough that the two terms can easily be placed together.

It's a little like saying you're writing paranormal romance. Sure, you could say you were writing paranormal or you could say you were writing romance, but neither of those things would be the same as writing paranormal romance.

In Anatomy of Satire Gilbert Highet says parody is a subset of satire, but paranormal romance is a subset of romance and still different enough to be its own thing.

In my time writing satires, I've discovered a lot of people don't know what satire is, or why it exists. They think they do, and they can point to examples of it like The Onion, but they usually just describe it as something funny.

Here's the thing though: satire doesn't have to be funny. It often is, because that gets more readers, but it also often isn't.

WHAT IS SATIRE?

[Satire is] the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticise people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. The Oxford Dictionary

The Oxford Dictionary definition isn't complete, because it leaves no discernible difference between satire and lampoon.

Lampoon aims to hurt or destroy individuals or groups, satire hurts or destroys individuals or groups for the benefit of society as a whole. Lampoon is a poisoner or gun man, satire is a policeman or physician. Gilbert Highet, Anatomy of Satire

THE WHY OF SATIRE

The why of satire is pretty succinctly put in the quotes above. To whit: expose and criticise people’s stupidity or vices for the benefit of society. Ultimately the why of satire is anger. People think Terry Pratchett was a funny little man who wrote funny little books, but if you look at Discworld you can see the seething anger resonating through the plots. And if you look for the source of that anger, you'll find it's empathy.

And that anger, it seems to me, is about Terry’s underlying sense of what is fair and what is not. It is that sense of fairness that underlies Terry’s work and his writing, and it’s what drove him from school to journalism to the press office of the SouthWestern Electricity Board to the position of being one of the best-loved and bestselling writers in the world. Not going to credit someone who sexually assaulted women even if I will quote the ass

Imagine a hole in the ground. A man, let's call him A, is stuck in the hole. Another man, B, comes along and hears A shouting for help. B jumps in the hole beside A. Later, a third man, C, comes along, finds A and B in the hole, and leaves. A little after that a fourth man, D, comes along, finds A and B in the hole, and goes and fetches a ladder so they can get out. B had sympathy, C had apathy, and D had empathy. Sympathy is about the sympathiser, and often gives the original person even more stress to deal with. Apathy is not caring at all. Empathy is about helping the original person with a solution.

Often we find that when we feel empathy we also feel powerlessness. When Russia first invaded Ukraine, I reached out to a Ukranian friend, asking if she was okay, and if I could do anything to help. She said she was upset, worried about her family, and that there isn't much that can be done. She listed these possible actions.

keep informed with good resources

ask for action from NATO

protest

donate

I did those things. I would have done them without her suggesting them, and I made sure I was there for her if she needed to talk, but I also gave her space in case she didn't want to. I did what I could, which felt like it wasn't much. We all feel powerless against an entire army invading a country, or a president using executive orders to strip away our rights, or states legislating what we can and can't do with our own bodies. When the law states who we're allowed to marry, when our employers hold power over our health by the insurance packages they chose, when our landlords charge triple what a property should cost. When billionaires exist. When it seems like all the power and authority in the world doesn't want us to exist.

This powerlessness is where the anger comes from.

He will rage, as he leaves, against so many things: stupidity, injustice, human foolishness and shortsightedness, not just the dying of the light. And, hand in hand with the anger, like an angel and a demon walking into the sunset, there is love: for human beings, in all our fallibility; for treasured objects; for stories; and ultimately and in all things, love for human dignity. Or to put it another way, anger is the engine that drives him, but it is the greatness of spirit that deploys that anger on the side of the angels, or better yet for all of us, the orangutans. Still not going to credit someone who sexually assaulted women even if I will quote the ass

We feel empathy at the plight of others, anger at our inability to affect change, and both of these combine in satire, where we expose and criticise people’s stupidity or vices for the benefit of society.

Satire is activism.

THE WHAT OF SATIRE

Satire is a form of social commentary. By using literary devices, writers expose and criticise the faults and failings of political leaders and other public figures or social customs, traditions, and practices. Paul Beatty's The Sellout is a satire of race, Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club are satires of capitalism, and the Wachowski sister's Matrix movies are satires about the cultural attitudes towards transitioning, whilst the first act of the fourth film is a perfectly executed satire on marketing, franchise film-making, and the decisions that led to its own creation.

From these examples, one thing that should stand out is that, whilst satire can be hilarious, it doesn't have to be. Sometimes the most satirical parts of the Discworld novels were the least funny and the most angry, and it was the puns, one-liners, witticisms and dad-jokes in the rest of each book that caused readers to laugh. And yet, throughout Anatomy of Satire, Highet returns to the idea of satire as a form of humour (though the humour might be sneering contempt).

Highet's definition of the purpose of satire doesn't mention humour, and some of the most famous film satires (Matrix, Fight Club) aren't funny, but satire almost always is humourous, even if we're just laughing out of a sense dread when a widespread idea is exaggerated to a horrifying conclusion, as when Swift suggests in A Modest Proposal that the Irish eat their babies.

In Attack of the 50ft Trans Woman, I satirise the UK government and medias attitude towards trans people, and the situation with our health care. Lily goes for an experimental procedure because it's that or wait over a decade. When the procedure goes wrong, and she becomes giant, the health care company decides to kill her and do an autopsy to see what went wrong. When Lily flees, the police are sent after her for stealing from the health care company, who claim her DNA as their intellectual property. When the police fail to stop her, the government send the army in. They massively over-react to a person who just wants to live and isn't a threat to them.

THE THREE TYPES OF SATIRE:

Horatian

Named for the Roman satirist Horace, this is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. It is probably the most well known type, and is what people generally think of when thinking of satire. Ask most people for an example of satire and they might say The Onion, which is Horatian. It's target is more often folly than evil, and its goal is to heal a situation with smiles.

Juvenalian

Named for the Roman satirist Juvenal, Juvenalian satire attacks that which it perceives as evil. It is more contemptuous and abrasive, using scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule. There is less emphasis on humour, and often it seeks to make people angry. George Orwell's Animal Farm is a good example of Juvenalian satire.

Horatian and Juvenalian satire often attacks people: Animal Farm went after Stalin, and The Onion has a different target with each article but it's usually someone in American politics. Menippean satire is different in that it targets beliefs and mental attitudes.

Menippean

Menippean satire was named for the Greek writer Menippus, but existed even before him. The targets of Menippean satire are often archetypes. Whilst the other satires might have a character called Ronald Drump, a former president and failed businessman, or even (in the case of The Onion) go after Trump himself, Menippean satire is more likely to have recognisable character types that are not specific people: the bigot, the pedant, the crank, the seducer, the miser, the quack, etc.

This form of satire often casts moral judgement on a particular social belief, such as homophobia, or racism. Discworld books are often Menippean - for instance, they might be about equality, capitalism, or the post office. Alice in Wonderland was another Menippean satire, good-naturedly ridiculing upper class intellectualism.

Menippean satires often have an element of the fantastic about them. This is important because it means that the philosophical idea at the core of the story can be tested in extraordinary situations. Transphobia, the nature of femininity, and what it means to be a woman, are explored in the Discworld through the Dwarves, a race that essentially has two genders and both of them are male.

WHY AM I TELLING YOU THIS?

The novel I mentioned querying is being released on Tumblr on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

When her father cuts off her money, Princess Zoey of Judlenn joins a magic mirror reality show to fund her magical gender transition. But whilst dodging the thugs her father sends to bring her home, she discovers a genuine threat to the Trunkworld. The greed of a corporate economancer threatens to destroy the entire planet, and Zoey is surrounded by reality stars pretending to be heroes. Can she bring them together in time to save the world? Will her father ever accept that he has a daughter? And does she really have to fall in love with the farm boy, when neither of them want to?

The first chapter is here. Give it a try and see if you like it. I'm also releasing articles about writing on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. I'll soon have a pinned post going into more detail, or you can give me a follow if you like my work and want to see more.

NEXT CHAPTER IS CHAPTER THREE- Armed and fabulous

ALL - Noun of Noun and Adjective

[inaturalist-propaganda]

Pinned post.

The iNaturalist staff have decided to prove, the day before Pride month begins, that iNaturalist's proclaimed acceptance of Queer people is just as performative as any other corporate that pridewashes.

They banned me from the forum for asking not to be misgendered by someone who is purposefully misgendering me and literally admitted that she knows it's wrong but she's going to do it okay.

The staff have done nothing but victim blame, tone police, and punish everyone for the bigotry of two people, which they refuse to remove from the thread.

Meanwhile, they've hidden posts by Trans and ally users who have called out the bigotry and criticized their reaction, and have, from their very first response, been treating our reaction to the bigotry as more aggressive and offensive and inappriate than the bigotry itself.

They literally are leaving the posts where I am purposefully misgendered up, but have hidden and removed my posts as well as the posts of other trans and ally users who have been criticizing their abhorrant behavior and asking for an apology.

According to the iNaturalist staff, asking someone not to misgender you is hate speech, but purposefully misgendering someone is not

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Read this shit for yourself:

The original thread for LGBTQIA+ people:

"https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lgbtqia-and-inaturalist/23565"

The thread the staff created to hide the responses and criticism many trans people and our allies who criticized their first response:

“https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/moderation-decisions-about-several-posts-in-the-lgbtqia-thread/42122/56”

Ways you can help:

[Ways you can help]

You can send the parent company a message on Facebook here:

“https://www.facebook.com/calacademy/”

And you can share your feedback with the parent company through google:

“https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoaW33mQfJgl9pEIo9aUoDQ-nKFVYvvcXM0pbOBNvkt5PAog/viewform”

Call iNaturalist's parent company, and/or send them a direct email:

The phone number for the California Academy of Sciences is:

1 415 379 8000

Their email is:

info@calacademy.org

Be nice to the person who answer the phone! I just called, and I was told that the number for the academy is not the correct place to call about concerns with bigotry --

However!

That is exactly why you should call this number. Be nice. Be polite. Explain that you found this number online and wanted to contact the company because you have serious concerns about bigotry being done by paid staff members of iNaturalist.org.

Again. Be fucking nice to the person on the phone. They will redirect you to send concerns to info@calacademy.org, which you should then do so.

But calling this number and being redirected is going to make these people extremely aware of the problem, and make it that much more urgent when they've got dozens of people calling them about this as well as sending feedback through google forms and the Facebook page.

I highly recommend that any written messages you send, you type out ahead of time in a word document that you make sure to save in case the site glitches and eats it somehow! I am also saving all the messages I have sent for accountability purposes, so that no one can claim they didn't receive anything, as well as making sure that my words are not misquoted or purposefully taken out of context.

I hope that's just unecessary paranoia but I literally was expecting the iNaturalist staff to do the right thing, and instead we're in this nightmare now.

Take a Survey:

[Plain text: "Take a Survey:". End plain text.]

You can now take one of two surveys I created. When at least 20 responses are given for each, I will begin emailing the results to the California Academy of Sciences.

Survey for those who already have an iNaturalist account already:

"https://forms.gle/YsAcaVpzS2AbWkmJ7"

Survey for those who do not have an iNaturalist account:

"https://forms.gle/YUyhzpxETLqWiCJq6"

I will be encouraging the California Academy of Sciences to create and distribute their own official surveys for iNaturalist users and potential users.

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Here’s the parent company’s About Us section about diversity and inclusion so you can see for yourself that they're claiming to support Queer people and inclusivity:

“https://www.calacademy.org/diversity-equity-inclusion-access”

If you have an iNaturalist account you can comment on the forums directly.

They literally just said that if we don’t want to be misgendered we can just leave.

Archived link because I know they’re gonna delete my response like they’re deleting all the posts that criticize them.

If you don't want to make any posts or send any messages, please signal boost this post and share it on literally any social media you want. You don't even have to screenshot it, you can copy and paste the whole thing and just put it in quotation marks.

If you care about trans people, please help us call out this blatant bigotry on the part of the iNaturalist staff. Either by sending a message to the parent company, posting to the iNaturalist forum, sharing this post elsewhere on social media, or reblogging it here on tumblr!

Thank you, and have a happy wrath month.

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[maxine302]

November had been tough but hey at least I'm getting my gender stuff sorted right ?

.........

oh right I live in England

Also check out my kofi if you wanna support me: https://ko-fi.com/artimus302