#transwomenmatter

[roxy-rodriguez]

It’s a trans girl summer 🔥💅

[madi2112]

Out of left field

In a real WTF have I gotten myself into moment (a phrase I will be repeating often over the next seven months) I find myself in an unfamiliar yet exciting situation.

No, unfortunately it has nothing to do with my crush.

I'm still working up the courage to do anything about that one yet.

No, this is something far more out of left field.

I'm going to be working with The Osceola Arts Theater to put on an art exhibition featuring transgender artists.!

Once again I say, WTF?

This opportunity, of course, grew out of an incident that happened last week at the theater where I do some volunteer work.

I detailed that encounter in the entry "Anytime, Anywhere ".

In review, the art display in the theater lobby where I volunteer had a wildly transphobic peice on display.

The peice was like a punch in the gut so I resigned as a volunteer and told them why.

To their immense credit they responded within a few days (I sent the email on a Friday night, afterall) with an apology and a reasonable explanation.

During the reply email the person at the O.A. floated out an idea to host art done by the LGBTQ+ community and wanted you know if that was something worth pursuing.

I said I was in favor of it, but the reason the art pice currently on display caused the reaction it did in me was because the Transgender community has been under so much attack lately from the Florida government as well as state governments nationwide and the display in the theater lobby felt like piling on in the very place where I volunteer my time.

She then suggested how about an exhibit showcasing the thoughts and experiences of transpeople?

I said that would be fantastic!

She offered me the opportunity to help put on the exhibit and had a opening on the calendar.

She also set up a meeting so we could go over the details.

So just like that BAM! I am helping to put on an art exhibition featuring transgender artists and themes!

In Florida!

The dates are November 7th to December 7th 2024.

The meeting to go over the logistics is on May 1st at 11am.

In the mean time I'm compiling a list of questions and ideas.

After all, this is new territory for me.

But bring on the challenge!

I can't wait for the transgender community to have a voice and be seen!

~Madison

[femalehorizons]

Nobody can tell you who you are That is up to you alone

[uxisjwud88s8wi2]

Dear trans women/transfems :

please remember that :

You are very valid even if you don't like typically feminine clothes.

You are very valid even if you don't dress feminine 24/7.

You are very valid even if you have (and love your) body hair.

You are very valid even if you have (and love your) short hair.

You are very valid even if you don't think that you pass.

You are very valid even if you don't like makeup.

You are very valid even if you are not out yet.

You are very valid even if you don't want to come out.

You are beautiful and amazing! Do not let anyone tell you otherwise! <3

[selfmade-prettyboy]

Dear trans siblings,

Life isn't easy for anyone, but it can be especially rough for folx like us.

Even if you feel so depressed you can barely just get by the day, don't ever forget that by simply sticking around, your presence makes the world a better place.

If it is true that 'The unexamined life is not worth living', then we have nothing to lose by not giving up. By simply being trans and practicing the self-love that comes from acknowledging our identities, there is absolutely no way we can sleepwalk through life like so many unthinking people do.

This is our source of strength.

Never, ever forget that your life is valuable and that your voice matters.

[lowkxytears]

RUPI KAUR IS STATING FACTS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[transmegaphone]

“It’s all about ME, Not You” installation by Greer Lankton, 2009

Lankton is famous for her work in making hyperrealistic dolls; when she was younger she took gymnastics and ballet which were believed to inspire some of the contortion imagery in her dolls.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-1980s-icon-greer-lankton-explored-glamour-gender-eerie-dolls

[eddieyuki]

Playing around on TikTok

[hoardofhyperfixations]

I hope the trans girl reading this knows I love her ❤

[transparenttriumphzombie]

Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, and transgender activist.

Conway is notable for a number of pioneering achievements. She worked at IBM in the 1960s and is credited with the invention of generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. She is also widely-known for the Mead-Conway VLSI chip design revolution in very large scale integrated (VLSI) microchip design. That revolution spread rapidly through the research universities and computing industries during the 1980s, incubating an emerging electronic design automation industry, spawning the modern ‘foundry’ infrastructure for chip design and production, and triggering a rush of impactful high-tech startups in the 80s and 90s.

Conway grew up in White Plains, New York. Conway was shy and experienced gender dysphoria as a child. She became fascinated and engaged by astronomy (building a 6-inch (150 mm) reflector telescope one summer) and did well in math and science in high school. Conway entered MIT in 1955, earning high grades but ultimately leaving in despair after an attempted gender transition in 1957–58 failed due to the medical climate at the time. After working as an electronics technician for several years, Conway resumed education at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, earning B.S. and M.S.E.E. degrees in 1962 and 1963.

Conway was recruited by IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York in 1964, and was soon selected to join the architecture team designing an advanced supercomputer, working alongside John Cocke, Brian Randell, Herbert Schorr, Ed Sussenguth, Fran Allen and other IBM researchers on the Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) project, inventing multiple-issue out-of-order dynamic instruction scheduling while working there. The Computer History Museum has stated that "the ACS machines appears to have been the first superscalar design, a computer architectural paradigm widely exploited in modern high-performance microprocessors.

After learning of the pioneering research of Harry Benjamin in treating transsexual women and realising that gender affirmation surgery was now possible, Conway sought his help and became his patient. After suffering from severe depression from gender dysphoria, Conway contacted Benjamin, who agreed to provide counseling and prescribe hormones. Under Benjamin's care, Conway began her medical gender transition. While struggling with life in a male role, Conway had been married to a woman and had two children. Under the legal constraints then in place, she was denied access to their children after transitioning. Although she had hoped to be allowed to transition on the job, IBM fired Conway in 1968 after she revealed her intention to transition. IBM apologized for this in 2020. 

In 1987, Conway met her husband Charles "Charlie" Rogers, a professional engineer who shares her interest in the outdoors, including whitewater canoeing and motocross racing. They soon started living together, and bought a house with 24 acres (9.7 ha) of meadow, marsh, and woodland in rural Michigan in 1994.On August 13, 2002, they were married. In 2014, the University of Michigan's The Michigan Engineer alumni magazine documented the connections between Conway's engineering explorations and the adventures in her personal life.

[dcroar-x]

🌺THIS IS A TRANSFEMININE POSITIVITY POST 🌺

If you are transfeminine you are valid, loved, and supported. You have a community to who supports you and everything you do! You can and will achieve great things!!!! I'm so proud of you!!!!

*this includes ALL transfem people!!!! including transwomen and transfem enbies*

*do not derail*

[roxy-rodriguez]

💖🏳️‍⚧️💖

[madi2112]

IT'S OFFICIALLY A GO!

Last week I had the meeting with Osceola Arts to discuss the possibility of me curating an art exhibition.

Sure enough, it's a go!

November 7th to December 7th in the lobby of the Studio Theater in the Osceola Arts complex.

We even brainstormed a title for the exhibition.

Authentically Me! : A celebration of the transgender community in Central Florida.

Having never done alything like this before I'm relying heavily on the art director. And she has been great.

With dates, title and venue all established it's time to put out the word out for artists to submit their peices.

We even came up with a couple of notices to post where artists might see them.

We will now wait and see how many submissions we will get!

~Madison

[femalehorizons]

Trans and proud

[asking-jude]

Need advice? Ask us!

[anapaulahhh]

I dont want to be ashemed of myself anymore.