daemonhxckergrrl:

happy pride ! to the faggots and freaks, the trannies, the boygirls and girlboys and the he/him butches and she/her twinks ! to the gendervague and the genderfucked !! to every trans and nonbinary person at whatever stage they’re at !! and to the eggs and the questioning ! to my bisexuals and pansexuals and omnisexuals and polysexuals and the lesbians w/ boyfriends and gays w/ girlfriends !! happy pride to the queers who wear battle jackets and the queers who stealth and every single one of you in between !! happy pride to my aces and aros !! happy pride all you funky sexual deviants and kinksters !! to my elders who faced decades of bigotry and lost many a loved one, and the youngsters learning our history and experiencing it themselves !

I love you all so so much I love us and who we are and I ask you: be kind to each other

iknaenmal:

okay lets settle this

do you wear socks when you go to bed?

yeah

NO (???? why would you take them off)

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doberbutts:

doberbutts:

genderkoolaid:

Research on transsexuals also shows how the elicitation of deference depends on the type of man one is perceived to be. Based on in-depth interviews with 29 transmen, Schilt (2006) found that whereas white transmen beginning to work as men were taken more seriously, had their requests readily met, and were evaluated as more competent than they were as women, young, small Black, Latino, and Asian transmen did not gain similar advantages. Similarly, in her interview study of 18 transmen, Dozier (2005) found that, as men, white transmen reported being given more respect and more conversational space and being included in men’s banter. They also experienced less public harassment. Transmen of color, on the other hand, reported being more frequently treated as criminals, and short and effeminate transmen reported being publicly harassed as gay. Gaining the full privileges of manhood is thus shown to depend not merely on being recognized as male, but on the whole ensemble of signs that are conventionally taken as evidence of a masculine self.

— Men, Masculinity, and Manhood Acts by Douglas Schrock and Michael Schwalbe (2009)

Wow look it’s the shit I’ve been saying this entire time presented as an actual researched phenomenon, thank you to my trans guy friend for linking me this post in my time of need 🙌

Actually I’m reblogging this again, apparently for the third time because I don’t remember the first but I did it without commentary according to the reblog chain.

But this is what I’ve been saying this whole time.

I can’t speak to the white experience. I might be mixed with white but if you think there is any chance of me ever being treated like a white person you are simply living on a different planet than me. I will always read as black.

I have said, repeatedly, going from “butch-ish black girl” to “gay black man” has made some things better for me. Limited and conditional, but still some things are better than they were. I’ve also said in other areas, things have gotten worse. People talk down to me less. I receive a higher degree of respect than my female friends. My judgement isn’t questioned as much.

If. If. IF. I pass. If I don’t, forget it.

But with that comes a higher degree of criminalization. My intentions are always suspected to be aggressive. White women have become guarded and cold to me, white men suspicious and alert when I walk into a room. I’m followed by police more often when driving around the city. I’m stopped in places with door guards like Walmart and Target more often. In the past 8 months this has ramped up exponentially to an extremely noticable degree.

Even at work the difference in how I’m treated by people who know I’m trans vs people who don’t is very, very clear.

You know who I don’t have a problem with how they treat me, whose treatment of me has remained consistent this entire time? Other black people 🤷‍♂️ I can still chatter and hang out with and occupy space with other black people without worrying about any of these dangers. Pass, don’t pass, visible, stealth, man, woman, black people treat me like a fellow black person.

There is always a layer of racism in how I am treated in white society. I think white people just don’t understand how racism manifests in the lives of black people on a constant, daily basis. This racism cannot be overlooked when discussing oppression and privilege.

So when I say I’ve heard the grass is greener and now standing here it, uh, isn’t. I don’t mean “I was treated better as a woman” or “men are the true victims” or whatever. I mean “I was told this would be better, and this doesn’t seem better to me”.

respectissexy:

Snoop Dogg expressing solidarity with the writer’s strike and explicitly tying their struggle to the struggle of recording artists to get paid in the streaming music era.

loufofbread:

loufofbread:

loufofbread:

kitten

man. what on earth.

ok i flipped it. sorry

senshilegionnaire:

sraithpics:

sraithpics:

I meant to make this meme ages ago when pride month was still on but yeah gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose.

IT’S FINALLY PRIDE MONTH, TIME TO REBLOG THIS AGAIN.

BE GÉ DO CRIMES

kalanchoeblossfeldiana:

kalanchoeblossfeldiana:

monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests

this thing is alive in an undead hivemind kind of way and it wants to fucking kill me