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oh my god carrie fisher retweeted that one post

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Émile Munier (French, 1840–1895) - Kittens (Chatons) (1882)

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This photo always cheers me up a bit. It’s a front-page article from 1955 about Christine Jorgensen, one of the first women to have sex-reassignment surgery.

Since the text is a bit small and I couldn’t find a larger copy, here’s what the small blurb says:

A World of a Difference

George W. Jorgensen, Jr., son of a Bronx carpenter, served in the Army for two years and was given honorable discharge in 1946. Now George is no more. After six operations, Jorgensen’s sex has been changed and today she is a striking woman, working as a photographer in Denmark. Parents were informed of the big change in a letter Christine (that’s her new name) sent to them recently.

This article is 58 years old, and it’s more respectful of Christine’s pronoun choices and name than some publications are today. It makes me happy to see a newspaper be respectful of a trans person’s choice of name and pronouns like that :3

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If someone from literally one of the most intolerant decades in recent history can respectfully write about trans women current journalists have no excuse.

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Kuro makes friends with Shironeko’s snail.

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Gerda Wegener Painting Her Ladies

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This is cool. Enormous climate protests were set for the big Paris Climate Talks. After the Paris attacks, however, all of these protests were banned. So in an attempt to be heard, protesters - including Yeb Sano, the Philippines negotiator who famously broke down in tears at previous climate talks - filled the Place de la Republique in Paris with their shoes. Thousands of them. Apparently the Pope has sent his shoes too.