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@alexandriaremarke
Hei, I'm Lexi, the woman who named herself after a library! Welcome to my colorful pocket of Tumblr.
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๐ฉท Pronouns: She/Her ๐ค
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Identity: Trans ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
๐ Intersectional ally & safe space.
โ **DNI (Do Not Interact):**
TERFs, transphobes, bigots, or rage-baiting accounts. You can fudge off!
Everyone else, feel free to drop an ask or follow!๐
Trees are a social construct. This is a fairly broadly understood concept now, right? Like y'all understand now that "tree" is not a taxonomical category, but a social one. Because there is no way to classify what traits are required for a plant to be a "tree" in a way that includes all the plants we call "trees" and excludes all the plants we do not call "trees." "Fish" is another example of this. But this does not mean that trees and fish do not exist.
This is what we mean when we say that "sex is a social construct." And it's disappointing how many people on our side even misunderstand that. Sex being a social construct does not mean it isn't real. It just means that it can't be a biological category, and its a crime to science that it currently is considered to be one. Every biologist who refuses to recognize this and continues to insist that "sex" is a biological category instead of a social one is doing a disservice to science, which becomes very evident when you ask them to define "sex." It quickly falls apart in exactly the same way that "tree" does when you try to biologically define that.
Like, they'll usually say something like "female humans have xx chromosomes, and estrogen-dominated endocrine system, enlarged breasts, a uterus, a vulva, and a vagina. Sounds reasonable, right? Except that there are people who do not meet one or more of those categories who are also definitely female. When someone gets a hysterectomy, do they stop being female? What about if they're born without a uterus but meet all those other categories? This is actually not uncommon. What about people who have xy chromosomes but meet all the other categories? Another thing that is not uncommon, and I am not just talking about trans women, there are a lot of cis women who are born with a y chromosome that is not expressed for various medical reasons. Defining "male" also has the exact same problems.
While sex is very obviously a social construct, as demonstrated above, it is also very obvious that it has very real effects on people's lives. Social constructs are real. The reason we point out that something is one is because social constructs are changeable, they are not immutable physical categories. We, as a culture, decide how to define a social construct, and we can change that definition at any time.
Honestly if Trans Guys want Forcemasc, mechsploitation, and handler over weapon stories focused on men there really is no shortage of that shit in military sci-fi.
Like just get into Halo or Warhammer.
There's whole books just on that shit. You don't have to bother trans women about it.
Just imagine John Halo is a trans man and will literally slot into all of your requirements.
I'm not even kidding
John is a boy who is kidnapped at 7 years old.
Pumped full of hormones as he grows to make him a more masculine and effective killing machine with a final surgery in mid-adolesence.
Brainwashed into absolute loyalty to a military hierarchy with very little actual sense of self.
And given a handler to point him at targets and says "kill".
It's literally all there in the text. Just go read The Fall of Reach if you actually want it.
If brainwashed super soldiers weren't so normalized already, people would take one look at wh40k's space marines and go "ok so this is some really fucked up and weird forcemasc himbofication nonsense that got too caught up in its own worldbuilding to remember to be porn?"
we're abolishing gender! in the future people will just be referred to as AMAB or AFAB, no need for gender at all! ๐
this is a progressive stance, you see, because AMAB and AFAB are different words from "man" and "woman." we're leaving such outdated concepts behind!
no no no it's not "misgendering you." it doesn't refer to your gender, it refers to the sex you were assigned. that way we don't need gender anymore! you can just throw that old thing away
now there's only two categories: AMABS and AFABS! so much simpler! what? no I didn't say there's only two genders. these aren't genders they're categories. this is progress we're making progress
I WANT TO LOOK AT THINGS MADE BY HUMAN BEINGS
And also occasionally by pufferfish
Image 1: a image of SpongeBob yelling at someone with motion blur to show emphasis.
Image 2: a photo of a diver underwater with two concentric rings in the sand that have fluting on them. Judging by the size, it is 6 feet 2 meters in diameter. Presumably it has been made by pufferfish, which is intriguing.
The US government has officially declared โradical pro-transgender groupsโ to be domestic terrorist organizations. This will certainly remain for the duration of this administration, and may hold into the next.
This opens the door for not only the targeting of trans individuals, but also trans communities, the broader queer community, and even allies and family members of transgender people.
Everyone, be safe. Look out for each other. Cherish small wins, and moments of joy.
Surviving is more than grand acts of defiance. Living is in the small, the everyday, the imperceptible. Living is holding a hand, or being kindโ little things that you donโt remember the day after. Love each other, and love yourself in equal measure. Tyrants are brittle things. Never has a dark time failed to end.
Woot! So like no power in the house, this is the 6th time this year...weird.
But beautiful rainy weather, coffee from my favorite coffee shop, and a book I couldn't get to this weekend. Make the day wonderful, even when bad news tries to rob you of your peace.
I genuinely cannot explain to a non-writer what it feels like when a chapter suddenly clicks. it's not satisfaction. it's not relief. it's this horrible specific feeling like you just remembered something you never knew. like the story was already there and you finally stopped being in the way of it. i don't know what to do with that feeling. i just close the laptop and stare at the wall for a bit.
Really getting annoyed in the mornings when I let mystself doom scroll for a sec...
AI everywhere, it's great, it's taking the soul from science.
If I remember Tumblr right, its in bad taste to post links from Instagram, but more and more of who I follow are adding or resorting to AI,
But this is just one of 6 AI articles I saw this morning,
Come on Pompeii!
Two trans girls brutally murdered in the span of a week but they're doing "hypervisibility" discourse on twitter. Feeling real privileged by my "hypervisibility" rn
Her family using her deadname in her funeral, articles calling a "transgender individual" instead of a woman, only refering to her with they they they them this person, can we kill everyone yet or nah
"hrt will make you gain weight" yeah it's called growing tits and getting a fat ass.
"hrt will make you gain weight" yeah and being heavier is not morally repugnant
You have to love every trans woman you meet. You have to love them AT LEAST as much as you could ever hate transmisogynists. Otherwise what is the point. You can yell and scream that you hate transmisogyny all day but if you're not a friend to trans women then you're not going to get anything done. Trans women are consistently some of the loneliest people on this planet due to social murder, lack of structural support, and social stigma. If you have "Fuck TERFs" in your pinned post but do not foster a safe place for trans women to exist in your circle then you are not a transfeminist. Loving trans women is praxis.
โWhat if poor people abuse the system?โ
The system intrinsically abuses poor people.
Hope this helps.
"What if poor people abuse the system?"
Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that
If a system needs to be abused for poor people to get the help they need, I don't think poor people are the problem.
Nine Inch Nails Tour Pick (1990s) โ โThereโs No Such Thing As Fake Titsโ
the tragedy of tumblr is you will inevitably meet people who you should be having a sleepover with. you should be rolling around on their floor and rummaging through their fridge and watching shitty movies with. you should be shopping with should be going out to a cafe with should be wandering through the aquarium with. people who you should be experiencing quotidian joys with... and you cannot! because they live one million miles away
Hollywood archaeology: Secret treasure! Hidden maps! Ancient tombs!
Actual archaeology:
so I wanted to find a picture of the lobster and
behold! an archaeologist
