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@alithiasigma
I constantly want to interact with RP blogs where the character is running the blog the same way as I would with just. Someone's normal blog, but I keep wondering if the writers find it weird or if they're okay with me interacting with their guys as if the characters are actually running the blog as just... myself, on the blog I actually use.
I'm not currently building a Canadian discord to organize this within my country at all >.>
Totally not something we could all work towards... no...
If you want to help build the 2028 general strike, you need to prioritize organizing your workplace and your local community.
None of this happens without networks at ground level making sure people have their basic needs met. Regardless of how successful a nationwide or worldwide action is in the end, you can improve each other's lives and build community power in order to continue the fight. If you need help getting started, check out iww.org to find local labor organizing help for any industry.
the "transfeminist" discourse on this website is so like... white trans women need to be more aware of the fact that asians assigned male at birth are often perceived as more feminine than their white counterparts. if you're black, it's the opposite. they speak like everyone starts out the same, but that's just not true. you, as a white person, are far more free to explore femininity/masculinity than people of color are.
they also don't seem to understand the ways in which cis women of color are forced to interact with western ideas of gender. the darker your skin is, the more masculine you're often thought of being. i said this the other day, but not all cis women get to enjoy the cliche soft femininity filled with flowers and rainbows. darker-skinned women are not handed femininity on a silver platter. maybe take that into consideration the next time you try to pull some theory out of your ass
this. another reason why the TMA/TME binary doesn't work. cis black women are far more likely to be transvestigated, but I'm supposed to believe they're exempt from experiencing transmisogyny? no, that's fucking bullshit. everyone can be affected by transmisogyny, or transandrophobia, or just transphobia period. even perisex cis people.
this is something i see missed a lot in white transfeminist spaces and that i'm grateful for the chance to hear folks discuss. i think the tma/tme binary also fails to support our two-spirit and transgender native relatives whose genders and gender presentations are violently policed and managed by colonialist gender standards.
and it abandons ALL native people who experience this gender-coercive violence. a cisgender lakota man whose gender is wičháša is cisgender and yet also white colonial violence will be done against him on the basis of his gender expression. he will be policed on his hair and sacred braids, he experiences increased risk of violence and sexual assault, he lives with the effects of trauma and their relatives alcoholism and addiction and suicidality, and ultimately has a far higher likelihood to attempt suicide. or be murdered.
Indigenous people continue to honor the Mniconju actor and call for justice
this is not a hypothetical lakota man. justice for Cole Brings Plenty now, and remember that your campaign to guarantee freedom from medicalized coercive assignment of sex and gender needs to also defend the gender expression of native peoples.
the crisis of MMIW and MMIP directly reflects how limiting and violent white colonial expectations of gender and sex are for First Nations, pueblos originarios, indigenous, native, and American Indian people.
i truly think that this recent trend of “if you relate to a post about a different identity than your own you are ~derailing~ and taking over the conversation” is incredibly harmful.
i recently experienced some pretty severe transphobic abuse in my workplace (children’s home) that included having food thrown at me, being called slurs, being told i was a pervert because i am trans. one of the managers talked with me afterwards and shared that he had had a similar experience as an Asian man. this wasn’t him derailing my experience, or talking over me, or making things about himself. he was communicating “hey, i know how it feels and how much it sucks. you’re not alone.”
THAT is what solidarity IS. i don’t know what it’s like to be Asian, he doesnt know what it’s like to be trans, but we both had a similar experience and we were able to turn a horrible experience into an opportunity for bonding and comfort.
stop looking at people’s attempts as solidarity as an attack. and hey, you never know - you could find an opportunity to grow closer to other people.
when the majority of the fandom hcs a character as transmasc but you and like ten other people hc them as transfem
it’s fine i’m fine this is fine
I love you black trans men. I hope yall know I’m rooting for you.
This seems like a good time to boost @paristtmpped on YouTube. (If we want black trans men and their projects visible and celebrated we gotta do it ourselves; the algorithms are not kind to them.)
He's a musician and he vlogs about queer and trans stuff. Both his music and vlogs have a really chill, thoughtful, personal vibe.
Here's one of his songs. Right now it's got 378 views and 45 likes. I need you guys to go fucking explode those numbers.
Go watch his stuff and signal boost the fuck out of it, okay? I know y'all can do it.
okay so there's yet another genre of post that bothers me and it's the "old lady parties/gets goofy teehee it's so unexpected bc old ladies are supposed to be cute and quiet and knit and cook, not do shots" one. the whole joke is that old women aren't supposed to have fun and ohoho it's cute and quirky that grandma drank a marg on vacation! like yeah. that's what you do on vacation. even if you're a seventy year old woman
these types of posts also make me realize that a lot of younger people don't have many intergenerational friendships, even with their own family. bc if you hang out with older women, you realize that it's not terribly shocking that they have fun or go dancing or whatever. or that they can be strong and self-reliant.
my mother is in her mid-60s and has a lot of fun. she dances a lot (including to the rhythm of the copy machine at her work), she enjoys having a few drinks around a bonfire every so often. she's not elderly or old yet, but she talks sometimes about "aging with joy" and it's a pretty direct response to the idea older women have to be all prim and proper.
I got her a chainsaw for mother's day one year and her current favorite hobby is cutting up deadfalls and hauling wood back to have a bonfire. people giggle about the image of a small woman in her 60s running around the woods, hauling lumber, because it juxtaposes the cuddly old grandma stereotype when like. she's just having fun and doing things herself. I don't offer to help, not because I'm a bad daughter, but because it's her Thing she likes to do and it'd be condescending to be all "oh ma, you're too old" (and you shouldn't start shit w someone wielding a chainsaw anyway).
one of my best friends, a former work colleague, is close to my mother's age and loves going out to the gay bar. she's got 30+ years on me and I can't keep up with her lol but it shouldn't be kooky or weird or funny that she's still going out to the bar she's gone to since the 80s.
my grandma and her "girl gang," as she likes to call her group of friends, are all in their late eighties or early/mid nineties. when it's nice out, they go hiking then stop at a local restaurant for drinks and apps. I'm 27 and do the same with my friends and the idea I can still be active and social when I'm 90 makes me happy.
grandma has recently become comfortable swearing and flipping the bird. it's funny bc she's always been fairly proper and a little uptight, not because she's old. that also makes me happy, the fact she's finding new ways to express herself in a manner that goes against her "women should be quiet" upbringing in the 1940s. it's actually very cool that she's getting over some ideas about how women should act at eighty-nine.
idk y'all, I think older women are pretty cool and we shouldn't act like them doing normal, fun, human things is some kind of circus trick or comedy bit. it comes off as ageist and sexist. older women have put up with more shit than young people like me could fathom and deserve to have fun without being the butt of the joke.
One of my girl friends is older than me (I'm 29, she's 41) and one night, a group of us we were getting back from a rave and in her inebriated state she suddenly got self conscious. She asked us if we were embarrassed by her; if it was weird that someone at her age was going out with a bunch of young ladies (other ladies were 22, 21 and 30), and if she should act more her age, or something along those lines. I was genuinely so heartbroken she would feel that way. The rest of us immediately reassured her that we loved her and we loved her company and wouldn't have it any other way. Who cares what age she is, we were out having fun and enjoying the night. And anyone who judged her for it was a fucking loser. And I personally told her that if she stopped going to raves with me I would be devastated. She seemed so relieved
one thing i loved about my grandma is that woman was OUTSIDE, always. she was either going to a party or throwing one herself just for the hell of it and to bring everyone together.
Another thing to factor into this is the Generational map. Gen X is drifting inexorably into retirement age at the moment, and so you're going to see a lot more of "old folks giving zero fucks" as they stop working and make up for having silently carried the world for 40 years. Gen X has made a life habit of 'whatever'ing their way through the disapproval since before Reagan fucked over the US, and as we get older, the amount of fucks we give for how we 'ought to behave' is going to get lower and lower. We've never been fit for dinnertime conversation, or church potlucks, and we aren't going to start now.
And for what it's worth, we still know all the best ways to get blood out of a school uniform in under 12 hours. It's just now, we'll share the secrets over margaritas at the back yard bonfire.
*sits backwards on a chair like a youth pastor* hey gang. what if this october we did italian american heritage month but in a woke socialist way where we define italian american identity around the dismantling of white supremacy and white identity, solidarity with Black people, solidarity with Indigenous people in demanding actual material landback, solidarity with all modern immigrant groups facing racialized xenophobia, reclaim the history of the Italian American left (especially the women), and educate ourselves on the current political state of Italy especially with regards to the treatment of immigrants & non-white Italians as well as antimeridionalismo and other social evils. what if we burned an effigy of that cunt columbus on the front lawn of the Italian Sons & Daughters of America
Really wish we'd, on the left, stop laughing and assuming this is ACTUALLY about strippers. I'd be willing to bet this ISN'T about some one with the actual job of stripper being somehow hired and sent to a school, that indeed DOESN'T happen - instead it will be used to target any female teacher who, like, wears a bikini on social media one time. She'll be called a "danger" to children and fired, as a cover for the fact that she's pro-queer or too far left or doesn't support ICE enough on that same social media. The bikini pic will just be the legal tool used to ruin her life
A friend helped me out by looking up the actual bill and YUP, it's to target queer people and sex education. NOT. STRIPPERS. STOP MAKING IT ABOUT THE FUCKING "STRIPPERS".
Anyone who thinks ladyshinga might be off track, here's the breakdown.
Actual bill name: Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.
Purported purpose: "to protect children from being exposed to explicit material in the classroom".
How it's sold in the press: "Ban strippers and porn from classrooms!"
Actual text of the bill: Expands the meaning of "sexually explicit content" to include the words "or involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism".
Not and. Or. Meaning "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" is in and of itself enough to be classified as sexually explicit.
Actual result: Illegal to mention the existence of trans people or admit to being trans in a classroom under threat of being prosecuted as a child sex offender.
Political pet peeve but nothing being done is a "distraction" from anything else. Everything that the current administration is doing is an extension of American imperialism and conservative American values. Iran is not being bombed to "distract from the Epstein files", trans legislation is not being passed to "distract from Palestine", none of this is happening just to "distract" you. And dismissing certain issues as "distractions" is a horrific excuse of them.
It is, however, happening all at once to overwhelm you. And there is a HUGE difference.
A lot of people don't realize just how much space car infrastructure takes up. So I've decided to provide everyone a visual aid!
I've presented two maps at the exact same zoom level, as indicated by the big red arrow. They also each have a red area circled, of approximately the same area.
In the first image, I've circled one of eightish parking lots at a US mall. A normal amount of distance for even Americans who drive everywhere to walk through.
In the second image, I've circled:
a subway station
a park
like twenty apartment buildings
like twenty restaurants
three convenience stores (which, being Japanese, can also handle banking, copying/printing, and a variety of governmental paperwork)
one grocery store (another two right outside the circle)
seven medical clinics, two pharmacies
a fire station
a post office
two preschools and three cram schools
a Shintō shrine
a Buddhist temple
multiple parking lots
This wasn't even a particularly cherry-picked part of Tokyo! I just picked the area around my house.
Soda was an effervescent corn-based drink that was popular during the height of the American Empire. Regionally known as pop or coke in some provinces, it was prepared by extracting corn sugars into a thick syrup to be mixed with water
Often dispensed from a many spouted font and served with small, rectangular blocks of ice. Some varieties of soda were thought to have energy enhancing properties.
Actually this has been debunked! While many images found from the time period depict what *appears* to be small blocks of ice, evidence and testing have shown extremely elevated levels of plastic, meaning that those blocks were actually just clear plastic!
It's not yet known why they chose to put this substance directly in their drink, but our leading theory is that it was a religious ritual to show their devotion to the god of plastic. We've found much evidence of the material used during the time period in spite of their access to glass and metal, which we also believe has religious significance.
I have absolutely no recollection of writing this at all
Probably the religious ecstasy from microplastics
dan turned cinderella into yuri
Idk how to use Tumblr this is my first time 💔
Ever Wonder who Stopped the Rain?
Most people know when to stop eating, when to stop working, when to stop talking, when to stop exercising.
Most people do not buy 10 pairs of pants or any women 10 dresses in one shopping purchase?
Some brands are necessary to our daily lives like Proctor and Gamble and SJC household products. Everybody buys those products in small quantities on a regular basis? However, when it comes to Apple, Amazon, Tesla why do people not express sufficient satisfaction and enter purchase resistance? Why do we not ever think these companies have had enough of our time, money, and attention to prove themselves? Are they really doing anything life changing on a world alters?
Why do we not give sufficient chance to new entrants, new ideas, small financial spread of luck and fortune? Are we really that impressed with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos floating with all that fortune?
Where will we be if we continue on like them? Do people really feed good about giving them another house or yatch? What happens in economics when so much capital vaults to the top? The pool or pie does not grow or get larger. The U.S Bureau of Labor still reports that 2 out of every 3 jobs comes from small to medium businesses and family businesses! Stop to think next time your purchase impulses try to steer you over to those big flashy brands with little return value to the broader family!
Source: Ever Wonder who Stopped the Rain?
the way transgender women convince themselves that their only other allies in this world are other transgender women is really sad
the idea that there is one group of people that you will only ever find sanctity in and every other group of people on the planet is just waiting to betray your trust is just. Fucking!! Sad!!! It leads to so so so much self isolation because the myth of The Only People You can Trust as a TGirl Are Other TGirls gets perpetuated so often by women who have been hurt and see it as an innate truth rather than the product of circumstance
I saw the smoke from this fire a mile away on other people's blogs and sites, but you're honestly 100% correct.
This is not "blaming trans women for our own misery". This is not telling trans women to abandon their safety. It's a tragedy that things are this way.
But we're seeing a LOT of misery in trans communities right now (and, I'm pretty sure, a lot of it is deliberate from the outside), especially from trans women. There are people out there who love and support you.
Remember my post about solidarity between cis women and trans women? Remember the stories that people put there? Stories of friendship, hope, protection, safety, and community.
You're not just "a transwoman". You're a transgender woman. A woman. A trans person. A member of your community, your neighborhood, the environment around you. There are people out there who will love you. You have to find them.
And again, I'm going to restate that I think some of this is being promoted by transphobes and bots. I've seen an uptick in self flagellating misery in trans online communities recently: more talk of "failed transitions", more people convinced that every cis person wants them dead in sight, more suicidal ideation. And each instance of it perpetuates more of it, from actual humans.
I'm not saying that things aren't rough. I'm not saying to not protect yourself. I am saying that more people love you than you know.
