book nest

just a guy out here enjoying books. my name is lark and im bi/trans and always down for a good... or sometimes bad... book.

[auriidae]

what i'm getting out of the books so far

[st-dionysus]

Don't know who needs to hear this, but trans men are the authority on our existence. The people who know the most about trans men's experiences and oppression, are in fact, trans men.

[theo-is-door]

Transmasculine invisibility is pretty misunderstood i fear. I think a better way to put it is Transmasculine erasure.

It's not that we blend in

It's not that lawmakers don't think about us

It's not simply underrepresentation

Our murders are erased as femicide

Violence against us is marked as violence against women

Law makers DO think about us and the laws they make are made to erase us. Laws that talk about trans youth are very often about "saving young girls, preventing mutilation, and preserving fertility" These laws are made to keep us from existing in the first place

We are erased medically as well. Denied fertility and reproductive care because "men don't have uteruses"

We are erased when people in our community don't listen to us or talk about us.

When we are told to be silent and to shut up, we are not invisible, we are being silenced.

Invisibility implies a state of being that we embody rather than acknowledge the Verb that it is. We are Made invisible. It is an Act against us. We are Actively Erased and excluded. From statistics, from discussions, from the news, from support networks.

You can see the violence of it plainly in the reactions to our voices. How angry people get when we demand to be heard and seen and talked about. To be acknowledged. Erasure is not a privilege or a shield. It's actually incredibly violent

[genderqueer-butch]

Putting aside the reasons why James Barry's trans identity is erased, the thing that sickens me the most is the fact that "empowering cis woman" is something people will celebrate more than an empowering trans man. Like, it feels like the attitude is "oh, he was a trans man and not actually a woman? lame :/" we can't even be happy and celebrate the accomplishments of a trans man. A trans man's accomplishments aren't even to be celebrated.

A trans man's accomplishments aren't even celebrated the ways a cis woman's accomplishments are and there is something so, so, so vile about that.

[likesdoodling]

Look guys! It's Menolly! (and Beauty) :D:D:D Been re-reading some Anne McCaffrey books. Dragonsong was the first Pern related book I read (wasn't allowed to read the 'grownup' ones till I was 15), and since my other favourite book at the was 'My side of the mountain' (running away from home and living in the forest kinda thing), Dragonsong had me hooked. But it's been a while so coming back to it after a few years was pretty cool.

[thepinkpestilence]

historical transmascs when you open a bag of sour gummy worms:

James Barry/Billy Tipton/Alexander Alexandrov/Lou Alcott/Ljuba Prenner/Piotr Odmieniec Włast/Amelio Robles Ávila/Alan L. Hart/Lobzang Jivaka (Michael Dillon)

[thepinkpestilence]

a historical transman:"despite being born as a woman, i changed my name since my youth, dressed as a man of my time, refered to myself with he/him pronounce and would literally fight anyone who ever dared to question my manhood with violence and all that i did through most of my life which lasted for decades until my very last breath. also please dont inspect my corpse. thanks."

some "feminists": omg what a girlboss!!🫢🤗 she was such an icon for going through all of that just to achieve success in male dominated jobs!!🙌 what a shame she was forced to pretend to be a guy tho🥺🙄 but dont worry queen!!😉 we will make sure to write you in as one of the greatest women in history!!😘 we got you bestie!!! 🎀🫶

[tsukinohana]

little rec chart i made today!

[valiants]

Lovely request from Glorybean, thanks Glorybean...☁️🩵

[s-color]

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[thepunkmuppet]

my girl celia really said have you ever heard of this one show it’s called the magnus archives and it’s a podcast distributed by rusty quill and licensed under a creative commo-

[heyitskoye]

You get a new job. The pay isn't great. Your co-workers are your ex and a workaholic. You get nightmares from The Horrors. You just got an email from a cryptid. The IT guy wants to fistfight you.

[siderains]

book howl was so real for abandoning his professional career and academic life at the moment a fantasy witchy world was available you go king wear fancy clothes! do magic! fight capitalism! don’t communicate your basic feelings! annoy the woman you would die for!

[theseuscloud]

[yetwesleep]

terrible day for people whose favorite characters are alice and tim

[cornonthecobtv]

Imagine being samama khalid kind of confused about your weird new job when all of a sudden you get an email from jesus himself saying 𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔪y 𝔣𝔲𝔠k𝔢𝔡 𝔲𝔭 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔴𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔲𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔳𝔢 so naturally you ask the I.T guy about it and instead of helping he starts beating your ass and steals your fucking phone. id shit

[statementends]

Jon's email: here is Archivist speedruns strats. This glitch lets you meet Gertrude and Gerry before they both die.