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rabioheab-deactivated20200416

earlier this year 2 boys got expelled from my school for going on a teachers email and sending another teacher an email that says “you’re a disgusting little man” and i laugh about it all the time because imagine opening an email from your coworker and thinking it’s important and then it says that

#a classic #this post is foundational to me

natade-art

kingdom hearts girls on the brain. i continue to skaterify all the fictional women i like. and ever since i did the eye color edits i cant help but draw them the same way…

#kingdom hearts #kairi #aqua #q

feliville

Ermes Costello for @creatingblackcharacters' DTYIS challenge !! This is a quicker drawing, but she was really fun to draw : -] !!

#people #q

breakbeatbun

im so hungry i could eat a dinner

breakbeatbun

im so hungry i could lay a dinner egg

yorgen-sh

sayhelloanimalfriends

this is the first time in my life i thought oh i hope there’s music

#fav #this may be the best video ever recorded

hexpatient

me: im disabled and have limits

the smartest most intelligent guy in the world with the most hugest dick ever like so big, like the biggest dick ever, man and also soooo intelligent and thoughtful and just so so intelligent: have you tried pushing yourself?

hexpatient

from my own experience and also from what i hear from others, the issue seems to stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of how i know my limits. i know because i have discovered and tested them. i push them sometimes, carefully. and occasionally i get ok results or at least nothing bad happens. but sometimes something does happen, so i MUST respect my limits.

but when i talk about disability to abled people, they assume its just a bad attitude. like ive defaulted to a "i cant" attitude. and that stems from a fundamental mistrust of disabled people, and the cultural grift of acting like bad things can only exist in the mind. yes i know this is old news. anyways.

#disability

ramalamacreatures

HANDMADE Polymer clay Ringed Seal Miniature :>

funkyfrogoftheday

today's funky frog of the day is the pacific chorus frog (Pseudacris regilla)!!!!! this froggy is also known as the pacific tree frog. they are rather teeny at only two inches, and they have a wide habitat in the pacific northwest! there are a few different colour morphs that this frog comes in.

photo © rlacroix

#frogs and toads

feliville

My take on Selene for @creatingblackcharacters' DTIYS Challenge!! I had a lot of fun working on this one as well : -] Moon Goddess my beloved 🤍🌒

#fantasy #q

aruviwrote

People, my wonderful transfem friend is taking students for her class. Do your thing and help her find students. The relative value of a dollar and a rupee means that just ten international students can help her make rent.

taliabhattwrites

Hey folks, Swarnim's an old friend and a talented engineer. As Aruvi said, a dollar goes a longer way in India, and India's current regime is exceedingly unkind to trans women trying to find gainful employment, or even just live their lives. Please help a trans woman from the third world support herself!

brambles-of-rambles

⋆.ೃ࿔:𓇼 Tell Me About The Surface ⋆.ೃ࿔:⋆

A Mermay AU where Aika is a bored princess who's fascinated by humans and the surface, much to Hoshi's annoyance.

#idwtbamg

whitneybarkman

The chickadees have been appreciating the feeder now that it's cold out.

#birds

creatingblackcharacters

"In moonlight, Black kids glow blue..."

I always wanted to reference Anok Yai's Swarovski Crystal fit for this piece, but it became evident quickly that the spirit of Celia Cruz wanted a word and I let her cook!!!!! The moon afro design was right there!!

I wanted to do two pieces for Selene for two reasons:

1) A Selene with albinism, same exact features. Still Black. Lighter skin does not imply that unambiguous Black features would just... not be present.

2) That if she absolutely had to change colors in the moonlight, why not albinism. I was also really excited to add her diasthema, this is the first time I've drawn teeth worth posting and I love her so much 🥹🥰

#people #q

rodeoradio

-Leslie Feinberg, from Trans Liberation Beyond Pink Or Blue

a-queer-seminarian

On Oppositional Sexism

Excerpt from Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano, 2007

The very idea that there are “opposite” sexes unnecessarily polarizes women and men; it isolates us from one another and exaggerates our differences. It provides the framework for us to project other “opposite” pairs onto female and male (and femininity and masculinity). Thus, we assume that men are aggressive and women are passive; men are tough and women are weak; men are practical and women are emotional; men are big and women are small; and so on...

Because the idea that women and men are “opposite” sexes automatically creates assumptions and stereotypes that are differently applied to each sex, I call this view of gender oppositional sexism. ...

Oppositional sexism delegitimizes exceptional gender and sexual traits, and can also create hostility and fear toward those who display them.

For example, the fact that I am a lesbian or a transsexual really shouldn’t have any bearing on anyone else’s gender or sexuality (after all, gender inclinations are not contagious). However, people who have not given any critical thought to their own sexual orientation, subconscious sex, and/or gender expression—and who therefore derive their own identities from oppositional assumptions about gender—may feel that their sexuality and gender are threatened by my existence.

After all, if you believe that a woman is defined as someone who is not male, masculine, or attracted to women, and that a man is defined as someone who is not female, feminine, or attracted to men, then the fact that I have changed my sex, or that I’m a woman who is attracted to other women, will inevitably bring everyone else’s gender and sexuality into question.

Because my lesbian and trans status appears to blur the very meaning of “woman,” other women might feel that I somehow undermine their own sense of femaleness, while some men might fear that if they were to become attracted to me, it might undermine their own maleness. So in a sense, the notion of “opposite sexes” intertwines all of our genders and sexualities with one another.

This interconnectedness of genders helps explain why we are encouraged to modify our own behaviors to better fit gender norms, and why we go out of our way to encourage genderappropriate (and to discourage gender-inappropriate) behaviors in others. The countless approving or disapproving comments that we make about other people’s gender presentations, identities, and behaviors create an atmosphere in which many people with exceptional gender and sexual traits feel that they have to remain closeted.

It also causes people with typical gender inclinations and sex characteristics to become self-conscious and on guard, as their gender may be brought into question at any time. Thus, oppositional sexism exacerbates gender anxiety in all people, and is a major factor responsible for most of the prejudice and discrimination directed at sexual minorities.

Unfortunately, one of the most common ways people with exceptional gender and sexual traits try to counter such discrimination is by neutralizing the significance of their particular exceptional traits while simultaneously emphasizing the ways in which they otherwise uphold oppositional sexist ideals.

For example, many people who are attracted to members of their own sex have tried to convince the predominantly straight mainstream public that “we’re just like you except for our sexual orientation.” This, of course, plays down the reality that many people who identify as bisexual, gay, or lesbian also have exceptional gender expressions, sex characteristics, and/or subconscious sexes. At the same time, many people in the transgender community have tried to neutralize their exceptional gender traits by stressing their heterosexuality: Some transsexuals insist that their goal is to become “normal” women or men (i.e., straight, with appropriate gender expression); and male crossdressers often emphasize the fact that they identify as men and are attracted to women (i.e., “normal” subconscious sex and sexual orientation).

The obvious problem with all of these approaches is that they marginalize those who have multiple exceptional gender and sexual traits. And their limited success is ultimately due to the fact that they attempt to cure the symptom (homophobia, transphobia, etc.) rather than the source of the problem (oppositional sexism)...