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˚。⋆୨୧˚ Welcome, esteemed guest! ˚୨୧⋆。˚
Welcome! I am Beedrops: freelance artist, variety streamer, and old-fart-at-heart who loves to dress like a butler.
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Zoot suits look kinda stupid but I gotta respect the cultural context & symbolism of the things
"Fuck the military and fuck the war, look at all this good uniform-worthy fabric I'm wasting on a fuckoff giant suit" is a very solid basis for a subculture
I actually really love to talk about zoot suits and their associated subcultures. The amount that the silhouettes of the zoot suit have shaped american fashion and trends of oversized clothes is so understated. And, yk, I'm biased as hell, but it is kinda crazy how influential zoot suit culture was
I always love the og zoot suits made by black americans in Harlem, I really like looking at the changes from these clothes from the 30s to some of the more exaggerated renditions from the 40s. It's also so interesting to look at how fast the subculture spread, and especially in the american west integrated with mexican diaspora and pachuco culture to the point that that's what a lot of usamericans associate them with.
⬆️ long wallet chains and pork pie hats were classic accessories for mexican diaspora zoot suiters. Zoot suits/their components were also really popular with women and were a way to symbolize independence and a choice to move away from strict gender roles on top of the existing countercultural message ⬇️
Anyways it's kind of impossible to talk about zoot suits without mentioning the racism and violence that followed them. On top of a zoot suit making someone a target for individual racial violence, the national reaction of white america to zoot suit culture was part of the beginning of clothing and presentation being read explicitly as signals by police and justice systems, and the broad association of youth of color with gang violence through this specific excuse. Gang culture and how it's percieved in the western US and especially California is very influenced by this era. The most famous events from the zoot suit era are the collective zoot suit riots and the media characterization of all mexican american, filipino american, and black american youth as violent anti-american baby gangsters. Which, even if that was broadly true I mean. I'll take the opportunity to be flippant hell yeah??
As a side note, while making more new zoot suits during war rationing was pretty sick, most people weren't buying from the black market tailor shops and just wore what they already owned because the style had been popular for years already. People bought clothes less often to begin with back then. I think that misconception comes from the reasoning white americans gave to go beat up people of color with baseball bats in the street; i.e. it was racial and xenophobic violence to begin with and the nature of the suits themselves has been mushed around a lot to serve different narratives.
More zoot suits! ⬇️
They can definitely look kinda goofy- mostly the exaggerated cuts and badly tailored modern recreations- but like you said you gotta respect them.
"The ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit" - Cab Calloway
you have to love trans women more than you hate transmisogynists. and i mean real trans women, not this abstract symbol you've created just to defend. the real flesh and blood human beings who are messy and complex and imperfect. you have to love them even when they fall outside of your preconceived idea of what a "good" trans woman must be, when they're doing femininity "wrong" or "not enough", when they understand themselves in terms you find unintuitive, when they're rubbing against your understanding of what a woman should and can be. you have to support the trans women in your life and you have to be kind to the ones you meet and you have to respect the ones on the internet. otherwise you're not helping, you're just using them to play hero.
youre mad that non binary people are- let me check my notes here. Not Binary
So let's talk about this in a little bit more depth. I happen to be comfortable (at least in most contexts, not all) openly identifying as both transfem and nonbinary, but non all nonbinary people feel this way.
Some reasons why they might not, and these examples are all from real people:
Some nonbinary people are fully agender, and don't like or identify with the terms transfem or transmasc because these terms imply they have a gender somewhere on the M-F spectrum, which they do not.
Some nonbinary people have a distinct gender (I,e. They are not agender) but it isn't on the M-F axis (e.g. aporagender, although not everyone for whom this scenario is true identifies with that term)
Some nonbinary people may privately identify as transfem or transmasc, but do not want to reveal which they are, and do not wish to reveal their assigned birth gender, so they publicly do not identify with these terms because they think it's none of your business.
Some nonbinary people's experience of transness involves crossing gender roles "both ways"; for example someone might pursue HRT but then engage in other presentation choices or even medical treatments that push people's perception of them back towards their assigned birth sex. So these people might identify as being both transfem and transmasc in different aspects of their life. Or they may find these labels flawed because they are oversimplified so they want to avoid using them entirely.
Some nonbinary people are genderfluid so they may feel transmasc or transfem some of the time, but not all of the time, and because of this, they may feel uncomfortable labeling themselves with one of those terms on a more permanent basis.
Some nonbinary people are intersex and their experience of transness does not start fully from a binary reference sex, and thus they are not fully comfortable with the terms transfem or transmasc, even if their gender identity would technically satisfy it with respect to their binary sex assigned at birth. They see the terms as misleading, overgeneralizing, and/or erasing key aspects of their intersex experience.
All of these sorts of nonbinary people are valid.
There might be other people I haven't even imagined. These are just ideas I have heard people express.
Please liberate yourself, don't hold onto anger at nonbinary people when that anger is best directed at the systems that oppress us.
I have no real commentary here, and it's not my place to do so anyways. Was just thinking further on this topic today. As someone who's not known any other trans guys but has a number of trans fem friends, I'm disappointed in myself for my ignorance of this perspective and will be sure to keep it in mind.
Happy Pride, give your local ace lesbian some kickback!
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This Pride, make sure every trans woman that you follow, are mutuals with, goon over, or consume their work in general, has a roof over their head, their bills paid, and food in their kitchens.
You wanna call yourselves allies? This is the work. Do it.
And yes, I'm putting my links on here because I still have to get around 1800 in for rent and bills.
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And yes, if you're transfem of any kind, you're welcome to add your own links on here when reblogging.
do you remember Angel Maxine, the artist behind this song?
Angel opened a gofundme about a month ago, so if possible please consider donating to help fund her future projects :)
I’m Angel Maxine, a trans woman, artist, musician, and activist using my voice, music, and vis… Maxine Angel Opoku needs your support for P
if you aren't able to donate, please share! as of writing this, Angel has only raised €433 out of her €7k goal
I love bisexual fans and bisexual characters and bisexual OCs and bisexual headcanons and bisexual ships and bisexual stories and bisexual friends and bisexual art and being bisexual. 💙💜💗
✨🏳️⚧️ A short pride comic, hope you’re all well 🏳️⚧️✨
"[thing associated to trans women] but for transmascs :3" and other ways of making something immediately worse on multiple levels
asking for the blue version because you cannot possibly just relate to women once in your life
usually transmisogynistic
even when talking about something like art, and even if not done in an explicitly transmisogynistic manner, self-evidently derivative and i've yet to see somewhere where it didn't become instantly less interesting than the original concept
have you ever had a single original thought
"what about men :("
there is absolutely nothing barring you from engaging with transfem culture as a non-transmisogynized person btw. i read countless books and articles from trans women and transfeminized people, follow multiple comedians, go to events where non-transmisogynized ppl are allowed, etc etc etc. they're neat. and turns out when you don't go around whining about the poor forgotten men nobody has a problem with it
#a lot of this impulse is just because of bullying#like the idea that trans womens art/memes/culture are ‘cool’#and trans mens are lame and cringe#well i hate to say trans men do have culture lol you just find it embarassing#maybe look inward.
maybe there's something to it (tags by @bottom-growth) because there is a certain brand of tboy edgelord who's all about Punk But With Frogs or whatever who, anecdotally, i'd say is overrepresented here. thing is, mainstream culture also finds transfem-associated things "cringe" (just look at how people will talk about puppygirls to name one), they just take whatever they feel like from it all the same and get to be "cool" once they are the ones doing them. the girls just seem better at not giving a shit (generally speaking, of course)
Please remember that Pride is important because someone tonight still believes they’re better off dead than being themselves.
you can say "writing a genderbend manga doesnt make someone an egg" but then theyll say some shit like "to become a girl who is loved by girls is the desire of all humanity" like ok. come on
source is "A Manga About a Hero who Pulled Out the Holy Sword and Became a Girl" by Fukuoka Taro
Happy Pride Month everyone! Remember 4 months ago when the CEO of this platform harassed and chased a trans woman off this website just for posting her transition timeline, then chased her to other social media platforms to continue harassing her, and threatened to call the FBI if she continued disputing the multiple dubious terminations of her blogs that did not violate tumblr's terms of service in any way? And despite tumblr staff insisting that the CEO was acting against their interests, the broad transmisogyny evident in the site's culture and moderation policy has still not been adequately addressed?
Remember that staff is continuing to nuke the blogs of trans women even after all of this. Remember this post when they call this site the queerest place on the internet again this month
It's 2 years later. It's gotten worse. Happy pride month.
tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you
thank you to weird girls for being online