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This is the story of Toni and Charlotte who escaped the Nazis. It's the first Trans+ History Week article of 2024
Prague, 1942. A refugee Jewish couple light Shabbat candles as night falls. The words of their Shabbes prayer ignite the Friday night darkness, alongside the hesitantly kindling flame. Together they create a holy space of rest in the middle of an increasingly hostile world that persecutes them: for their faith, their sexuality, and because both women are trans.
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the doctor down the street who gives me my T shots in a clinic so small that it's just two rooms was excited for me when she said my voice had dropped yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the receptionist who could see that I was a man didn't bat an eyelash when I asked to see the gynecologist and called me sir when he asked how I wanted to pay yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the barber cuts my hair exactly how I want it and never gave me strange looks for being in a men's salon not even back when I didn't pass as one
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely
yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I'm here, and I'm alive, and so are you and there are good people, people who care and don't let them make you forget that-- you are not alone.
Gay pride saw shark 💙 I couldn’t be happier with how this series is coming along!
Hanmerhead shark 🩷
Featuring the colors of the lesbian flag 🏳️🌈
Pride sharks! Happy pride month :D more super cute pride flags themed sharks coming soon 👀
Happy Pride Month from all of us here at Watcher! 100% of profits from our boo-tiful new Pride merch collection (designed by our pal Jared Sosa!) will be donated to National Center for Transgender Equality & The Okra Project 💙🩷🤍
Do you have the Libby library app?
Meet Libby. Discover and enjoy ebooks and audiobooks from your local library.
If not, download it to your phone, and under "Add library card" select the button to search for a library and start typing in "queer"...
Sign up with an email, no actual address required, and you are good to go 🏳️🌈
Self reblog, especially important for USA friends today !
{ID - screenshot of the Queer Liberation Library Libby main page, showing 6 titles (one of which is an audio book). The titles displayed are the Trans Teen Survival Guide; Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next); We Will Be Shelter: Poems for Survival; Tomboy Survival Guide; A Burst of Light and Other Essays; and Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
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The director yelled “another take couldn’t hurt” but they heard “you boys better WORK!”
100% of profits from our 2026 Pride collection (available on watcherstuff.com!) will be donated to National Center for Transgender Equality and The Okra Project!
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Trans pride blacktip sharks 🏳️⚧️🦈
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do you know any lighthearted books with transfemme leads? something with minimal focus on transphobia and trauma
Sure, check these out!
Cheer Up! by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter (YA graphic novel)
The Summer Love Strategy by Ray Stoeve (f/f YA romance with a trans LI)
Chef’s Choice by TJ Alexander (m/f t4t romance)
Roller Girl by Vanessa North (f/f romance)
Fake It by Lily Seabrooke (f/f romance)
Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver (f/f/f sci-fi)
Also it obviously has a focus on transphobia but I really can't recommend One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller highly enough; it's also a really fun and romantic sporty read.
Queer Resilience Series, watercolor “We Are Resilient / We Are Persistent / We Are Everywhere” (shop)
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in spite of it all, happy 2026 pride.
you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads
you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride
these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.
final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍
happy pride month :] here's freddie and his cats
Making Black Queer History: William Dorsey Swann
William Dorsey Swann was born into slavery in Hancock, Maryland on November 4th, 1860. At the end of the Civil War, his parents bought a farm, and shortly after that, Swann began his first job as a hotel waiter. He was caught stealing books from the Washington Library Company (as well as an object from his employers' home) at 24 years old, charges of petty larceny he plead guilty to and was subsequently sentenced to six months in jail.
However, luck - and possibly genuine allyship - were on his side: his former employers, as well as the judge and Assistant US Attorney assigned to his case, all supported a presidential pardon on his behalf, arguing he was "free from vice, industrious, refined in his habits, and associations, gentle in his disposition, courteous in his bearing" (quote indirectly attributed to the case). This petition was founded on the grounds that he had demonstrated an effort to improve his own education and provide for his family.
Swann was not only the first U.S. American to lead a gay resistance group, but also the first official drag queen, or as he called himself, a "queen of drag." He organized a series of drag balls in Washington, D.C. throughout the 1880s and 1890s, the majority of the attendees of which were formerly enslaved African Americans. A group of regulars formed the "House of Swann", one of the earliest examples of a drag house or "haus", a.k.a. an organized attempt at creating a LGBTQ found family. Because these drag events were considered taboo, invitations were most frequently placed in the secrecy of safe spaces like the YMCA.
Due to the rampant prejudice against queer folk, free Black folk, formerly enslaved people, and especially people who were all of the above, Swann's home was raided and he and his guests were arrested by the police on multiple occasions. The most infamous of these instances took place on April 12, 1888, during which Swann was arrested at his thirtieth birthday party - the first ever documented case of an arrest made on the grounds of "female impersonation." That was the origin of what I would argue is his most legendary quote, "You is no gentleman", words Swann spoke in abject fury to an arresting offer.
These words made clear exactly what qualms Swann and his fellow Black and queer Americans had with the current establishment: rich and working class whites alike, but especially white nonqueer male landowners, often shared the unfounded belief that they were inherently more sophisticated - and deserving of this perception by others - as a result of their social privilege. These whites thought of themselves as white knights; protectors of white women, white children, and Manifest Destiny, but their desire to defend the innocent and vulnerable from harm did not extend beyond those they viewed as their own kin. By common standards today, this definition of "gentlemanly behavior" is quite ungentlemanly, a sentiment not echoed but rather originating with Swann's famous words of defiance.
Swann died at age 65 on December 23, 1925 after a long life of unapologetic devotion to the Black and queer community of Hancock. Local officials burned his home to the ground in the wake of his death, but their cruel actions failed to tarnish, let alone outlive, his legacy.
"You is no gentleman." — William Dorsey Swann
You might not know that he...
Was fully literate; capable of both reading and writing in English
Had an intimate relationship with Pierce Lafayette
Requested a pardon from President Grover Cleveland, who refused to grant it (July 29, 1896)
And his drag balls laid the foundation for modern day "voguing" with the cakewalk, a dance that mimicked the mannerisms of plantation owners
Was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community's right to gather
Read more:
William Dorsey Swann, the Queen of Drag (Rediscovering Black History)
The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave (The Nation)
House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens (Channing Joseph, Whiting)
William Dorsey Swann: The first "Queen of Drag" (American Masters, PBS)
How a former slave became the world's first drag queen (Alva French, Dan John, BBC)
The First Drag Queen (Channing Joseph, American Academy in Berlin)
William Dorsey Swann (Otis Alexander, Black Past)
From slavery to voguing: the House of Swann (Marjorie Morgan, National Museums Liverpool)
Giant* rainbow pride flags on all seven continents!
Countries are: Mexico, Turkey, China, the Philippines, South Africa, Greece, Brazil, Antarctica. Cities in caption!
*the last one is giant for the penguins 🏳🌈🐧
