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[hoenngarbage]

Tom Nooki Minaj Nooki Lewinsky Nooki the boss Nooki the Harajuku Barbie

[precioustranswoman-deactivated2]

There’s so much info about tucking and gaffs (less so) but to all new trans girls.. just get some cotton panties like boyshorts style and push it back gently.

 Like you might have to do slightly (slightly) more for tighter clothes or different fabrics but like… ya don’t need to tape yourself every day… or ever… and gaffs are good but unless you’re wearing something tight n thin cotton boyshorts or some other strong underwear will do the trick.

 Like all this info pretending like you need special gaffs, tape, to shove ur testes up into your inguinal canal, etc. is classist, physically harmful, and preventatively daunting information to be spreading without disclaimers like this.

[polyhedralprincess]

Idk if this has been said before but a long time ago another trans lady and I kinda realized we could just wear 2 pairs of underwear and call it a day without taping or anything fancy. Its definitely a cheap alternative and Ive been doing it for 6 years 👍

I wear jeggings to work and when im out and about and I never get looks or comments, idk if this is helpful to anyone tho 😅

[midtown120blues-deactivated2018]

[thatgirlwiththememes]

[archivearchivearchive20]

you mean to tell me spiderman’s uncle named after the nigga on the rice box?

[subarucloutback-deactivated2018]

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

Every day queer liberal imperialism reaches to new lows.

[hetcharacterof2day]

Heterosexual Character of Today:

Severus Snape from the Harry Potter Series

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[halharl-infigar]

This is honestly my whole outlook on life

[bikinip0werb0ttom-deactivated20]

MY FAVORITE VIDEO IS BACK

[notlorenzo]

The range of emotions..

[knowwhatimeme]

[lilyrkgk-deactivated20200608]

I can’t shower or brush my teeth or even drink water. My water is shut off entirely. The bill is $214; I can only assume this high due to months of nonpayment. My mother (the only other person in the household) has not held a job in many years and I have been looking for work for the past four months or so.

It’s already extremely hard to force myself out of bed in the morning, having to cope with severe depression, PTSD, and suicidal tendencies on top of dealing with gender dysphoria. Trying my damnedest to tend to my own well-being has been a miserable uphill battle for me and the last thing I need now is the inability to take care of my hygiene.

It’s really hard for me to ask for help, so this is the last thing I wanted to resort to, but simply trying to survive has been a long, arduous struggle. If there is any way someone reading this is capable of helping with any amount, my Paypal is:

–> [email protected] <–

If donating isn’t an option, please do me the courtesy of a reblog so that this might reach others. I have a fair bit of varying expertise if anyone would like to commission me for:

- Graphic design: I have years of experience in photomanipulation and design; used to do album artwork for a living. Willing to do various jobs in retouching or direct design work (even something as simple as wallpapers). Not amazing at typefacing or vector but more than willing to attempt.

- Web design: Excellent in design and front-end development. Capability in programming and databasing is limited due to years out of practice. HTML/CSS/Javascript(jQuery/MooTools)/(some) PHP.

- Video editing: Fast and efficient at editing material. Some limited After Effects knowledge as well.

- Music editing and audio production: Mixing and mastering, knowledge from years of experimentation.

- Music transcribing and arrangement: Only years ago, I was tabbing sheet music by ear for a living. I am fast and accurate. Can arrange music to instrument of choice.

- Composition: Various EDM/Pop/Hip-hop/Rock/Metal

- Art: Drawing and coloring. I am inexperienced but feel free to request something if you like my style at all.

[my-name-is-life]

[bubblegloopswamp-deactivated201]

Visit Original Link

listen I know we’ve had sonic songs in the past slowed down to sound like vaporwave but this takes the cake

[atomicshitpost]

i fuckin love this shfl’

[blackreads]

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

David R. Roediger

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.

In a new preface, Roediger reflects on the reception, influence, and critical response to The Wages of Whiteness, while Kathleen Cleaver’s insightful introduction hails the importance of a work that has become a classic.

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Coming of Age in Mississippi

Anne Moody

Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story—the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties an fifties—and to have survived with pride and courage intact.

In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidily reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South and a moving account of a woman's indomitable heart.

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[blackreads]

Title: S.T.A.R.: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle

Description: Untorelli Press presents a compilation of historical documents, interviews, and critical analyses of STAR, a group of street queens in early 70s New York City who self-organized for survival and revolt. Contained within are pamphlets distributed by STAR, as well as interviews with and speeches by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Additionally, we are excited to include a critical essay by Ehn Nothing on STAR’s legacy, the enemies of queer insurrection, and the war against gender.

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With new information being brought to light, we’re going to repost this book. Apparently Untorelli Press stole most of this work from posts and original research that Reina Gossett did a while ago. Here is the text of a post where she explains what happened. If you reblogged the original post we would ask that you delete it and reblog this new one with this important information on citations instead.

⧫⧫IMPORTANT CITATION & CORRECTION! ⧫⧫ From Reina Gosset.com: I just noticed Untorelli Press’ sylvia/star book and am glad that its compiled it and being distributed.  but it also raised concerns that i’ve been thinking about for a while now. i’m glad everyone is sharing this material, it certainly does not belong to me and it needs to be shared as part of sylvia and star’s legacy. But i’m saddened when an anti-authoritarian press with a wider distribution reach (because of how oppression works) takes material that i worked hard for years to make accessible to the world and doesn’t credit the labor that went into gathering it. I unearthed this material thru hustling my way into spaces that are historically unaccessible to black trans women.  Most recently when  I went to the New York Public Library to try and find STAR’s statement I was accosted coming out the bathroom and scrutinized by security. This isn’t something new, just part of living for me.  But that’s also part of the story of how the statement landed on the internet.   So when black trans women like myself do a lot of the unearthing work but then a press never cites that labor but just shares a “new book”I say time out. Especially when the people behind the book are trying to highlight the work of star and trans people of color as revolutionary precursors to themselves.   I have to say something because this is racism, ableism, white supremacy and transphobia at work and enacted, within our movement space.   This was labor and like the stories of marsha and sylvia, the labor i put into this isn’t even considered labor but something new exiting and revolutionary.  Why not just use your distro reach to link back to the people already doing that work? Again, i’m more than thrilled that the voices of trans revolutionaries are amplified and elevated but in that process do not erase the work of trans people of color that helped make your knowledge of star, sylvia and marsha possible, specifically black and latina trans women who did this as ways to connect with their own legacies of relationship and resistance. reina still here, —i originally uploaded that sylvia 1973 video after going thru the archives to find it: https://vimeo.com/45479858 re-wrote and pasted the star statement (previously not on the internet) after going to the notoriously transphobic new york public library and dealing with their security guards:http://thespiritwas.tumblr.com/post/43780113854/nyu-occupation-street-transvestites-for-gay-power edited and posted the sylvia radio show interview with officer pine during my ten year memorial post last year.http://thespiritwas.tumblr.com/post/19399849610/ten-posts-for-sylvia-riveras-ten-year-memorial—

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Cane

Jean Toomer

“A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readers’ and writers’ desks and in their minds.”―Maya Angelou First published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s

Cane is an innovative literary work―part drama, part poetry, part fiction―powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer’s impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.

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