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[gender0bender]

I have finally scanned and uploaded all of the 2010 Spring issue of Original Plumbing to internet archive for people to read for free. This issues focuses on health and safe sex in a transmasculine context, and features interviews, articles, and artist spotlights. You can buy this issue as well as others by the magazine on their bigcartel page here, and I really encourage you to support them! 

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1. A cover of a magazine depicting a shirtless white trans man with short dark hair and facial hair smiling at the camera. He is standing against a brick wall. In the top left corner is the logo of the magazine reading OP trans male quarterly , with more text in the bottom right reading “the health and safer sex issue N0.03 / spring / 2010 /US $8″

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[homoidiotic]

there's so much trans discourse that can really be solved by simply being able to accept that things you find confusing or dysphoria inducing, aren't the same things that bring those feelings to others, yes even those with similar identities/ experiences to you. those might be the very things that makes sense and are affirming for them even if they aren't for you. and maybe the things You find affirming, they wouldn't. but that doesn't mean anything about either of your identities or validness because there's no "right" or "wrong" way to experience your own gender. policing others genders isn't very appealing when you realize that that's exactly what everyone wants to do to All of us, regardless of how "Correct" your experience as a trans person might be. accepting our differences is just as important as accepting our similarities and projecting your own feelings or insecurities onto others in your community only serves to hurt us all

[derangedrhythms]

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

[homoidiotic]

TOP BOYS by @QUEERGARDEN

[homoidiotic]

Sky Renfro and Michael "Mike" Hernandez

(in 1992/ 1993/ 2017/ 2020)

[deanwinchesterapologist]

you guys wouldnt believe the day im having alone in my room

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I do not really know whether I have survived. My inner self has shut itself up more and more. As though to protect itself, it has become inaccessible even to me,”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Elisabeth Schenck wr. c. January 1919

[ithrowmyviolets]

I have always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I have worked hard at being the hero of my own life, but every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

[januaryhoney]

upstream, mary oliver

[bobajenga]

so fucking sad i logged back in here

[bobajenga]

“In New York City, Mitty just walked out the door and everything was right there: every conceivable store and restaurant, and on the sidewalk, Mitty's favorite shopping area, he could pick up sunglasses, watches and baseball caps to replace the ones he had almost certainly lost during the week. And not only was everything right there, everything was always open. Just to test this, Mitty and his dad would sometimes get a hot dog, sushi or a toothbrush at three a.m.”

- p. 11, Code Orange 

[simena]

Anastasiya Valiulina

[stavroginas]

Haruki Murakami, from Norwegian Wood

[exeggcute]

lol I am in such a stressed-out blind rage today from insurance bullshit that I wrote up a glossary of health insurance terms (things like deductibles, premiums, and copays) because all the free guides online are unnecessarily complicated and the only way you can squeeze a dime out of these bullshit companies is to understand their overly-complicated policies. give em hell

[nerdlingwrites]

This is a GREAT guide folks - it’s simple, straightforward, and deals well with the overly complicated alphabet soup of medical insurance. Knowing this stuff can prove REALLY helpful, and the examples used are a great resource. 

[jerrylandis]

Saul Leiter (1923–2013)

[alisonzai]

[fruitvendor]

hearing someone you love laugh is? easily one of the best things on earth