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I'm a fat Black queer boi and I created this blog to create a space for inclusive body positivity and not the white washed eurocentric cisheteronormative versions that plague the globe✨

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[jinxz-deactivated20210223]

i dont think tme people get, or ever will get, how deeply affecting the experience of transmisogyny is. will elaborate later.

[jinxz-deactivated20210223]

okay I drank more coffee and I'm ready to get into this.

so transmisogyny is the intersection of transphobia and misogyny, which should be obvious but some people don't like to listen. its another layer of oppression past the transphobia that transmascs have. every transfemme I've talked to and befriended has had some experience with feeling predatory for having feelings for someone (generally affects trans wlw more) or infantilized themselves and acted very gentle and passive in order to not feel as though they're predatory. (I'm still working through the first one and used to deal with the latter)

we're taught to be afraid of our own bodies, especially our genitals. it's as if we're monsters for being women born with penises, as if that in itself makes us gross. there's a reason that all the transphobic bathroom arguments come down to a "man dressed as a woman" preying on women. this goes a million times as far for black trans women, who have the added intersection of blackness. that paints them as even more masculine and aggressive despite how far that is from the truth.

I developed my eating disorder because i felt like my body was too big and masculine, that i would look more feminine if i were skinnier. thats obviously something cis women face, but its not the same for us. we're told we have male bodies and that we need to make ourselves smaller to fit in with "real women".

we're excluded from women's spaces for "not having the same experiences" or "invading" or whatever other transphobic reterric they want to use to allow trans men in but not us. we're alienated from trans/LGBT spaces due to the heavy focus on transmasc and tme nonbinary people in discussions of transitioning. for every 20 resources on how to bind and its dangers i get on my dash, I see 1 or 2 on tucking and its dangers. for every 20 binder giveaways i see I've never seen a gaff giveaway. I bet some of you don't even know what a gaff is. (its what we use to tuck)

the amount of times I've seen jokes about men in dresses, the amount of times i've heard words like femboy and tranny thrown around by tme people as if they're not harming us by doing so sickens me. every time you make genderbent fan art, draw a guy looking embarassed in a dress, or make a femboy friday joke, you are contributing to the stigma that follows us wherever we go.

I'm probably gonna lose followers for this and get told in the notes "I would reblog this but your tone is so aggressive :/" but I DON'T CARE. WE USED OUR POLITE VOICES AND YOU DIDN'T LISTEN. BLACK TRANS WOMEN BUILT THIS COMMUNITY AND NOW THEY'RE DYING ON THE FUCKING STREETS. WE AS A GROUP, ARE BEING TURNED AWAY FROM HOMELESS SHELTERS AND BEING JOKED ABOUT ON THIS AWFUL WEBSITE. IT'S OUR BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.

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Not to mention the fact that people barely understand anything about our transitions. I almost never see any kind of informative posts about what to expect from hormones/surgery/etc., and even the doctors that prescribe my meds hardly seem to know anything about them. The six page long informed consent document I had to sign to get my hormones listed like a hundred possible effects, all of which came with a “this may or may not happen we’re just kinda guessing” disclaimer, and I’ve STILL found TONS of things that no one EVER told me while they were busy stressing over and over that I’d probably be sterile after a while.

Did you know it’s not uncommon to lose a shoe size or two? Or to shrink a couple inches because your entire pelvis rotates after a while (which hurts like a motherfucker, I might add)? Or that it’s very possible that you’ll suffer some of the symptoms of PMS every month even though you can’t menstruate? Did you know your tastes in food might change because your sense of smell changes? Probably not, because barely anybody researches or published information on this stuff. And who even fucking knows what you can expect after surgery because hearsay reports vary wildly and there’s basically nothing out there.

It gets so much harder to stay healthy when it’s so hard to find information on how our bodies function.

[jinxz-deactivated20210223]

reblog this version actually

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I can’t wink but neither can Rihanna so I’m set.

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jesus did not die for this

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the more I stare at it the funnier it gets

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This is wonderful.

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Light skinned women who date colourist men only do it to validate themselves. Their whole esteem is built on the diminishment of dark skinned women and it’s pathetic because who are you really without those shallow and baseless types of affirmations? Insecure probably and just sad as hell. If you took it all away, you’d have to deal with how mediocre you are. But this has always been an aim of colourism / white supremacy, to allow mediocrity to thrive in all aspects of the lives of those who uphold it. That’s why many aren’t willing to dismantle such systems because who are they really behind it all? What percentage of their progress in life is down to hard work vs privilege?

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In action shot for my Tumblr fam!

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Well said.

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yo this is too beautiful to describe and fills my heart with pure joy.

3 things you should know about Brazil.

1. Brazil was the LAST country in the western world to abolish slavery

2. Brazil has the 2nd LARGEST Black population in the world, in ANY country (including 53 out of the 54 countries in the continent of Africa) Second only to Nigeria

3. 40% of the total number of enslaved Africans brought to the Americas were taken to Brazil. For comparison, the United States received 10%.

More on slavery in Brazil

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[ashleighthelion]

The Fat Census will be available on November 7th, 2017 for all fat bodied people. This survey is created to radicalize research around fat bodies and to create more tangible data to name the violence and experiences we have as fat people. We will be releasing the results of the census in an executive summary along with demands for resources for fat bodies in January 2018.

Check out more information on FreeFigure.org.

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