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Hello followers! The month of September has drawn to a close, and while this means that womenwhokickass is back to our usual posts, we’re already busy working on the next theme! (If you ask us nicely, we may tell you!)

In any case, it was wonderful writing for you all this month, and I hope you...

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A Letter to Maizi

Dear Mai, It has been 17 days since you were detained from home by the Beijing police for anti-sexual harassment events.

Since then, I count days you are away. I wish you would suddenly show up at home and surprise me. I have confidence because not only did you do nothing violating any law, but what you do is for love and justice. Because you are a lover who always keep your words, I want to believe you will come home to celebrate my 27th birthday with me, as you promised. We have planned so long for this day. Now, my biggest wish is your companionship. Remember the movie we didn’t finish that night you were taken? I won’t finish it by myself.

We made promise to each other at your birthday last year that we will be together regardless of all the challenges we need to face in the future. I didn’t expect the challenges come so soon and so cruelly. My birthday, like we promised each other, is the date we will put work aside and spend time only with each other. We are so longing for reunion because of our long distance.

For my birthday wish, no matter where we are, we will wake up naturally in each other arms. We will hold hands to buy groceries and cook for each other. Of course, you will tease me because I’m so bad at using the knife. I want to pick blueberry cheesecake for dessert. You will sing with the ukulele for me while I’m just free writing. At night, we will walk through the busy streets or sit next to the lake. We will talk and laugh. Or suddenly we are in sweet silence. Or we will hold each other because the night is too cold. Or we will fix each other’s hair in the soft light.

I think what we want is not too much and we seem to always have good luck. Could we keep this promise? I will never forget this promise of ours. We have been too far away from home, have been too far from each other for too long. For all the places I want to travel, they are only meaningful because I am with you. To think about your warmth and strength, I can recover from all the mistreatment and be strong again.

I have been listening to the songs you sang for me: Stars are crying in the sky, Roses are dying The wind is cold, the wind is cold. Bugs are flying, Flowers are falling asleep. Only in your arms, everything can be beautiful again. Don’t be afraid of darkness Don’t be afraid of broken-hearts No matter how hard it is No matter how far it is. Only in your arms, everything can be beautiful again.

As I write this, you are locked and tortured by the detention. You aren’t even allow to have access to lawyers. I feel like my wings were cut and rebuilt again. I lost my freedom and know how precious it is. (Translator Notes: when Maizi were detained from her home, the police detained her girlfriend as well. Later, Maizi’s girlfriend was released, and deported away from Beijing by the police. ) Lovers who are forced to separate will know how precious reunion is. We are never afraid of darkness, even though our hearts are always broken by force. At this moment, I hope to hold your hands to see the sun set. I hope this world will have a space for all people who love fearlessly.

Let me take all my memories of you with me everywhere I go. I hope my wish will come true. If not, if in any case, it doesn’t. My love, please keep our promise. No matter how bad the society and ignorant people treat us, I am always with you.

March 23rd, 2015. Love you. Aries.

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srsly best cup cover i’ve watched yet

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HIS REACTION THO

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This is the best thing I’ve ever seen.

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Black Trans History: Ballroom Legend/Muse/Singer, Octavia St. Laurent.

Many people were introduced to her through the documentary films Paris Is Burning and How Do I Look, and if you peruse YouTube you can still see her lovely visage in some of the uploaded video from ballroom competitions of the 90’s and 2k’s.

Octavia, just like the popular transgender, Amiyah Scott, wasn’t shy about acknowledging the fact that she was assigned male. Octavia, unlike many transgender women, also shared her childhood pictures publicly. Additionally, Octavia acknowledged her birth name; Jeffrey. When Octavia started walking balls in 1982, she became a part of a community that descended from the Harlem Drag Scene. That era was heavily populated by white men dressed in women’s garb. They are the ones who received the trophies, cash and accolades for their on stage performances. Blacks weren’t given the credit or fair opportunities to showcase their talents and stand center stage as the winner or top prize recipient during these years. As a result, Legendary Mother, Crystal Labeija, started the House Of Labeija; opening the door for young, black transgender women like Octavia to exist in the spotlight.

"Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?" - Octavia St. Laurent

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The infamous scene where Marlene Dietrich kisses another woman - which was added to the script at Dietrich’s suggestion - was saved from being cut by the censors by Dietrich herself. She came up with the idea of taking a flower from the woman before kissing her and then giving the flower to Gary Cooper, explaining that if the censors cut the kiss the appearance of the flower would make no sense.

This was not the only thing that was controversial at the time of release (1930). She also wore a tuxedo designed for a man in this scene.

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latest tattoo. <3

p.s this scene is actually the only good part of the movie, the rest is all her following around and obsessing over some army dude.

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Magdalena Frakowiak backstage at Christian Dior Couture Spring 2010

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The Bacon twitter rant that lost me five followers.

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Raiding Jeanette's closet while she's away. 💁 #whoworeitbetter

#whoworeitbetter

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oohhhh oh HO

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That poor little black pug who goes to greet them and gets mufasa’d in the stampede

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8 selfies of 2014... felt this was a bandwagon I needed to jump on.

#me #andmoreme #nonbinary #genderquestioning

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Space unicorn take 2 @sugarpill goldilux and @urbandecaycosmetics electric palette + @limecrimemakeup poisonberry #motd #space #altblackgirls

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OMFG YOURE SO BEAUTIFUL STOP

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On the same day MSNBC announces my new weekly culture show, So POPular! for its new digital network SHIFT, I get to share the cover of C☆NDY with Laverne Cox, Carmen Carrera, Geena Rocero, Isis King, Gisele Xtravaganza, Leyna Ramous, Dina Delicious, Nina Poon, Juliana Huxtable, Niki M’nray, Peche Di, Yasmine Petty, and the legendary Carmen Xtravaganza!

You can by the special anniversary issue here.

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Using the asterisk after trans* seems inclusive until you actually look at its history and what trans women and nonbinary people are saying about it. Here are some links about the nonbinary erasure and transmisogyny.

EDIT: @b-binaohan brought to my attention the original posts...