Cis-Critical, not Cisphobic

Cis-critical trans lesbian radical feminist

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

Also, if you're expecting the same kind of theory talk/analysis of my life experiences or whatever on my new blog as on this one, you will be disappointed.

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

I should announce this here, I’ve moved to a new blog. Message me or something if you want to know and if you already know me. I’ll get back to you either immediately or whenever I next log in here depending on whether or not I’ve already logged out. I’ve already told some people.

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

Clarification: if you think I will recognize your URL or one of your past URLs, it's ok to ask (obvs if it's a past URL it might be good to say that that's who you are) and I'll probably give you my new URL.

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

I should announce this here, I’ve moved to a new blog. Message me or something if you want to know and if you already know me. I’ll get back to you either immediately or whenever I next log in here depending on whether or not I’ve already logged out. I’ve already told some people.

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

I should announce this here, I've moved to a new blog. Message me or something if you want to know and if you already know me. I'll get back to you either immediately or whenever I next log in here depending on whether or not I've already logged out. I've already told some people.

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

"maybe mercury coming out of retrograde will be a good time to come off hiatus", I thought

nope.

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

not entirely sure how I feel getting notes from unrelated people I don't know on that post I'm going to delete or private.

by which I mean I don't feel good about it.

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

Actually, while I'm here, this is important:

"I'm not sorry I wrote exterminationist stuff about your friend but I'm sorry you were affected by it" is a worthless non-apology.

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

I suppose I should announce this, I'm on hiatus. Have been for a while now. I'm alright, just resting and keeping off tumblr.

[snow-anne]

While this post is a tad long, I hope you will lend me your ear, because I think it is important that people understand why ‘Social Justice Warriors’, minorities and other Tumblrites can come across as overly angry or sensitive to some. I will…

[andysickness-deactivated2015061]

Pretty sure that no one will see my part, but one can hope, right. I don’t think that you should fear violence or really any sort of negativity even in real life. And honestly, even if that kinda shit happens, so what? I 100% believe in standing up for yourself and speaking up instead of just keeping your mouth shut. No one has any fucking sort of ‘power’ over you unless you let them have it. I’m just saying, I’m tired as hell of everybody shutting up instead of standing up for what they believe in.

[snow-anne]

Yes, obviously I should just take the punches, and any power others have over me is my own fault for not inviting more violence on myself. Unbelievable. I break one of the biggest social taboos by virtue of existing as a trans woman, and this clown lectures me about guts.

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

Did this person just tell you to "take the punches" in a thread about how those punches aren't metaphorical?

[scaronhiatus]

“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.”

 S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader’s Companion

and this is something I’ve seen again and again. and is one of the reasons why initial reactions to trauma are so important. Why I wrote a thing about how to be a friend to a survivor- how to talk about things when you aren’t.  Because while someone might not know better- while they might not mean any harm- their knee gut reaction may keep a survivor from ever speaking up about it again.

Support systems are so important.

(via selfcareafterrape)

omg THIS

(via fromonesurvivortoanother)

[antoine-roquentin]

If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox | Threat Level | Wired.com

[ciscritical-not-cisphobic]

While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail.

Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations.

The bureau’s data windfall, seized from a company called Freedom Hosting, surfaced in court papers last week when prosecutors indicted a Florida man for allegedly selling counterfeit credit cards online. The filings show the FBI built its case in part by executing a search warrant on a Gmail account used by the counterfeiters, where they found that orders for forged cards were being sent to a TorMail e-mail account: “[email protected].”

Acting on that lead in September, the FBI obtained a search warrant for the TorMail account, and then accessed it from the bureau’s own copy of “data and information from the TorMail e-mail server, including the content of TorMail e-mail accounts,” according to the complaint (.pdf) sworn out by U.S. Postal Inspector Eric Malecki.

The tactic suggests the FBI is adapting to the age of big-data with an NSA-style collect-everything approach, gathering information into a virtual lock box, and leaving it there until it can obtain specific authority to tap it later. There’s no indication that the FBI searched the trove for incriminating evidence before getting a warrant. But now that it has a copy of TorMail’s servers, the bureau can execute endless search warrants on a mail service that once boasted of being immune to spying.

[ninjabikeslut-deactivated201605]

Psychiatry is responsible for creating the heterosexual in largely the same way that it is responsible for creating the various categories of sexual deviance that we are familiar with and recognize and define ourselves in opposition to. The period lasting from the late Victorian era to the first 20 or 30 years of the 20th century was a time of tremendous socioeconomic change, and people desperately wanted to give themselves a valid identity in this new world order. One of the ways people did that was establish themselves as sexually normative. And it wasn’t the people who were running around thinking, “Oh, I’m a man and I like to sleep with other men, that makes me different,” who were creating this groundswell of change; it was the other people, the men who were running around going, “I’m not a degenerate, I don’t want to sleep with other men, I am this thing over here that is normative and acceptable and good and not pathological and right, that’s what I am. That’s what I need people to understand about me, because I need people to understand that I am a valid person and I need to be taken seriously.”

Hanne Blank as interviewed for The invention of the heterosexual (via baedd-lez)

[disabilityhistory-blog]

A bill, SB367, which would allow an autism or other diagnosis on driver’s licenses and special identification cards in Virginia passed in the Virginia General Assembly Senate Transportation Committee Wednesday. It then passed the Senate unanimously. It will move over to the House of Delegates.  The bill, which was widely unknown in the Autistic community until a concerned parent contacted me about it, has been greeted with a mixture of responses from Autistics and people with disabilities, and quite a few parents. The dominant feeling is one of alarm.  

[disabilityhistory-blog]

If you live in Virginia, find your legislator.

Others may contact Virginia legislators as well:

Virginia House (Delegate) Members

Virginia Senate Members 

[aspiewriter6390]

This is not okay people. Call your legislators. Autism should not be on driver’s licenses. Exclusionary people.

[ananiujitha]

A lot of autistic folks, including me, have trouble with phone calls. So I’d really like allistic allies to step forward here.

[haughtyhottie]

Visit Original Link

Thats it.

Thats the show.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

If you don’t know if you want to get into Welcome To Night Vale, listen to this clip, it does a perfect job of summing up the entire experience.

[cancerously]

this is quite legitimately one of my favorite things that’s happened in the entire show.

[2398358436-blog]

YES

[kathyackerspenis-blog]

In the analytical experience there is an oppressed person, the psychoanalyzed, whose need for communication is exploited and who (in the same way as the witches could, under torture, only repeat the language that the inquisitors wanted to hear) has no other choice, (if they do not want to destroy the implicit contract which allows them to communicate and which they need), than to attempt to say what they are supposed to say

Moinque Wittig, “The Straight Mind” (via kathyackerspenis)

[redpilledbymoldbug-deactivated2]

so here’s my situation

i’m a 19 year old trans women going through her early transition. i moved out of my home because of the awful environment i got from my old conservative grandparents, and am currently living with a tumblr user i met through the trans housing network. i have bi-polar disorder and am unmedicated because i haven’t been able to afford it in years. i was laid off from my job a few weeks ago due to being a “seasonal employee”, and have been trying hard to find something ever since then.

i have $20.05 in my bank account, i’m unemployed, and currently searching for a job in the post-holiday job market.

i get two of those medical bills every month; i’m on a payment plan of $108 a month for visits that happened within the past year. i haven’t been able to pay off any of it in a very long time. these are supposed to be covered by worker’s comp, since it happened at work, but i get the bills regardless and my former employer won’t talk to me about it. i owe about $4,400 from my two visits to the emergency room.

i owe about $110 every month for my phone bill; having a phone is basically a requirement for getting a job, to answer calls for interviews, to be able to CALL people.

i owe my roommate about $310 each month for rent - this doesn’t include the cost of internet, electricity, and other utilities. i have this month off, because she does understand my situation, but i’d rather go for as little time as possible living off her generosity.

my transition pills - estradiol and spironolactone - cost me about $80 monthly at the moment, which will likely increase as my dosage gets upped. i’d also like to be able to afford bloodwork because i am self medicating at the moment, but i don’t have the $250 necessary to pay for the procedure, and i don’t qualify for medicaid in texas.

i get $16 per month from food stamps, and that is all i have in terms of food, other than what i’ve taken from my grandparents. my roommate absolutely cannot afford to feed both of us, and right now we’re subsisting off a 50 lb bag of rice i bought from costco a few months ago and $1 hamburger helper meals

i’m in a bad situation. i can’t afford to feed or house myself and until i get a job i don’t know what else to do to change this.

if you could help me it’d be amazing; i’m buried under these bills and i have no idea what i’m going to do.

i need to pay off these bills, and i need to be able to pay my roommate for the room she has allowed me to stay in. i need clothes, food, my phone… i’m really lost here.

there’s a donate button set up on my blog’s sidebar if you have anything you can spare at all. if you can’t, a reblog would be appreciated

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Unobject appreciation post vol. 2