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Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).
Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).
Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included 78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)
Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.
Also, i checked out the survey the second claim sources a while back: this is not OP choosing the words truscum, exclusionist, etc. These are labels that the survey gave people the option to self-identify as. It’s self-proclaimed exclusionists who dont like the word queer, not random accusations
yeah that’s super important.
This one gets reblogged on main. The reclassification of ‘queer’ as an inexcusable slur is a recent development which stems in part from exclusionist rhetoric. We reclaimed it decades ago. Learn our history. You are not immune to TERF propaganda, but you can absolutely choose to educate yourself to spite it.
Be kind. 💜
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BLACK-OWNED ALTERNATIVES TO DOLLS KILL
Didn’t see it in the notes so here’s the list typed out w/ links:
BLACK-OWNED ALTERNATIVES TO D*LLSKILL
We Are Unapologetic (up to 5x)
Shami Oshun (currently closed 9/2/2020)
Karousel Kouture (up to 3x)
Gothic Lamb (up to 6x)
Ota-Q (up to 3x)
Girls from Planet Venus (up to 2x)
Adorned by Chi (up to 4x)
Playgang Gear (up to 3x)
Cozy Kids x Blvucci (up to 3x)
O’Dolly Dearest (only up to L)
Sugar Playhouse (currently closed 9/2/2020)
Jada Lebour (only up to 1X)
House of Aris (up to 3x)
ATTENTION WRITERS
Google BetaBooks. Do it now. It’s the best damn thing EVER.
You just upload your manuscript, write out some questions for your beta readers to answer in each chapter, and invite readers to check out your book!
It’s SO easy!
You can even track your readers! It tells you when they last read, and what chapter they read!
Your beta readers can even highlight and react to the text!!!
There’s also this thing where you can search the website for available readers best suited for YOUR book!
Seriously guys, BetaBooks is the most useful website in the whole world when it comes to beta reading, and… IT’S FREE.
HEY! BECAUSE OF OP, THEY CREATED A SPECIAL WELCOME IF YOUR FOUND THEM THRU A TUMBLR WELCOME, ITS A YOUTUBE VIDEO.
They also sent me this; which was super cool
*slams reblog button*
@findingtallahassee holy shit! This is cool!
“Authors retain all rights to works posted on BetaBooks, and can add or remove content at their discretion. BetaBooks makes no claim to any of the work posted on the site.”
Incase anyone was wondering
Thank you for sharing! Especially about the copyright protection
This is fantastic! I’ve shared it with all my writer friends and hope that they have a ton of success!
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Can we all just take a breath and remind ourselves that we can refuse to be referred to in a particular way without shitting on people who do like being referred to that way?
You can say you don't identify as "queer" without demonizing the queer community.
You can not want "gay" being used as an umbrella term for you without taking it away from people who do like to use it for themselves.
You can hate being called "it" without taking it out on people whose pronouns are it/its.
You can be uncomfortable being called "they" without blaming people with they/them pronouns.
You can not like neopronouns for yourself without making that the problem of people who do like them.
You can dislike having terms like "joyfriend" applied to yourself without mocking people who'd love to be called someone's joyfriend.
If you're fed up with some kind of expectation that you ought to be okay with being called any particular term, then rage at that expectation, not the term or the people who like it.
Sutematsu Oyama (1860-1919): Japan’s First College-Educated Woman
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i knew this conceptually, but like you dont really KNOW that public school is designed to set you up to be a good worker bee until you're cracking out a report, after hours, at 7 pm on a monday night and it hits you; oh, i'm doing homework, this is why they made me do homework, and suddenly i'm feeling it in my chest. i cant believe i was raised by the state to be an automaton, and worse, i am one of the lucky robots who isn't doing manual labor.
ya know what fucking reblog this, we SHOULD be mad
This is why the drive and desire to open schools during a pandemic is URKING my soul differently. The need to adequately train a workforce and the get parents back to work is killing people. The education system has become a testiment to the ills of capitalism
Hey so just so everyone knows, the union that’s helping the Amazon workers in Alabama organize has explicitly NOT called for a boycott and has no involvement with the posts going around promoting one. This boycott was something put together by people who don’t at all work at Amazon and has the potential to create more negative effects for the workers than positive.
Organizing a union is very serious business, and we can’t take a chance that might fuck up the work actual Amazon employees are doing to better their lives for the sake of a retweet, you know?
As they say, “Don’t do for the workers what they can do for themselves.” We do not help form unions by putting things like this together without communication and creating dynamics for the workers that they never intended to exist - we help workers by asking directly what they need and helping them with it.
This is not that.
Please spread this around so folks know.
A little bit more elaboration on why this could cause much more harm than good. The second post is taken from one of my local comrades that I’ve been working with for a while now - they’re an actual Amazon warehouse employee so listen to them if nothing else.
This is important information. Support the workers the way they ask.
Damn near everything online that is hosted / “runs” on the cloud is either based on MSFT Azure or AWS (Amazon Web Services). Unless you go completely off the grid, you can’t get away from them.
t*rfs also like to twist the fact that there’s little long-term medical research into transitioning (for both trans women and trans men) in order to abuse and frighten trans men into detransitioning (which, btw, often leads to the suicidal depression that dysphoria causes and transitioning alleviates!)
like that popular post about how binding even with a good binder will fuck you up for life and make it impossible to have top surgery later on? written by a crypto-t*rf who thinks trans men are lesbians
the number of replies/tags that say something like “i’ve been terrified to bind and/or thought i’d completely fucked up my chance of getting top surgery because of that post” is horrific tbh and if you cis people actually gave a single shit about trans people you’d stop circulating shit like that
So wait. What’s the truth? Will binding fuck up your chances of getting top surgery?
no, it won’t. here’s an email from my GP, who’s been working in the Fenway Health system (which focuses on LGBT healthcare and research) for over a decade:
transcription:
Binders worn too tight or for too many hours in a day can certainly cause some chronic rib/chest pain; they may even cause some scarlike thickening of the tissue under the skin - usually at the margins where the breast folds down against the chest wall in general. This can be uncomfortable, too. But none of this translates into making top surgery a problem. Not at all.
None of the surgeons I’ve sent patients to have ever remarked about this and nothing in standard practice or the general literature suggests or supports that conclusion.
Oh my god thank you
I’ve been refraining from wearing my binder because I saw that post and NOW I SHALL GET 2 MORE THANK YOU
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It’s like, no matter how unbothered I am on the surface and how well I seem to handle people constantly telling me I’m a man, I’m not a real woman, I’ll never be a real woman, I’m a creature less than human, it’s always going to eat away at my subconscious I guess
I made a video last night asking why the #intersex tag is banned on tiktok and it blew up with 100k views a Lot of intersexist assholes found it :) I deleted about 100 really nasty comments before I gave up and just let them come.
And like, it didn’t feel as insulting as it felt deeply irritating, but I woke up today shaky and heavily anxious, despite feeling excellent for a couple of weeks. Because no matter what I do, I’ll never be seen as a Real Woman OR as a fucking HUMAN for that matter. There will always be people who hate me for existing and want me dead for it. :)
And if it’s not them, it’s the 500 super confident people answering all the WHAT IS INTERSEX???? comments with “it means they have a penis and a vagina :) hope that helps :)” like how the fuck am I supposed to keep up when there are so many ignorant fuckers willing to talk for me and over me lmfao
And whenever I talk about any sort of abuse like this I get at LEAST one perisex trans person like, well sweaty, ur not trans, so this isn’t ur battle and u shouldn’t be upset, u must only be upset cuz ppl think ur trans, which is transphobic :// And if I try to find the language, as an intersex person who is living in a world that actively and effectively erases us, to explain why this sort of denial of our experiences is incredibly hurtful and harmful, I get a callout post about me warning people that I’m showing signs of Becoming A T*RF, that I obviously want to be one and I will be one in six months time. You know, just days after a bunch of t*rfs dogpiled me and one talked about beheading me :)))
Weirdly enough, perisex trans people denying my abuse and the trauma it comes with doesn’t make me want to be transphobic, nor do I believe people are doing this because the trans community itself is Mean and Bad. I think y’all are traumatized and somewhat reasonably distrusting but completely unaware of the violent intersexism you’re participating in by denying our abuse.
The beheading comment, followed by trans perisex people denying my experiences TO ME and telling me I’m transphobic for even having these experiences, was the combo that led to my suicidal meltdown last month. I’m NOT saying this to be manipulative, because my only fucking goal here is to get y’all to understand how serious intersexism is. I shouldn’t fucking have to lay out my trauma for the entire world to understand me. I shouldn’t fucking have to talk about my genitals and personal medical shit with every single person in the world, but I HAVE to to get anyone to take me seriously.
I didn’t ask to be intersex. I didn’t ask for my body to look the way it does. I didn’t ask for it to start developing this way when I was 11, for me to understand at 11 that my body was too “male” to ever be a real woman’s body. I didn’t ask to spend the majority of my entire life obsessively altering my appearance, shaving my face up to twice a day to avoid being “clocked”, avoiding any physical touch from other humans so they wouldn’t feel my stubble, not having ANY semblance of what y’all think someone who identifies as their agab should have as a “normal” girlhood or womanhood. I OBSESSIVELY hated my entire body for being too “male” for most of my LIFE. For y’all to see me as a privileged cis woman taking a quirky little tour in gender nonconformity and NOT as an intersex woman who has managed to accept her body after a decade and a half of despising it is fucking intersexist. And to tell me that I’m fucking upset that ppl think I’m trans, NOT because I’ve had to fight very hard for my identity as a woman from THE SAME PEOPLE YALL HAVE TO FIGHT, is so fucking intersexist. I’m tired of trying to make perisex people happy. I’m fucking tired.
I know it’s heavy shit but y’all can reblog this. Nobody cares about what intersex people are going through and I’m going fucking crazy being one small voice in this sea of intersexism. Don’t contribute to our erasure.