The Crystalline Symphony Orchestra

=(she/her or it/its)= ••• im a very tired trans woman in her 30s, i don't tag nsfw, and the block button is my best friend so please be chill [PFP by: @spasmoticchainsaw]

[thewebcomicsreview]

I wish I had more to say about Nancy than “it’s good”, but….it’s good.

[sneefss]

trans women:

center yourself in language that includes you. if it includes women like you, it includes you. it's not "them" it's "us". women are your peers. when someone says ladies that means you. keep reminding yourself. don't forget. it is a fact. treat it like one. you HAVE to treat yourself like a woman. keep reminding yourself. keep reminding yourself.

[sneefss]

this this this this.

that song is about you. that advertisement applies to you. when someone tries to lift women's self esteem it's supposed to be lifting YOUR self esteem. how many songs come on the radio telling women they're beautiful??? that's YOU. you're beautiful. take it seriously. take yourself seriously. you ARE a girl and you HAVE to act like it. if you don't treat yourself like a woman, and you ARE one, then you're not treating yourself like a person, and THAT IS SELF HARM. you HAVE to treat yourself like a girl. it isn't optional.

[maidslime]

also like the whole "do you ever leave your house" insult thrown at trans women, as if there isn't a systematic bigotry that'd make trans women stay in the house. like. you gotta remember what all these lines mean in context of society.

[crystalline-symphony-orchestra]

i've been watching star trek voyager and it's been a fascinating case study of late 90s tv so far, but what the fuuuuuck was that Tuvix episode??

[b0tster]

new hair who dis 🪄🌹❤️🖤

[ashes2caches]

t4t girl who’s tragically filled with so much love and has a debilitating crush on every single transfem she knows.

[sapphireh3arts]

none of my doctors gave me any pain relief :)))) gonna have to scrounge by on weed and gifted meds until we move. i'm out of weed tonight and hoping to be able to pick some up tomorrow if we are able. thank you all for not hating me.

√enm0 • p@yp@l • ¢a$h@pp

[sapphireh3arts]

i'm out again. i know everyone is going through it rn but if you're able to help it'd mean the world to me 🫂

[sailatina3]

The penis is a transgender leabian.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The American Transgender Refugee Crisis

If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.

To put this in perspective, the last time an American subgroup migrated at these rates was the Great Migration, in which roughly 6 million Southern Black people fled Jim Crow violence and repression. This occurred over a period of decades, in the face of political repression, systematic violence, and legal apartheid.

In its fastest decade, the 1940s, 1.5 million left the South—against a Southern Black population of roughly 10 million. Black America fled Jim Crow at about 1.5% a year, at a time when baseline inter-state mobility was higher than it was today.

Trans America is fleeing red-state persecution at ten to twenty times that. In short, trans people are being internally displaced within America's shores.

[rattlegeist]

Small town bird with nowhere to go

[trodden-empress]

calling girls 'it' is pretty cute.

[sailatina3]

I LOVE ANGRY LESBIANS WHO ARE MEAN TO MEN AND NICE TO WOMEN.

[fertilefloor]

pretty

[sapphling]

total permanent embargo on extending good faith to men begins now

[discount-supervillain]

A rare one from the Patreon!

[romanceyourdemons]

it’s a pretty well-known phenomenon that you only get a couple seconds with your horror creature fully visible onscreen before it gets “chuckied,” a term coined by yours truly referring to the shift between the first and second acts of child’s play (1988) as the audience gets used to seeing the little chucky puppet moving around and consequently can no longer buy into the film’s serious slasher tone in the absence of the horror of the unknown. the tuunbaq in the terror and the dogomorph in alien 3 (1992) are also famous victims of chuckying—just like how lovecraftian horror usually falls flat on the screen, too much visibility and your scary, amorphous creature will become a very morphous puppet or cgi’d in picture. the easiest way to combat this is of course to keep the creature obscured for as much of the piece as possible; for instance, despite their oppressive presence throughout their respective works, the beast in over the garden wall is shown for less than six frames and the eponymous kaiju of cloverfield (2008) is never properly shown, allowing each to retain their mystery and danger. another route is to simply lean into the campiness of it, like the later child’s play franchise and alien resurrection (1997). in the case of the blob (1958) a mere satirical title sequence song is enough to completely transform a fairly standard creature feature into an enduring masterpiece of hokey fun. the third option to combat chuckying is for the horror creature to constantly transform—the thing (1982), the fly (1986), and aliens (1986) show their creatures in loving detail, but there is always something the audience hasn’t seen yet, something they don’t know to brace themselves for. it’s a fine line to walk, of course, but that’s the nature of the game when you want to turn the concept of the unknown into something knowable enough to bite you

[storyweavingspider]

Disability is a Racialized Concept

“The relationship between Blackness and disability is especially important to investigate, because it explains so much about how we ended up where we are. Just like prisons and policing are related to slavery, so is the way we think about disability…(Dustin) Gibson discusses the 1840 census, which was the first time there were questions about both disability and race

That census says that the majority of free Black people were “insane” and “idiotic”, to use their language, while saying that the majority of people that were still enslaved were sane. So it’s creating this idea that to be free and Black, and to have the urge to want to be free and Black, is deemed to be a mental illness.

There was even a medical diagnosis for slaves who had the overwhelming urge to run away: drapetomania. This shows that medicallization has always been a tool of white supremacy in the United States.

Race—and specifically Blackness—has been used to mark disability, while disability has inherently “Blackened” those perceived as unfit. Black people were—and continue to be—assumed intellectually disabled precisely because of race. —Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework by Moya Bailey and Izetta Autumn Mobley

In other words, white supremacy means that Black bodies are seen as inherently disabled, and disability is inherently bad. Ableism and racism are often used as pretexts for each other, which is why it’s so important that we use for the intersectional approach that disability justice calls for.”

—A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice by Katie Tastrom