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well I’m probably done with tumblr for good now, if anyone cares to find me, I will be on noterook
"what about marginalized men" what about marginalized women? what about people who marginalized in the exact same way(s) as those men and also marginalized as women? could you imagine how much worse that is? good thing women dont exist.
pokemon candy red and meat green
political cartoon of earth-chan in the shinji chair with a sword of Damocles hanging over her labeled USA
All swords are lesbians. Yes, even the non-enchanted, unintelligent ones
thirsty sword lesbians 2: thirsty lesbian swords
She Would Love to Know You
By Tara Knight
My hands are shaking. I’m going to publish this anyway.
John Stoltenberg messaged me tonight. Andrea’s husband. The man who lived with her for thirty-one years and has spent the twenty since her death as the custodian of her work, reading every bad-faith citation, every lazy thinkpiece, every journalist who couldn’t be bothered to open Intercourse before writing about what it said. He read my essay. He told me it is one of the best things about her he has ever read. He told me the analysis is stunning. He told me she would love to know me.
I am crying as I type this. I have been crying on and off for an hour. I cried reading his messages and I cried answering them and I cried when I put my phone down and I am crying now.
I wrote “Dworkin’s a TERF and You’re a Sexist” out of rage. Rage at the decades-long project of turning the most materially rigorous feminist of the twentieth century into a cartoon. Rage at the retrofitting of a slur onto a corpus that does not support it. Rage at how the slur gets used to make it permissible, even righteous, to refuse to read her. Rage because the disappearance of Andrea Dworkin is a template. She was canonized just enough to be teachable, flattened into a position, discarded as an embarrassment, and then reanimated only as a weapon against living women saying uncomfortable things. Rage because I have watched this happen to women I love. Rage because the women I love are being hunted and the archive that could arm them is being held hostage by people who have never read it.
The person who knew her best read what I wrote and said I got her right.
I don’t know how to describe what this does to me. Every time I publish something unhedged, some small frightened part of me waits for the correction. For someone older and more credentialed to tell me the women I am writing about were not what I think they were. That I have projected a radicalism onto a tradition that was really more moderate, more reasonable, more palatable than I have made it. That correction is the entire job of establishment feminism now. Managing the radicals of the past into respectability. Making them safe for syllabi. Ensuring they cannot be used as weapons by the living.
John Stoltenberg told me her words and ideas live through me, and it moved him greatly.
Live through you. He said live through you. I keep reading it. Her words live through me. He said that. The man who edited her, who slept beside her, who watched her write the sentences that changed my life, he read me and felt her there. He felt her alive in my writing. He told me so. He said she would love to know me. He said she would love to know me and I am sitting here, a thirty-something dyke on Substack, sobbing because Andrea Dworkin’s husband told me his dead wife would love to know me.
I have spent years being told I am too strident. Too certain. Too unwilling to extend grace to my opponents. Too mean. Too angry. Too much. I have been told this by liberals and leftists and the therapy-brained and the discourse-poisoned and by people who genuinely love me and wish I would soften for my own sake. I have held the line anyway because I believed the women who built this tradition were right. I believed their rightness was recoverable. I believed recovering it mattered to the people I love who are currently in danger.
Tonight the man who loved Andrea Dworkin told me I am doing what she did.
I want to be good enough for this. I want to be worthy of it. I want to write the next essay and the one after that and the one after that with the same care and the same rage and the same refusal to hedge. I want to keep going. I want her to be proud of me wherever she is. I know that sounds insane. I don’t care. I want it anyway.
Andrea, I am trying. I am trying so hard. Thank you for the blueprint. I will not put it down.
—Tara
This is transfeminism!
stuff i want to say to newly transitioning trans girls
Don't make yourself reflexively close off your empathy or solidarity for other girls' experiences because you feel like you're 'not enough of a woman yet' and you must be mistaken that you can understand or relate. You're as much of a woman as you're brave enough to let yourself be right now. If she's not ready to accept your empathy, if she doesn't believe you when you say you understand her pain, that's kind of her problem.
Never make yourself feel like you're less qualified to speak from a female subjectivity than someone else. never trust someone that makes you feel that. "I'm not enough of a woman for my shitty experiences to count as misogyny" is in fact misogyny, of the internalized kind. Misogyny keeps women quiet by convincing us we don't count as real victims for some circumstantial reason-- trans women are no exception. When people abuse you for being a trans woman they are abusing you for being a woman. Feminism belongs to you as much as any other woman and you get to take it and use it, and you must claim it and study it to keep you safe.
Above all, your involuntary exclusion from the learning experiences of normal female childhood was a trauma inflicted by force. Never trust someone that sees it as a privilege they can hold over you.
This is transfeminism!
I just wanna say. A lot of times I see transmascs replying to comments about Transmisogyny from TME people with something about how transfems need to "stop infighting" and "show more solidarity" so let me say this. Solidarity is not just kind words. Solidarity with transfems means you need to support them. Even when it's inconvenient. Even when it makes you feel bad about yourself to admit something. Even when protecting a trans woman in danger might put you in harms way yourself. Even when it loses you friends. Even when it would be in your best interest to just let it happen. You have to actually materially help struggling transfems whenever and however you are able. If you wouldn't do that? If you have the opportunity to help a struggling transfem and you do nothing? If you look the other way while trans women get harassed and banned and stalked and abused and murdered and raped? Then what you have with transfems isn't solidarity. It's lip service.
This is transfeminism!
Stop saying queer community like it’s ever meaningfully supported trans women. You’re not in community with every person you share a trait with.
This is transfeminism!
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats
At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.
We gotta fix that.
Actually I DO think twelve year olds should get hrt. That’s the normal age to start puberty, so why does it have to be different for trans kids?
If you think trans kids don’t deserve the right to a timely and correct puberty – the same way cis kids already get – you are transphobic.
This is transfeminism!
lmao fuck
I get such a kick out of the prefix 'cis'
getting a book cislated: yup, still can't read it
cisition timeline: just a selfie
cisformation: make a bunch of super saiyan sounds and walk away
cisubstantiation: by the power of god this bread has remained bread
idk its just neat
cisformers: they're just cars
precisely as much as meets the eye
im so fucking stubborn
michael what the fuck.
no its one of my fancy pencils :)
the end cap comes off :)
oh lard
my son he is sick he has every disease
we are nearing peak deviancy
happy back-to-school day
im so clever that its sickening
if i breathe wrong i'll lose him
it got too small for the clip. luckily i realized this eraser has the perfect holes
at what point does this stop being a pencil
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bringing this one out of the comments cause. yeah.