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eliyahu the silly cat 😺

[eliyahu613]

pinned post i guess

hi guysssssssss i'm eliyahu and i had an old pinned post but it's not 100% accurate anymore and i can't be bothered to go and update it bc it's fancy and i'm eepy so here's my new one. join my discord server if you can't get enough of me.

hobbies: gaming, learning gemara, arguing with idiots online, binge watching youtube video essays, halacha (not a rabbi or an actual navi so don't listen to me), wrapping tefillin, researching medical stuff, etc

opinions: fuck capitalism, love immigrants, black lives matter, trans rights, end racism, stop antisemitism, disability rights, etc. FUCK AI

diversity points: gay, trans, jew, autistic, adhd, arfid, depressed, physically disabled (probably eds/pots/fibro/some combination of those), anxiety, ocd, etc

unwoke points: white, r*ssian (slava ukraini)

meowzuzah for the lurkers by @meshaamem-li

[eliyahu613]

🥫 👁️ 🌊 🫵🚗🙏

bro just check your texts i already sent them

[tzelofachad]

Can you interpret this for those of us who don’t understand whatever code this anon is using?

[eliyahu613]

shut the fuck up

[weirdtranssexual]

oh yay time for my annual crisis of faith lol

[weirdtranssexual]

for several years i’ve been wanting to convert to judaism and have been looking forward to a time where i could realistically live a jewish life. but lately my view of the world has shifted and i don’t know where that leaves me. i still love jewish theological approaches but i’m no longer certain it’s the path for me and that’s kind of scary tbh.

either way i will remain an ally to jewish people of course but right now i’m interested in exploring animism and other practices that emphasize connection to nature.

[bsaka7]

excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy

[byjove]

My dad was a public defender when I was a child and he would have to drive all over the district to visit various defendants in various jails which I thought was very interesting and I liked to hear about his experiences in various jails and how different they all were. He drove me to school every day and sometimes I’d skip in and tell my classmates “My dad is going to the jail in [TOWN/CITY] today!” mind you, I went to public school in a not very nice little town so my teacher’s first thought wasn’t lawyer, she had other students with incarcerated parents. This was also occurring in the south where everyone is nosy as fuck so she eventually called my mother, presumably to scope out why her husband was a jail bird and if the chargers were relevant to me and my education in any way. My mom had to explain that my dad wasn’t an inmate who kept getting transferred and that going to jail is his job.

[eliyahu613]

having one of my autistic irls follow me has been really good for my politics because every time i reblog something that seems slightly inconsistent with something i posted earlier he immediately messages me to figure out which one i actually believe

[eliyahu613]

🥫 👁️ 🌊 🫵🚗🙏

bro just check your texts i already sent them

[nonbinaryjudean]

Another day another post demonizing Reform Judaism 😐😐😐😐 don’t talk about it if you haven’t spent actual time in a reform community. Also it’s a fucking privilege to live in an area with enough Jews to have a choice or more than one community.

[lesbianonsteroids]

I forgot to post this. But also appreciation to the studs. I've seen appreciation for the butches and that's valid and good, but what about the studs? I adore you guys and we love you for all you've done in fighting for the community since the beginning. For constantly fighting societal representation of black queer women. We see you and appreciate you.

[penumbralwoods]

every time someone realizes they dont have to pick between being a boy or a girl an angel gets its wings btw. and also extremely loud cheering can be heard in the distance from me specifically

[penumbralwoods]

btw if you've ever wondered why i make posts like this and get really obnoxious about nonbinary positivity. this is why

and for all of yall that are still figuring it out or aren't getting the support you deserve:

[magnetothemagnificent]

franz kafka’s writings are often analyzed in a trans lens the person who wrote that was almost definitely a trans person who related. people who call kafka a trans woman are almost entirely trans women. there is also a huge subset of literature shitposter girls who use kafka and the metamorphosis specifically to talk about their experiences with womanhood. so while i agree that the trope you are talking about is antisemitic i don’t think that applies here. he’s not being called a woman in a disparaging way.

It. Literally. Doesn't. Matter.

Spoiler alert: trans people can be antisemitic!

Franz Kafka was a real person who died not too long ago, and just because a trans person relates to his writings doesn't mean they can claim he's trans. It's not the same as relating to a fictional character. You can't 'headcanon' an actual person. I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman. He was an actual person, not a fictional character you can project on. An treating Franz Kafka like a fictional character you can project any label onto and separate him from his actual life is dehumanization and *also* antisemitic.

It's no different than queer people co-opting Anne Frank's memory and erasing her story to just herald her as a "bi icon" when she never had the chance to live long enough to label herself. Queer gentiles need to stop dehumanizing Jewish people and turning them into blank slates they can project onto.

Kafka's Metamorphosis and writings about his depression are from the viewpoint of a disabled Jewish man who was watching as antisemitism was slowly escalating around him and Jews were becoming insects in the minds of society. And "he's not being called a woman in a disparaging way" is the dumbest excuse ever- antisemitism is antisemitism. I've seen trans people infantilize Jewish men, calling them "different breed of man" or "scrunkly" and then insist they meant it positively. Intent doesn't matter. Calling a Jewish man, who never ever indicated having any gender identity otherwise, a woman, or implying he's somehow not a full man, is antisemitic.

[obi-waankenobi]

I hope I'm not derailing here (please tell me if I am and I'll delete this), but I'd like to especially call attention to this line (which I love, btw):

I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman.

At some point relatively recently, people seem to have come to the conclusion that you can't empathize with a character (or real fucking person, in this case, and I cannot stress how gross that is) unless you're just like them. "Oh, I, a nonbinary person can identify with this cishet man? He must actually be nonbinary!" "Oh, I, an autistic person, can identify with this Ambiguously Quirky™ person? She must actually be autistic!"

Being able to relate to a person--real or fictional--who isn't just like you is a good thing. It's good that you see yourself in the writings of a cisgender man! Maybe it will teach you that cis people aren't the enemy. It's good that an autistic character resonates with NT people! Maybe they'll gain new insight into their autistic friends and family!

It's called empathy, and it's so important to understand that you are going to see your experiences reflected in people who are unlike you. Those connections are important. Deciding that Kafka must be a trans woman because you're a trans woman is missing the entire fucking point. It means that you do, in fact, have some things in common with a cisgender man, and conversely, it means that cisgender men have things in common with you. To flatten them out so they're just like you is missing out on so much of what they have to say.

People are beautiful and rich and layered and the fact that we can connect with other people and share experiences despite how different we are? That's the whole fucking point. That's what makes life worth living.

OP, I'm sorry I only spoke on being transgender and autistic. Those are the only two points that I could speak on from experience. Talking about real people like they're fictional pisses me off, and I sort of... got off on a thing.

[terulakimban]

I'm not OP, but one thing that's frightening about this from a Jewish perspective (especially in the context of discussing someone who was alive in the interwar period) is the recurring idea that Jews only matter as lenses for other people's stories. That we can be empathized with, but only if our narratives can be twisted to someone else's.

Because we've seen that before. We see it very often because it's a fundamental premise of some incredibly antisemitic forms of Christianity, and when it turns out that we're real people with real opinions and real beliefs and real feelings who don't just exist to validate someone else's perception of who and how we could be, people don't just abandon their pretense at allyship, they get violent.

It's also a common failing in how the Holocaust is taught. People like to present this lens of "it was random violence that came out of nowhere and could've happened to anyone. It could've happened to you! Imagine if you'd been one of the victims! That would've been a tragedy wouldn't it?" And the thing is, that's bullshit. If you were just a random German citizen at the time? You would've been one of the perpetrators. And it was a tragedy in and of itself; it doesn't become a tragedy by imaging a scenario in which people who were perfectly safe would've actually been potentially in danger (never killed, of course, because Holocaust education is also commonly sanitized, which is a different rant).

Edited to take out a rant that was in drafts and got added to this by mistake, but. Well, the Tl;dr, since that's been reblogged

Well. I'm a cis woman. GNC, perhaps, but cis. And I get misgendered (and degendered) a lot because of how people read Jewish features. And... when friends insist that any discomfort I have with feminine stuff is because I'm an egg... I get that they're trying to be helpful for a journey of self-discovery. But I've done that introspection. I check in with myself periodically just in case. And "oh, you're really nonbinary/a trans man because you're [insert list of stereotypically Jewish features//personality traits commonly ascribed to Jews [whether or not I have them]" -it hurts. Because not only are they minimizing my actual identity and my self-knowledge, and deciding that they're the experts on my life, rather than me, they're doing it in a way that's constantly used to hurt me.

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

another thing! Jewish men are (pretty often) seen as feminine/unmasculine and like they could never be 'true men'. In a lot of media they're the awkward nerds, the virgins, the weirdos. Point is this is not just misgendering anybody (which would be awful enough), this is misgendering a group that's known to be seen as less masculine than a white man for example

*this is a bit of derailing but it reminds me of how black men face the opposite issue of being seen as hyper masculine & in turn hyper violent. None of us can win in this racist ass society my g-d

[littledoggy-girlcollar]

“he’s not being called a woman in a disparaging way.”

No, but everything in his writing that gets commented on is something that speaks to feeling out of place in society, or something that conveys emotional or social vulnerability.

So for someone to say “because of these things I think she was a trans woman teehee!” they are implicitly 1) denying that any other aspect of identity might cause these feelings, and 2) asserting that if someone feels these things, they must be a woman.

Ignoring his Judaism AND implying that men can’t feel alienated or vulnerable and if they do they must actually have been a woman. Doesn’t seem very respectful or deconstructing of gendered norms to me.

People need to either start recognizing that you can empathize and identify with jews on our own terms or you can stop fucking talking about us.

[illegitimatetenenbaum]

If anyone is willing to keep me in mind when they daven, I’d desperately appreciate it. The next month or two will probably be the hardest of my life and I truly do not have the koach. Even if only once, my neshama would appreciate it.

Bruriah Tikvah bas Sarah.

[illegitimatetenenbaum]

I’m actually handling this so much better than I thought I would and I’ve felt really guilty for it, but I came on Tumblr and saw that this had just been reblogged recently and now I know that it is everyone remembering me that is helping me through. HaShem has heard you all and I am so grateful for you.

[8bitangelguts]

the fear mongering around transmasculine people who sing going on testosterone genuinely pisses me off. yes, you will be able to sing. no, you won't lose your voice. no, low voices aren't ugly (where are people even getting this shit???). no, higher voices aren't prettier. sing through the changes (don't push anything). hydrate. h y d r a t e. please don't stop singing, your voice will sound amazing.

[ayamccabre]

So I'm one of those people who had complications with my voice breaking. It felt "stuck" for about a year and then dropped suddenly and painfully. I was not able to sing through the changes.

I can sing now though.

Even if you have to stop for a bit, you'll be fine. Get back into it when you can, look up some voice training exercises and see if they help, and you will be able to sing again.

[yaay-bunnies]

If you interact with this blog or have ever interacted with this blog you agree that trans men are awesome and deserve better. Also their oppression is real and they deserve to talk about it. I don't make the rules!

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Happy pride, here’s your yearly reminder that Jews belong in queer spaces! 🏳️‍🌈✡️

[freegameplanet]

It Is As If You Were Making Love is a bizarre little game in which you move your computer’s slider to bring it to climax (after all those visits to PronHub it’s probably the least you can do for your computer!)

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[estrogenerational-trauma]

yeah im pretty normal about this

[no-one-offical]

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[aweekerfuffle]

You're a doctor. You've been taught the phrase "first, do no harm."

A patient comes in with a flesh eating bacteria that is rapidly spreading up their leg. The only way to save their life is to remove their leg.

So what do you do? To help the patient is to accept that you must also harm them.

You're a good doctor. Of course you remove the leg and save the patient's life, because trying to exercise a choice that will result in no harm is impossible where there are only two bad outcomes, but one is unquestionably worse.

This post is for for leftists in the US who still think either not voting or going with a protest vote in the next two major election cycles is an acceptable choice, when you know full well the Republican will cause more harm.