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augustarambles

I shared a version of this to my Facebook page and so far the list has been:

-speaking more than one language

-Owning an old car

-Having kids

-Thrifting/Flipping furniture and other “DIY” projects

-Tiny houses

-getting money from the government

So much of our daily lives is sold and packaged to us as something people of certain classes can do or shouldn’t do. It’s fucking ridiculous.

thebiscuiteternal

-cooking your own food is seen as a sign of “worldliness” if you’re rich.

morganoperandi

I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.

The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man. I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little. I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests. I never cared about sports or cars or guns. I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts. I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.

It’s not physical either. I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard. If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume). I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.

I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me. I’m a man. I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated. I feel like a man because of something beyond that. Something ephemeral. So, why couldn’t others feel the same? Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?

And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one? Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?

Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form? If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap? If so, why? Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?

Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?

sir-renaissance

This is very soul filling to read. Thank you

5typesoftrash

My grandfather, who had a difficult time coming to terms with it when I came out, has been working very hard to understand me and my experience. About 5 weeks ago, he asked me, almost offhand, “why are you so sure that you’re a man?”

And I replied, “well, I could ask you the same thing.” And I moved on, continued, tried to explain why I feel the way that I do, but I don’t think he heard any of those things that I said afterward.

Because six days later, we talked about it again, and this is what he told me:

“I couldn’t stop thinking about what you said last week. Because all my life I identified it as ‘these are the parts that I have, and so I am a man’. But you’re living proof that gender is not limited to what is attached to your body, so I asked myself, why am I a man? And all I can say is ‘because I have no idea what it feels like to be anything else’. I cannot imagine what it’s like to be a woman. Or neither, or both, or any other gender. I have always been a man.”

And I replied, “that’s exactly what it feels like for me.”

So, shoutout to my cisgender grandfather, for stumbling upon the essence of being trans accidentally, with very little help from me. I love you, grandpa.

the-cimmerians

watching cis folks suddenly and comprehensively grasp the inessential nature of gender is always a joy

piercedthrutheheart

Taylor Swift Albums + Color Aesthetics

#color aesthetics #color palette

“Taylor literally said—“ shut up! I’ve honestly stopped taking Taylor’s word seriously years ago. How many times has she said something that wasn’t true? Now, I don’t hold it against her, all of the instances I can think of when that happened was all for marketing/brand or taking-care-of-herself purposes. But still, I don’t trust her lol I trust her word on her lyrics because that’s the only thing that has stayed true and genuine and CONSISTENT, and if we take the lyrics they contradict what Taylor says most times so...

#like when the ed rumors started and she denied #like when she marketed 1989 as a im happy single album but only two songs were like that #the rest was relationship related #those are the two biggest examples #she says what she needs to #specially about her music #taylor swift #shes still a celebrity you know #i feel sometimes you guys forget that #marketing branding and image are huge aspects in taylors career #she has even admitted to it #that she has said certain things to get attention on her albums #and that has happenned from day one in her career #big machine sold her as a prodigy with the whole she was taught three chords on the guitar and she magically became a lyricist #theres an interview on youtube with the man and he said hegave her lessons #actual lessons #not many but it wasnt an overnight thing #please use your brains #not only with taylor but with celebrity culture in general #anyways folklore is GREAT #folklore #unpopular thoughts

butdaddyilovehim99

what did he think of to get so emotional that he needed to take a minute to get his composure?

he is such a great actor, i want to hug him

valtsv

writer: *has a female character start undressing in front of men to show how ‘naïve’ she is*

me:

valtsv

writer: *gives a female character with little or no understanding of expected ‘normal’ human behavior only one guide to learn from, who is the man who has a sexual interest in her, making her totally dependent on him*

me:

valtsv

writer: *makes a female character naïve and/or childish in order to sexualize her*

me:

lunar-pantheon

man like. being lgbt kind of ruins time with relatives in a very specific way that cishets will never truly experience. like family time can be rough tm but theres a special brand of discomfort that lgbt people face and it’s kinda wild

themauvesoul

It’s the specific feeling of “these people’s love is entirely conditional, and I know exactly what the conditions are, and one day I’m gonna have to bite the bullet and come out and none of these people will love me anymore”. It’s not a feeling cishet ppl experience for obvious reasons.

dangerous-disposition

Even with family that Accepts You tm, theres always this level of “I can only talk about being gay so much before it gets Uncomfortable. I cant actually talk about dating bc someone will look like they ate a raw lemon whole eventually until I’m told I’m oversharing and then conversation will turn to Perfect Cousin with her Perfect Husband and When Are We Going To See Babies? Are they trying? How often? And just….its annoying that it still has to be Rough tm when u do come out and for the most part ur still loved an accepted, but u cant actually talk about it too much, even in the sense of Finding Someone or Boo Evil Politics bc ppl will STILL get visibly uncomfortable

animatedtext

elphamejourdemayne

Reblogging this implies that I’ve been dead inside since I was six and honestly YES

bella-narchy

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

I finally finished my black lives matter masterpost, here it is.

It is my attempt at compiling activism (the post includes petitions and donations suggestions), mental health and educational sources (videos, podcasts, books, articles…) anything to help you grow in understanding and get involved with the cause.

#black lives matter #blm #defund the police #activism #masterpost #police brutality #politics

thorgyorgy

Bob’s first time meeting Miz Cracker☕☕

vodkaandsweeties

The 5th place queens who will forever be in our hearts

iamthegiant3

Holy trinity

dnpanimationstudio

LGBT Pride Month🌈💖

Adora/She-ra, She-ra and the Princesses of Power

Angel Dust, Hazbin Hotel

Luna Loud, The Loud House

Ben, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Giovanni Potage, Epithet Erased

Adam, The Hollow

Harley Quinn, The Harley Quinn Show

Garnet, Steven Universe

Enid, Ok Ko Let’s be Heroes

Marceling, the Vampire Queen, Adventure Time

Happy Pride Month everybody❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖 Feel free to add more characters

cetacea-borealis

“Please, Malala… Mexico”

A man brandishing a Mexican flag stained with blood-red paint disrupted Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance ceremony on Wednesday, as the 17-year-old Pakistani activist stood on stage in Oslo, Norway.

The man, who had a camera hanging from his neck, yelled, “Please, Malala, they are killing us. Don’t forget Mexico!” He was promptly arrested, according to Oslo police.

As the man was escorted out by three security guards, he shouted, “Viva Mexico!”

The appeal is most likely a reference to the disappearance and suspected massacre of 43 college students from a rural teachers college in Guerrero state — and the government’s failure.

Investigators say Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, ordered police to confront the students, who had gone to Iguala to raise money and had commandeered passenger buses for their use. The couple reportedly feared the students would disrupt an event being led by Pineda Villa.

Iguala police fired on the students in two incidents, killing six people. Officers then allegedly turned over 43 arrested students to a local drug gang who, some say, murdered them, burned their bodies and threw the remains into a mass grave and river.

“This began as a movement to demand justice and answers in the case of 43 students who were kidnapped and killed by a drug cartel at the behest of corrupt politicians. Drug cartel violence is nothing new to Mexico, but the students’ kidnapping struck a nerve and quickly became a national story, prompting protests around the country that have grown for more than a month. That’s not just because the kidnapping was so terrible but because the attack encapsulated many Mexicans’ worst fears and frustrations about where their country is headed.”

granosdegranada

I love so many things about these pics. I love the courage of that brave young man carrying the Mexican flag, protesting for Justice in Mexico. I love Malala’s smile. Let us not forget that she was shot for daring to get an education. And the 43 students kidnapped in Mexico were studying to become teachers. Education is the single worst enemy of corrupted States.

kpfun

Idina Menzel, Aurora, along with nine other international voices of Frozen 2’s Elsa from Denmark, Germany, Japan, Latin America, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain and Thailand, perform “Into the Unknown” at the 92nd Academy Awards