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im a jewish trans/intersex guy with adhd/anxiety. im a touchstarved mlm. i post some more serious content here related to mental health and recovery, gender, but also adhd memes.
my main is @mydreamsarejanked and i also run an aesthetic blog under the url @randompaw90 and post sonic content onto @p0p-r0xx.
may we live to see the day where the first photo results of your intersex variation aren't graphic photos of igm
In setting up Intersex Wiki one of the decisions I have been feeling really good about is the policy/practice that the first photos in any article on an intersex variation need to be photos of clothed individuals with their faces visible. Ideally smiling for the camera.
I'm so tired of articles on intersex variations where the visuals are graphic images of genitals & obviously uncomfortable (semi-)naked people with their faces cropped or blurred out.
It has really been a breath of fresh air to instead have humanizing photos of actual (often famous) intersex individuals as the illustrations for intersex variations, e.g.:
It's not always possible to find humanizing photos since some intersex variations are very rare, but I personally think it's been worth the effort to try and hunt down these kinds of photos! 💜
Some thoughts.
Happy Intersex Awareness Week! (October 21st-26th)
On Intersex Awareness Day, we ask the world to support intersex people in our right to live authentically and unapologetically. But one day hasn’t been enough—so welcome to #IntersexAwarenessWeek!
Intersex Awareness Day, October 26th, marks a historic day in the start of the intersex movement. A group of intersex people and their allies protested at an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) meeting nearly thirty years ago, to oppose the medical abuse and discrimination they’d endured.
Today, we are still fighting for that bodily autonomy. We're fighting for our freedom to exist as we are, beyond the stereotypical sex binary. We're fighting against the belief that doctors' opinions of how our bodies look matter more than ours do.
But we are also visible. The intersex-inclusive flag is flown across the country. Intersex people's bodies are starting to be taught in health classes and across medical schools. Intersex people are featured in films, memoirs, runways and on the morning news. We are here, and we're not hiding again.
Learn more & educate others! Look through our images and share them far and wide! Linked below is our Intersex FAQ for all the basic questions, and we'll be sharing new resources and tips to be an ally all week long! (We will only be blazing this post, however!)
We also suggest checking out other United States intersex organizations such as Intersex Awareness, Intersex Justice Project, Club Intersex, TIGERRS, The Houston Intersex Society, and InterConnect!
For those not in the USA, here is a list of international intersex organizations!
Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy.
#Ask_Gaza | Episode 4: Do You Hate Jews?
This is very important. Zionist propaganda works hard to convince everyone that this is somehow an issue about Muslims vs Jews in an attempt to hide the underlying issue: An ILLEGAL Occupation
It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes
You're obviously lying about being intersex. I saw that picture of your eyes and you look like a normal male. Attention seeker
I usually don't respond to anon hate but this one is really funny. Eyes?? Of all things??? There's no sexual dimorphism in the eyes 💀
looks at you with my intersex eyes
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I don’t care how you personally feel about FurAffinity, furries or the owner. The fact that someone died while struggling to get a diagnosis is all kinds of fucked up.
The US healthcare system is a joke.
To add on perspective;
More trans people need to realize that the majority of y'all are just as uneducated and bigoted against intersex people as your average cishet centrist.
Glad a couple people see it too
A super common response I get - and one in the notes of this post - is that bigotry and being uneducated aren't the same thing, and that it's offensive to say trans people are bigoted towards intersex people ever.
So if my nonbinary doctor, who is board certified in HIV medicine and has an extensive educational resume, hears "I am intersex and need a referral to a gender affirming endocrinologist because other endos have harmed me" and says "but you're not trans, right?" Before saying their gender affirming endo probably wasn't for me and then sending me off to a random woman who spent an hour trying to convince me I must be a man to be comfortable in my ugly freak body... is that uneducated? Or just a fluke? What about if I've met two other intersex people irl who have had terrible experiences with this doctor because they were intersex? What if we all waited months for them specifically because we heard they were nonbinary and hoped they'd do better by us?
Is that not fucking bigoted?
How about trans people telling us we're lying, appropriating struggles somehow, just don't understand our own genders, or hear our pleas for solidarity and determine that makes us transphobic? Without a second thought?
And further - you can be bigoted without meaning to. It's bigoted when people happily compare me to the fucking Greatest Showman. It's bigoted when people fetishize us, reduce us to stereotypes, dehumanize us, and I'd even say it's pretty shitty how many of you will ONLY refer to intersex infants as if we vanish into nothingness as we age, offering us no consideration in adult queer spaces. Mainstream gay bar "LGB"-ass spaces are inherently hostile towards us and trans-inclusive queer spaces react to our presence with timid fear that leads to exclusion. I don't care if this comes from ignorance - it's all day every single day and we are goddamn tired.
Yall will say shit like this and never reflect it back on your own experience - how you do feel and react when cis people say and do the same shit to trans people - bc you all do not see yourselves as perisex and inherently benefiting from a privilege that intersex people never had. You do not see us as drowning below you all, but some vague group that might be a threat if we ask for solidarity too mean or get tired from how CONSTANT this is.
If you don't wanna be aligned with bigoted behavior, arguing that the group you belong to is incapable of being bigoted towards a marginalized group you know next to nothing about isn't making you look not bigoted.
That to say your bias being unconscious doesn't absolve you of the your role that your bias has contributed to the systemic oppression of intersex people and they don't have to lessen your role in their harm to make you feel better.
And I agree with dabwax in saying that if bigotry is not what you want to be aligned with then it's on you to do better, not on intersex people to police their language when they approach you about the systemic harm you are being complicit in.
And all this goes triple for Black intersex people of color.
"In each case, Crenshaw argued that the court’s narrow view of discrimination was a prime example of the “conceptual limitations of ... single-issue analyses” regarding how the law considers both racism and sexism. In other words, the law seemed to forget that black women are both black and female, and thus subject to discrimination on the basis of both race, gender, and often, a combination of the two.
[...]Crenshaw argues in her paper that by treating black women as purely women or purely black, the courts, as they did in 1976, have repeatedly ignored specific challenges that face black women as a group.
'Intersectionality was a prism to bring to light dynamics within discrimination law that weren’t being appreciated by the courts,' Crenshaw said. “In particular, courts seem to think that race discrimination was what happened to all black people across gender and sex discrimination was what happened to all women, and if that is your framework, of course, what happens to black women and other women of color is going to be difficult to see.”" source
Your fear and exclusion of intersex people in your issues doesn't feel much different when a white woman crosses the street when a man of color is on the same side as her.
It's just bigotry, unconscious or not. Get comfortable with being checked instead of being comfortable being ignorant.
Cuz it's the same thing.
And since we as perisex (non-intersex) people are so bigoted, take this:
People with intersex variations are mostly framed within conservative psycho-medical research challenging their autonomy, or critical empowe
People with intersex variations are mostly framed within conservative psycho-medical research challenging their autonomy, or critical empowerment Intersex Studies literature noting discrimination. Resisting deficit-based framings, this chapter uses the concept ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how 272 Australian online survey participants (aged 16-87yrs) had positive experiences of their intersex variations.
This report examines the physical and psychological damage caused by medically unnecessary surgery on intersex people, who are born with chr
Intersex people in the United States are subjected to medical practices that can inflict irreversible physical and psychological harm on them starting in infancy, harms that can last throughout their lives. Many of these procedures are done with the stated aim of making it easier for children to grow up “normal” and integrate more easily into society by helping them conform to a particular sex assignment.
[...]We are taught that sex is dimorphic: simply male or female. But sex, in reality, is a spectrum—with the majority of humans appearing to exist at one end or the other. In fact, as many as 1.7 percent of babies are different from what is typically called a boy or a girl.
[...]Accordingly, Human Rights Watch and interACT are urging a moratorium on all surgical procedures that seek to alter the gonads, genitals, or internal sex organs of children with atypical sex characteristics too young to participate in the decision, when those procedures both carry a meaningful risk of harm and can be safely deferred.
Intersex bodies are literally just bodies. People come in all shapes, sizes, & colors, right? Human sex characteristics are no different.
Humans are too diverse for any kind of body to be considered the ideal or the standard.
So they shouldn't be regulated like there is.
idk what teenager needs to hear this but please stop watching south park
someone else out there can probably explain it better than me but south park absolutely rotted people’s brains. maybe some of you are too young to remember, but 10-15 years ago people were honestly so vile because of that show.
south park made it funny to be antisemitic, racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist etc. it introduced forms of bigotry to a lot of kids who otherwise wouldn’t have considered it otherwise.
your memes aren’t cute. I don’t care if you’re drawing those characters with your gay/trans headcanons or whatever. I’m surprised this is even an issue in 2023
Im gonna post the reddit thing about it
That last line is annoying but overall this makes good points. Fundamentally it teaches people that any kind of challenge to your preexisting conceits should be immediately dismissed and then ruthlessly mocked
footage of one of their arguments 😭
I feel the need to periodically remind people that Idiocracy is a eugenics movie.
One of the things that eugenicists believe is that it is bad for society when the “wrong people” breed.
The entire premise of the movie is that “stupid people” kept having kids while “smart people” didn’t have kids, and it ruined society because stupid genes propagated while smart genes died out. This is eugenics propaganda.
I know people will read this and their response will be “actually it’s satire” but the movie isn’t satirizing eugenics. It’s satirizing anti-intellectualism, and consumerism, and it proposes eugenics as a solution.
When eugenics was first conceived, it was used as a way to justify inequality. The idea was that people who held privilege were able to do so because they were smarter and genetically superior to lazy and stupid people who don’t have privilege. Obviously this is bad and wrong, but it is also the core lesson of Idiocracy.
The movie literally ends with the main character becoming president and having “the smartest children in the world.” Because he and his wife have smarter genes than everyone else. The proposed solution for the things that Idiocracy is satirizing is for the smart people to have children that can be in charge of the world.
I know it’s fun to use this movie to dunk on anti-intellectualism and the MAGA movement, but we need to stop. When you quote and reference this movie you are spreading eugenics propaganda.
This is such an important addition. It’s wild how often people accidentally stumble their way into eugenics, and it’s vitally important that people are educated and aware of eugenics and the problems with it.
And also, intelligence largely isn’t genetic! It’s mainly factors like nutrition and education that determine how intelligent someone is. That sort of biological determinism bullshit is a key component of a lot of racist and classist beliefs, and is used to justify social Darwinism, a pseudoscientific belief that certain groups (mostly class/racial groups) are better than others and therefore “deserve” to be treated worse and kept on the bottom of hierarchy.
In hindsight it's very insulting to be told that flunking out of college due to adhd is actually "quite common"
just like, if there's a history at your institution of disabled kids not being able to make it you realise that's your fault right. like why don't you fucking do something about it. i guess they tried to do something about it with me and it failed so they let me go. crazy. nice work. why should we try to do any better.
only 5% of people with adhd who go to college finish a degree. FUCKING. FIVE!!! PERCENT!!!!!!!!!!!
that should disgust and enrage you.
if any other demographic of students had a 95% failure rate, we would be demanding reform and studies to understand why that’s happening
when i was at my first university, trying to get accommodations for my ADHD, they just kept asking me what accommodations i wanted, and refused to answer when i would ask what was available to me. how the Hell am i supposed to know what i can have? what’s available???? also, i don’t know!!!! i’m an adhd sufferer, not a fucking disability expert for the fucking college, unlike you, DISABILITY EXPERT WHO WORKS FOR THE COLLEGE.
but because the us is OBSESSED with making sure no one gets anything “”for free””, she literally would not tell me what my options were until i broke down in tears and asked her why she was refusing to help me. and then she did a big sigh, like i was fucking up her entire career by *checks notes* asking the disability center in my university to help me, a disabled student
at the second uni i went to, i tried to explain to a dean that i was literally two gen eds that had nothing to do with my degree away from graduating and that i was burnt out and broke and exhausted and suicidal and i just needed to be able to finish my degree without the gen eds. and this. fucking. guy. looked me right in my face and said in the most patronizing tone he could muster “if you can’t handle it, then maybe college just isn’t for you.” keep in mind that up until that semester, i had been an honor student who made Dean’s List every semester and didn’t get below Bs. if it hadn’t been for my mental breakdown, i would have graduated cum laude, maybe even summa cum laude.
but this dean of students looked a disabled person right in the face and said well i guess you just can’t do it, short bus
Pulled these from a couple articles really quick but yeah the statistics are not kind. I remember writing a scathing essay about my issues with ADHD and college as part of an assignment for academic probation. I got back an email calling me entitled and lazy. Somehow, this thread helps me feel a lot better. I still have about a semester of school unfinished that I’m unsure if I’ll finish but… yeah. Makes me feel better to know it’s not just me.
happy pride month to any queer intersex babes 💜💛
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this is so sweet 🥺🥺🥺
GODZILLA OFFICIAL???
so when did "the person i'm disagreeing with probably has an anxiety disorder which makes them a hypocrite for having opinions, they should shut up until they're able to overcome their disorder" become a normal and cool thing to say in supposedly progressive circles
"theyre saying [opinion] but they can't even order their own food/make phone calls/etc" yes that would be because they have an illness. a disorder. they're mentally ill. maybe they're even disabled. should that disqualify them from voicing their thoughts? is it just neurotypical people that get to speak now? that's so progressive and disability advocacy of you (sarcasm)
even if they're not disabled and they "just" have anxiety i thought we all agreed it was shitty to treat anxiety and depression like non-issues ages ago. they're very much mental illnesses and they very much can ruin someone's life. trivializing them with this "nut up or shut up" attitude is literally some conservative bootstraps shit
far too many of you still think middle school bully behavior is cool and it's highly embarrassing. exercise some compassion why don't you
An informational comic I drew last year for my Comics 2 class, reposting it to my new account (had to jump ship from the old one unfortunately) with some minor grammar changes and learned my lesson in adding watermarks! Happy early pride :)
