You can refer to me by my URL and with it / its pronouns.
I am an Intersectional, Decolonialist, Transfeminist and I read and engage with a lot of Black Feminist literature specifically. Radical Feminism and separatist politics are grifts regardless of who is peddling them and I'm highly critical of anyone who endorses them, especially other trans people. MLs fuck off.
I do not answer asks that directly name other Tumblr users or link to posts that are not mine.
If I'm blunt with you it's the autism burnout. Don't hear what I didn't say. [ X ]
FAQ and links under the cut.
â My Links (wip):
#mine â my posts
#reading list â reading rec / resource tag
â Other Links (wip):
The Anarchist Library [ X ]
Trans Reads [ X ]
â FAQ (wip) â
What does your URL mean?
ftmtftm stands for "female to male to female to male" â I like this descriptor for myself for several different reasons. The most prevalent being that due to several different circumstances (covid, money, insurance access, mental health, etc.) I have medically transitioned then medically detransitioned twice since 2019 against my will, so I find it an appropriate description for my personal experience with my own transition. I restarted T January 15th, 2026 :3
What is your gender identity?
Wouldn't you like to know weather boy. For real though, I'm multigender and if I have to choose words for other people to describe me I currently like nonbinary transsexual and person the most. Nonbinary man is also a common one I use. I often rotate other self descriptors depending on relevancy.
Why it/its?
We use "it" to describe so many beautiful things. I am also a beautiful thing.
What's your race and why do you care?
I'm functionally White. I'm an Ashkenazi Jew who has felt the effects of the racialized nature of White Supremacist Antisemitism, but in my day to day I am generally a White American. I care because White Supremacy is a horrific thing that we should be actively countering more as a society and more white people need to step up to do our part to talk about race.
[ Reading recommendation request ]
I'm not answering personal reading recommendations at this time, please refer to my links section above. If you have a specific author you are looking for, I typically tag author specific posts with their names. If you're looking for a specific subject try "#on [ subject ]" or "#[ subject ]" as I have gotten a little inconsistent with my tagging system. Please feel free to send me recommendations.
[ Accusation that I am a transmisogynist / radfem / zionist / etc. ]
I'm incredibly vocally critical of Radical Feminism and am an antizionist Jew. I do not support the existence of the settler colonialist state of Israel and do support the liberation of the people of Palestine. You do not know my life or my actions offline and I will not post about my in-person political activities or anything that could link me to them on this blog unless they are well in the past.
I support the right of trans men, nonbinary people, and intersex people to create and define their own language to discuss their experiences. This does not come at the cost of the experiences of trans women. Everyone has the right to good faith expression of their identity and experiences. Attempts to silence marginalized people and shut down their good faith self-descriptive language should be examined and questioned.
if i could give one piece of advice to newly transitioning trans men, it's that it's 100% possible to find a community of people (including women!) who don't treat you as a threat, and the people trying to convince you otherwise are not your friends
Also, perhaps, have we considered that it's actually really bad that we treat closeted trans women (and closeted nonbinary people, and frankly cis men too) this way? Like. It's a bad thing that trans women are treated like distrustful monsters for """"being men"""" before coming out by one demographic and then are also treated like distrustful monsters after coming out for being trans by another. That's not a sign of a culture with a healthy relationship with gender in the slightest!!!
Have we considered that treating people as inherently dangerous or distrustful by virtue of their gender alone is in fact, the very gender essentialism that perpetuates radical feminism in our spaces and that is something that we should be working on stamping out?
I am genuinely sorry that people across multiple different identity lines experience this shit because no trans person should be treated like a distrustful monster just by virtue of their gender identity before or after coming out.
*extends my hand* Let's examine the ways we allow gender essentialism to invade our spaces and harm other trans people and put an end to this cycle of gender essentialist abuse together!
So it is not enough just to think that we need to surpass capitalism, we need to think what we want to put in place of capitalism. Thatâs why ecosocialism is pushing forward the discussion on what we are going to put in place of the things we donât want. So instead of just challenge the crisis and getting tired by reactionary politics, we also try to push forward the necessity and need for hope. But not a naive hope; We need to have hope together with the action, and the possibility of building a different world. We have tools to make it possible, we have more possibilities than we know. We just need to mobilize, we need to have more conscience about this crisis. We need to have the conscience that there is a system, a structure, and we need to attack the structure, the root of this crisis. There is the need of being courageous to build something different and create the power, the necessary power to make it happen.
from Eco-Socialism in a Time of Global Crisis â An Interview with Vanessa Dourado
Making motivational "it's never too late to transition" posts is really undercut if the age you're highlighting is still young. Claiming that your transition was late and it worked out great for you actually makes older people more afraid to transition if you're saying that shit in your 20s. How do you think a trans person in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s feels when you're 23 and calling yourself a late transitioner?
It's never too late until you're in a coffin. It is worth it for a single day of being yourself, even if you're 110.
Centering Black environmental thought and indigenous medicine ways is to recognize that food deserts are not naturally occurring but designed to displace people from resources for profit. Food deserts are in fact food apartheids.
I'm really tired of people outside the UK claiming that JK Rowling's bigotry doesn't extend to trans men and non-binary people. I can't get an autism diagnosis, because I'm scared that it will be used against me to deny me the healthcare I need, as Rowling and her ilk have been spreading the rhetoric that transmascs are just confused autistic girls who are too stupid to know their own gender.
Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.
I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.
Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i
They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government
truly the idea of "this scene is (un-)necessary to the story" is such a fundamentally uncurious and anti-art way of engaging with fiction. the story itself is unnecessary, in the sense that all art is unnecessary, because art is not a fucking optimization problem. that's the beauty of it
also there is no theory of ânecessaryâ and âunnecessaryâ scenes that is not culturally conditioned and a reflection of specific societal biases. modern Anglophone readers of the Iliad tend to find the Catalogue of Ships and the Doloneia and Achilles fighting the Scamander and most of the violence and killing in the poem unnecessary but an Iliad that removes them and telescopes the journey from Book 1 to Book 24 is not the Iliad in any meaningful way.
[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]
No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.
The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in
Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".
So many people calling their analysis âmaterialismâ when what theyâre doing is examining one particular scenario and then applying that to all adjacent scenarios. Because theyâve found âthe material reality of it,â no matter what anyone else might claim to experience. And thatâs not materialism.
Like. I think these people need to stop calling themselves materialists.
They say theyâre interested in the material reality of things, but only ever dismiss the lived realities of people who donât fit their narratives.
If anything, theyâre âtruism universalistsâ or something like that. They use their own experiences or experiences which are convenient to them to create âuniversal truthsâ that everything must work like, regardless of anyone elseâs lived reality, because if their lived reality doesnât conform to the âuniversal truthsâ these people have arrived at then it canât be material reality, checkmate liars. *sighs*
Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone
like listen. i get that the societal expectation for people perceived as women to carry children is hot garbage and we want to retaliate against that. but could we consider that the answer isn't being violently weird about people who want to carry children, regardless of their gender. maybe even stop talking about pregnancy like it's some kind of punishment you have to protect women from and 'joke' about putting on men. that's an option
Every time exclusionists come up with a new enemy, it seems like the core tenet is, "this group's relative privilege means they should be deprived of, community, resources, compassion, or are otherwise invading and stealing from us, the real oppressed group."
Aro and ace exclusion was like this, they'd say "Asexuals are basically straight, they can just pass as straight, nobody cares if they want to fuck or not, there's aromantic straight man invading Pride, there are quirky asexual straight girls pretending to be queer, asexuals are appropriating Stone and oppressing lesbians."
Bisexual exclusion and it was all, "Bisexuals are basically straight, they can just avoid oppression by being straight, these fucking bisexual women are bringing their homophobic straight boyfriends to pride, bisexual women are appropriating butch and femme, and they can't say dyke, those are lesbian only terms, bisexual women are oppressing lesbians."
And now it's like, "Trans men are basically cis. They can just avoid oppression by saying they are men, these fucking trans men are dangerous rapists who can pretend to be women to avoid consequences, trans men are appropriating T4T, and they can't say tranny, and can't say they were once "eggs", those are trans woman only terms. Trans men are oppressing women."
This isn't even all, transmeds also fit this bill, their enemy is just "the transtrender menace."
Like here we are again, rooting out the fake queers, policing them, traumatizing an entire community, and when we all get embarrassed about how we fell for yet another fucking queer moral panic, the damage will be downplayed, nobody will learn anything and we'll move onto the next secretly privileged queer group who needs to be annihilated in order to defend some poor defenseless women who cannot possibly defend themselves from these ugly mannish straight invaders... huh, wait a second.... why does that sound so familiar?
For those who aren't catching the hint, all of these movements have rhetoric which maps directly onto TERF rhetoric where, "Trans people are privileged invaders, they aren't really oppressed at all, they are dangerous rapists, and mentally ill liars. They are invading lesbian communities, and transing the remaining lesbians, and trans people's very existence is an existential threat to women."
i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness
"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah𤤠i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.
i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights
We're not going to put modern labels on this beautiful Queer person (who shaved her head and went by Jimmy when she was younger), but we are going to love and admire Katharine Hepburn for being the trailblazer she was and for never apologising for being herself.
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