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[zoestorm]

The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.

I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.

In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:

My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."

A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.

Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.

I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.

In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.

All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.

I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.

Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.

[evil-wild-lesbian-wizard]

I needed to see this today

[thishasalwaysbeenmyname]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[telltaletypist]

transphobic music fans be listening to he or she might be giants

[telltaletypist]

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Pipe of Freedom Artist: Thomas Stuart Smith (Scottish, 1815-1869) Date: 1869 Genre: portraiture, genre art Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 106.8 cm (42 in) high x 78.7 cm (30.9 in) wide Location: Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Stirling, Scotland, UK

Thomas Stuart Smith painted this striking portrait to celebrate the abolition of slavery in both the UK and the US. The man portrayed is enjoying a pipe at his leisure, symbolizing his freedom from enforced labor. Behind him, a yellow notice announcing a slave auction has been partially covered up by a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

[birondragon]

kun menet juhannusyönä pyörimään alasti kukkaniityllä, voit borrelioosion aiheuttamassa kuumehortressa nähdä tulevan puolisosi

[puckishshsh]

Let's just call 'em pickaxe duo

This is NOT a ship (oh god, please no). One — and two — Techno is just a character here, not a real person. I don't want any beef or anything. I just love Techno and D3rlord3. Appreciate you understanding

[i-reblog-technoblade]

This post has Technoblade in it

[vintageeurope]

Midsummer Dance, Finland 1927

[jvlimefry]

missing summer…

[luxus-aeterna]

A series of Juneteenth celebratory wagons in the early 1900s, in Houston, Austin and Corpus Christi.

[toastchild]

Happy Pride and don’t forget that black trans women like Marsha P. Johnson fought for, and are the reason we have the rights that we as lgbtq+ people have today!!!

[sugary--sheep]

it's kind of crazy to not allow kids to swear. why do they have to perform their own childness. is it like, a sex thing for parents, some kinda power play, or what?

[innumerablegirl]

it's the same as how violating gender roles (and especially being transgender) makes other people around you uncomfortable even though it has nothing to do with them. it makes the artifice of the social category visible, when people prefer to believe that it's natural. that has implications for the viewer's actions and position within the social category, not just the person they're viewing. they could violate those gender roles in the same way, and so the fact that they're not doing so becomes a choice, rather than a natural inevitability, and their separation from the "opposite" gender becomes lessened, and what does that mean for their own gender? if children aren't a fundamentally different type of creature from adults, with appropriately different moral standards for what behavior towards them are acceptable, then maybe some of the ways that they have treated (and intend to continue to treat) children were like, bad? these types of social categories require active maintenance to keep people believing in the reality and naturalness of the category, and making people do arbitrary and visible stuff like that is a component of that maintenance

[berryautistic]

yeah sure you're not ableist... but are you cool with visible medical devices?

are you gonna be weird about feeding tubes? are you gonna ask invasive questions about catheters and ostomy bags? can you cope with seeing someone give themselves an injection? could you walk up to someone with a tracheostomy and talk to them? how about someone with a central line?

does your disability acceptance extend to people with visible medical devices?

[berryautistic]

please don't harass this person but lots of responses like this, lots like this specifically about the injection part. and here's what i have to say about it:

being squeamish is not the same as having a medical need. being uncomfortable is not the same as having a medical need. and furthermore, being uncomfortable or squeamish is not the same as having a phobia.

in the nicest way possible... if other people's medical needs make you squeamish or uncomfortable, that's something that you need to learn to cope with. this post is asking you to do one thing: be normal to people with medical devices/needs. and yeah if you can't be normal to someone with a medical device that makes you a little uncomfortable, that is something that you need to work on.

and the way to do that, as some other people have pointed out under this post, is exposure. the solution to being squeamish or uncomfortable around medical devices is not to avoid people with medical devices/needs or treat them differently, it's actually to be exposed to them more.

and that's not always easy, some medical devices are not common to see in public, but like... do some research? google is cool? look at some pictures? wikipedia is awesome? there are large communities of people with these medical devices educating about them on various social media platforms?

phobias are different. phobias are a type of anxiety disorder. they're not uncommon, but they are generally considered to be highly treatable! if you have a genuine phobia of needles or some other medical device, that's a different situation than being squeamish or uncomfortable. but it's still a situation that needs to be managed without mistreating other people with those medical devices.

it's okay to feel uncomfortable without it being a phobia. uncomfortable is not a life threatening experience. delaying a medically necessary injection could be. when i said can you cope with seeing an injection, that was intentional phrasing. you can be uncomfortable, but can you cope with that discomfort?

we're not asking you to do anything ridiculous. just be normal about medical devices. be normal when you meet people with medical devices. we're sick of being treated like we're contagious!!

(disclaimer: some of this might not be phrased well. i've been trying to formulate this post for hours, and have been thinking about it for days. i'm tired of myself and my disabled friends with visible medical devices/needs being treated this way.)

[tillero]

Hyvää Juhannusta / Glad midsommar / Happy midsummer!!💐🌅

[rabbitkinglune777]

HAPPPPPY JUNETEENTH!!!!!!

I'm a proud black trans boy!!! ♥️🖤⚜️🖤♥️

btw if you wanna tip and support a disabled black artist, my link is here!!! (you're not obligated 💜) thank you for supporting me and enjoying my art!!! <3333

[rabbitkinglune777]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FELLOW NIGGAS!!!!!

[ryan-sometimes]

If you're at my funeral and you think it's a little boring, just spice it up. Drink a little too much. Flirt with a few people here and there. Start a fight. It's what I would've wanted

[iskander-tm]

Rocky's ptsd makes him stupid as hell, but no worries, Adrian would still listen and console to the best of their abilities

[x-siren-song-x]

The Woman Who Split The Atom — And Was Forgotten

let me tell you about lise meitner, because chances are your school never did.

meitner was born in vienna in 1878, at a time when women in austria were not even allowed to attend university. she fought her way into higher education, earned her doctorate in physics, and moved to berlin to work with chemist otto hahn. when she first arrived at the kaiser wilhelm institute, she was not allowed into the main laboratory because she was a woman. she was given a basement room and told to use a separate entrance. she worked there anyway.

for over 30 years, meitner and hahn formed one of the most productive partnerships in the history of science. she was the physicist, he was the chemist. she eventually led her own department and became the first woman to hold a full professorship in physics in germany.

then the nazis came to power. meitner was of jewish heritage, and after germany annexed austria in 1938, she was suddenly in danger. colleagues smuggled her across the border with little more than a suitcase and ten marks in her pocket. she eventually reached sweden, where she was given a position with minimal resources and little support.

but science did not stop for her. back in berlin, hahn continued their experiments and got baffling results — uranium appeared to be turning into barium. he wrote to meitner for help. it was christmas 1938. meitner was visiting the swedish countryside with her nephew otto frisch, also a physicist. during a walk through the snowy woods, they sat on a fallen log and worked through the problem. meitner realised the uranium nucleus was not chipping off pieces — it was splitting completely in two. using einstein's e=mc², she calculated the enormous energy released. frisch later coined the term "fission."

that single insight changed the world.

yet when the nobel prize was awarded in 1944, it went to otto hahn alone. meitner was nominated 48 times over her career and never won. the reasons were tangled — wartime politics, exile, institutional bias, and a nobel committee that later admitted to misunderstanding her contribution. hahn himself began to downplay her role in later years, and the woman who had been his equal partner for decades was quietly written out of the story.

but here is what history cannot erase. einstein called her "our marie curie." element 109, meitnerium, bears her name — a recognition that came 29 years after her death. she never expressed bitterness about the nobel. she continued working, continued publishing, and when asked about the atomic bomb, she firmly stated she wanted nothing to do with weapons.

so the next time someone asks who split the atom, remember lise meitner. not just because she deserved credit, but because her story is a reminder that history does not always tell the truth the first time around. sometimes we have to go back and correct it ourselves.

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

[is-the-post-reliable]

RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here