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actually the sanitization of lesbian media is because of transmisogyny. every backslide you've percieved in acceptance and equality is because of the rise of transmisogyny. free the nipple. marriage rights. clothing options. bathrooms. its all because of this big bioessentialist conservative puritan push to try to erase trans women from society and specifically lesbianism. you cannot leave us behind and expect a better world.

star-angel-selkie

well what do i gain from not capitalizing on a popular post

help a disabled trans lesbian survive unemployment and poverty by donating to my v3nmo or ca$happ

doe-eyed-disaster

can we please acknowledge that tma/tme is a meaningful distinction? a justice of the US supreme court is openly saying that it's legal to discriminate against trans women because the same laws do not target trans men. the transmisogyny is what makes it permissible. your transphobia is fine as long as it has carveouts for men.

scandalavoider

Fascinating parallel here. This incapacity of the legal framework to protect groups who are at the intersection of two protected groups (trans women in this case, black women in the original) even while protecting both groups individually is Crenshaw's original reason for coining the word "intersectionality", which has since gone through the wringer.

h0lyshift

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

melyzard

Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

And often, they are assholes, too.

burgerdotcom

reblogs were off

i think im a therian

animentality

were--ralph

coco6420

at what age does it start sounding wierd to call your baby "it" ?

imjunebitch

none. #it/itspronounsbaby #wokebaby #hellyeahwokebaby

#doesnt it make more sense to start with it

lakemojave

Happy Pride Month everyone! Remember 4 months ago when the CEO of this platform harassed and chased a trans woman off this website just for posting her transition timeline, then chased her to other social media platforms to continue harassing her, and threatened to call the FBI if she continued disputing the multiple dubious terminations of her blogs that did not violate tumblr's terms of service in any way? And despite tumblr staff insisting that the CEO was acting against their interests, the broad transmisogyny evident in the site's culture and moderation policy has still not been adequately addressed?

lakemojave

Remember that staff is continuing to nuke the blogs of trans women even after all of this. Remember this post when they call this site the queerest place on the internet again this month

lakemojave

It's 2 years later. It's gotten worse. Happy pride month.

succumbing-song

morphogenetic

(wanting to make a post about something but it reveals too much about your personal life) i have had a negative experience

kiunlo

"We've been taught that Aboriginal peoples arrived in Australia after crossing land bridges from Indonesia. When I went to school, it was assumed that this happened 10,000 years before sea levels began to rise - after the Ice Age. After the introduction of carbon dating, that figure ballooned to 40,000 years, and after further research using more modern dating techniques, to 60,000 years. Aboriginal people have, of course, been saying we have always been here. Western Victorian Aboriginal communities had been trying for thirty years to have an ancient midden on the Hopkins River analysed. It is so old, it has turned into rock. When that examination was finally undertaken, it was found that the midden was as old as 80,000 years, 10,000 years before the Out of Africa theory states humans began to leave Africa. As the Hopkins River midden is in the extreme south of the continent, it is probable that more ancient middens exist on the edge of the continental shelf, where people lived prior to the sea level rising."

Page 40-41 of "Dark Emu" by Bruce Pascoe (Australian Aboriginal author).

Emphasis added by me.

kiunlo

"The exact timing of that is pretty locked down" discoveries that happen in Australia regarding Aboriginal archaeology are some of the only reasons why that date of when people started travelling outside of Africa keeps getting pushed back many thousands of years. There are even discoveries still hottly debated that could pushback the time of how long Aboriginal people have been in Australia to 100,000 years. At what point do you throw in the towel and start thinking about a different solution the further back the date keeps getting pushed? Like, yeah Aboriginal people are homo sapiens like anyone else but clearly there's more complex shit going on regarding humanities origins and where we all came from than what most people currently understand.

Because there are simply zero oral histories of us "travelling" to Australia over some landbridge. Which is interesting given how incredibly accurate Australian Aboriginal oral histories are and how far in the past they go (many thousands of years). We have oral histories about seeing literal mountains form, about when the animals were much larger than they are now (extinct Australian megafauna. There's even stories of blokes getting eaten by incredibly large snakes which did used to exist in Australia once and we remmeber those deaths still to this day) and even when the seven sisters constellation actually still had seven stars, before that one star moved behind the other and seemed to "disappear" from our perspective. There are also oral histories from specific groups detailing the first ever guy to plant a fucking seed, who then taught the rest of his people how to plant seeds and then grow food. These are important milestones or things that we noticed that were clearly important t us that we documented in our stories and accurately retell them many of thousands of years later. Not one story from any group about coming from somewhere else. Which you'd imagine would be a pretty big milestone that everyone would find important to remember (why did we move and not stay where we were? What were the circumstances? Did we leave willingly or was it forced? If we remember all this other shit why not *this* incredibly important event or any of its details?) Just a bit of food for thought. Aboriginal people know more about our own history than I think you'd like to believe.

socialjust-ish

I don't want to be pedantic (read: I love being pedantic more than anything else) but I solely take issue with the word "always."

That's all.

Because "we have always been here" can mean one of two things:

1. You believe that Aboriginal groups have literally always been there, since the formation of earth/the universe. This is patently absurd and so not a reasonable thing to suggest anyone believes.

2. You believe that from the moment homo sapiens sapiens existed, they existed in Australia. This is, also, patently absurd, but for some reason people seem to think it's possible.

Australian Aboriginals migrated there from Africa. Just like South American and North American indigenous groups did, to their respective locales. Many North American groups also claim to have always been there. It doesn't mean they were.

They migrated an enormously long time ago. Like, I'm willing to go as far as to say it could be within the first few hundred years of humans being humans.

But that isn't "always". And it means they didn't originate separately from the rest of humanity.

In Canada, we use the term "since time immemorial" which, I think conveys the point much better. The groups have been there so long that figuring it out beyond "a long ass time" is basically unimportant aside from archaeological curiosity. No one has a "better" claim to the land.

But saying "always" opens you up to pedantry, which can and will be exploited by bad actors.

It is, also, I think, a dangerous argument to make that Indigenous groups are different and special from other groups of humans on some fundamentally baseline level. Because, the racist would ask, if Aboriginal people really did originate differently, are they proper humans, or a savage subspecies?

Humans are humans, from the same origin point. Groups left at vastly different times, but we all left.

Edit: here's a really simple, hypothetical, explanation for why there are no oral histories of travel: because it happened so far back that it was before oral histories existed. That allows for us to accept oral histories as a reliable system of documentation, and explain it: by the time stories and traditions began being passed down, no one was around to pass that story down. I am sure there are many other explanations that allow oral histories to retain credibility while explaining this apparent gap.

castformbignaturals

“Allow me to condescendingly lecture you about your own culture and history, just like the people your history routinely proves wrong have done.”

“You are probably wrong, but even if you were a tiny bit right I certainly won’t admit it. It’s not about whether you are right or wrong, it’s about talking down to you!”

“Surely my insistence that you believe in magic paired with my proud declaration of atheism will keep me from sounding like a gaping asshole!”

kiunlo

anywayssss does anyone here play warframe

took a stimulant to pull an all nighter but im just switching between scrolling on different apps GET ME OUT OF HERE EVEYTHING IS HAPPENING TMR

#we love the paralysing overwhelm #mine

love how i only come here when i wanna complain or vent get this bitch a proper blog!!

#mine