phoenix

they/them, minors/terfs dni :)

[jusbeinkt]

[spacelazarwolf]

Leslie Feinberg in Outlaw (1994), dir. Alisa Lebow

[bi-trans-alliance]

Anti-trans bills proposed by year:

2018: 19

2019: 25

2020: 60

2021: 131

2022: 155

The first 19 days of 2023: 161

Cis people better not stay silent.

[llatimeria]

one thing about HRT i think is underdiscussed is the fact that if you're on testosterone, you can (sometimes) just produce Too Much Blood, and the way to fix having Too Much Blood is to Do Bloodletting. There are modern day people doing bloodletting as part of their transitions. why does no one talk about this

[llatimeria]

reading thru the informed consent packet my clinic gave me i was like. mhmm. yeah. yup. acne. seen that. infertility. kind of the point. dry vagina. that sucks but i was aware. more blood-- wait, what the fuck? more blood? and the doctor confirmed later that yeah, more blood can happen, and the way you treat that is just getting rid of blood, usually by donating. what the fuck. how have i culturally osmosed every effect of masculinizing hrt but the most insane one

[llatimeria]

[bbeelzemon]

t4t stands for trans for transylvanian

[cistematicchaos]

ID: tags reading: “this just in doing hrt makes you more attractive for vampires” 

[ayeforscotland]

The Onion pulling zero fucking punches.

[bothpartiesarebad]

(via (72) Pinterest)

[petewentzisblack1312]

today is the 3 year anniversary of breonna taylors murder at the hands of police. as a reminder, she was killed in a no knock swat raid. the warrant for this raid was provided under false pretenses, as the police officers lied about the suspect of their investigation having packages delivered to her house. none of the officers have been charged.

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

I'd like to add. The no knock warrant was served in search of her ex. Her boyfriend started firing because the officers breaking in startled them in their sleep. And stray bullets from the officers entered their neighbors home.

I'm just saying if someone kicked down my door and startled me from my sleep, I'd reach for a gun too.

-fae

[mysharona1987]

Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content

“Nothing they do now is going to take back the years of work I had to put in.”

Yeah, influencer parents are the worst.

[theforesteldritch]

A bill was introduced in Texas classing everyone with a Y chromosome as male on their birth certificate. Beyond the obvious transphobia, this is fucking horrific for intersex people. There are many *cis* women with a Y chromosome. There are many people assigned female at birth with a Y chromosome. This is an attack on trans people, yes, but this is an attack on intersex people. This is forced, horrifying misgendering upon diagnosis that will hurt and kill intersex people.

I’m lucky I live in Canada, but I’m angry and upset and furious. Fuck this shit.

[ladyorlandodream]

Yes, Spain!!!!

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

SPAIN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR???

[wonderingwhereiam]

[thejitterbug]

HISTORY.

[sm-baby]

making thibgs... to send people

[butterflyinthewell]

Queer people are expected to leap out of the closet fully realized.

But closets are full of clothes.

It’s okay to try on outfits, mix and match, revisit old outfits and add new ones. Whatever feels right to you at the time is who you are at the time.

So it’s okay if the outfit you chose first is the one, and it’s also okay if you try out many or change it as time goes by.

There’s no wrong way to be queer and there’s no rule saying you can’t explore your queerness.

Don’t listen to anybody who tries to dictate otherwise to you.

Explore, discover, and embrace YOU.

[nothorses]

Found this in the comments of Shaun's latest video on Andrew Tate, in which he talks pretty extensively about how important it is for men to find ways to be confident in their genders without trying to adhere to, or enforce, anyone else's ideas of manhood on anyone.

Highly recommend checking it out.

Anyway. I rarely see folks talk about the positive impact transmascs have on manhood as a whole, and I think it's important to acknowledge and celebrate that.

[gatheringbones]

["The entwined nature of neuronormativity and heteronormativity means that the compulsory performance of neurotypicality is never a gender-neutral performance, but instead is strongly tied to the performance of binary heteronormative gender roles. Normative performance of whichever gender one was assigned at birth is central to what it means to be "normal" in the eyes of the present dominant culture. Thus, when the enforcers of normativity demand that a child "act normal," it's ultimately a demand to either act like a "normal boy" or like a "normal girl," whether or not the demand is explicitly phrased that way.

Since normative performance is always gendered, deviations from neuronormative embodiment are also inevitably deviations from heteronormative embodiment. Whether a given deviation gets interpreted by the enforcers of normativity as a violation of neuronormativity or as a violation of heteronormativity often depends entirely on context and circumstances. In a context in which a child is known to be autistic (or neurodivergent in some other specific and culturally pathologized way), the child's non-normative usage of their hands is likely to be pathologized as a "symptom" of their neurodivergence. But in a different context, those who are policing the child's embodiment are unaware of the child's neurodivergence, the same non-normative hand movements might be flagged as gender violations: children whom adults have labeled as girls might be reprimanded for drumming on the table with their hands or running their fingers vigorously and repeatedly through their hair, on the grounds that such actions are "unladylike"; children whom adults have labeled as boys might be attacked or ridiculed for flapping their hands, on the grounds that such gestures are "gay."

Thus, there are some autistic people who were forced in childhood to suppress their natural hand movements because those hand movements were flagged as "symptoms of autism" and targeted for elimination by autistiphobic adults, and other autistic people who weren't recognized as autistic in childhood but were still forced to suppress their hand movements because those hand movements were violations of heteronormativity that got them targeted for homophobic and transphobic abuse by adults and/or peers. And of course, there are many who were targeted on both neuronormative and heteronormative grounds at different times— e.g., autistics who in their youth were abused by adults for moving their hands autistically, and by homophobic peers who read those same hand movements as queer. The professional ABA perpetrator and the homophobic schoolyard bully are ultimately in the same line of work, enforcing the same compulsory normativity from different angles.

Since distinctively autistic movements of the hands violate the rules of both neuronormative performance and heteronormative performance, to refuse to suppress such movements functions as a simultaneous queering of both neuronormativity and heteronormativity. When an autistic person chooses to allow themselves to follow some or all of the impulses toward non-normative hand movement that spontaneously arise in them, rather than suppressing those impulses in the interest of normative performance, that's a form of neuroqueering."]

nick walker, from neuroqueer heresies: notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities, 2021

[crabussy]

hey. don’t cry. crush three cloves of garlic into a pot with a dollop of olive oil and stir until golden then add one can of crushed tomatoes a bit of balsamic vinegar half a tablespoon of brown sugar half a cup of grated parmesan cheese and stir for a few minutes adding a handful of fresh spinach until wilted and mix in pasta of your choice ok?