I Dreamt I Was Æon

∞Tonight I'm an alley cat, yeah. ∞∞∞ More afraid of you than you are of me ∞∞ But if you leave some food out on the porch ∞∞ I might stay 'til there's nothing left to eat ∞

[idreamtiwasaeon]

[handgrenade2-blog]

Are You Checking Me Out Or Trying To Figure Out My Gender: A Life Story.

[pandapuzzle]

[unimpressedcats]

Your mother and I are so proud

[toadelevatingmoment]

But Confucius has answered them with the final whistle, it’s all over. Germany, having trounced England’s famous midfield trio of Bentham, Locke and Hobbes in the semi-final, have been beaten by the odd goal.

[femellas]

This is from the housing application at New York University.

For the 2013-2014 academic year, NYU is implementing a gender-neutral housing option (Source). This is updated from previous years, when living with someone of another legal sex was impossible.

NYU now provides the following options for gender identification on the application: Female, Gender Non-conforming, Intersex, Male, Trans Female and Trans Male.

It should definitely be noted that gender neutral housing is only going to be available to upperclassman students. Regardless it’s definitely a step in the right direction!

[msafari-blog]

Brutalism, Bergen.

[idreamtiwasaeon]

my cis privilege is

if i don't shave my legs or pits: "oooooh badass feminist!!! ooooh fight the power!!! how cool"

if a trans* woman doesn't shave her legs or pits: "ew gross that's just a hairy man in girl's clothes ew"

if i don't wear makeup: "oooooooh natural beauty!!!! ooooohhhhh confidence!!!!!"

if a trans* woman doesn't wear makeup: "ew gross if you're so hellbent on being a woman at least try to look like one ew"

if i dress in androgynous clothing: "wow badass oh man so edgy wow rlly hot wow fighting gender roles!!!!!!!'

if a trans* woman dresses in androgynous clothing: "ew if yr a woman why don't you dress like one hahahaha wow yr like 1000000 lightyears away from passing how gross"

if i dress super femme: "whoa so cute so pretty omg wow yr so gorgeous"

if a trans* woman dresses super femme: "ew yr totally upholding gender roles gross yr like a parody of a woman ew how stereotypical and awful"

[blackfashion]

[idreamtiwasaeon]

(via queerandpresentdanger, blackfashion)

[drama-of-exile]

[idreamtiwasaeon]

i can’t even play hard to get i’m already hard to want

[vani-lla]

[notesonresistance-blog]

Gay liberationists in the 1970s attempted to differentiate themselves from gender-transgressive identities and presentations out of fear of being equated with transsexual individuals and activists. … The class implications of drag and gender transgression—particularly surrounding the role of working-class ‘street queens’ in the early gay liberation movement—complicated these debates on drag even further, challenging notions of class as well as gender respectability. The analytical separation of gender and sexuality that dominates our understanding of gay, lesbian, and transgender identities today, [David] Valentine thus argues, was produced in a particular historical moment in which disentangling homosexual and gender-transgressive identities became crucial to the political goals of gay activism—to delineate between gay and transgender identities, to draw class lines of ‘respectable’ and abnormal gender presentation, and to separate feminist critiques of gender systems from the political project of gay rights.

Betty Luther Hillman, “‘The most profoundly revolutionary act a homosexual can engage in’: Drag and the Politics of Gender Presentation in the San Francisco Gay Liberation Movement, 1964–1972” from Journal of the History of Sexuality 20.1, 2011

[ pdf on bayfiles / original article link if you have academic access ]

the more i learn about the history of gay male activism, the more pissed off i get. this article is basically saying that gay [male] as an identity/category is founded on a rigid gender binary and on exclusion and dehumanization of trans women and gender nonconformists. in other words: the reason we think of (and constitute ourselves within) “gay/lesbian” and “transgender” as totally separate identity categories is that (white, upper/middle-class, male, classist, assimilationist) gay activists were (and still are) afraid of seeming abnormal, since it might make it harder for them to access privileges they felt they deserved. gross o matic.

please read the whole article, it’s crucial and fascinating queer history!

(via communalperversion)

[the-casual-nihilist-blog]

15th of March 2012.

Ordered a Caesar Salad today, proceeded to stab it 23 times before consumption. Nobody else found it as hilarious. 

[the-traditional-items-merch-blog]

OH MY LORD

I CAN’T EVEN

HISTORY NERDS ARE THE BEST NERDS

[s1gourney-deactivated20200811]

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence.

Toni Morrison (via tabularasae)

[murrayed]

[idreamtiwasaeon]

Best response to the “are you on your period?” question goes to Leonardo DiCaprio

[pragnificent]

Causal reminder that Cece McDonald is still in prison for defending herself against a neo-Nazi who would have killed her if she hadn't fought back.

Casual reminder that women

and Queer people

and ESPECIALLY POC

who defend themselves against oppressive violence will always be punished in the extreme for doing so.

Because oppressed people aren’t supposed to fight back.

Because the people in charge get scared as fuck when oppressed people fight back.

Because there are more of us than there is of them.

[mooncalamari]

and especially trans people in those categories. CeCe fits ALL of them at once.

[unicornboyz]

[cauda-pavonis-blog]

This legit makes me want to cry because I have *never* seen a picture of an older trans man naked.  It’s always young guys, usually much younger than me.  It’s like we don’t have a future, an adulthood, a middle age, an old age.  It’s like we just stop.

As a trans man who’s well past the age (and transition status) of ~sexxay tranz boiz~, pictures like this give me some kind of hope.  We’re not just one image stuck in time, snapshot of a skinny white andro urban-queer young trans dude with perfect top surgery scars, poster boys for young radical queerdom.  We’re not all Youth.  We live in more than two dimensions, and one of them is time.

Older queers tend to fall off the map full stop.  Trans people, even more so.  But we don’t disappear once we stop being, basically, fashionable. Supporting our young people is important, but we need to show them we have a future, too.

I literally cannot envision my own future.  There are no images of older men like me.

One image obviously can’t address all the lacks in representation, much less one image of a hot skinny (apparently?) white man.  But just to have that one extra factor in there, of age, it’s - it’s important. 

More, please.

[hirotohk]

Great commentary above. Side commentary - what a silver fox. oooooooooi