[xenatas]

“It’s these two, Grace Jones lookin’ chicks…”

[christopherbarnard]

a flex 

[kontrollsysteme]

[andré voice] miss anna

[smartassjen]

Want to stop trans murders?

Want to stop trans murders?

Stop shaming men who like us, stop calling them gay when they’re not, stop watching dudes play us on screen.

Yes, it’s actually a deeply complicated and nearly intractable set of issues at the dangerous intersection of race, class, homophobia, misogyny, and economics, but the thing that most people can DO, right now, no matter who or where they are, is really that simple: stop shaming the men who like us, stop letting us be portrayed by men.

After years of thinking on this issue, listening to survivors of assault, reading the reports, talking to countless trans women/sex workers, that’s the heart of this. Straight men kill trans women partners because other people, and culture as a whole, says it’s gay, less masculine, to be with us.

So shut it down. Shut down every person or conversation that claims trans women are “really” men, every media depiction with men playing us.

If y'all have other ideas, I’d love to hear them. I’ve seen endless “stop trans murders” posts but no suggestions as to how, or any accountability.

[briishere]

Diverse portrayals of trans women in media. No more “man in dress” gags, no more “tragic man who wants desperately to be a woman” played by Eddie Redmayne/Jared Leto/etc.  

One of the most important things is proper normalization of trans women (and people, but especially women who are at the highest risk for violence). People associate images with concepts and real people with things they’ve seen. 

We need trans women in art, in novels, in plays, movies, tv shows. Trans women laughing, crying, dating, breaking up. Pursuing careers, staying home with their families and their beloved children. 

Stop seeing them as jokes and start seeing them as people. 

[baeddel-of-color-deactivated202]

Anyway, happy international women’s day to Black Trans women! The women whose womanhood is constantly mocked and erased, the women who have been fighting for all the rest of us marginalized women since day one, and the women who deserve to be honored most of all today!

I hope that you get a chance to rest today, and that you are safe. ❤

[baeddel-of-color-deactivated202]

I wanted to include Miss Major’s GoFundMe on this, she’s still not even at 50%, please donate! https://www.gofundme.com/MsMajorRetirement

[rosygl0w]

Without Black Trans Women white gays and the LGBT community would not have the rights we have today. Every single one of us should really take a moment to thank them today.

[nativehueofresolution]

did marvel just… FORGET emma was there on genosha when the sentinels committed mutant genocide???? that she watched all of her students DIE right in front of her??

you think she would ever touch a sentinel with a ten feet pole?? let alone use them to target inhumans??????

[mitunacaptoc-deactivated2017081]

Emma Frost deserves better than what Marvel just did to her in IvX #6

[supremeoutcast]

Me @ Marvel after reading Inhumans VS X-Men #6:

[dukesignalthomas]

To all the Emma Frost fans out there, I’m sorry about IvX

[themarvelproject]

Illyana Rasputin as Magik from the New Mutants with a cameo appearance by Warlock by Bill Sienkiewicz from New York Comic Con 2016

[klawsofwakandablog]

Happy International Women’s Day! Stay strong, ladies!

[ttfga]

[sufferingsappho-deactivated2017]

“Imagine if people had been going ‘don’t fight hate with hate’ back when Hitler was around.”

Fam…let me tell you bout Poland.

[sufferingsappho-deactivated2017]

Let me tell you about how the entire rest of Europe sat ack and watched the invasion of Poland because they thought it would be “improper” to send military aid. How they were unwilling to enforce the treaties that Germany was breaking, because that would make them “just as bad.” They sat back and wrote strongly worded letters while fascists grew in power because they didn’t want to dirty their hands. They thought reasonable discussion and politics would be enough to stop a fascist dictator from rising to power.

[dustlines]

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t enough.

[closet-keys]

like yes, people literally did try that argument then too. 

Everywhere there’s fascists there are fascist apologists hiding under the guise of pacifism, ready to enable their shit and demonize resistance. 

[brutalacademia]

Engineering and Technology University - UTEC in Peru, aka, my idea of a brutalist heaven.

[p-hnx-deactivated20170823]

Putting it away for the night though I lowkey like the way it looks rn

[cocaineteas]

[blackberryshawty]

“Hi my name is Septum Bear, and this is my pup, Padlock Chain Pokémon Jockstrap”

[saywhat-politics]

While we were distracted by Trump, Republicans advanced these 9 terrifying bills

The Republican-led Congress is wasting no time forcing through the most horrendous bills seen in decades while America’s eyes are on Russia. With both houses...

[rainaftersnowplease]

“Advancing” is a bit misleading.

Most of these bills are still in committee, meaning they haven’t been finalized and haven’t been voted on. Most bills die in committee.

This means you need to call your representatives. Find out of your reps are on these committees. If they are, tell them to kill the bill.

If the bill is out of committee, call your reps and tell them you expect them to vote against them.The ACA bill in particular would require a 2/3 majority in both houses to pass. Call your fucking reps.

We’ve been killing bills with public outage for the last two months. Don’t give up now. We’re in this for the long haul and we will win!!✊

[rainaftersnowplease]

I’m not done. I thought I was bit I’m not.

Stop your hand wringing. Your outage is worth noting politically if you don’t know what to do and what you’re talking about.

Spend some time today on the House or Senate websites. Call your reps and tell them you expect them to protect the ACA and national parks and whatever else is important to you. That’s political action.

I’m tired of fear-mongering though. There are real concrete steps you cash take to fight bad ideas like these. If you’re not using them, I honestly don’t want to hear your opinion about them.

We have a country to save. Get after it.